Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-06-11
The HERALD
Cheap Food.

DIR. Dio Lewis in his talk to the
people who live in Boston says some
things which are equally appropri-
ate to people who live in the coun,
try and especially in large villages.
The following is specimen
You must have meat every day of
the year. Your children should have
some animal food during the au-
tumn, winter and spring. But meat
is very high. A sirloin steak costs
in our market from thirty-fve to
forty cents pound. And even this
is not the most expensive part of the
animal. But do you know that in
an OK which, dressed, weighs eight
hundred pounds, only very small
part brings this high price? And do
you know that small part is neither
the most nourishing nor the most
palatable While certain portions of
the animal sell from thirty to forty
cents pound, there are portions not
| one whit less palatable than the ten
derloin (when properly cooked that
can be bought for very small price.
Take, for example, what is called
the shank the very best can be
bought for three cents q pound, and
single pound cooked in stew, with
dry bits of bread, will make a meal
for yourself and your entire family.
The French soldier understands bet
ter than anybody else the secret of
getting much out of a little.
When you go to market for meat
don't buy tenderloin, but buy what
are called coarse meats. Purchase
for your dinner five to eight cents
worth,or say ten cents, worth of the
cheap, coarse bits. Among our fool
ish people the competition is so slight
over these coarse parts, that the
butchers have to put all the price on
the small part which is in active de-
mand, and sell all the rest for mere
nothing.
| cannot 60 on to tell you just
what pieces you should buy, but buy
such pieces as are sold in this Bos-
ton market-the highest market in
the United States-for three, four,
five or ak cents pound. Good SOL
id meat is sold for these figures, and
onl y needs to be steamed, or to be
made into q stew, to be as tender
and delicious as the expensive parts
Of the creature. The neck of the
chicken is the most delicious part of
the fowl. The neck of beef when
made tender, comes near being the
most delicious part of the animal.
Leaving the meats, let US speak of
the vegetable food Oatmeal 10
the form of a porridge, or in the
form of cakes, is one of the most nu-
tritious of vegetable foods. A pound
of oatmeal is worth, as nutriment,
six pounds of superfne white flour,
and pound for pound, costs less tina o
wheat -four. 1t is most substantial
and nutritious food.
Cracked wheat, or whole wheat,
when properly cooked, is really one
of the most delicious articles Of food
ever eaten by man. One pound OF
cracked wheat will give as much
strength of muscle and nerve az sew
en- or eight pounds of common ba-
ker's bread.
Hominy, samp and hulled corn are
some of the most substantial and
lasting of human foods, and very
cheap compared even with wheat.
One pound of cheap meat baked to
rags with a quart of white beans
and eaten with brown bread, will
make dinner that king might
Iuxuriate upon. Your family of sew
en- persons would not be able to con-
sumo such dinner.
| Butter, poultry and potatoes are
most expensive articles Of food. A
single bushel of beans, properly cook
ed, with condiments, will furnish not
only more palatable food. but will
furnish more nutriment than ten
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