The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-04-29
The Economics OF Life.

You tell me that debt and despair
are upon you; that when the clothes,
rent, fuel and lights are paid for you
have only six hundred dollars left
with to feed your family of eight,
and that it can't be done. | think
| have heard this story a thousand
times. and that have written advice
about it hundred times And as
the whole subject is very simple
must go over the same ground again.
The largest item in your table ex-
penses is meat. Beef is high. In
our city markets a good steak is
worth from thirty to thirty-fve cents
per pound Beef steak for your fam
lily would alone cost for breakfast
and supper, more than two dollars,
and then, you had roast of sirloin
for dinner, that would cost nearly as
much more. Soft that's the way to
live, you are managing well to get on
with 5000 per year
But do you know that there are
only sixty pounds of the sirloin which
is used for roast and steaks, in an OK
weighing eight hundred pounds?
There are other parts of the animal
good solid meat-which sell for
five cents pound. Portions of the
neck, which, when properly cooked,
are the most nourishing parts of the
carcass, are sold for four or FIVE cents
a pound One pound of this cut into
small pieces and boiled two hours in
three quarts of water in close vessel.
with five cents worth of potatoes, |
turnips, parsnips and carrots, with |
salt and pepper, and some savory
herb, would make a splendid dinner
for all of you Lay bits of toasted
bread upon the platter, and then pour,
on your stew. That's a dinner fit for
a king.
Everybody likes variety. Well
purchase next day knuckle of veal,
which will cost you, all told ten cents,
and which your wife will treat in the
same way as the beef, except that
she will leave out the carrots and
parsnips and put in bits of toast
ed Tread or dumpling.
The next day try bit of the fore
shoulder of "a sheep, which is very
cheap. When mutton chops were
selling for twenty cents pound, |
have seen mutton foreshoulder, of
fair quality, selling for two cents...
1t is part which is always very
cheap. Cut up into bits, and cooked
as above, grand dinner for the
eight members of your family can be
got up for quarter of a dollar.
And of these stews may be made
into a baked meat pie, bv way Of
variety.
have given these by way of Illus
tr alton. Yon needn't have the same
linner twice in month Fish may
be employed occasionally, and some
excellent sorts are very cheap.
But these preparations of meats {
are comparatively expensive. That
beautiful white s)tuhern co n, cracked 4:
wheat oatmeal, beans and other simi-
ar foods are very cheap. A break !
ast of oatmeal and white corn, with {
4 little milk, would cost for your |
whole family not more than ten cents {
md it would be breakfast on which
you could all work hard. Skipping q
he dinner, which has been already t
discussed, let Us consider for mo
nent the supper If you keep COW
as every man properly located with i
/ family of children shOuld-a bowl {
If bread and milk, or some warmed f
up bean porridge and a cup of tea '
will satisfy you. 7
Such food as l have thus limited I
1t is not only very cheap, and would G
,ring your table expenses within two Q
hundred dollars, but upon it you r
would all gain flesh, have brigeter /
yes, fine teeth, sweeter breath, and i
,e altogether healthier than if you v
ed yourself upon the present fried, r
,reasy, compounded stuffs, with pies C
axes and puddings. v
The whole of the processes, the en-
ire management of such table, is D
.iven in great detail, with the reasons i
or each step, in my jolly Friends
Secret" issued by the publishers Of
his paper We cannot render you 7
lore important service than by re- d
erring you to that work.-Dio Le,c- I,
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