New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-20
ECONOMY IN COOKING.
MRS. EMMA p. EWING RELATES HER EX-
PERTENCE.
BILLS OF FARE THAT CAN BE FILLED AT 81 80

BILLS OF FARE THAT CAN BE FILLED Al 81 on
WEEK.
Caautauqua, n. Y, July 10 (speclaD.-Mrs. Emma
p. Ewing. the cookery expert, has been made the
target Of good deal Of criticism by pcredulouS peope
who don't believe she live on IL % "eeA'
This morning she told a packed audience OF house
keepers how she managed it. In the summer OF
1882 she said, at the Iowa Agricultural COAese'
fed four people for seven weeks for $40, So week
for all, or 81 so week each. That covered the cost
Of everything except the hired help. In Boston III
October 1850, l was feeding family for 81 10 a
week at the time the Boston newspapers were saying
il could not be done. You remember Dr. LArdIel
demonstrated that it was impossible a steamship
could carry coal to last her during voyage, but
steamships do 1t nevertheless Subloned lie sample
of Mrs. Ewng's 81 so bills OF fare
Breahast-Apples grapes, veal chops, baked potatoes.
bread, butter and coffee.
Duner-Tornato soup, boiled mutton with caper sauce.
boiled potatoes mashed tuInps, apple pie, cream, bcao
and butter, coffee and milk
supper-Cold meat, macaroni cooked in cream, bread
and butter sally lunn, tea and coffee
The following Is bill of fare prepared at the same
rate for q family Of four persons in 1888
Breakfsstoatmeal, breakfast bacon, steamed potatoes
apple sauce.
Dinner-Pea soup roast beef Drowned potatoes sliced
tomatoes cold pudding.
supper-Rolled barley with cream, ginger waters TEA
In Kansas City this was the bill of fare for one day
in a week. costing 81 90:
BreaAfast-Dried swoetbreads. pearled wheat WIN
cream strawberries bread and butter coffee and MIX
Dnner-Brolled spring chicken new peas. new potatoes
strawberries bread and butter, and tea
Supper-Rolled barley with cream, toast tea and milk
An assistant Of Mrs. Ewing, who lives in Minneapo
lis provided food for a family at 81 16 each week
on bills Of fare like this
Breakfast-oranges poached eggs on toast, milk.
Dinner-soup, porterhouse steak potatoes, parsnps,
chow chow, peach pudding.
Supper-Cold meat oatmeal with cftom' OF'''+ mar
malade, butter. milk
& "Most people," said Mrs. Ewing, "even at Inau'
tauoua would think they Jared pretty well II they
always got meats like that All the dishes named are
Of the best material For our object has never Deeh
to see how cheaply we could live, but how well We
could live at small expense. Chicago newspaper
suggested that must be lean and angular You can
see what cOmical mistake that is. In the bLIs OF
fare you will notice cake never appears. IL peoplo
would only do without it, they would soon ina thef
appetite for It disappearing. My statement that boara-
ers can be fed for So week each on choice fare
at a profit has been rdiculed. At Purdue University,
Ind. ffy-seven persons took meals in the hall during
last summer prepared by Forty four OF them
paid 81 80 week The other thirteen were mehl-
bers of my family, or assisted IN oo"Anle'
~The receipts from boarders were 1895 IN three and
a half weeks The expenditures for food, labor and
fuel $780,"
One of the Purdue bills of fare is sub!oned
BreakfssCanteo French rolls, veal chops, stewed
potatoes, bread, butter, coffee, milk.
Dnner-Rce soup beef potatoes sliced tomatoes
mscaroni, apples, bread, butter, coffee, milk
supper-Cod lamb, baked potatoes, bread. butter tea
and milk
al can feed fifty people" continued Mrs. Ewing,
"on $3.50 week, on good food. with profit OF ~ %
day, and so you II you will exercise judgment
in the selection of green food material and prepare II
SO that nothing Will be wasted. The material cD!l-
sumed az PeIdue comprised an average OF ~
pounds OF meat and fish, 80 pounds OF bead IL Il
pounds Of sugar, pounds of butter l. pounds Of
coffee IA pounds OF so pounds of ice, sailos
of milk and cream, and al 80 In fruit and vegetabes
Professor William +. Waters, OF Cincinnati gave
an account this afternoon Of the establishment OF he
American School of Classical Literature Art ana An,
tioues at Athens. circular has recently been issued
asking for subscriptions 10 pay for excavation at Dep'
Dr. Emery /. Haynes. of fremont Temple, BO't0l'
lsctured on "The Honest Man" and tonight Dr.
Frederick starr gave an illustrated lecture On o
American School at Athens, has arrived lie VIII
teach Greek at the College Of Liberal Arts. other
arrivals include j. r. Mott, New ork; Thomas PeTsh-
ing Boston: G. f. stivers Chattanooga W. q.
Wallace Philadelphia, and j. II. McAllister, syracuse