The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-26

felt that had everything TO give thanks for,
although our dinner cost only one dollar"
"A Thanksgiving dinner for one dollarr' said
the woman who was listening. and whose plain
est everyday dinner probably cost ten times
that sum. "will you please tell me your bill OF
fare and how you managed?'
"Wiliingiy. 1t requires the strietest attention
to details and great economy, as / am sure you
do not mead TO be told, but that has become a
second nature to me. The first cost. as will
show you will be slightly over 81, but the left
overs will atone for that.
"The first item will be 10 cents worth of clans
Put them over the FIRE with their LIQUOR and
pint OF boiling water al the first boil, skim and
add q small piece OF pepper corn; simmer slowly
for half an hour without reducing the quantity,
which with the juice win be nearly a quart;
bring one pint OF milk to boil, and stir in
tablespoonful OF four wet smoothly with cold
water; add it to the clans, season TO taste with
cayenne pepper, If any is needed; stir in table
spoonful of butter, and serve with thin soda
crackers. Cost Is cents buy my milk from
neigh bor and il costs me only cents a quart
quarter of a pound OF soda crackers win be
sufficient.
"A four-pound chicken will cost me 50 cents;
q bunch of celery 10 cents. Select the finest
part of the celery for the table, and save all the
outer stalks and the green leaves, with the root,
for next DAYS soup. Chop two or three OF the
outer stalks with one onion, and add 1t to the
water in which the chicken is to be boiled.
.
and brown it in little sweet dripping: then
plunge into boiling water with the minced
onion aud celery and a sliced carrot: simmer
s sor un. very Ieno aiet MI out aredge with
with some of the liquor In which the fowl was
boiled. Cost, 60 cents from which must be de-
Quoted the celery. which viii give the basis for
q soup, and the chicken pie, which can be
made Tor next days supper from the remains
Mince every bit OF flesh that can be picked
from the bones; add cupfui OF thick white
nj NH ion hau al,
spread il between two crusts made like biscuit
dough, rolled thin and baked with bits of butter
between.
''steam one pound of rice in double boiler;
shake out on to dish, but do not touch with q
spoon, and each grain will remain distinct;
shape lightly with fork into wall, ana lay
the Drowned fowl in the middle. Cost cents.
Do not forget to add SAT- to the rice while cook
ing. There will be enough rice LETT for rice
cakes or mullins for breakfast.
This portion of the bill of fare could be mar
taken of lightly by my convalescents For the
hearty members of the family-lor we are six in
ALL added dish OF beans cooked Spanish
fashion. Fry minced onion and green pep
per in a little butter or dripping, to light
brown; add a pint of cold boiled soup beans and
a little gravy or broth OF any kind Cost, 5
cents. Our bit OF Kitchen garden supplies our
herbs, onions and peppers
"Then We had plain suet pudding. Beat
two eggs, add one pint OF milk, one cup of
chopped suet, teaspoonful of salt aud suffi-
cient -four with baking powder sifted through
to make rather stiff batter; stir in a cupful of
dried fruit well washed ana dredged with -four
boil four hours in bag or mold and serve with
a simple sweet sauce. Cost, Is cents With
cranDerries anu the necessary bread and butter
my whole outlay viii not exceed ST. 21 AS ex-
planned, the 'ieft-overs' will balance the extra
quarter"
Don't you hate all this economy" said
Madame Dives.
"No, like it. 1t brings me into closer sym
pathy with the great majority of womankind,
and have learned with the apostle, Sin whatso-
ever state am, herewith to be content"