Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-05-30
ECONOMICAL COOKING.
Mr.. ATKINSON PROMISES TC SAVE
HALF THE COST or FOOD.
A Gift Of $4,000 to show Poor People
How to Make Twenty Five Cents Do the
Work of Fifty Cents In the Outlay for
Provisions.

learn the art Of economy in cooking. Mr..
Edward Atkinson, the New England econo-
mist, delivered two lectures in the hall at
Columbia college on the art, and he illus
trated them with ovens and dinner pals
which he has invented, and which he be
leyes will reyolutionize the art and will
solve social questions that are now troub-
ling the people The phiianthropist was
one Of the Mr.. Atkinson's audience, and
he subscribed the money the day after the
first lecture, it being understood that the
kitchen was TO be stocked with the Akin
son ovens.
Mr.. Atkinson calls his oven the Aladdin,
and it Is to solve social problems by reduc-
ing the cost Of living The average amount
spent for food by people in the United
States is fifty cents a day each Mr.. At
kinson says that at present prices for food
products it Is impossible for a person to eat
more than twenty-five cents worth Of food
a day, and that every cent that is spent
over that amount Is deliberately wasted
He says that the working man who now
spends - or $3.50 a week for his food can
have just as much to eat for one dollar,
and can have more nutritious food ut the
same time, if he practices economy in buy.
ing and cooking, while the wealthy man
who spends fabulous amounts for his food
can cut his expenses down nearly one-half,
and can have in substance what he has now
TIE ALADDIN OVEN
"Nine-teuths Of the people in the United
States says Mr.. Atkinson, "spend one
half their income annually for food, and
exactly one-half Of that amount is wasted "
Mr.. Atkinson is a practical mao and is
not given to dreaming. lie has studied
economy in food the past six years He
has practiced what he now breaches, and
has cut his own food expenditure down
one-half AT the same time he eats just as
much food as he used 70, and says he IS
more healthy than he used TO be, because
his food is properly cooked
He invented his Aladdin oven Tor the
benefit of humanity and for no desire for
gain He did not patent IT. az FIRST he
tried to give his idea away TO capitalists
who would agree to build the ovens and 20
sell them at just a trde over the actual
cost of making. He found no one who was
willing TO do it,
No capitalist could understand how a
man would give away valuable thing
They argued that because he wanted 70
give it away il could not be Of value
Finally he had it patented, and then he
succeeded in getting firm in Brookline
to take hold Of it and build it on shares
All the professors share of the profits from
the manufacture and sale he has agreed to
devote TO building kitchens and 10 other
charitable objects, the ultimate result of
which is TO teach economy
A CHEAP DINNER
Mr.. Atkinson says that all. meat cooked
a sufficient length of time in a regular
temperature will become tender, and there
in lies the secret of food economy Beef
be says, from the neck of a COW, sold by
butchers at three cents "A pound, is as
uutritiye that taken from what is con.
sidered the choicest parts, \ roast taken
from the toughest part of the rump Is as
nutritive and has as fine flavor as the
choicest prime rib roast, But meat from
the neck and the tough part OF e rump
cannot be eaten because it is III, ,ible to
masticate it il IL is cooked in ordinary
way. Properly cooked 80 Aladdin
oven it becomes tendC rs good to eat
as the choice cuts.
At his two lectures Mr.. Atkinson had
five ovens full of food In one there was
four course dinner sufficient to freed ten
persons. it consisted Of soup. fish, beet
from the neck, with tomato sauce, pcta
toes and pudding and coffee lu.wns eater
with relish by the audience The meat
was certainly tender and the flavor was
fine. After 10 had been eaten the professor
said that the whole meal had cost s.. 30 or
10 cents each Tor ten persons.
In the other ovens there was rump roast
beef and prime roast They tasted alike,
and the rump was as tender as the prime
rib There was q steak two inches thick
cooked rare. Half "a dozen other kinds of
meat and some chickens, which Mir Akin,
son suid he had purchased for eight cents
pound with guarantee that they were not
less than SIX years old. The meat was as
tender as chat Of a young fowl
There were stews and onions cnd peas
and hams aud tongues aud three or four
kinds of puddiugs The onions and pud
diugs had been cooked i'm the slme oven,
but neither tasted of the other They had
simply been cooked in covered dishes The
four course dinner, all cooked at one time
In one oven, was also cooked ucovered
dishes In all there was 200 pounds Of
food I'M the five ovens 1t was all eaten on
the spot
EASE IS COOKING
with the Aladdin oven" said Mr.. At
Rnson, In conversation with reporter,
"all that is necessary is TO prepare the
luou and pat 10 IN the oven. II the meal Is
60 be serre., IN two hours The lamp may be
turned nigh and things win be done in
taat time II it is not 10 be served for i've
hours The lamp may he turned lower
The cook is the regulator of her own
heat. She can put dinner on at breakfast
time and leave il all day 10 cook. At din
ner time, when she opens her oven, the
dinner viii be ready 70 serve, no care nav
ing been wasted on it in watching it.
There is not sufficient heat in the oven 10
burn things, and there is never any waste
Jhat way.
II believe that my mission uere on earth
is 20 teach how to cook and economic. |
suail continue at my WORK. 1 ueueye Juat
every high institution of learning should
have connected with it cooking iabora,
tory aud chat every agricultural station 10
America should have department where
the people can so and receive instruction
IN the art OF economy in cooking This