Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-27
TWENTY CENTS EACH
An Allegheny Woman Who
Kept Her Family of Five
for a Dollar a Day.
HER FIGURES FOR IT.
Bills of Fare and What They Cost
During Last September.
A BIG BOON FOR MATRINONY.
No Young Nan Should Hesitate After Read
ing This Record
EDWARD ATKINSON on VEGETABLES
No Young Nan Should Hesitate After Read
ing This Record.
EDWARD ATKINSON on VEGETABLES
WRITTEN FOR THE p1s9ATcH.l

on the cost of living in Boston, / thought
my experience of the cost of living in ALE
gheny might be of benefit to others who are
not blessed with large incomes. l had been
fortunate all my life in having plenty.
never had to economic In my table ex'
penses, until a short time since, when we
lost all and were reduced to . very small
income. ] have been obliged to keep the
table expenses with a dollar day, for a
family of five, consisting of two males and
three females. Three are blessed with good
sppetites, two are rather dainty. keep no
servant, therefore do my own cooking.
1 put up fruit in the summer, keeping an
account of the cost of ii. The cost Of all
divided by the number of pints I canned,
making each pint cost cents. Whenever
monthly expenses
The Fare for a Month.
Below 1 give tine bill of fare for the
month of September, 1891; after that will
give the cost and quantity of provisions
bought for that month. 1 will also note all
guests entertained during the month and
the absence of any of the family. 1t is to
be understood we have sugar, cream and
butter each meal; also homemade light
bread. buy enough milk each day to get
all the cream we need.
l. Breakfast lat this time one of the fam
fly is absent, leaving but four in iamily),
hot biscuit, tomato preserves, coffee; lunch
cold biscuit, boiled ham, cherry pie: dinner,
fried ham, stewed corn, fried potatoes, hot
rolls, peach cobbler tea.
.. Breakfast, warmed rolls, preserves, cof-
fee. milk; lunch, chip beef, light bread, cold
peach cobbler; dinner, pork chops, stewed
corn, fried potatoes, sliced cucumDers, cake
preserves with cream, tea.
5. Break cornmeal cakes, syrup, pre-
serves, cake, coffee, milk; lunch, cold fried
ham, chip beef, cake; dinner, fried ham,
sweet potatoes, sliced tomatoes, cucumbers
pickles, tomato preserves, tea.
: Brea kfast, corn cakes, syrup, coffee
cake, coffee: lunch, cold ham, bread coffee
cake; dinner boiled ham, corn on ear boiled
potatoes, sliced tomatoes and cucumbers,
emearcase, pickles, hot rolls, tea.
8 Brea kast corn cakes, syrup, cold boiled
ham, coffee; lunch, bread. boiled ham, coffee
cake; dinner. fried beefsteak with gravy,
boiled potatoes, corn on ear, sliced tomatoes,
pickles, tea.
Breakfast, corn cakes, syrup, coffee;
lunch, bread, peaches and cream; dinner,
boiled eggs, hot biscuit, pickles, cup cake,
peaches and cream, tea.
The sixth was Sunday. That night the
absent member returned, bringing visitor,
making the family six in number.
For Family of Six
= Breakfast, batter cakes, SYRUP tomato
preserves, peaches, coffee; lunch, fried eggs,
cold biscuit, peach pie, preserves, cup cake,
tea; dinner, boiled beef with dumplings and
gravy, boiled potatoes, butter beans with
corn, hot bicuit, cup cake. tea.
s. Breakfast, hot biscuit, syrup, fried eggs
peach preserves, coffee, milk; lunch, cold
biscuit cold sliced beef, peach pie, cup cake,
tea; dinner, fried veal outlets with gravy.
cold butter beans with corn, cucumbers and
tomatoes, sweet potatoes, fried potatoes, hot
rolls, peach preserves with cream, tea.
g. Breakfast, corn and flour cakes, syrup
preserves, coffee, milk: lunch, eggs cup
cake, preserves, tea: dinner, boiled beef
with gravy, stewed corn, sweet potatoes,
preserves with cream, tea.
beef coffee: lunch cold beef, cold rolls pre-
serves, tea; dinner, boiled bacon and cab
bage, cold beet, cold rolls, corn bread, pota-
toes, tea.
cold beef coffee, milk; lunch 1.-TWO guests
for lunch), fried chicken, mashed potatoes
sweet potatoes, sliced tomatoes, pickles,
smearcase, peaches and cream, angel ca ke
coffee; dinner, cold chicken, hash, mashed
potatoes sweet potatoes, sliced tomatoes
corn bread, pickles, smearcase, peaches and
cream, angel cake, tea
Il. Breakfast, corn cakes, syrup, fried
bacon, preserves, pickles, coffee; lunch, cold
bacon, preserves, pickles, tea: dinner, boiled
eggs, stewed corn, sweet potatoes. boiled
angel cake, tea.
The Sunday Bills of Fare.
13. Sunday, breakfast, fried bacon, hot bis.
cult, syrup, coffee; dinner, broiled steak,
fried bacon, cold biscuit corn on ear boiled
potatoes, cucumbers, pickles, apple pie, Jelly
cake, tea.
a. Breakfast. hot biscuits, eggs, preserves,
coffee; lunch, cold biscuit apple jelly, apple
pie, angel and jelly cake, tea; dinner, boiled
eggs, sweet potatoes corn, cucumbers, flied
potatoes, hot biscuit, apple jelly, jelly cake,
tea.
Is Breakfast batter cakes, coffee cake,
Eyrup, peach marmalade, apple jelly, coffee;
lunch cold biscuit bacon, jelly, coffee cake,
tea: dinner broiled steak, fried bacon, hot
rolls. sweet potatoes. boiled potatoes, pickles.
Etewed pears, apple jelly. tea.
l6 Breakfast, coffee cake, syrup, MARINA
lade, coffee, milk; lunch, coffee cake, pre-
serves, pears, tea; dinner, broiled ham,
stewed pears, jelly. pickles. apple pie, tea.
syrup. coffee cake, jelly, coffee; lunch, cold
biscuit coffee cake, jelly, stewed pears, tea;
dinner, fried ham, boiled potatoes, boiled
onions, pickles, Jelly, apple sauce, stewed
pears. apple and cream pie, tea.
Is. Breakfast, steamed bread, apple sauce,
pears, coffee, milk; lunch, cold Tried ham,
grapes and peaches, chocolate cake, coffee;
dinner (three guests for dinner), smothered
chickens, mashed potatoes, stewed corn,
sliced tomatoes, apple sauce, chocolate cake,
peaches and grapes, coffee.
I9 Break tast, hot biscuit syrup, apple
sauce, coffee; lunch, cold boiled ham. eggs,
cold biscuit, apple pie, chocolate cake,
ters hot rolls, baked corn, mashed potatoes,
cake fruit, apple butter, cider, tea
20, Sunday, breakfast, corn cakes, syrup
apple butter, chocolate cake, pears, coffee:
dinner, broiled ham, mashed potatoes cold
baked corn. sliced tomatoes, apple butter
pickles, grape and apple pie. cake, grapes,
chocolate, cider.
coffee; lunch, eggs, apple butter tea; dinner
fried ham and bacon, scrambled eggs baked
potatoes, sliced tomatoes, apple butter,
grape pic, tea.
Down to Five Again.
20 Breakfast, corn and flour cakes, syrup.
coffee; lunch, eggs, bacon, grape pie, tea:
four guest who came the 7th left the e2d):
dinner, fried steak with gravy, hot biscuit,
sweet potatoes, apple jelly, sliced tomatoes,
tea.
lunch cold steak, cold rolls. hard boiled
eggs doughnuts: dinner, Tried flank steak
with gravy, fried tomatoes, boiled potatoes,
apple sauce, doughnuts' tea.
"a Brea kfnst, fried ham, apple sauce
douybnuts coffee; lunch, cold ham, apple
sauce doughnuUs, pears; dinner, fried ham,
baked potatoes, sliced tomatoes,appl sauce,
q5 Breakfast, fried steak with gravy, corn
cakes, syrup, coffee: lunch, cold beet steak,
cold eggs, apple sauce, doughnuts; dinner.
fried oysters. crackers, white beans, sliced
tomatoes. apple sauce, doughnutS, tea.
20 Breakfast, hot rolls, syrup, apple jelly,
coffee; lunch, cold ham, apple sauce, pears,
dourhnuts; dinner, tried ham, boiled pota-
toes, cucumbers. apple jelly, pear preserves,
S7. Sunday, breakfast, ham, eggs, fried
POTATOES, pear preserves, coffee: dinner,
fried ham, sweet potatoes, boiled Irish pota-
toes, sliced cucumbers, tomato preserves,
IS Breakfast, hot biscuit, syrup tomato
preserves, coffee; lunch, ham, hard-bo1led