The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-15
Mrs Ewing, The Chautanqua Copk.-
Teacher, Gives Her Experience


when I was in Boston in October, 1889,
helping the Young Women's Christian
association organize their school of do
nestic economy, 1 remarked in one OF
nv talks that family of four persons,
when the homework was done without
hired help, could live on the fat OF the
land for 81. 70 or q piece a week.
This statement seemed rather absurd to
the average Bostonlan, and the news
papers criticised it as being 'suPremeiy
ridiculous - Such things might perhaps
be done in the wild and wooley west, =
but in Boston, never. In Iowa and lndl-
ana. where had experimental, and
where anything could be bought Tor
song, 1t might be possible TO live on that
sum. but in Massachusetts,, where every
thing "costs, - such possibility was ous
OF the question.
Now. the fun of the joke was that at
the very time the daily journals were so
actively employed in refutlng my asser-
ton / was right under their noses-ab
the Y. ". c. A. building-daily doing
what they said couldn't be done
Forty-eight years ago the learned DOC
tor Isrdnar asserted that ship couldn't
be constructed of sufficient capacity TO
enough
across the Atlantic ocean. Nevertheless,
thousands of ships do every year run
across the Atlantic by steam. Ana IN
spite OF the disbelief OF both journalists
and housekeepers, choice fare can be fur-
nished for 81. 80 week even IN Boston
When nv work for the Young Women's
Christian association closed ! lett Mrs.
Havs. nv assistant, IN charge OF the
school. Mrs. Hays had been special
student with me two years at the Iowa
Agricultural college and understood my
methods. give her bills OF fare, and the
cost OF material under her management,
which also includes cost of that used oy
her cooking classes. This is her state
ment:
ssDuring November and December the
food material, fuel. and ice. Tor our BOARD
and lessons cost $3.50 each a week Our
family averaged twelve, and have hve
cooking lessons a week for the young
ladies, five lessons for the training girls,
and Jour lessons Tor the outside classes,
two OF the latter being a fancy course, ;
in which was included boned TURKEY,
puff paste, cake, etc.
tsThese are some OF our bills OF fare:
NOV. -Breakfast-Apples grapes.
veal chops, baked potatoes bread, butter,
coffee.
sDinner-Tomato soup, boiled leg OF
mutton, eaper sauce, boiled potatoes,
mashed tnrnips. apple pie. cheese, bread,
butter. coffee
supper-Cold meat, macaroni cooked
IN cream, bread, butter, Sally Lunn, tea,
coffee.
nNov. Observation-Disclosures, apples,
broiled beefsteak, fried potatoes, sliced
tomatoes, bread. butter, coffee
ssDinner-Oxtail soup, baked fish,
boiled potatoes, cabbage salad, Italian
cream. bread, butter, coffee.
pper-Hominy grits with cream, cold
boiled ham, bread, butter, cinnamon
huns, cocoa, tea.
ssNov. 9-Breakfast, grapes, apples,
broiied breakfast bacon, boiled eggs, gra-
ham mullins. bread, butter, coffee
"Dinner-Cream OF celery soup, roast
beef. sweet potatoes, Drowned white pota-
toes, baked sour apples, Washington pud-
ssSupper-C Chicken salad, French rolls,
corn dodgers, butter, ginger cake, tea,
coffee.
ssThe meals through November and De-
cember averaged fully as well as these anc
were-about equally varied.
Mrs. Havs also informs me that in
Narch, 1890, ct her home in Minneapolis
Mimi. she. her husband and little daugh-
ter lived on q. 80 week, which include:
fuel. This. counting the little girl a.
one-half, would be Sl.56 each a week
These are a few of their bills of fare:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Oranges, poacheC
eggs, toast, breat, butter, mix.
Dinner-Soup, porterhouse steak, po
tatoes. parsnips, chow chow, bread, but
Ter, peach pudding.
Supper-Cold meat, cat meal with
cream, grape marmalade, bread, butter
milk.
Tuesday-Br eakfast-Oranges, omelet
toast, bread. butter, milk
Dinner-Soup with croutons, stewe'
meat. mashed potato, corn, onion salad
bread, butter, fruit pudding.
Supper-Cold meat, sauce, rolls, butter
Wednesday - Breakfast - Apples an
oranges, frizzled beef, potatoes, warn
bread, butter, milk
Dinner-Boiled fish, potatoes, tomatoes
bread, butter, milk, pie.
Supper-Cold meat, apple sauce, bread
butter. milk.
For the balance of the week the bill
OF fare are equally varied and equall
GOOD. Don't You think such food, wit
q little tea and coffee thrown in, woul
be satisfactory to most people?
The second week in June, 1890, kept
memorandum of expenses of Il family c
four in Kansas City, Mo-, and our 100
and fuel cost $3.50, or S1.90 each for th
week / got whatever was In the marke
that would give us harmonious bill {
fare each day, without any special re
gard to economy, and this was abou
what we lived on:
pearled wheat with cream, Strawberries
bread. butter, coffee, milk.
Dinner-Broilid spring chicken, ne'
peas, potatoes, strawberries. bread, but
suppsr-RoIled barley with cream
Monday Breakfast Baked hash, slice
tomatoes, toast, bread, butter, coffee
milk.
Dinner-Broiled lamb chops, aspars
gus, potatoes, strawberries, bread, butter
Supper-Cracked wheat with cream
bread. butter. tea, milk.
Tnesday-Breakfa Poached eggs Q
toast, oaf meal with cream, bread, butte
Dinner-Porterhouse steak, caulifiowe
potatoes, strawberries, bread, butter
Supper-Boiled rice with caean, straw
berries, bread, butter, tea, milk
Wednesday, reakfast-Frlzzied bee
oat meal with cream, strawberries, brea'
15inner-Broiled white fish, baked DC
fatoes, lettuce, strawberries. bread, but
ter, tea
supper-Hominy with cream. toast, te
Thursday = Breakfast = Veal cutie
creamed potatoes, Strawberries, breat
butter, coffee, milk.
Dinner-Fried chicken, sliced tomatoe
meas, potatoes, bread, butter. stray
supper-Farina with cream. Frent
rolls bread, butter. cocoa, milk
Friday--Breakf ast-Broiled beefsteal