The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1901-03-21
MAKES PICKLES ON SHARES.
A Bright Woman MOney-Maker's
Novel Scheme-Grocers Her
Partners.

Every woman of economical instincts
experiments with madeover dishes. pro,
vided she is keeping house. If things
are beng wasted there is sufficient
cause for worry. and usually she sets
about remedying the evil. But there
is an element of newness about one
woman's methods. Her care for the
Ieftovers has branched out to include
the corner grocery, with its fruits and
vegetables. After two years trial she
has found out that her thoughtfulness
pays, says the Buffalo Express.
1T worried me-" she said, ito see the
vegetables and fruits at my grocer's
wither and dry up, to be finally thrown
away. Nobobdy wants to buy vegeta-
bles that are not quite fresh, and so all
the time big waste is going on.
thought the matter over and finally
determined that I would snake him
proposition. 1t was this, that he would
allow me to take all vegetables and
fruits that were not fresh enough
to bring the best prices and preserve
and pickle them on shares. He was to
dispose of them in his shop.
He was quite willing, and now for
two years l have been making as many
pickles and preserves as l have the
time to give to the work. All of his left
overs are sent to me, and make them
up and send them back to be sold at
fair price. His store has gained the
reputation of having homemade
pickles and preserves, and since there is
| always a demand for such things he is
pleased not only to have his unsaleable
fruits and vegetables saved, but to sell
the preserves and pickles. / also make
orders for them, but not otherwise,
| and it is the same with catsups. / do
| the work, and as / make no outlay
| am not worried when the sales are slow.
Neither do l worry about it being
poor year for fruits and vegetables.
Last year my share of the profits was
| $735. When you consider that 1 made
no investment except my own time and
labor, | think that you will agree that
| did pretty well. But you must remem-
Der that l do not go for summers
| holiday, but remain in town during
the summer and go away at the season
when there are the fewest vegetables
in the market.
'At present make up the leftovers
from six groceries, and / could get as
many more had l the time. The vege-
tables l use are not decayed or much
| withered. l make them always on the
second day. some varieties on the even
| ing of the first, and in that way they
are as fresh as those used by the usual
preservers. The grocers furthermore
| are compelled to have fresh supply,
and they themselves say that when such
a fact becomes known in their trade it
| is of the greatest benefit
The soup kettle should play promi-
nent part in every houshold, according
to culinary writer's, says the New York
Sun. 1t does, literally, in the house
hold of another woman whose zeal for
saving things or for making money evil
IDENTIFY reconciled her to the eternal
presence of soup meat. There might be
pleasanter ways of earning an honest
penny, but, as in the case of the woman
with her catsups and preserves, the out
lay is nothing and the worry about sales
is nothing and beside is she not saving
the odds and ends from waste? In this
case it is the scraggy bits of meat and
the good soup bones from the butchers
shop that arouse her saving zeal. These
are made into stock, put up in jars, la
beled neatly, then sent back to the shop
to be sold on somewhat the same share
and-share-alike plan which has proved
so remunerative to the woman who
looks with such pride at her rows Of
preserves on the grocer's shelves. There
are any number of persons who are only
too glad to buy soup stock. 1t saves
them work, beside large amount of
gas or other fuel. By not having the
stock ready they often throw away
many things that could otherwise have
been used in making soup. With the
homemade soup stock in sight at the
/, butchers shop for sale at a very mod
crate price the question takes on a
!. different aspect and soup becomes a
daily friend. "The work is not dis
agreeable says the woman who claims
to have discovered this particular
field, "and from the meat that used to
be wasted / now make several hundred
| 1n1larc year3