The Washington times., 1905-12-24
Four Dollars a Week Enough

IT HE space usually allotted to
recipes viii be filled today by
the wonderful woman who sets
a good table for herself. has
band and an occasional visitor for 81
week
MY time has been so taken up that
1 am week later than I expected 10
be in sending this. I have tried to To
very accurate. and if 1 have missed any
thing. 1 should be glad TO know IT. :
have written it down daily, not daring
to trust to my memory"
Sunday.
observation-disclosures. cracked wheat.
poached eggs on toast, coffee
Dinner-Roast beef, brown gravy,
plain boiled potatoes, mashed turnips,
plain baked beans, lemon pie
Lunch or supper-Cold roast beef, cold
baked beans, lemon jelly cake and pear
sauce.
Monday.
Breakfast Cgot up Iate)-warmed up
cooked wheat; had some cold roast beef.
coffee
Lunch-Roast beef sandwiches. cake.
sauce and apple pie.
Dinner-Beefsteak. potatoes, turnips.
baked beans heated up with brown
gravy, apple pie
Tuesday.
Breakfast-RoIled oats, steak. warrn-
ed up potatoes, coffee.
I.unch-Roast beef warmed up with
gravy; :ried potatoes. pie and grapes
-Dinner-Vegetabl soup, potatoes,
plain boiled carrots. tomatoes. with
chopped green peppers; tapioca pudding.
Wednesday.
Breakfast-Rolled oats. hash on toast
Cmeat of soup bone. with remains OF
beef boiled IN soup provides the meat,
coffee.
Lunch-veaI outlet hash. tomatoes.
cake and sauce.
Dinner-Strained vegetable soup. liver
and bacon, lyonnaise potatoes, fried
carrots. jelly tarts-
Thursday.
Breakfast-Cooked ground rice, fried
eggs, coffee.
Lunch--Bacon and eggs. fried toma-
toes on toast. cakes and jelly tarts-
Dinner-Tomato soup IA little stock
reserved. added tomato and dry celery
chopped very fine), sausage. mashed po-
tatoes. fried breakfast food" blanc
mango.
Friday.
Breakfast-RoIled oats. fried eggs,
coffee.
Lunch-Pork sausage; potato patties,
cake, and sauce.
Dinner-Tomato soup (strained and
thickened a very little). lamb chop. boil
ed onions. potatoes. cake and apple
sauce. or grapes Cforget which,.
Saturday.
Breakfast-roIIed oats. lamb chops.
warmed-up potatoes. coffee
Lunch-Cheese sandwiches. sliced to-
matoes with peppers. cake and sauce.
Dinner-Hamburger steak. baked pe-
tatoes. sliced tomatoes. baked apples.
Cost of Food for the Weeks Menus.
One-quarter pound tea. 10 cents.
One-half pound coffee. 10 cents
Three pounds OF sugar. 10 cents. 7 f1Ps
got 10 add sugar that was in sugar bowl
On table. perhaps a pound
one peck of potatoes. Is cents.
One peck of apples. 10 cents.
One-haIf peck OF turnips Is cents.
Basket tomatoes. Is cents.
Onions 3 cents; had paid only IS cents
for peck the week before
Carrots. cents
Rolled oats. cents; did not use moro
than half of these.
Basket Of grapes. Is cents
Six loaves of bread p cents. Am zuFa
this was full cost as l bake myself.
One-half pound lard. cents
Butter one pound, "A cents
Lemons S cents
Roast beef 45 cents
SouD bone > cents.
Steak II cents.
Green peppers. cents.
Veal outlet 15 cents.
Liver and bacon. 10 cents.
Sausage. cents.
Hamburger. cents.
Cheese cents
Lamb Chops is cents.
Total 1898.
Forgot to add milk. Is cents. ana foxS
eggs. ; cents. making total ST.
Out of this there are enough potatoes.
turnipS. and tomatoes for one meal left.
besides a little tea and coffee. which.
altogether VIII fully equal cornstarch.
tap;oca. cracked wheat salt -four bak-
inf powder for cake. besides having
canned a quart of grape sauce. This has
been very cheap time for vegetables.
or the cost would have been larger.
Then l had two extra here for Sunday
dinner. and five extra for Sunday lunch,
At every meal at which have not had
coffee 1 have had tea Bread and butter
l have not Sdded- but we average six
loaVeS OF homemade bread week They
would he about Il pound.