Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-24
SPOON BREAD.

$3.50 SPOON BREAD.
This Is another good old breakfast bread
familiar to all southerners. Its foundation
is any leftover cereal. Scald cupful OF
white corn meal with a cup of boiling
water Add a half teaspoonful salt, cup
full cooked rice grits other cereal, three
and two Irresponsible baking powder. Beal
WELL then bake In a thin sheet or prefer
ably in earthen dish two inches thick. il
should be like firm custard.
FOR A LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING
THANKSGIVING.
For the family living in small apartments
and doing the very lghtest kind of house
keeping, the phenomenal advance in variety
of manufactured food products-pure ones.
too-makes really sumptuous Thanksgiv-
ing dinner quite possible. While IL will cost
more than the old fashioned dinner, cooked
at home, 1t Is certainly great labor saver.
For such the following menu may serve
index:
Raw oysters or anchovies with lemon.
Celery. Pickles. Grape jelly.
n Canned ned, mock turtle soup or soup JalIenne
Canned succotash c''''e' Canned beets.
Roman punch.
Game and chicken patties trufi1ed.
individual plum buildings with custard ciear
punch sauce;
Coffee.
This entire menu can be readily prepared
WIFI no OlIleT COOhlHS uleflSllS IMAM a
ing dish or gas burner with saucepan and
coffee pot. If guests have to wait between
the courses or witness their preparation
the novelty will be but sauce to appetite.
A recent tour of inspection made by SOM
of the best housewives In Brooklyn and of
fce1s of the New York League for Home
Economics to one of the largest factories
where high-grade soups and other fooc
products are put up under the most scien
tiflcaly sanitary surroundings and condi-
tons has made many convert to such
canned products.
Would that there were as many moro
throughout the country, employing only
the best of material, the neatest o
workmen and women, the latest improve
ments in machinery and all labor saving
devices, with immaculate cleanlin sss n
every detail of the work, an impeccable
and the kndliest feeling be
tween employer and employe, with never &
strike and always a long waiting list OF
applicants for positions.
Yet there was a fly in the ointment
which in this case was an inspector sent
there recently by the government officials,
the result of the new food law following
the packing house disclosures
Utterly ignorant of the first principles
Of sanitation or of the. canning business
his first remark to the proprietor, mar
who has been for twenty years buildint
up his business with the most conscientious
regard to every detail. was IF | want Il
can condemn anything you've got her,
and have it destroyed" very self-evideni
bid for graft.
After wandering about the factories the
only unsightly, insanity object in view
he settled into perfunctory routine o.
the boxes of finished goods a.
sent out, stamping them with the govern
ment label to the accompaniment of CO
pious and incessant expectoration all Owe
the yards of the buildings which otherwis,
looked like the familiar pictures of Spot
less Town"
Here is a situation that is liable to be
duplicated anywhere, even while the au-
thorities are honestly endeavoring to cops
with the abuses brought out during the
packing house disclosures.
What is the remedy? Government So
pervision Is certainly a good thing. bu
here should be reasonable discretion used
o gsd t e. b nlnesS 81 up n5e ssoss
methods they are called upon to pass.
THE GOVERNMENT STAMP MISAP
Piled.
In this connection there Is another ia
grant abuse that needs to be brought To
he attention of the public While the gov
eminent stamp is now required on all fac
DRY products where beef, pork or veal arc
employed, it is well-known fact tina.
ome of the very concerns in Chicago i'm
,Iicated in the packing house scandals. AR
low taking back from the grocers man.
Il the goods put up before the revelation
md revolutions in methods that followed
md having the government stamp affixed
o them.
IF NOT, WHY NOT
And again! With all the restrictions re
emily placed around the buying and prep
ration for market of beef, pork and veal
Why Is there no similar safeguard against
he use of undrawn poultry. kept in colo
forage for months and years at time.
Until SO high" that oceans of water GU
ever make them sweet? As the laws
tand, there are no restrictions whateve,
oncerning poultry or CLAIMS. both of whicl
re largely used In the manufacture Of
cups, chowders and other made dishes.
Many obscure cases of ptomaine poison
ng may be traced to these products az
tut up by INSCRIPTIONS dealers, with doc
orings and dopings that may kill odon
md the taste of carrion, but not the pots
nous germs or equally poisonous germi-
ides used in their preservation.
Not until women educate themselves to
now what products are pure and whole
ONE, and then insist upon having them.
Will abuses cease and pure food laws be
ot only passed, but rigidly enforced with
Judgment In the enforcing.