Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-11-22

FOR A LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING
THANKSGIVING.
For the family living in small apart.
ments and doing the very lightest kind
of housekeeping, the phenomenal adj
vance in variety of manufactured food
products-pure ones too-p1akes n really
osumpious Thanksgiving dinner quite
possible. While it will cost moro than
tho old fashioned dinner, cooked at
home, it Is certainly a great labor saver
For such the following menu may serve
as index:
Raw oysters or Apchovies with Lemon
Celery, Pickles. Grape Jelly.
Canned Mock Turtle Soup or Soup
Julienne.
Boned Turkey, Saratoga Chips or Can
ned Sweet Potatoes.
Canned Succotash. Canned Beets.
Roman Punch.
Game and Chicken Patties Truffied.
Lettuce with Cheese Salad.
Individual Plum Puddings with Custard
or Clear Punch Sauce.
Nuts, Fruit. Bonbons.
Coffee.
This entire menu can be readily pre-
pared with no other cooking utensils
than chatting dish or gas burner, with
saucepan and coffee pot. If guests
have to wait between the courses or
witness their preparation tho novelty
will be but n sauce to appetite.
a recent tour of inspection made by
some of the best housewives in Brook
lyn and officers of the New York Lea
que for Home Economics to one of the
largest factories where high grade
soups and other food products are put
up under the most scientifically sanitary
surroundings and conditions has made
many a convert to such canned pro-
ducts.
Would that there were as many more
throughout the country. employing only
the best of raw material the neatest
of workron and women, the latest i'm
provements in machinery ana all labor
saving devices. with Immaculate clean
illness in every detail Of the work, an
impeccable management and the kind
lest feeling between employer and en-
ployc. with never a strike and always
a long waiting list OF applicants for
positions
Yet there was n 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 Tlrst princi-
! pies of sanitation or of the canning
business, his first remark to the pro-
prietor. a man who has been for twenty
years building up his business with the
most conscientious regard to every de-
| tail, was. '1f want to I can condemn
anything you've got here and have it
destroyed a very selr-eviGent bid for
graft.
After wandering about the factories,
the only unSightly. uhsan;tary object
/ In view, he settled into Il perfunctory
routine of counting the boxes of fin
ished goods as sent out stamping them
with the government label to tho ac-
compartment of copious and incessant
expcctoraton all over the yards Of the
buildings which otherwise looked like
the familiar pictures of ''Spotless
Town.
Here is n situation that Is liable TO
| be duplicated anywhere, even while
the authorities are honestly endeavor-
ing to cope with the abuses brought out
during the packing mouse disclosures.
What is the remedy? Governmen,
supervision is certainly good thing
but there should be reasonable discre-
ton used selecting men or women OF
intelligence who understand the bust
ness upon whose methods they are
called upon to pass
THE GOVERNMENT STAMP MISAP.
| In this connection there is another
fragrant abuse that needs to be
brought to the attention of the pub
lie. While the government stamp Is
now required on all factory products
where beef, pork or veal are employed
it is we'll known fact that some of the
very concerns in Chicago implicated If
the packing house scandals. are now
taking back from the grocers many OF
the goods put up before the revelations
and revolutions in methods that follow
ed. and having the government stamp af
fixed to them.
IF NOT WHY NOT2
And again! With all the restriction,
recently placed around the buying am
preparation for market of beef porl
and veal, why. Is there no similar safe
guard against the use of undrawi
poultry kept in cold storage 70
months and years at at time until 81
make them sweet? s. the laws stand
| there are no restrictions whatever con
corning poultry or clans. both of whicl
are largely used in the manufacture o
soups chowders and other made dishes
; Many obscure cases OF ptomaine poi
soning may be traced to these product
as put up by INSCRIPTIONS dealers. wit
doctorings and dopings that may XII
oders and the taste OF carrion, but no
the poisonous germs or equally poison
Gus germicides used in their preservation
Not until women educate themsclve
to know what products are pure an
wholesome and then insist upon hay
ing them, whtle abuses cease and pur
/, food laws be not only passed, but rigidl
$ enforced with Judgment in the enforcnt
5 EMMA PADDOCK TELFORD.
2 SUPPER FOR 1900.
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