The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-07
THE BUSINESS SIDE OF
 HOUSEKEEPING
Marketing and Buying for the Family

The economical woman would also prepare black beans in soup that would do duty as mock turtle and cost much less. The fireless cooker would reduce the cost to little more than the cost ot the dried beans. Lentils would also fur nish a delicious water soup instead of using a more expensive soup made with stock
 Again. the economical woman will ask for the bones for which she pays when she buys chops or steak, and use them for her soup-pot. If she uses little meat she will invest in a jar of beef extract at a cost which seems high; her wise use of this extract for making quick con
 somme" will demonstrate that she oo- tains her moneys worth She has really saved in fuel and time and material and has practically the same kind of soup
 she would have had for consomme. Use of Canned doods
 It is more economical to purchase a can of boned chicken for twenty-five
 cents than to purchase chicken and
 prepare 1t for such things as salad or
 croouettes. A chicken for. twenty-five
 cents in many communities would fur
 uish very little Where chickens are
 cheap, of course, the canned goods would
 figure higher.
 Evaporated or dried fruits are very
 desirable when carefully prepared, and result in. .eompotes equal to the expen- sive ones They form an agreeable sub
 stitute for fresh fruits and cost much less The woman who saves knows how
 to develop favors by combining fruits: For instance, she will use ,eYaporated kapplesfor zsfoundation! and just enough of the,more expensive dried apricots to give a delicious flavor. She will know lfhe value of combining apples and black q berries. making the final cost of her com pote quite reasonable , ...>-,-
 r One phase of substitution which is I false economy is in the use of cheap cooking material The so-called "cook- ing" butter. and eggs are examples: ! Whether cheap or dear, the qxGlity of
 an article should be above reproach; its | for1nf fasysbc open 70 criticisan,s but 7ttfat
 can probably be improved Such is not
 the case with butter and egg: usually sold for cooking. The composition has
 hanged until the articles are past the stage of wholcsorneness- If that has not I occurred, it is often true of butter that Il it is poorly worked and full of water
 adding to the weight and price or. else
 composed f-cheap fats
 I Such things as broken rice or broken nuts are entirely different. Their qual- ity is uninjured. and the appearance ir soups OT CIOquCllCS VI pAddAASS WOuA1 . be satisfactory. Even served plain the
 rice would look well if carefully pre- pared s t F.s .ss, Buying In Large Quantities ', The economical woman sometime, spends money in rather large amounts because it pays in the end. She will or occasion buy a large piece of meat ana arrange with the butcher to keep 1t fol
 her and cut it up as needed
 The economical woman knows tha . homemade bread is cheaper than baker. even in first cost She knows that tht final cost of the bakers loaf is increased because of the added food she must fur ' nish. her family if they are tv De wei | fed. The nourishment and satisfactios ; are not easy to calculate, but they ar' : important factors to be considered il . buying.
 : Eggs furnish the same kind of nour r ishrnent as meat, and even when quit | high. in price are cheaper than meat | The woman who buys economical,
 spends for eggs and saves in non.essen