Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-02

-F Americans with limited incomes had
limited appetites, if bowl of rice,
dish of salt fish and little fruit
seven days i'm the week or the poetic
loaf of bread and jug of wine would
satisfy the western palate as it does the
eas.e rn padate. then the planning OF dol
lar dinners would be easy enough. But
Americans crave variety and demand lux
ury: hence the planning of dollar dinners
is a task to perplex the best housekeeper.
In order to plan them successfully the
week menu should be made out in ad-
vance. One day the food may cost dol
la and a half, but this excess will be
counteracted by seventy-cent dinner
next day and one for 20 cents another.
In planning dollar dinners 1t is better to
have "A few dishes of good quality than
more of cheaper sort. And the omis-
sion of soups in very warm weather that
fresh vegetables may be generously
served of dessert occasionally to make a
roast possible, or of salad sometimes in
the winter so that the more substantial
course may be bigger will prove good
ways OF keeping the cost of really good
meals within the bounds prescribed.
Following are suggestions for dollar din
ners for a week with the cost of the diff
ferent ingredients mentioned. Eggs are
rated at 3 cents each. sugar at u cents "A
pound. -four bought in large quantities at
not more than cents Il pound. milk at
cents quart
Sundays dinner costs Si.2o. The first
course is cream corn soup. for which d
can of corn, 10 cents. a pint of milk,
cents and a cents worth OF pepper, salt,
butter and -four 10 thicken are needed
totaling 20 cents. Next comes chicken
cooked whole in a casserole. The chicken.
one for fricasse at is cents a pound.
weighs about four pounds and costs about
1o cents. Drowned sweet potatoes cost
about cents. One large mashed turnip
is > cents. The dessert. snow pudding,
costs 16 cents. Total cost, $40
Mondays dinner is as follows: Negeta-
bile soup, II cents; lamb stew, Al cents
rice balls Z cents: canned peas, 10 cents
boiled custard, IL cents. Total, p cents.
&
Tuesdays dinner consists of mutton,
chicken and rice soup the bones from
sunday and Mondays meat and ) cents
worth of rice,, ) cents: green peppers
stuffed with soup meat 60 cents for -four
peppers. halved. and ) cents for seasoning
and bread crumbs. 10 cents; new carrots
1o cents: mashed potatoes POTATOES.
cents, mix ana StdSoIIllS tlit Sdliltfi ~
cents: date whip. 20 cents. Total IA cents
Wednesday the dinner IL OF noodle soup
II cents. lamb chops, ~ cents; buttered
parsnips, = cents. nut and celery salad
lettuce, cents: half bunch OF celery,
cents: nuts, cents; oil and vinegar,
cents. IL cents: waters and cheese,
cents. Total % cents.
Thursday there Ii potato soup potatoes
1 cents. milk and seasoning. cents, fol-
10 cents; veal loaf 1.-TWO pounds of veal
one egg and crumbs. 80 cents boiled rice
cents: spinach. Is cents. and cottage
pudding with lemon sauce, Is cents, for 6
total of IS cents.
Friday. cream of celery soup tmade will
half a bunch of celery left over from
Wednesday, , cents milk and seasoning
:, cents). costs 10 cents. Cod with drawn
butter sauce can be served for 80 cents
scalloped potatoes potatoes, cents. ant
the same amount for milk, butter. pepper
and salO, for 10 cents; baked onions ton
ions, cents; milk, cents; seasoning,
cents. for l. cents: dressed lettuce for !,
cents and mixed nuts for II cents. making
- total of 81 cents.
Saturday the tomato maigre soup cost!
II cents. the Spanish beefsteak Ga pound