Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-18
THE BRIDES
OWN STORY
4 sammer Gardan u 2 WInter Pantr,.

4 Summer Garden in Winter Pantry.
summer is gone and no longer DO
we 20 iu-o tae garden ard gather
vegetables for the evening meal.
Bui sfill the wonder grows. for still
IouIisa on AaHH JHHette's table tHe
fresh string bean spinach and ever SO
MAN more strictly summer vege- /
taBles
However did sou manage TO get
fresh spinach for dinner last night
a began inves5fga ting early this
morning. AS far as I have observed,
spinach has long since vanished from
the garden and the vegeta be mans
wagon From where then did you
conjare that delicious dish last
night2s
simply a change Of scene for the
bored spinach, explained aunt,
rather graphically. Instead Of
growing them in the gardeffSTve de-
cided ta grow all my summer vege=
tables in the pantry"
Whereupon I 5ourneyed Ia the pan
try myself 10 see what I could see
in The shape Of modern miracles. And
there were rows and rows Of oddly
shaped packages labelled ''dehy-
drafted foods In them were various
summer vegetables. dried Then
aunt came to the rescue.
More than half the contents Of
most Of our summer vegetables Is
water-just plain water. When you
| 'dehydrate' them. you simply remove
the water, and then you can preserve
the same vegetable for the longest
time Whenever you're ready to cook
them you simply add the water, ana
| then you have your Vegetab BILE as
! 2 IeAF7T n >
ing foods is a long. careful process.
But l buy these from concern that
I've found distributes splendid quail
/ ity, and so I've laid in this stock Of
every kind of vegetable you can think
of-carrots, cabbage, spinach, turnIps,
| sweet corn, mint. and I have even
some dehydrated raspberries. straw
/ berries. rhubarb and other summer
fruits
4 But these can't be as good as the
fresh fruit and vegetables. they're so
dried out to look at" l interrupted.
Not bit contradicted aunt
THE fact is that these dried vege-
| tables contain much more nutrition
/ than fresh ones. Indeed, all dried
| foods-yegetables. meats and fish
contain sometimes more than twice
as much nutritive value per pound
as the fresh food.
] u AAAnNoilIEt lCL uS IOiSl0CI TITO
humble string bean. The fresh string
bean is SO per cent. water, 2.1 per
cent. protein, 3 per cent fat, Sc per
cent. carbohydrate. When dried,
| however, there's a great change IN
the proportions; 22.5 per cent. is pro-
tein, Is per cent. is fat, sos per cent.
carbohydrate and only 12.6 per cent.
water.
so when you buy dried vegetables
or dried figs raisins, prunes or dried
and salted fish and meats you buy
very much more nutriment per
pound, because you are not paying
for water in the food. OF course,
these foods take up little space in
the pantry, and you can store large
quantities in a small space"
It reminds me somewhat Of the
Concentrated" foods we used TO con-
sumo at college when we burned the
midnight oil in final examining, gaze
up regular meal hours, and subsisted
on special dried nuts, a handful of
which were supposed to equal a
whole meal They certainly were
filing and substantial, and these
dried foods that aunt uses are just
| as tasteful and satisfying as any Of
the fresh foods, as far as l can see.
/ wonder why more women don't
use these things, or is it. perhaps. not
so much a novelty to more expert
enced houselleeperE than l ann