The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-28
Mixing Brains With Food.

Have you got kitchen cabinetf If
you have, look it over and just see If
there is not vacant compartment in
it. The mosts valuable addition to any
kitchen cabinet or larder is something
that you can not buy. Something that
is not regulated by corners on Chicago
or New York trade boards-something
that pretty nearly every one can have
even if the prices of everything else
goes soaring so that you couldn t buy
pound of meat for days work. 1t
is the most valuable addition to any
kitchen. What is it? Why just old
fashioned common sense. A lot of wo-
men are able to mix up wonderful COM
binations of butter and eggs and -four
they can make desserts which are a
ticker to the gullet and a decoration
to the table, but the most important
thing that can be mixed with food is
brains.' It is undoubtedly true that
the American people waste enough ev-
cry day to feed another nation just as
great and powerful. That the garbage
cans of the nation contain food enough
every day to feed standing army
largen than the United States ever
maintained in its history and all of this
is due to the fact that the housewife
fails to develope in the kitchen the
brains she uses in other parts of the
house. Kitchen brains is a rare thing
in the American household. It is the
paramount thing to bring about re-
duced cost of living for the present
time and economical living for the
years that are to come. It is the real
weapon with which to combat the man
who makes a corner in eggs and butter
and the man who stores up the wheat
and the -four in order to force someone
to pay higher price for it. Mixing
brains with food suggests a lot of
things. The home is not short order
restaurant. There are a lot of things
which can be done at the same time.
Gas may be saved by baking the fam
lily bread at the same time we broil the
family steak. The oven is going to be
heated by the same gas that broils the
steak. 1t is wonderful what savings
can be made by just such a use of
brains and it is wonderful how much
comfort can be brought to the house
wife who uses her brain TO economic
the time spent in the kitchen.
The stop-cock of the gas stove and
the ease with which the electric burner
is started going has changed the habits
of the modern housewife from those Of
her mother and her grandmother. In
the old days when it was necessary to
split klndling and make the fire, women
knew better than today the value of
the hot stove. Modern methods have
brought convenience, but there is many
doubts as to whether or not they are
the messenger of economy The woman
who mixes brains with the family dim
ner often goes to market. She takes
thu basket on her arm and buys things
where she can buy them the cheapest
She finds in coming in personal contact
with a lot of food products that some
days 1T is lot cheaper to have sweet
potatoes for dinner than the old fash
Toned kind which made Ireland famous.
She gets the habit of looking for favor
able prices on lot Of products which
before she got the market basket habit
she ordered over the telephone and
paid the highest market price plus the
cost OF delivery. She finds out that
there are lot Of things which can be
purchased advantageously in bulk and
that these articles bought in bulk are
just as nutritious as others for which
companies have spent thousands of dol
lars if not millions to develope trade
name. She finds lots of times that
there is economy in buying in duanti-
ties. The mixing of brains with food
would eliminate the serving of straw
berries with the Christmas dinner or
the slicing tomatoes in January. Brains
mixed with food would teach lot Of
housewives that the food tastes better
and is better when used in it's regular
season. Brains in the kitchen ALWAYS
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cause the housewife to be student of
the cook book. She learns the mystery
of the old fashioned bread pudding.
she finds that scraps of meat some time
appear on another day en-casseroleo
and that they make a very toothsome
dish in this fashion. She finds uses for
the potatoes which have been going to
the garbage can. She learns how to
use the breakfast food left over from
breakfast. Happy is the family where
brains have a regular place in the
kitchen larder.
The use of brains in the development
of economy in the kitchen is going to
be reflected in all of the other portions
of the house. Try it out. Make the
kitchen an educational institution and
then look at the end of the month and
see just how much it is worth to YOU
to mix brains with the food.
Holland declares that the president
IS trying to steal the thunder of its
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