Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-30
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Omaha, Nov. 29.-To the Editor OF
The Bee: To all the housewives who
are struggling with present hign
prices of all articles Of food. such
lists as Miss Jackson's are of intense
interest, but at the same time they
find that there are a few practical
questions they still must ask.
Eggs--No provision Is made for
the purchase of eggs, which are this
week selling at so cents a dozen, yet
muffins and gingerbread, given in the
menu of one day, both call for eggs.
Sugar-Two pounds, or four cups;
this appears skinny when you see
that the dried apples or the prunes
will each require a cup Of sugar to
make them palatable, the ginger
bread wants sugar, the oranges, the
breakfast food, the rice, the gelatine,
while the coffee and cocoa average
about a teaspoonful for cup at the
very least, which will be one-third
cup a meal, or two-thirds Of cup
a day, making four and two-thirds
cups per week, for five people.
Coffee-Usually one tablespoon OF
coffee is allowed to cup of the fin
ished coffee. The one-half pound con-
tains two cups, at most about eight
cen of the tablespoonful required to
make cup of the beverage, disre-
garding the practice of lone for the
pot" So all of the family cannot
have coffee every day. They must
drink milk or cocoa, but it takes milk
to make cocoa.
-Milk-The allowance OF one quart
per day is scanty, for this is just four
cupfuls and it must serve as a posi-
BILE beverage to the children, who can
always drink cup at a meal and
ask for more. But the cream that
raises from the milk or the milk IT.
self is needed in the coffee, on the
Goa, the mullins, the cream sauce, all
mentioned in one days menu. This is
making four cups do a big duty.
Potatoes-One-ha peck of pota-
toes will serve one meal a day for five
persons only with the very scantiest
of servings. The french fried" pota
toes would be dangerous, because the
vegetable shrinks so in the process.
Onions--As we have been buying
them lately, one pound of onions
would not serve as a vegetable to five
people, for meal.
Butter and Oleomargarine-The
are the only shortening agents mem
toned, one pound each. This is scam
ty, for French fried" potatoes re-
quire at the very least a quart of fat
in the frying kettle. The allowance
person will have to be very small
to make the pound last a week.
Salad oil Is mentioned. Perhaps this
too could be used as shortening, as
there are few things in the list of
which to make a salad, for they are
needed worse for use in some other
capacity.
Oranges-One-half dozen, one
piece and one over, with dried apples
for one meal and prunes for another,
are all the fruit that can be used in
the entire twenty-one meals of the
week. ri
Meat-Most families want more
meat than is here provided. One-half
pound creamed cod means one-tenth
of pound of cod to a person, all the
meat allowed for the day: it is small
ration. Three pounds of shoulder Of
lamb would have quite share of
bone, the meat on such a piece does
not go very far. Counting all the
meat mentioned together, the salt
pork and the one-sixth Of pound of
dried beef, the allowance per person
per day is about one-flfth of pound.
This is supposing the whole three
pounds of lamb are meat, no bone in
it. The usual plan is to allow one
fourth of pound of meat to an inr
dividual for two meals day If pos
sible, or one-half a pound a day.
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