The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-05-26
1WO-b|I DINNER NOT
EXTINCT, GIRLS SHOW
High School Students Prove
That Good Meal May Be
Had for Quarter.
PARENTS DELIGHTED
Mothers of Young Cooks In
vited to Try Menu and
Come Away Happy.

The wo-hit dinner, listed for the
last few years among the marvcls Of
the ancient world. may not be extinc,
after all. That is the news. cheering
to the worried consumer and the dys-
peptic quick lunch patron. brought by
a series of experimental meals which
have just been finished at the aomes-
tic science department of the county
high school.
The meals We're part of the course i'm
cooking given the girls of the sopho-
more class by Miss Lucille w Reyn-
olds. The girls We're divided into
groups Of two and told to prepare at
their own expense six regular dinners
at cost of not more than % cents
each The mothers of the girls. one
of the high school teachers and Miss
Reynolds We're the guests at each of
the dinners one of the girls acted
the part of host, the other of hostess
The 1.-TWO. Bit" Menu
TO the aNeroge man the words
twenty five cent dinner translate
INTO plate of beans. a cup of coffee
and a piece of pie. with its chief bene-
ut being the stimulus given the yitup-
eratiye parts of the vocabulary Here
are some of the things the high school
girls Were able to put on the bin Of
fare for that price:
Macaroni and cheese.
Meat and cheese loaf
Potatoes.
Apricot sherbet
Peanut cookies
Coffee with sugar and cream
Bread and butter.
These and more the girl cooks served
their guests and still kept within the
limits allowed them for the purcha $,
Of foodstuffs.
Scientific Arrangement.
There was no guessing at the amount
of food the diner should get. no sRimp
ing to keep the cost down. For these
cooks had already figured out and
charted the cost of serving a certain
amount of calores from each of Ions
list of foodstuffs. They knew that ar
adult needs enough food to furnisl
each meal from 2.40O to 1900 calories
BY means of their charts they arrive,
at this result and had an attractiv,
and varied menu as we'll
The Art Of Cooking.
Special stress was laid by Mis-.
Reynolds on the use of cheap but nu
tritious foods and scientific methods O
household economy. Some of tn,
food figures on the chart are of NOR,
than ordinary interest. Two peanu
cookies, for instance. costing slight,
over cent, give out 125 calOries
nearly as much as two slices Of bread
costing practically the same A singl,
serving of salmon loaf and sauce con
tains 2S4 calories and costs nearl,
eight cents. Escallopod salmon, or
the other hand. is more valuable. con
tanning as it does, Boo calories an,
costing half as much.
Boiled salad dressing. Thought h,
many housewives to have little foo,
value the girls knew gave 50 ca)oria
for the cost of one cent They mad
use Of the value of oil in their mems
Tor ffench dressing costing two cent
VIII give 133 calores Their char
also showed that by adding cheese t,
meat loaf they cut the price one
'onrth and at the same time ncarl,
double the food value OF the dish.
Girls Did It All.
All the foods Were selected. cooke,
and served by the girls themselves
even to the bread The latter featur,
made the greatest impression on tn,
mothers who We're guests al thei
daughters table. although they wrr,
an enthusiastic in their praise Of tn,
whole dinner