The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-26
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Getting Greatest Value.

The following suggestions on get
ting the most food for ones money
are from United States department of
agriculture Farmers Bulletin sos.
How to Select Foods"
Use cereals (fiour meal, cereal
breakfast foods, etc.) freely, taking
pains to prepare them with great caro-
and to vary the kind used from day
to day If necessary to keep people
from firing of them.
Remember that quart OF whole
milk a day for each child, to be used
as beverage and the cookery is not
too much.
Do not be ashamed to plan closely.
Thrift in food means providing enough
food, neither too little nor too much.
Notice carefully how much of such
staples as flour sugar, milk, cooking
fat, ETC., is used each week for a
month, and see il there are any ways
of cutting down the quantity needed
Buy non-perishable materials in
quantities if better prices can be Sc
cured and there is a good storage
place in the home. Neighbors can
sometimes club together to get lower
rates.
Estimate carefully how much of
any material will be needed before
laying in a supply then see that none
is wastd by careless handling
Try to make the dishes served of
such size that there will be enough
u Satisfy the appetite OF the TamilX
and no unnecessary table and plate
waste.
Do not be above noticing whether
anything disable is thrown away with
the garbage, which always shows how
thrifty food is used in a household.
Many inexpensive materials can be
made attractive and the diet can be
pleasantly varied by a wise use of
different flavorings.
"Finicky' tastes in food often pre-
vent the use of many valuable ma
terials which might be the means ~
saving money.
Good food habits are an important
part of personal hygiene and thrift.
Children get such habits by having
suitable amounts of suitable foods
served to them and then being ex-
pected to eat what is set before them
True economy lies not only in buy
ing wisely but also in making the full
est possible use of what is bought.
Date Cake.
Stone and cut one pound dates,
Soak in one cup boiling water. to
which one teaspoon soda has been
added, and let stand while mixing one
cup bro vn sugar and five tablespoons
melted butter or oleomargarine. Add
one egg and then the dates with their
LIQUOR. Beat and add one and one
half cups white flour with one good
teaspoon baking powder.
Lastly add vanilla and 10 cents
worth of walnut meats sprink1ed with
-four. Bake in a well creased loaf tin
about nine inches square and three
inches deep. Have the oven. hot in
the beginning, but lower the heat
when cake is put in, and bake slowly
fifty minutes DO not try to remove
from tin. When cool, cover with this
icing:
Brown sugar. one and one-haif
cups. water to dissolve; boil until II
hairs, then beat into the stiff white of
one egg. This cake will remain moist
for a week (if 1t lasts that lons). ana
seems particularly suited to mascu-
line tastes. sT
Cereal I'm Biscuit
Any cooked cereal, left over from
breakfast. beaten into biscuit dough
gives a delicious flavor and acts ,,s =
substitute for part of the flour. be-
sides assuring good food value.
Left over cold potatoes ground with
the meat in making meat loaf afford
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