The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21
Kansas University Begins Its
Home Economies Course.
Plan Is To Teach People How
to HOOverize.
MISS HAzEN'S FIRST LECTURE
She Says All Garbage Cans Are
Much Too Large.
Use of Spoon Instead of Fork
Advocated by Her.

Lawrence. Kan, July 21.-Detailed
and practical instruction in how to
save food in the home was begun to-
day by the department of home eco
Monies at the University of Kansas in
series of twenty special lessons to
schoolteachers housewives, students
and nurses The course will last four
weeks and was instituted at the re-
quest of Herbert c. Hoover, govern
ment food administrator. who out
lined ten lessons he would like to have
given further food conservation by
the nation. The lessons will consist
of lectures and kitchen demonstrations
by Miss Gertrude Hazen, an instructor
in home economics in the summer ses-
sion of the university.
In her first lecture today Miss Ha-
zen said there should be very little
use for a garbage can and that the
usual garbage can was much too
large Do away with the garbage can
or get a smaller one so you may break
the habit of filling it so often. was
Miss Hazen's suggestion.
There is no place in a garbage can
for potato peelings," Miss Hazen said.
IF your garbage can contains thick,
raw potato peelings you are losing 20
per cent of your potato nutrients.
Cook potatoes with the skins on. That
way you save much of the protein and
| starch of the potato and the valuable
mineral salts of the skin. Peel the
potatoes after you have cooked them
and you get a very thin skin, so thin
and light you can burn 1t without diff
ticulty. Cook with the skins on first
and then cook in other styles as you
wish.
Save All Crumbs.
Never throw away crumbs, stale
bread or underdone, soggy bread. Dry
them in the oven, grind them up fine
| and use as part substitute for flour
| in light bread, brown bread, Biscuit,
cake, mullins, cookies. Girls in this
! department have demonstrated time
and again this use of crumbs and that
one-fourth to one-third of finely sift-
| ed crumbs from waste bread may be
used instead of flour
This talk of conservation, saving,
cutting down and substituting is de-
| pressing to many, know But 1t
need not be. Do not look at it as
| thing that is going to deprive you of
ordinary delicacies and foods, but look
| at it as a desirable problem to solve
Know that you are going to learn how
to eat better and more efficiently. if
| perhaps not so lavishly, and at less
cost. Know that you are going to
| know when food is food and what
| food is food and how to get it for
the least money There are many
ways we can do this, but in this first
general lecture I can but refer to
them and give details in after lectures
| and demonstrations.
There is much waste in the deli
cacies we eat. For instance, we eat
peas, with a fork. Much valuable
mineral salts are in the Juice and thus
the peas. When you cook peas cream
them thick enough to eat the cream
with fork or eat them with a
| spoon"
Eat Salad Dressing.
! Miss Hazen also struck the fork
another blow and promoted the spoon
| again when she referred to salad
dressings. Eat your salad with n
fork, but promote the doctrine of the
clean plate by eating the dressing that
remains with a spoon.
Some of the articles urging con-
servation tell you to use corn meal to
save flour, for wheat is the biggest
| factor in our national saving. But
| should you do that now? I believe
not. Corn meal is just a little higher
in price than wheat right now. So
you can't save now by substituting
is cheaper than wheat, as it usually
is and probably will be this fall, you
may substitute to advantage.
$50 we must watch the market all
the time we are IN the Kitchen. we
must get down to fundamentals on ev-
| cry point, consider just what our bod
lily needs are and how we can satisfy
them without waste and without de-
priving some one else of needed food.
If there is some food you can use as
| a substitute or part substitute for one
| of the big food staples, it is your duty
to use it There is only SO much food
| in the world and if you are not care
full someone else will want. The test