The Washington times., 1917-10-28
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the Washington housewife, of course,
Is that they buy in bulk at wholesale
prices, without even a middleman to
contend with. while the woman who
goes to market pays a jobber's profit
and then q retailers profit before she
gets her market basket filled
Save by Buying Direct.
Take meat. for instance. At Camp
Meade, according to quotations fur
nished by the mess sergeant of Com
pany A OF the District machine gun
battalion. fresh beef costs 14h cents
a pound. The cheapest possible price
Sugar is 9Is here, II It can be bought,
at Washington market is IS cents a
pound. Other staples show q cores
ponding difference in favor OF Camp
Meade.
Beans are 20 cents a pound in
Washington and 1925 cents at Camp
Meade: potatoes, pa in Washington
and 2-23 cents a pound there; Wash
ington housewives pay from 40 to 90
cents a pound for tea. They pay 81
cents at Camp Meade. A fair grade
Of coffee costs 30 cents In Washing
ton and 14.55 cents at Camp Meade.
Sugar Is 96 here, IL 1t can be bought.
and SIS there. Lard costing 20 cents
a pound in Washington costs 23.47 at
Camp Meade. Flour Will cost 8 cents
In small lots here and $40 cents 4
pound at Meade.
The Camp Meade cooks are able to
give the soldiers meat three times q
day, something unheard Of in the
average Washington family, because
the subsistence officers have the ad-
vantage OF being able to buy in any
number of markets at wholesale
prices. and because there is not a
particle of waste in army cooking.
For the three meals last Sunday,
shown in detail in this article, there
we're eighty-five pounds OF fresh meat
consumed by ninety men, not to men,
tion the large amount OF pot roast
The fact that this pot roast was left
for use Is evidence that the men had
more meat the day before than they
could eat. No man passes by the
steaming hot pot roast who can pos.
sibly md a crevice in his interior for
more.
Saving From Allowance.
Not only have the army cooks been
able to feed the men well on their al
lowance OF 1884 cents a day per man.
but they have been able to save
money out of their allowance.
The balance in, one company for the
month of November already amounts
to enough to afford an expenditure of
500 a day until November l. The
oyster supper given the other night
by one OF the companies OF the Dis
trfct battalion was made possible by
| saving of mess funds. For the rest
Of the month there will be ice cream,
chicken, oysters, and other luxuries
with some fine desserts. The pantry
shelves show evidences that the cooks
are preparing for a siege.
The three mess sergeants OF the
District battalion are now busy with
an enormous amount OF bookkeeping
The more they count up and balance
the larger is the surplus. Last Sun
day's saving OF more than SIS for one
davis meals shows how the money is
pIIinE up. To avoid anything like
reckless extravagance, IL is likely
that a large part OF the balance VIII
be carried into next month.
The fine fruits, the sea foods for
Fridays, the cakes and other dainties
will be added to the menu from now
on. Some of the elaborate dishes In
the army cook book are not attempted
now by the cooks at Camp Meade be-
cause Il is found advisable to move
cautiously through the culinary
mazes that are revealed in that vol
ume. The cooks are as brave as the
hRhtIng men are, but they are not
going over the top until they learn
how 10 make that desperate adven-