The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-16
HOOVERS HOOvER|zE
HOUSEHOLD or L. :. FOOD ADMIN.
ISTRAT0R CONSERNES.
Famous Negro Cooks Becomes One of
First Converts TO Gospel of Clean
Plate. Empty Garbage Pail and Other
Economies.

Washington Star: Does the house.
/ hold Of Herbert Hoover-the man VINO
tells us all what we may eat. what we
mustn't eat and how we should per.
form the sacred rite of eating practice
what the head of the family breaches?
According to the statement OF a rnen.
Der of the Hoover household. it does
1t even goes farther than the written
| pronouncements Of the food administra
| ton urge, cutting down on the meat
ration, banishing wheat flour from the
menu, eliminating pork and its various
derivatives altogether foregoing sweets
and living the gospel Of the clean plate
and the empty garbage pail
Read this statement written by a
member of the Hoover household
"In all the land no housewife follows
more closely the rulings Of the United
| States food administration than does
Mrs. Hoover, wife of the food admins.
| traitor, with the cooperation Of her ia.
nous negro cook This cook who rs
| well known to the most exclusive CIR
/ cles Of Washington, was one Of the FIRST
converts TO the conservation OF food
and one of the most ardent.
"a prominent Washington woman re-
| marked soon after the Hoover house
hold was established in the national
capital: You needn't tell me the uooy.
ers save food; | know their cook. and
she couldn't be induced to economizer
Nevertheless, after a time Of sorrow
and stress Of wounded professional
pride the cook became, under the dlrec.
| ton and response to the persuasion Of
Mrs. Hoover, as enthusiastic over pro.
ducing delicious meals with the least
possible outlay Of wheat, meat, sugar
and fats as the strictest 'Hooverlte
could desire.
Meat Seldom Served.
Almost every day is meatless day
with the Hoovers. Poultry, sea foods
| or occasionally game replace beef or
| other meats which may be shipped
across the sea- The servants, OF course
have to have meat more often. But rur
/ the family, perhaps once a week gen
orally less frequently, there is roas,
! for dinner, and what is left over is care.
| fully utilized in some form for luncheon
| the next day. Sometimes a chop Is pro.
vided at that meal for the ten.year-old
son, who is recovering from recent i'll
ness.
| Meat is never bought for soups but
they are made from the vegetables or
the parts OF the poultry not served
the wing tips, the feet the neck, the
| giZZard-cooked with the care. SIS re.
naming.
Not ony are Tuesday and Saturday
| porkless days but the other 1--WE days
Of the week as well, despite the con
fessed fondnss Of the food administrator
for his breakfast bacon. Pork, neither
as ham, bacon, sausage, lard nor in
other forms enters the big. red brick
| house on Massachusetts avenue where
the Hoovers are domiciled For COOK.
ing, various vegetable oils or other sub
stitutes are used for lard ana Tor
butter.
Sugar is used most sparingly--and
therein lies Mrs. HooVers greatest self
denial, as the entire family loves sugar.
The allowance is two pounds a month
| per person. Reduced amounts go into
the tea and coffee. The desserts are
fruits, raw and cooked puddings, made
largely Of milk Tor the young sons, and,
as a great event, "A simple fruit pie with
u pastry of rye flour.
Wheat -four is now practically an
unknown quantity in Mrs Hoover's
kitchen, although until recently she had
the brown breads and a white bread
made with an admixture Of one.third Of
fine white cornmeal. These since the
need for saving wheat grows greater
have been eliminated from the daily
] fare Even rye broad is nnW rar.t,-