Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-11-29
NOVEL METHODS
TO SAVE MONEY
One Housekeener Found Two
Quarts of Skim Milk to Equal
One Pound of Beef.
SCHEME OF FARMERS wife
Delicious Stew Made Appetizing Dish
for Family Observation-Disclosures
Ways to Make Meals Nourish-
ing and Inexpensive.

Not every farmers wife has a large
supply of spending money but with a
great enough incentive most women
can manage somehow to save a little
day by day. Many housekeeper man
ages to save a little each lay from
the amount usually spent for food
without reducing the nutritive value
of the meals she serves her family.
The following tells one way it can
be done A farmer wife not long
ago cooked for her f.1aily delicious
stew. 1t was made I'm two pounds
of beef, combined Vi n vegetables
carrots, onions and pbhtoes, and was
attraCtively served in a border of
steamed rice. 1t made an appetizing
dish for the family dinner.
The Stew Which Saved Meat.
A neighbor woman partook of j., the
meal and went home and prepared an
other beef vegetable stew. Her stew
furnished just as much nourishment
for her family as her neighbours but
cost % cents less. She used but one
pound of beef instead of two and the
same kinds of vegetables. In both
cases two cupfuls of rice were used
but in the latter case the rice was
cooked in two quarts of skim milk
instead of water. One cupful of rice, as
most housekeepers know, will absorb
from four to six cupfuls Of milk if
cooked slowly in the double boiler or
in the oven. Rice cooked in this
way has a richness and flavor which
that cooked in water does not pos
sesS. The two quarts OF skim milk
furnish the same amount of nOurish-
ment as the pound of beef left out,
but skim milk can very often be
bought in the country for five cents a
quart while the pound of beef costs 30.
If pref rred the rice can be cooked
In a mixture of milk and water AID
some of the milk reserved and used In
the stew.
Used in NumberIess Ways.
This is Just one of the ways in which
the use of skim milk can help save
the pennies. If you live on a farm
where it is plentiful you can use it in
numberless ways to make your meals
more nourishing and inexpensive. Use
it to make vegetable soups and chow
ders. Use it IN making bread and
for dressing vegetables. Cook your
breakfast cereal In it or make milk
cereal or bread buildings, custards. or
other milk desserts. The protein
given in the fOrIa of rice pudding
or other milk desserts Is just as valu-
able to your body as when served as
the main dish of a meal.
Another way to make milk save
meat is to utilize the skim milk for
making cottage cheese. Cottage cheese
is one of the most valuable meat SUBJ
stitutes and is easy to make. A nu-
tritious and delicious recipe for its
use tells how to make meat sausages
from ii.
Cottage Cheese Sausage.
! cupful cottage II teaspoonful pow
cheese dered sage
4 cupful dry bread y teaspoonful
crumbs or 4 cupful thyme
/ cold cooked rice l teaspoonful milk
and \ cupfuf of / teaspoontJl salt
head crumbs u teaspoonful
u rupful peanut pepper
huster or 2 table Il teaspoonful
spconfuls savory soda
fat I tablespoonful
y cupful coarsely rinely chopped
chopped peanut onion
meats
The bread crumbs may be made
/ from leftover corn, barley or other
] quick breads Cook the ouior, II, +I,
fat until tender bur not brown. Mix
/ an the other dry ingredients thorough
/ " with the bread crumbs. Blend oea-
cut nuste- and onion with the cheese