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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
One Dish at a Time
And That Done Well

Only one dish is served from this
kitchen at lunch-tine, the prime favorite
being corned-beef hash with hot tea bis
cult. At dinner, however, there is both
meat dish and dessert. Mrs. Tack
meyer has interesting plans for tea-room
specialties which she will work out very
shortly; but just now she is bending
every energy toward making financial
as we'll as astronomical success of her
luncheon and dinner service. She is at
her post from in the morning until
after the last dinner order is served.
She does her own marketing, choosing
her meats and vegetables from the COM
missary department with great care. In
her white Hoover apron and spotless
white cap she stands at the Dutch door
and personally inspects each order that
is handed to the walters outside
Glow do the men cooks like the idea
of your being here?' I inquired, for /
have seen enough of chefs to know that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
Exit the Family Servant
Enter Trained Nursery Nurses"

The working out of a perfect run
ming schedule is matter each woman
must evolve for herself each has to be
her own efficiency expert. Undoubtedly
for the modern woman, the solution of
her housekeeping plus children problem
lies along the lines of cooperation and
of highly effective labor-saving devices
rather than in attempting with more or
less Indifferent SUCCESS to hold to the
past and cling frantically to the ser
want, who obviously belongs to vanish
ing class.
sThc nurse who lived for years and
years in the family, held in affectionate
interest by all of her onc-time nurs-
lIngs when grown to manhood and wom-
anhood---the kindly, mothcrly, bcneIi.
cent soul like Alison Cunningham, who
soIncod Stoycnsohs childhood and TO
whom he dedicated his adorable child
yerAes--the nurse OF This type has
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
BY MARGUERITE CURTIS FELCAR
n FOUND Susie in the kitchen.
1t was 1880 on a Saturday morn

1t was 1880 on Saturday morn
ing, and as her guest l had been
given the proud privilege of sleeping
as long as liked" after theatre party
the night before. We were going to
matinee that afternoon, l knew, so /
tried to hide the fact that l had only
paused on my way to the bathroom for
cold shower, by drawing my kimono
more closely around me and putting my
head around the door.
But-Susie ALWAYS gets you before
you know it.
Standing there in her big apron, her
blue eyes intent on the row of Mason
jars before her on the table, she did not
even see me, but went on dipping spoons
full of some fluffy white stuff from
pan into one of the jars. The others
were already filled.
"Sue, what are you doing? Canning
in March,"
"Oh," Susie looked up with twinkle
in her eye. you've let yourself in for
something, staying over Sunday. It's
my Sunday dessert. Almost all the din
ner's done"
"What dinner?"
"To-morrow's, of course; l have
'sealed-jar Sundays now, and it's the
greatest invention for the busy house
wife, wait and seep'
l did We went to church after
late breakfast, Susie and Ben and /,
and when we came back to the house
Susie got out of her new suit and into
delicate neglgee. eyed her in amaze
ment, for l was beginning to be hun
CRY. In that garment of foaming chiffon
and lace she gave little promise of
real dinner.
Presently Sue disappeared. From the
kitchen appetizing doors came to us. In
less than ten minutes Sue appeared in
the doorway and announced dinner.
1t was real Sunday dinner, too.
There was creamed chicken with mush-
rooms, great big potatoes baked in their
skins, stringbeans with butter sauce, and
lettuce salad with French dressing.
For dessert we had pineapple fluff and
some tiny caraway cakes, for which Sue
is justly famous, and the usual cheese
and erackerH and nuts ind fruit before
the coffee.
But how did you do III" I asked in
bcwilderment, and Sue took me into the
kitchen, and pointed to the row Of jars.
now bercft of their contents, filled with
water and sealed again. 49,.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
A Sealed Jar Sunday

There Is my secret. I got so sick
and tired of Sunday workday, and vet
] wanted Ben to have his usual Sun
day-dlnner-at-home feeling. One day I
just happened to put some leftover
beans into Mason jar and forgot them
for two days. When | remembered I
thought they'd be sour, but after heat
ing they tasted better than before. So
l tried it on various things, and gradu-
ally evolved my Sunday dinner, as you
see. / don't attempt to wash the Jars
until Monday, either, merely fill them
with water and leave them. I've given
a big dinner in this way, too, and | never
have company without using the idea
for some things; it saves so, when one
does ones own work. When I come
home from church-or wherever we have
been--l turn the contents of the lars
into pans, heat them, and hey, presto!
the meal is served. Of course, the DO
tatoes are baked in the oven. but T
washed them yesterday and set them
ready. When l came into the kitchen
before I took off my suit I lit the gas.
1t was all done without any effort, as
you see"
"Sue, you're a wonder! But can you
keep any kind of dinner this way?"
well, never tried roast"- Sue
laughed, "but I can do almost ANYTHING
else. Lamb chops in brown gravy are
just as good as if / had grilled them
half an hour before. The secret is to
pour the gravy over them hot and see
that they are we'll covered with it. so
that they don't get dry. Tomatoes are
delicious if they are cooked the day
before with slice or two of green
pepper with them, and, of course, YOU
can keep any kind of salad in sealed
jar and it will come out fresh and crisp
the day after, and all one has to do is
to put it on the plates and uour tho
dressing over it, l make mayonnaise'
fresh every time and keep it for the
salad, and our French dressing to-day
came from that small jar, and / don
believe yru'd have known it was mixed
UP yesterday, would you?"
Sue turned abruptly. Big Ben. her
husband, stood in the doorway, a grin
that was half n frown on his face.
Sue, darling, what are you doing7
You're spending your Sunday in tho
kitchen. IL seems to me, and that's not
like ny clever sweetheart" And with
laugh, Sue shut the cupboard door on
her water.filled Jars and trailcd her
, dainty self into the living roam, her
Sunday dinner already forgotten.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16

herself to take the job without the in
evitable question: "Any children?"
"Two," answers Nine. Greatly Hopeful
Bridget is dubious. If Nine. Hopeful
says "Three," she shakes her head. But
if the housewife confessas to four: ono,
ma'am," says Bridget. 81 can get plenty
of places wild only two in the family
both av thin away all day"
And the servants attitude is perfectly
reasonable. No one but the most fatu-'
GUS parent or a person of unsound mind
would deny that children increase the
necessary work of any household and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
Women Architects Will
Build Flats For Children

Some day our apartment houses will,
as matter of course, have on the up
per floor a large and sunny children's
playroom. Part of the roof space will
be given to children as playground,
with, perhaps, bit of garden at the
we'll guarded edge. Women architects
will see to this, as some of them have
already, and competent nurse will be
in charge. The most practical cooper
alton for apartment jewellers will be
that sagely advised by the Tribune In
stitute when the cooperation concerned
the buying of butter and eggs-namely,
operating unit being governed by local
ity rather than by acauaintanceship or
friendship. 1t is for this reason that
the professors wives have been the pio
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16

neers in cooperation-they formed
group of women, living near each other,
who could get together easily to plan
and act
There is nothing novel in the idea of
the cooperative nursery. The nursery
for the apartment or for the block is
essentially DR.. Montessori's idea in
her Casa Bambini-that of the play
ground and garden accessible to all the
nearby apartments, where the children
are given careful inspection and medi-
cal attention, besides training. In
America this social aspect of the great
educators theory has been overlooked
and her theory treated as patent and,
rather expensive form Of teaching chill
dren to read and write at an extraordi-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16

careful, it is probable, than she could
give it at home. In fact, unless the
three-servant mother is very intelligent
and very conscientious the child in the
day nursery is quite likely to receive
more scientific care than her own.
1t is the housewife whose economic
path lies between these two who finds
the child serious and perplexing factor
in her housekeeping. Even if she can
employ two servants she doesn't find
the matter easy, for if she has maid
for general homework" and another as
nurse the former is sure the latter has
nothing whatever to do but walk out
with the children and enjoy the scenery
Discomfort is fairly certain
ooh, George" l heard a charming
little woman tearfully implore her hus-
band, a we'll known man of letters, as
the cook was packing her suitcase.
"Couldn't you do something to make it
pleasant for Katie so she'd stay?
Couldn't you firt with her?" she begged
despairingly. "Some husbands will do
that!"
But George wouldn't, and Katie left.
(This was two-servant establishment
in which the nurse was fixture and
the general housework" always
transient.) I have often wondered if
Rachels suggestion that Jacob marry
her handmade might not have been her
idea of the best method, at that time, Of
keeping the handmade.
If the housewife can afford but one
servant it will prove no easy under
taking to find that one, for the simple
reason just given, that children involve
extra work; that, the demand for house
workers being greater than the supply
especially now, competent woman
doesn't need to take position where
extra work or the chance of it exists.
And why should she? Sometimes, of
course, the housekeeper finds a paragon.
If so, she should thank her stars and
do her best to lime that nonpareil.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
Annie, the Cook, Gets
Acquainted With Electricity

And so the Home Cooking Kitchen was
a success from the very first. 1t is
"home cooking" on big scale, but it is
real, st-to-goodness "home cooking"
just the same. Mrs. Tackmeyer employs
six colored cooks and one man, whose
duty it is to clean up and do the heavy
work. The little kitchen is immacu-
lately clean even during its busiest
hours. It's walls are Of white tiles and
great squares of red terra Gotta form
the floor
The electric cooking apparatus ex-
tends along one entire side. This at first
was a source of terror to the colored wo-
men, who had an idea that it was some
thing only slightly removed from the
electric chair, but now, as the ADVERTISE
ments say, Having once used it, they
will use no other"
A broad, uncovered table stands in
the centre of the room, before which four
colored women sit all the afternoon
carefully preparing the chickens for the
evening meal, cutting the pieces into
the required size, removing any unde-
sirable bits and picking out every last
little pin feather with infinite care. The
stools on which these workers sit have
been made just the right height for
efficiency and comfort and the women
are encouraged to sit as much as pos
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16

narily early age. No small part of the
Slgnora Dottoressa's idea was that the
House Of Childhood" should be of def
mite assistance to the mother-even as
a day nursery is. The social service of
the House of Childhood is quite as inn
portant as its conventionally educatlon-
al side.
Some. day one of our women archi-
tects will study her Montessori and de-
sign an apartment house with as charm
ing provision for children as the Casa
Bambini at Rome afforded to the pow
erty- Oppressed mothers and fathers
who were fortunate enough to live with
in it's shelter. And long-suffering New
York tenants will rise up and call her
blessed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16

sible. Over the table hang rows of
bright copper and aluminium kitchen
utensils, each polished until it shines.
On the side wall, opposite the electric
cookers, is white enamel pastry table
made to order from Mrs. Tackmeyer's
instructions, with deep drawer on
either side to hold the flour and, sugar.
The other ingredients needed for the
pastry making are ranged on white
enamelled shelves over the table
An expert pastry cook sits on white
stool in front of the table and rolls the
flaky pie crusts or mixes the tipsy pud-
ding which is, or has been, one Of the
chef d'oeuvres of the Home Cooking
Kitchen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16

an who did the frying, and no power on
earth would cause her to hurry in the
least. The long line of impatient walters
grumbling at the delay made not the
slightest impression upon her as she
Kept up her constant turning of each
piece of chicken until it was all of the
same even brown.
Mrs. Tackmeyer noticed that, as she
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
they are very ''touchy" gentlemen, as a

they are very ''touchy" gentlemen, as
rule.
She smiled knowingly. 'They have
nothing to say, but know they are keep
ing up a powerful lot of thinking" she
replied. ''We do not attempt to COM
pete with them in any way We are spe,
cializing in sort of cooking which they
do not do, just as they might get in
French chef to cook one particular dish
like filet of sole Marguery. I am sure
that when they get used to us they will
see the matter in the right light"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16

was a chicken dinner and plans had been
made to serve 100 orders at the most, but.
that first 100 were soon exhausted and
long line of walters stood outside the
Dutch door crying for more. A "hurry-
up" call brought more chickens from the
commissary department and 225 more
orders were cooked and served 1t was,
as had surmised, real Southern wom-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
By FRANCES DUNCAN MANNING

HOUSEKEEPING as a profession
includes the adjustment of the
duties involved in the care of
children to the duties involved in house
Management. Now, the presence of chill
dren has very definite effect on house
hold machinery. If any one doubts this
let her try engaging servants before and
alter the addition of children to the
fousenold. Bridget certainly regards
them as having bearing on the situa-
ton; so does Olga or Hilda or Marie.
Never does cook or housemaid engage
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16

stood bending over her frying pan, she
shook all over with suppressed laughter.
whats the matter, Annie?" she
finally asked. "What amuses you?"
Annie never raised her eyes from the
pan as she replied with chuckle, "Mis'
Tackmeyer, did I hear you say Chick
en'?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
Tomato Catsup

Place in graniteware saucepan one
large can of tomatoes, three-quarters of
teaspoonful of salt, tiny cube from
Glove of garlic, one. small onion
(grated), one tablespoonful and half
Of brown sugar, twelve whole cloves
one tablespoonful of chopped parsley,
one stalk of chopped celery, half cup
full Of cider vinegar, half teaspoonful
of paprika and one stick of cinnamon
broken in small pieces. Let all simmer
together until of the desired consistency,
press through sieve, reheat and seal
air-tight in small bottles.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
'Work for Women"
That Belongs to Them

The fact that the experiment at the
new hotel is an unquestioned success
means that other hotels will follow suit
and thus is opened up a new field of la
Dor for women. 1t requires particular
kind of woman to supervise an enter
prise of this sort, for not only must she
know her business from A to z but she
must have an infinite amount of tact and
enthusiasm. In point of fact Mrs Tack
meyer tells me that she has been search
ing diligently for such person to act as
her assistant, but the difficulty has been
that the applicants scorn the practical
side of the work, and as she insists on
their being able to prepare the raw ma
terials and do the cooking themselves in
order that they shall be competent to
teach others she has thus far not been
able to find any one
So here Is your opportunity, all we
graduates of domestic science courses
who are looking for an opportunity to
do real, practical work. Here is a new
field of endeavor and one which will
prove both interesting and lucrative.
So walk right up to the dough-dish.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
By VIRGINIA CARTER LEE

/ MON time immemorial the fall of
" the year has always been re-
ligiously set aside as the "pick-
ing season." But in many households
'pslng sees the -storeroom shelves de-
Aeted of their store of relishes, catsaps
'ld pickles, and when the first warm
@ys appear relishes are needed even
sse than in the winter time.
Every housewife should know that
aas delicious savories can be made in
1s home kitchen, even in the first
@nng days, more cheaply than they
an be bought. In fact, many of them
s'e such close rivals to the usual pickles
prepared in the autumn that they will
sseome them on their merits alone.
Inc following tested formulas (all Of
S0u1nern origin) can be very highly rec
amended:
Sweet Pickle Relish
Inc ingredients required are one
aozen salt pickles (these can be- pur-
'aased at any delicatessen shop), one
Nund Of light brown sugar, spice bag
''nlalnng eight whole cloves, one table
'e00nfui OF whole allspice and two sticks
:. cinnamon broken into small pieces,
s"ut one pint Of cider vinegar and
s'after Oh pound Of seeded raisIns
NY y the pickles in slices, one inch thick.
ess the pickles, raisins and sugar in a
r'aaai stoneware crock and let them re-
asia over night. In the morning drain
8 little Of the watery liquid (not the
sssr'' turn into preserving kettle,
~'sf with elder vinegar and add the
syss bag. Cook for fifteen minutes,
sssa remove the pickles and cook down
s. syrup and raisins until as thick as
l.asy. Return the pickles to the syrup.
80 Doll up once and seal in self-seal-
~ jars.
Dried, Picked Peaches
-, a1 the peaches overnight and use
s. 'afge, skinned fruit. The next morn
y ufain (keep the water in which they
,, sss naked as the basis Of sauce or d
i ~ ss''s), and cook In a syrup made
s. proportion Of one pound Of sugar,
! .t pas o. vinegar, one Tablespoonful
sao'e cloves and two broken stieks Of
IS men Cook until the fruit is fairly
-. vase out With Is skjfrrneY drain a,d
rfess into the haives III peach a
l 'ee's elosss, place Ia sterIIized Jars
Isw Dlanchsd almonds 10 repre-,
nslsl, xeheat the syrup 10 the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
Real Home Cooking on Hotel Scale

shape Of an ear of corn. And the cream
pie! Nm! mn! it fairly melted in ones
mouth, crust and all. It was ''home
cooking" from the very best kind of
home-a real old Southern home at that
and cooked by real Southern man.
my, or was nightly mistaken.
A Kitchen Within
A Kitchen
called the waiter and made inquiries,
and the result was that soon found my
self traversing what seemed like acres
and acres of white tiled kitchen under
the escort Of one of the managers of the
hotel, and then suddenly brought to
standstill before the door of a little room
which had the appearance of having
been lifted up bodily from some other
locality and set down in the midst of thai
vast white space. The upper part of the
door was open, Dutch fashion, and we
peered in at "The Home Cooking De
partment, F" which was in reality nothing
more nor less than model electric
kitchen.
The presiding genius Of the place,
Mrs. Anna Tackmeyer, said the Home
Cooking Department was an idea which
she has cherished for years and present
ed to the managers Of the new hotel
with such enthusiasm and conviction that
they adopted it at once. Mrs. Hackney
err is not only practical cook, but she
has had long experience in all kinds of
food work, having been for several years
In the food department of the General
Chemical Company.
Who Said "Chicken''
In This House?
The first "home cooked" dinner was
served on Washington's Birthday. 1t
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16

ZONE COOKING" has long
% II been the favoritc lure Of the
i restaurateur, from the pro-
,~;etor of the little "hole-in- the-wall"
away down on the Bowery who adver-
.ses "Two homemade doughnuts and
cup Of coffee for nickel" to the
,o;ntv gentlewoman who presides over
.bs Tea shop in upper Fifth Avenue
where Homemade Waffles" are the
niece de resistance. But familiar as this
nhrase is in other eating places, have
never seen it on the menu of a hotel
until the other evening, when was din
No at the Hotel Pennsylvania. My eye
vas attracted to little boxed-in space
!, the centre of the bill of fare which
called attention to "To-day's Specialties
From the Home Cooking Department"
These specialties were enumerated as
fried chicken with candied sweet pota-
toes and corn pone, and Boston cream
ME: and Their underneath in small type
was this line:
prepared by Women Cooks"
Naturally my curiosity was aroused,
and though I have long since made it a
practice to abjure all dishes labelled
homemade" having learned through
bitter experience that they are quite for
eign to those of any home with which I
have an eating acquaintance, / decided
to take this one more chance and l
straightway ordered both the chicken
and the Boston cream pie.
The chicken was delicious, Drowned
just to turn and served on little sill
YER dish, flanked on one side by luscious
sweet potatoes and on the other by
equally luscious corn pone baked in the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
Each Combination Has
Its Own Difficulties

If the housekeeper can afford three
servants the matter is comparatively
simple. This gives her cook and
second girl and nurse, making fairly
equitable division of the labor of the
household. No difficulty is made by any
of the three on the score of more work
because of the children"
For the working mother, she who goes
daily to shop or factory, the solution is
also simple and obvious. She takes her
children to one of the very excellent day
nurseries and goes about her work as
sured that her child is we'll tended and
under careful supervision-fa more
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-16
Pckling Out Of Season

boiling point and pour over the fruit.
Seal as for canned fruit.