Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-24
MRS. WILSON HITS
FOOD H0ARDERS
Gvening Public Ledger Expert
Calls Housewives Who Store
Supplies Bad Patriots
SAYS THEY CAUSE SHORTAGE

People used to have a dollar in the
hank earning interest, but now they
have the dollar on the kitchen shelf"
.sid Mrs. Mary A. Wilson, food expert
Y the EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER, in a
nlk on food economy at the food fair In
ne First Regiment Armory.
Mrs. Wilson yesterday scored the
boarding housewives as bad patriots
and largely responsible for making a
tumor Of shortage into reality. She
frged upon them the need for the ut
most economy in buying and using
under present conditions.
Buy from week to week. Don't
run to the store at the first rumor of
possible shortage and buy supplies
enough to last for months. Hoarders
are bad patriots. If food has to be
rationed, stand in line and take only
your own share"
Immediately following her talk Mrs.
Wilson started bread baking with
Mrs. j. G. Bsllagh, of Overbrook, as
the novice.
At the point where the dough is see
aside for three and half hours to rise,
one woman in the audience asked for
some quick recipe for making three
hour bread.
''No practical baker knows recipe
for making bread in three hosrs., said
Mrs. Wilson. 1T may looy well and
taste well but it is not perfect food.
for it has not had time enough to
thoroughly glutenize. There is no
short cut to perfect bread making"
In her appeal for economy, Mrs.
Wilson gave demonstration Of fire
less cookery as saving in both food
and fuel.
"At least 10 per cent OF the food
substance of meat is saved by the use
of a freless cooker, she said. mot
only is there the quantity economy but
a cheaper cut of meat may also be used.
When a cheaper cut is cooked in II
stove the cooking Is done at too high a
temperature and in too short time.
Cooking at a temperature just below
the boiling point is what makes the
tissues tender, and this kind OF cooking
can be done in firelcss cooker
One of those who helped at the gro
GERS supper was j. A. McAnally, who
was in one of Mrs. Wilson's navy
classes and learned her methods of pro-
viding. meals for hungr, sailors at a
cost of not more than forty cents day.
Today the demonstration will include
pastry making, tireless cookery, bread
making cheese novelties and fancy
fruit roll. A few recipes follow:
Crumb Cake.
u cup syrup.
4 tablespoons shortening.
1 egg.
, cups -four.
4 teaspoons baking powder.
2-3 cup of water or milk.
Beat and pour into n creased pan
and sprinkle with crumbs made from
q tablespoons -four.
tablespoons sirup.
2 tablespoons shortening.
/ teaspoon cinnamon.
Bake in a moderate oven for thirty
FIVE minutes.
Cinnamon Buns With Baking Powder.
3 cups -four.
] teaspoon salt.
. tablespoons baking powder.
~ tablespoons shortening.
2 tablespoons sugar a tablespoons
sirup may be substituted).
n cup of milk. ~
Stir sirup into milk until it is blend
ed and use the liquid to dough up the
other ingredients.
Roll out to n thickness of "a inch,
cover surface with shortening and
spread it with cinnamon and sugar and
currants or scedess r8isius.
Roll as n jelly roll and cut into slices
2, inches in width. Place on end in n
pan that has been we'll CREASED and
bottom covered with sugar and currants.
Let stand for ten minutes and place
in a moderate oven for baking thirty
minutes.
Level measurements only.