Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-11-30
Variety In
Food Thrift
There Arc Many Ways of Saving,
some Worth While. Some Worth
icss: What Are Yours?
VERY few Of us have gone back 20
! tho wastCful use OF food that

yERY few Of us have gone back 20
NJ the wastcful use OF food that
prevailed in this country before
hc var Tho high prices that sti'l
.r.7all would encourage rs To con
-....ts i certain amount Of thrift. and
I3. f.om that We were made in war
uIes to feel that wastcfulncss in food
,ls actually an uuSocial act. We
lavc nor lost the scutiu nj. urged
.nou MS them that there is something
uptriotir about permitting good,
ur,shing food TO bc thrown away in
~ houses.
II is rather interesting to sec how
aje practice OF food thrift has de
.clopCd along different lines i'm certain
households. Here and there you VIII
trtuanv find n housewife Who became
- imbucd with the notion OF tho dc
STABILITY or using wheat substitutes i'm
wartime that YOU viii find her sttH
ceiling that she is doing something
patriotic or generally beneficial whcr
-he substitutes part barley for wheat
lour in making bread Shc read with
such implicit confidence the praises
-uug in behalf Of potato and rico nnur
written in the effort 10 make us sub
stitute them for wheat rour that ho
now purchases these substitutes 1t
considerable expense 20 make certain
desserts ana cakes that she learned to
conCoct in wartime.
Hardly n family cooks exactly as il
Ill in pre-war DAYS II Is not only
nccause we cannot buy olive Oil at Il
rcasouable price. Int hccauso i'm war
times we learned that some Of the
butter AMI oil substitutes were entirely
satisfactory that We sim make mayou-
nafse dressing with something besides
tho pure olive oil and substitute rook-
ing oils FOR butter in cake making
Is !, Worth While1
Tt 4. quite possible for the housewife
"a take what might re called too
rnatcrialisfic attitude toward food.
~he should remember that after ali
food is nothing more. 'conomicalh.
than the amount or labor That i has
akan 20 produce it And that th"r"-
fore Il is false economy both from
,e., point of view OF herself aul IN a
-oadcr sense for her 10 take atty
rntr worth ~ q servants time to re
lain fwcutv-fvo ccuts worth of food
housewife may not figure her own
ma M beirg worth anything. and
thrn she rra, fs,t that il f. Wort II
rne a. fp.u1 perhaps an hour in
arE pu.-E. TON cents worth oi
.aad Rut this IF ea1se economy, fer
fo,pvret, h'e rr7t III, time aui
strength a-o r.t' vorth merc than this
.rt .tEa rs da IL she may sar
tud II vere rot aorz this ] w"H'
rot M leir- .nNfhn- o-o Therefore
Is Is o'.sr e#n
Reany tAs. Is ret ,tty eood reason
inc Far there arc anio"btcdiy other
sorts ~ work aealt oHr haH'. worth
much moro than fl.- fa v"n, that You
would fnd iust rs maeh II you~ lih"r,
you only went . au. il IF tile night
Ma,
some women have sort q mania
eor making uso 81 l,fteyers This is
ono g1~t IL food thse, Thcn thCTe
.re other houeovive- Who realize Thar
,bcrc is greater c.a0amy n cutting
1o0n vour lcftov,rs sa that YOU have
amparativcIy ,t,Io lefteyor cooking 70
prom'ncnt cooIor. evnort = one
o.r large S hoa.~ ef domos 4
teres points ~, tHat " IS = Fro-t
flsIs-.ke to pass aftt eouts pound
.a- large ~teab vhru Hea VII HS'
.ftc less tender portions tac second
i. -af ou a leftover dssa = Wo@li -
.,..tc- aet.4anv 10 Ys< more for q
mailer steak. containing little OF Tho
aaeher portion. that could lie pr"o-
-.oalv al eaten on tile first cooking
.d thon 70 huy fvosh meat "f
acapcr cut FOR the leftover diSa Auc
Il mistake 20 Geure ONLY The
5tial expense in estimating the say
acs made in leftover dishes nero =
something in time. something in i"ci
and something ia incidental aid1i'"HS
~ VoU make eroqGot:o- t~o0 iSttoNti
nra. YOU must remember that >oV
saould charge off some hinc 70 the
eroguettes o. the initial cos: - The at
+ your frying Kettle. and the egg anc
..racker crumbs must not be over
toked
rhis docs no, mean that Il IS not
I,. economical 10 make uso Of left
meat dishes But the fact rt-
a,. ms that some housewives make tn'
tHstaks or oNcrcstlmating the econ
u,r of such cookers
some housewives {, hievc some econ
IN large quaa..ty buying. rat
0Ioss voI are eaie.u1 zo1 VIII on-er
r saxln,. h. GOOD tina, dcterloratc.
:, snon- eforc i j. used We actu-
-. na, the grocer for keeping fooC
.r ne lie knows how To DO it. u,
better Quarters for storing fooc
nd 10 taxes ,hc r.sk Of spoil.ug. Foi
mai We nav higher prices than ",
,,ouId nav when tayIne the sam'
thing III large quantities and ~ man.
,ases there IS economy ~ lctung lA'
grocer do this Tor us