Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-05-18

Copyright, 1920, by Public Ledger
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Lack of management in purchasing
and poor methods of utilizing the
food purchased may safely account
for many housewives failure to OBJ
tain definite and lasting results from
the forming of the household budget.
There Is today, 1 may safely say. a
steadily increasing majority of think
ing women who feel that they must
keep constantly in mind the fact that
planning a balanced meal Is not q
fad. or an experiment, but a vital
necessity. II we are to obtain the
true value for the money We spend,
for maintaining life-now is the time.
We do this to help cut II. c. L.
Now 1t is quite easy for the most
Inexperienced housewife to plan a
balanced meal and n budget to fit her
needs, and to accomplish this she
mus of necessity plan a men for
several days, il not the entire week.
And that, unless her family are
employed at strenuous and exhaust
ing manual labor. she ear safely cut
down during the warm weather
about two-thirds of the meat supply.
And replace 1t with a liberal diet OF
fresh vegetables, entrees and made
dishes, salads and good desserts.
Do not send the child to the store
and then expect satisfactory results.
Tho expenditure of money for the
food to maintain life is serious fact.
and far beyond the knowledge Of the
child. so for this reason slip on your
hat and a and personally visit the
markets.
Many statisticians claim. and with
personal investigation to s-ubstantiatc
their claims, that in a large city near
IL 40 per cent of the food purchased
~ .ha Fa,.G1,v Il. harrrht H~ tho ohfI-
dren and that 40 per cent. is selected
over the telephone and that only 10
per cent. Is personally selected by
the housewife herself.
To help the inexperienced house
wife to plan q menu hat will feed a
family of four. she should serve a
protein food once a day. preferably
in the evening. allowing as an aver
age four ounces of uncooked meat
per person. With this she must
serve a starchy vegetable, n green
vegetable. a salad and q dessert The
choice of soup is optional.
The SOUP is stimulating and helps
to prepare the digestive tract for the
food. One-half pound Of lima, navy.
soy or kidney beans, dried, green
peas and black-eyed peas OF lentils
may replace the meat portion. Three
ounces OF cheese, in outlets, two hard
boiled eggs, in outlets, and one-half
can of crushed corn in corn pudding.
vegetable loafs and croquettes are
also availab BILE.
Tho expensive chops, steaks and
roast are taboo by the woman who is
fighting the high cost of food. When
Ii is necessary to have meat daily IL
may be combined with cereals for
meat loaf. or c~roquettes or as an
emince or with the italian pastas.
This provides n splendid variety to
the housewife at a minimum cost,
To the woman who Is most anxious
to conserve her money. the f~lreless
cooker is a valuable ally. This cook
er, old-time Swedish hay-box, Is a
real factor in the reduction of the
food budget. Europe today is feat
uring this method of cooking o. as
an economical way of saving fuel
and food; food placed to cook in the
nreless cooker cannot burn or waste
or evaporate or boil away; the actual
loss of meat, due to shrinkage of It's
sue during the process of cooking is
20 per cent. less than that which oc-
ours while the food is cooked upon
the surface of the stove. For this
reason alone it Is of vital value to the
home.
1t also conservess the flavor or es-
sence and the juices which naturally
escape during the process of cooking
and which, if the food is cooked upon
the stove, evaporate or boil away.
In the nreless cooker these juices are
all conserved in the form of n gravy.