The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-28
Efficient Housekeeping
WEEKS DINNERS FOR THE MARRIED WOMAN WORKER.
By LAURA 4. HERMAN.

This mornings mail brought me a letter which reads, ''I am writing for a bunch of us who are married wage earners. When we leave the shop for our homes at night we have to do our marketing and then get dinner for our husbands. Would you help us by printing a whole weeks set Of dinner menus that we could get in a hurry, after getting home at night? It's so hard to think up good meals that we can get in about half an hour. And they must be substantial, for our men folks need hearty meals
 take pleasure in helping out these girls with the following:
 Monday Nights Dinner: Cold meat left from Sundays roast. Boil just twice as many potatoes as you need for this meal-so you'll have some cold tomorrow night for hash. Open and heat a can of string beans. Dice oranges, mix them, then sprinkle with sugar, for dessert. Bread, butter and coffee are taken for granted in these menus. Also pickles, relishes, and other such things that help to make a meal taste good.
 Tuesday Nights Dinner: Hash from the last bits of Sundays roast and the cold boiled potato on hand. Make a cornstarch pudding; this is a quickly made dessert, and the egg in 1t helps to make the meal substantial.
 Wednesday Nights Dinner: Ham burg SlSdk IQedI Dd1lS. Vhche d uOd- ble quantity of white potatoes again half for tomorrow ntght) and mash
 them all. Open and heat a can of peas. Pare, core and dice a couple of apples, put them over the fire with water to cover, and boil them about 20 minutes. or tf1l soft, then sweeten them to taste; this apple sauce is even better if a dash of ground cinna- mon Is added for flavor, or a little lemon juice or a drop Or two of vanilla extract.
 Thursday Nights Dinner: Buy two or three slices of raw ham and broil this as you would chops. Make po- tato cakes from the cold mashed po- tatoes you have on hand, frying the cakes 0 rich brown. cut up a few ! stalks of celery. put it on the fire with water to cover, and boil 1t till soft; then drain 1t ard "crearn" 1t by adding Q little milk, butter. four and reasonings. Tapioca pudding made with tho minute tapioca-which takes only about 90 minutes.
 Friday Nights Dinner; Make a Salmon Loef-reoipe printed Wednes- day. Nov. soth, Double quantity of boiled potatoes thalf for tomorrow nights dfnner.) Open G can of corn, turn it Into a baking dish, add a beaten egg and seasoninss and bake 20 minutes in 0 hot oven Gas long as you have to light the gas oven for the salmon loaf. you might as well
 cut up apples into a buttered baly- Ing dish, adding an equal quantity of bread crumbs and 1 cup of brown sugar; bake this Apple Betty'' 20 | minutes, then serve hot with hard sauce made by creaming butter and brown sugar together and f1avorIng 1t 1 with vanilla extract.
 Saturday Nights Dinner. Chops 1 Cold boiled potatoes fried with strips | of raw onion. Stewed prunes {aeak l over night before stewing) | ToanorFow-Answer Letters. l All inquiries addressed th Afiss | kirkman In care of the "ERieieat | Housekeeping" department will be | answered in these columna in their l turn, This requires considerable time
 however. owing to the great number received, So if a personal or quicker | reply is desired. a stamped and self