Evening star., 1924-06-06
ERHAPS you would like to
earnf money in your kitchen
this summer. If so you will


this summer. If so you will
find the following suggestions
very helpful. Perhaps you have a
prize recipe for making cake, bread.
\ salad, sandwich or some other article
'of food. If you can make good cake
and sandwiches. for instance, and can
serve with a cold or warm drink in a
garden or other attractive place,
either outdoors or indoors or even
on a large porch, and advertise your
protest extensively, you can make
money. A location where automo
biles pass frequently would be an
ideal place for refreshment tables,
as in this way you would encounter
automobile tourists and camping
parties, and other picnickers. Put
up plenty of signs to indicate just
where you are located and exactly
what you have to sell.
You will find that originality is
half the battle in winning success in
this venture. Any dish that is well
and daintily prepared will sell quick
", because so many quick lunch
places are unattractive and the food
unappetiZing. There is better op-
portunity now than ever before for
the sale of good home-prepared food
Another excellent source of in
come would be from women who
tlve in apartment houses, who find
'it impossible to do much cooking in
their own kitchens, and SO turn else
where for dishes that are out of
the ordinary. Many of these women
live in non-housekeeping apartments
and rooms. Indeed, there is a great
men and women can really get home
cooked food at a reasonable price.
plcnty of money could be made in
this way by more than one woman
at any season of the year.
A STUDY of the best selling foods
throughout the United States shows
that they are the simple, nutritious
kinds made from original or special
recipes.
Saturday Sale Profitable.
This is where the daughter of the
mouse can make money and at the
same time gain valuable knowledge
and experience in cooking. The OBJ
lection to many of the plans to which
girls are attracted in the effort to
mako spending money is that they
require capital at the. start That
sale" A girl can borrow enough
materials from the home kitchen to
begin work and pay back the debt
within the first week or two.
The plan of the Saturday sale is
of success if right methods are used.
1t is simply this: Bake a quantity
of delicious, wholesome bread,
cookies cakes and other things, and
sell them on Saturday morning In
some business window or from your
home after you have secured regular
customers. A butcher who supplies the
family or grocer may allow you
it may be best for you to rent
window If you intend to carry on
the plan for some weeks.
You will need some white paper.
y little green stuff or flowers for
decorations for your window. and an
when selling. Any good food will
sell when trade has been established
Anything that looks like sighting
the things for sale, either in quality
or in appearance, is fatal to the sue
cess of the plan. 1t is better to turn
ferior food. You must make your
things just a little better than your
customers can buy elsewhere.
Fresh homemade bread will always
sell. and so will cookies and dough-
nuts. Good pies never go begging.
Cup cakes, brown bread, sponge cakes,
light biscuits. rolls and cinnamon
bread and buns can all be added from
time to time. Baked beans are little
trouble to cook and easy to sell.
Sauerkraut, pickles, jellies. preserves,
hominy, potato salad and all kinds of
sandwiches will sell well at a Sat
urday sale, because women ike TO
store up for Sunday. 1t will take
little time to learn what customers
want. and what are fair prices. Do
not place the price too low, as 1t
will be hard to raise the price if
you feel the need later on.
The Saturday sale would be an ex-
cellent enterprise for several girls in
the same household or for neighbors.
Two can do much better than one.
Girls who manage the sale should
prepare as much food as possible be-
fore Saturday to avoid the rush.
Any products that will not suffer
from waiting a couple of days should
be on the carly list, so that the last
strenuous hours can be given over to
preparing food that must be fresh
up to the minute.
school Inform alton.
Many a girl who is obliged to stay
at home during the summer vaca-
tion could earn monay as one girl
does by selling information about
school matters to prospective stu
dents and their parents. She charges
81 for an afternoon or an evening,