The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-12-31
Jeanette Boyer

New Years Resolutions in the Kitchen
l haven't any recipes for you this week,
because l don't want you to cook, but
to think.
How glorious it is that we are allowed
a new year-a chance to begin again, to
live again, to try again to be better.
Do you welcome as eagerly as l do the
birth of the new year? And do you too sit
down, several days before the first OF
January to ponder over the year just
passing and to create and dream what the
new year is to be?
Yes, I'll grant that maybe it's old fash
Toned and bizarre to list with pencil and
paper ones New Year resolutions, but it
pleases me to do it anyway. l really feel
of last year and that 1 shall be better
able to realize the ~fullness and richness
that fresh new days promise.
192I-a clean year to live. 1t shall be
splendid, glorious.
I hereby resolve for the year 1927:
(These are my kitchen resolutions. I have
some other private ones too.
l. To have time.
All year 1 have thought that 1 was so
busy, too busy. But more and more do 1
have all the time there is. There are only
twenty-fOur hours a day, and l shall
never have more than that. So l do have
time right nov to do the things 1 really
ant to do. 1 have been waSteful of the
precious days, have dallied and put off.
l resolve TO work with dispatch, to
schedule my work if necessary, allowing
so many minutes to each of my routine
tasks, to get done with each days work.
This is a brave resolution and perhaps
will be my hardest to keep. That's why
I'm putting it first.
2. To be skillful.
Skilled wOrkmen have technique. Which
means, as 1 understand it, the right man
ner Of doing a thing. There is technique
in homework as well, and right and
wrong ways Of working. l want to develop
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household tasks. 1 want to wash dishes
without stopping water all over myself and
the floor, / want to mix a cake neatly and
quickly, to clean my kitchen in twenty
minutes without bruiSing my knees. There
is technique in all this, and to gain it,
/ must concentrate on these tasks and
with practice and thought gain skill and
ease. Then l can accomplish a great deal
in a short time. Thank goodness one can
learn to be dcft. A dancers airy grace is
the result Of hard continued effort.
3.-TO make my head save my heels.
"He who does nothing may rule the
1 have become very clever perhaps I may
keep house by doing nothing. AS yet, how,
ever, my brain is too slow to devise Z
way. It is still necessary for me to pee
t potatoes and wash dishes. Though I hav,
discovered l do not need to wipe dishes
) but can rinse them in hot water and plac
2 them in a wire rack to drain. AS for tn
e potatoes, they're often easier to peel afte
S cooking than before. Ny kitchen need
some r-e-6rrangement, to be more cOnVen
lent and so / won need to walk so IA
to prepare a meal. Oh, there are man way
T lean save my strength and time if I pu
e my mind to 1t.
4.TO remember my ABS's.
My family are made out Of the foo
e which / give them Beefsteak, apple sauce
carrots, are transformed into hair an
fingernails, bones and body tissue, energ
p to do work. That's the fun Of cooking, t
think that one is making people. n
must take care to serve the light food
Y and to have balanced meals. / am gOin
to follow che three rules which McCOllun
q nutrition expert suggests:
1 1. Include one quart of milk a day 70
each person in the family.
2. Include two salads each day, mad
of fresh fruits and vegetables.
B.. Include one liberal portion Of son
If cooked green leafy vegetable such 8
Is cabbage. spinach, chard, celery, sc.
Is If I observe these rules then / may us
et other foods as / wish, and viii insure 10
/ lfamily's good health. The ABC's are jul
my way Of saying minerals and vitamiI
s. which are found in the fruits and veg
tables and milk. The. vitamins are name
T. after the first letters Of the alphabet.
he 3. To make menus:
al Wouldn't it be nice to have ones mea
6 already planned, and never TO ask on
is self that old question Of "Wha shall '
err eatf" That's what I'm going TO do
b. make out menus fer the whole wee
ahead. Then ] can have balanced mea