The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-15
Consumer Notes
Issued Weekly by Consumers
Counsel Division, A. A. A.
Washington, d. c.

Submerged Lemons Stay Fresh Longer
The Swiss Economist who thought
up the idea of storing reserve sup
plies of oil and wheat by submerging
them in the Swiss lakes was the only
runner-up to the American consumer
who discovered that lemons stay
fresh longer if they are kept in a jar
of cold water. Lemons left in their
wrappers shrivel quicker than the sub
merged lemons and dry out faster.
Lemon buyers will avoid getting
figurative lemons when they make
their lemon purchases by looking for
fine textured, heavy specimens. These
will be juicier and of better quality
than the light weight, coarse, thick
skinned varieties. Juice content is re-
lated to the thickness of rind, and to
some extent to maturity. Deep yellow
lemons may be juicier, but they aren't
so desirable as the light green-yellow
lemons. The latter have a high acid
content and acid is what you look for
in this favor-food. Decay appears as
a mold or soft area at the stem end
of the lemon or elsewhere. Discard
shriveled and hard skinned fruits and
those that are soft and spongy.
Count the Cost of Lean Meat
Butcher shops don't quote prices on
the lean meat in each cut of beef but
consumers who know how to cook less
tender cuts can make their money for
meat go farther if they learn to figure
the cost of the lean meat in each cut
of beef.
Suppose you have 25 cents to spend
for beef" the CONSUMERS GUIDE
asks, "and you want to get the most
lean meat you can buy for this money
which cut should you buy?"
When good grade of steer is cut
by the Chicago method flank steak
contains the most lean meat per pound
of meat, 81 per cent. Next highest in
lean meat is full-cut round steak with
81 per cent. Sirloin steak and chuck
roast follow with 70 per cent each. Rit
roast is "a per cent lean. Porterhouse
contains 60 per cent; plate, So pei
cent; rump with bone, So per cent
foreshank, Al per cent; hind shank, 81
per cent.
Applying these percentages to the
prices your butcher quotes for pounc
of each different cut will tell you how
much you are paying for lean meat
For instance, if the price of a pounc
of round steak is 35 cents a pound
and 81 per cent of pound is lear
meat, you are paying for lean meat
at the rate of 43 cents (35 divided by
81, then multiplied by 1907.
To put these figures to work fol
your own pocketbook, apply the per
centages of lean meat to the mea
prices in your butcher shops.
How Many Oranges to the Pint of
Juice?
Almost anyone can tell you offhan6
how many gills there are to the PIN
but what the person who starts the
INLAY with glass of orange juice wants
ITO know is how many oranges to PIN
of orange juice.
Figuring the number of oranges i
takes to make pint involves knowing
the size of each orange, says tht
CONSUMERS GUIDE, publication o:
the Consumers Counsel Division Of thu
Agricultural Adjustment Administra
ton. Oranges are classified according
to the number contained in STANDARD
size boxes. There are about 8 rec
ognized sizes of Florida oranges
ranging from 96 to 324, sometimes tt
344, in box. Ordinarily, it takes 81:
of the size that come 1875 to box t(
produce one pint of juice, and 9 of thu
324's to produce one pint. If 1865 arr
selling at 55 cents a dozen, pint 0.
juice would cost about 16l2 cents. l.
324's are selling for, say, Is cents ;
dozen, pint of juice would cos
around II "A cents, about one-third less
In any event if it's juice you want
buy the heavy thin-skinned oranges
The thin-skinned variety have more
juice per orange.
How to Cut Gas Bills
Consumers don't count out change
when they buy their cooking gas, bu
just the same, gas used in cooking
costs money, and money saved on it il
money in the purse that can be spen
for other needs.
North Dakota researchers, the CON
SUMERS' GUIDE reports, have dis
covered way to cut seven eights of
- le gas cost of roasting small or les:
Ender cuts of beef, veal, and pork.
The trick is to cook them over sur
face burners rather than in the oven
and to use, to get the roasting effect
Dutch ovens or drip-drop kettles with
out the cover. The resulting roas
can't be told from one baked in thu
oven and the gas cost is one-eighth a!