The Omaha guide., 1941-11-01

Please.....
(by Patsy Graves for AMP

to mid-August. And, Mrs. Housewife,
that probably is not the half of it. If
you can't balance the budget now, what
will you do later? You car juggle the
figures all you please, but two and two
are going to keep on being four.
THE CITY WORKERS family
is facing food costs which are II per-
cent higher than last year and 15 per
cent higher than August, 1899. COun-
trywide advances are reported for
bread, fresh milk, canned foods, beef,
pork, coffee and shortening. Bread
prices showed the most widespread adv
ance in recent years while fresh milk
was higher in 16 cities by one half to
three cents per quart.
DO YOU KNOW that you can
save as much as so percent on your
bread costs alone by making your own?
Honestly, a dime loaf of bread con-
tains about two cents worth of wheat.
The rest goes for making the bread up,
wrapping it in pretty paper that you
can't eat, and handing it over the coun-
ter to you. You can beat that game if
you'll just use a little elbow grease.
YES, | KNOW. You haven't
made a biscuit in so long your family
would faint if you put a plate full on
the table. Now if you were born and
raised any where near the Mason and
Dixon Line you go for Buttermilk bis
cults: Sift together two cups of flour,
a half teaspoon of salt, four teaspoons
Of baking powder an a half teaspoon of
soda; cut in five tablespoons of short
ening until the mixture resembles
coarse crumbs. Add about a cup Of
buttermilk, more or less. Just enough
to make a dough that will follow the
fork around bowl. Turn out and knead
the dough about half a minute, roll,
cut and bake in a hot oven about IL or
Is minutes. The oven should be hot, a.
bout $50 degrees hot, in fact.
IF YOU ARE a city bred gal, you
probably don't know what buttermilk
is. 1t should be called BUTTERFLIES milk
because its what you get after sweet
milk has clabbered Cor soured) and has
been churned. The butter is removed
and what's left is buttermilk. In case
you can't get it try your hand at a bis
cult made with sweet milk. Use the
same two cups of flour, a teaspoon Of
salt, five teaspoons of baking powder,
five tablespoons of shortening and
three fourths to a cup Of milk. Pro-
coed as before. Notice the baking
powder was increased and soda was
left out.
IF YOU LIVE in one of the cities
where milk prices have bounced, you
car effect a saving by the partial use
of canned milk rather than all bottled
milk. Canned milk is plain old cows
milk from which water has been re-
moved. Whole milk is seven eighths
water. Evaporation removed three
fifths of the water but retains all the
important food values. If you want
cream use canned milk as is. If you
want whole milk, add an equal volume
of water as milk. Thus you return to
the milk the water taken out by the e.
evaporation process.
CANNED OR DRIED MILK are
both cheaper than bottled milk, and
can serve the same purposes. Although
canned milk is recommended for
childen's diets and infant feeding if
you do not use it for such, you can use
it for cooking thus cutting down consii.
erably on the milk bill.
AND EVEN IF PRICES cont
inue to soar, try not to cut down on the
essentials, such as milk, eggs. and green
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