Show GO TO Hi THE STORE IS r. r FIRST ADVICE IN j ECONOMY Mayors Mayor's Committee Compiles Compiles Com Com- piles Suggestions for Housewives r 1 I. I By Special News Service NEW YORK Sept S. S In S.-In In a patriotic call cal to housewives the mayors mayor's food supply supply committee has compiled compile a list lIstl of hints and suggestions that will be i used to the novice and economic for i any purchaser It tells how to simplify elm sim I meals and avoid waste Besides I containing numerous recipes all tried treed and true according to George W. W Perkins Perkins Per Per- kins chairman of the committee there are explicit directions for buying food how to cine care for it and various vanous other bits of practical information as aa well as a chapter devoted to canning fruits with ith and without sugar culinary problem problem j lem with which nearly every housewife confronted Go to the store yourself this Interesting in interesting interesting In- In I volume for the home says Select for yourself the article you de desire desire desire de- de deI I sire t to purchase Inquire its price If quality and price please you be bo sure to get in weight or measure the e I amount you buy Watch the scale Watch the measure If It the meat you purchase is weighed In a piece or of paper paper paper pa pa- 1 per or anything else be sure you are not charged for the weight of the paper pape In buying me meat t dont don't go in and ask for 25 cents worth of meat and leave the butcher to decide how much meat you ou shoud have haYe for a quarter Select your piece of meat ask the price a pound s say y how many pounds you want have it weighed see that you get your weight and that the butchers butcher's calculations as to how much meat you have at a certain price by the pound is correct Many a penny Is lost to the cu customer tomer by neglecting these simple precautions WATCH THE PENNIES In marketing the pennies count up Ul very fast Dont Don't allow your dealer to weigh In the wooden butter dish In weighing your butter unless he be deducts deduct the weight Dont buy in small smaIl quantities If you youcan youcan youcan can possibly avoid it Make every ef effort effort effort ef- ef fort to get together two or three dol dol- lars This will enable you to buy for forcash forcash forcash cash buy in larger quantities buy where you can do the best I Under the laws and r regulations of the city you have definite rights in the matter of getting full tuIl measure pleasure and full weight for everything you buy and the city's bureau of weights and arid measures stands ready to help you get get your your rights This is a protection that Is due the honest dealer as well as yourself Have you ever stopped to figure out how much more you would get for your money 1 if you bought certain articles of food by the pound instead of the package pack pack- p package ck- ck age Food that Is wrapped and sold in at attractive attractive at- at looking lookIng- packages must of ne necessity necessity ne- ne cost more than the same food ne-I ne sold in bulk which means sold by the poun pound If It you will buy tapioca t tea a soda crackers graham crackers ginger gingersnaps gingersnaps snaps macaroni and starch in bulk Instead in instead instead In- In stead of in the package you will get a great deal more for the money you spend You will find it cheaper to buy I vinegar by measure than by the bot bot- tle tIe You will get a great deal more mor I bacon for less money If it you will buy I it In bulk instead of by the jarA JarA Jar A pound of evaporated peaches or I apricots costs less than a can and contains contains contains con con- three times as much fruit If It properly cooked evaporated peaches and apricots are Just as good if not better than than- the canned fruit and In addition you get a great deal more for your money By buying dried peas and lima beans instead of canned ones you get twice the amount for one half the money Dried peas and lima llma beans can be used in place of ot canned peas or beans for creamed soups and purees and one cup of dried beans or peas will wUl go as far as two cups of canned peas or beans The Thea The a book also contains an Instructive chapter on the care of food Save money avoid waste keep well by takIng taking tak- tak ing proper care cire of the food you buy is the way this chapter begins It advises ad- ad advises advises ad ad- vises cleansing the bread box frequently frequent frequent- ly especially in summer Milk and cream bottles should be washed off on the outside before the top is removed Meat should never neve be kept in the paper in which it comes as this absorbs the Juices Fresh fruits should be bought boughtIn In smal quantities as they spoil quickly quick quick- ly Eggs should be washed as soon as they are received Vegetables that are to be eaten raw should be dipped quickly in boiling water to destroy any germs and then put in cheese cloth and placed directly on the ice to preserve preserve preserve pre pre- serve their crispness Lettuce should be carefully picked d over and washed at once In the chapter on the use or drippings drip pings and butter substitutes the two women experts who compiled the book say The average American housewife housewife housewife house house- wife has no conception of the value of fats as food and as a result much fat is wasted that should be used as food The book goes goes on on to tell how to clarify fat how to prepare It for frying and how to try it out People have got more or less into the habit of or eating fish on Friday only the writers conti continue in the chapters chapters chapters chap chap- headed fish Fish Is as appetizIng appetizing appetizing ing and nourishing on on Tuesdays Tuesdays' and Thursdays as on Fridays Vary your diet as much as you can be more healthy if you do Dont use meat so much Use fish more Fish is just as nourishing as aslean aslean aslean lean meat and it eaten with po po- etc will supply all the needs of the body FISH AND VEGETABLES This chapter contains a list of the fish that can be bought in New York at different seasons of the year also directions as to how how- t cook the varieties varieties' va va- how to make stews fish chowders chowders chowders chow chow- ders fish puddings etc In In buying vegetables buy hose that are in season and not that mat are getting scarce and are therefore more expensive the experts advise In the suggestions and recipes for buying and preparing the green foods Select the vegetables yourself and see that they I are fresh This is all Important There are tricks in all trades trad including the vegetable trade Then follows a list of vegetables to be found here in various various various va va- va- va rious seasons and how to tell when each variety is fresh There also are general directions ns on vegetables how I to blanch them and how to avoid waste in the preparation Every recipe has I been tried and approved by a house house- wife The chapter on c cereals reals will prove I interesting to the housewife with children chil chil- dren This also contains numerous ex excellent excellent excellent ex- ex recipes as well as advice on purchasing the material Here ys s one way to improve your health and that of your family and at atthe atthe atthe the same time save money the book says in the chapter devoted to bread As a people we have more or less formed the of eating white bread only and do not realize that other breads such as Whole hole wheat rye and cornmeal bread are extremely I and much more nutritious In fact by using whole wheat flour nour or whole cornmeal you get et 30 per cent more nourishment fro same amount of flour While it is is' is Important that grown people should use whole wheat rye or whole cornmeal bread instead of white bread it is still more important for children White bread is not good for growing children for white whito bread does oes not contain the lime or other mineral salts necessary to build up bones and I teeth |