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Show A mi 7 fcf tm fetl!Tl$ IIWg fcgij 1 M- Mmm LJL F-1 . . A Dollar Dinner For Four' Meat Loaf Fried Potatoes ' Rolls and Butter Pea and Corn Succotash Peach Mold and Marshmallozv Cremc . " Coffee , y-AN seldom thinks with more earnestness of any-thing any-thing than he does of his dinner," stated a famous writer. And the housewife seldom thinks with more earnestness ot anything than she does of the cost of her dinner. So here is a delicious meal that can be prepared for a dollar and will serve four people certainly certain-ly an occasion for joyful thoughts for both the husband and his wife. The cost of the meat loaf will be about forty cents and the fried potatoes, po-tatoes, and the rolls and butter -will be ten cents each. For the succotash succo-tash take half a number 2 can of corn and half a number 1 can of peas and heat them in two tablespoons table-spoons of bacon fat. The cost will be about thirteen cents. To make the peach mold take a number 1 can of peaches, add i.ie-third cup sugar, one-fourth tea- poon ground cloves, one tablespoon lemon juice and simmer until thick. Meanwhile cut white bread from which crusts have beeii removed in-wafer-like slices and butter each slice. Place alternate layers -of bread and peach mixture, while lat- ter is still hot, in a -deep- hiold, packing down well. Use about one-' half loaf on buttered bread. Put on ' ice over-night, unmold and serve sliced with marshmallow creme. The cost of the dessert is about twenty-six cents, and, as it will serve eight, the cost for one mca! is thirteen cents. The marshmallow creme will be about five cents. This makes the costs: meat loaf, 40 cents; fried potatoes, 10 cents; rolls and butter, 10 cents; pea and corn succotash, 13 cents; peach mold and marshmallow creme, IS cents; coffee. 4 cents; total, 95 cents, thus leaving S cents for incidentals. in-cidentals. . |