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Show H . - I Woman's Department H Second Answer to "How to Reduce the Cost of Living" Contest In- M eludes an Itemized List of Articles of Food Used by a Family of M Six and the Cost of the Same How Money Is Saved by H Home-Made Pickles Meats, How Prepared and Kind. H HOW AN OGDEN WOMAN SAVES M Ogden City, Nov. 1G. 1012 H Editor Woman's Department, Ogclen H Standard: , H I have followed the woman 3 depart- H ment with Interest. Wo have a fam- 1 ily of seven, six of whom are old H enough and healthy enough to eat a good substantial meal. Our Income is H $75 per month. Out of this wo pay H S15 rent. $U0 for lights and $2 per H month insurance. I follow a few rules H in economy and find II makes a big H difference in the cost of living. H In the first place, I find 100 pounds H of Hour at a cost of $2 will make So H loaves of bread, which, if bought at o H cents a loaf, would cost just $4.2o, j saving ?2.25 on every month's bread 1 A Receipt for Yeact One good sir.-1 Hl ed potato, Lolled and mashed. Add 1 H quart of boiling water. 2 tablespoon- H fuls of flour rubbed smooth In cold H water. Add while boiling. Cool to 70 H degrees. Add one .Magic yeast cako 1 soaked In luke-warm water for 20 H minutes, 2 tablespoonfuls of salt and Hj 1 of sugar Put to raise over night. H This will make two batches of bread, H ton loaves to each hatch, or twenty loaves of bread. M Receipt (b) I save the price on H butter for three meals a week by fry- H Ing dices of stale bread dipped in M water. This Is a good breakfast dish. H (c) Melted honey Is a cheap sub- H stitutc for sugar syrup, A half gal- 1 Ion can will last for months at a cost H of 00 cents. The can should be heat- H ed In SO degrees water'and will stay M (d) A cheap article ftmkoiie that la; H good for either breakfast, dinner or H supper in the line of meats IS cents H worth of weinerwursts will be enou&k H for a meal of six. Put them in a H saucepan of boiling -water for 15 rnln- Hl utes and serve hot. j A small meat grinder at a cost o: M $1.73 will diminish the meat bill to H half its size and will last for ten H ears, If taken care of M (e) Hamburger steak: 15 cents M worth of chuck steak. Grind two on- H ions. Grind also 3 tablespoonfuls of Hj flour. Pepper and salt to taste. Fry H brown In hot lard or cottolene. H (f) Take what is left of a roast. H Cut In small pieces, add two onions H sliced. Pour over this 1 quart or H boiling water. Boil one hour just be- H fore serving. Thicken with spoonful H of flower and small lump of butter; Hj salt and pepper. H (g) Smothered meat: 15 cents H worth of steak, fried brown, cut In six H pieces. Remove from frying pan, peel H and slice six good sized onions. Fry M In hot lard, stirring carefully until H brown. Add the meat, ?eason with H salt and pepper. Next add one tca- H cupful or boiling water. An cxccl- H lent recipe. 1 (h) A 10 cent soup bone. 3 car- H rots, 2 onions will furnish the best H part of a meal for six persons. Peel H and slice the carrots and onions. P'U H . the bone in cold water and. when boil- H ing, add the vegetables with one hcap- M Ing teaspoonful of salt, 1-4 teaspoon- H ful of pepper. H Never waste old bread. Even bak- H cr's make as well as your own, is good M in this receipt: M (1) Place the loaf or piece of bread M in enough cold water to cover the same. Put In the dripper and place M In hot oven. Turn in ten minutes M and you will have a new loaf of bread. fl Baked potatoes and apples are both H healthful. H Rice furnishes a good food for muoh or pudding and is the easiest digested of all. (j)Pudding: 1 1-2 cups of lice, boiled soit, three eggs, one quart of milk, cupful of sugar. Remove rice from fire, beat eggs, add sugar and milk, put in over to bake. Each ot these receipts are for six persons. I mnke my own catsup (one bottle serves three' meals) and plcklc3 and find that more monoy is saved on these articles than one might imagine For instance, 15 cents worth of spices, 10 cents vinegar, 5 cents sugar, sug-ar, 50 cents tomatoes, will make 05 bottles of catsup equal to what one will purchaso at tho grocery store for 15 cents per bottle, a saving of ?4.45 on my catsup for one year. Watch for my receipt Tor catsup, I pickles and a 15-cent plum pudding. Already this year I have had five persons call for ray pickle receipt, among whom was a teacher of domestic domes-tic science at one of the largest schools In this town. Especially am I proud of this receipt, re-ceipt, as mustard pickles are expen-sivo expen-sivo and I can save tour-fifths on even- bottle and a far better article is obtained. Menu. BREAKFAST. Sausage , $.15 Fried potatoes 02 Boiled rice ., 03 Hot bread and butter'. 15 Home-made Jelly ... 02 Coffeo ., 0i Total ..$ '.3 . DINNER. Soup bone !.'...-....$ .10 Qnions and carrots .02 Catsup , ...... .01 Rice pudding ' T v - Uc-Mijk :7f:,. .05 Sugarj,. ...!,... .05 Rice" ..'.- ..""..';... .05 Eggs ,- '...,... ;.7 -.10 Bread '...."J?. 05 .Pickles 02 Spice cake (purchased) 05 Total , .50 SUPPER. Smothered mcut Meat $ .15 Onions 10 Boiled pota'-'es. -0C Baked apples ' 02 Home-made pic 07 Pickles 02 Bread and butter , 13 Tea 01 Total $. :.5 Or a grand total of $1.41. BREAKFAST. Hamburger steak $ .1. Fried bread 03 Coffee . fc . . . .02 Hot cakes and honey U3 Boiled rico -.... 05 Total $ .30 DINNER. Meat .,., $ .l'O Baked potatoes 02 Cabbage '....- 03 Pickles 02 Plum pudding 5 Sauce ,. ..., 02 Bread and butter 12 Tea 01 Total $ .59 SUPPER. Welner Wursts $ .15 Pickles . 02 Jilaohed potatoes 02 Spice cake On Horno-mado jelly 02 Bread and butter 12 Tea 01 Total $ .39 Or a grand total of $1.28. This menu furnishes food for slx persons with three quarts of milk added at a cost of 15 cents for two days. At noon I pour a glass of cream off tho milk and save for coffee next morning. BRIDGET. Rules for the Economical Living Contest. Con-test. First The contest is only for wives and daughters of subscribers of the Evening Standard. Second Tho word "family" means more than two, father, mother ajd children. Third The prizes will NOT be awarded to persons giving the cheapest cheap-est possible diet, but to those giving the most wholesome diet for the least money, all other points being equal Prices named must bo obtainable generally gen-erally by Ogden people. Fourth The contest will close on December 3. 1912, with the publication publica-tion of the Evening Standard on that day. Matter for tho paper should always al-ways be sent in several days before Its publication. Fifth Each contestant will be required re-quired to furnish a three-meal menu for each of two days. The firut day's menu may be handed to the Evening Standard any day bofore Saturday, I Novomber 23, and the second day's menu before Saturday, November 30 On December 3 nt 2:30 o'clock p. m., at the Standard office, tho contestants contest-ants will meet and select by a majority ma-jority vote three judges to make the awards. The menu for one, two or three or moro meals nt a time may be sent in for publication. All contestants con-testants must clip their own menus from tho paper and paste same on white paper and marked "first dav" and "second day" and signed with the full name with proper address, and deliver snmo to tho Standard office before 3 o'clock on December 3. 1912 Moro than one day's menu mny be offered at a time, but only two menus of three meals each can be ontored for tho final contest, and tho menu entered for the firat day must have been published bofore Novombor 23, and the second day's menu must have been published before November -10. 1912. Sixth Tho four persons presenting tho menu for tho most wholesome diet and method of preparing each meal and showing how a family can live decently on loss than $S0 per month, and showing by Itemized statement tho exact expenditures, will receive ono $10 prlzo and three $5 prizes In cash. Seventh Bo careful and Itemize the cost per month of Just what you expend on your family without creating cre-ating rvnv debt Give tho price plainly plain-ly for all you buy Gifts and donations dona-tions do not count. State how large your family Is. Do not place groceries grocer-ies and provisions in a lump sum, but state quantity and price Eighth Tho Judges you select shall make the awards and their judgment shall bo final Ninth Get vour statements in as arly as possible They will be num-"ore'd num-"ore'd In the order received and not more than two columns of the papor will be devoted to this contest in any one day, and If the contestants wait until the last few days thej may be too late for publication and onlv statements state-ments published will enter the contest. |