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Show HOME ECONOMY IS IMPERATIVE More Thrown Away Than Is Used The Breadwinner Has a Hard Time Put Up Preserves With Less Sugar. It Is an old saying that, some women throw moro out of the back door than the "bread winner" can bring In the front way, meaning, of course, that there is too much extravagance In keeping house, the kitchen side ot the home In particular. There is no question but that, ua. der tho present "high-price" sltua. tion greater economy must be exercised exer-cised in order to keep home expenditures expendi-tures within the means of the average aver-age wage earner. A little wastefulness wasteful-ness on tho part of tho housowife makes it out of the question for tho husband to meet his grocery account and have anything left with -which to buy other home necessities, and tho accumulation of money in the bank is entlrelv foreign to the household. Economy in the preparation of all kinds of meats, groceries, vegetables, fruits and other edibles is imperative, and the economy largely depends on the knowledge the woman has of cooking, preserving and taking care or. odds and ends in the kitchen pat can be made up Into really delicious dishes. Many sweet morsels of rood j are thrown away and utterly wasted wmiQo the woman of the house lacks knowledge of how to make them up" into palatable dlsheB. An illustration of how to save mon-ey mon-ey in the preparation of preserves and other sugar demanding articles o. food, is shown by Biddy Bye. a New York cooking expert, who explains how many kinds of fruit may be can-ned can-ned without using very much sugar and in some instances, no sugar at all Sugar is extremely high just now anil many families can hardly afford to use it. but it is thought that by canning season time next year tho prices will lower to a point where more sugar can be used. The necessity neces-sity now Is to economize in putting up fruit and still have the cellar filled with all kinds of canned products that usually are found in the home. On the question Biddy Bye says, in P'lft- . . , The National Housewives' league, after Investigating the sugar , prob. lem, has just Issued a bulletin which says sugar averages 3 cents a pound more than last year. Nevertheless, the league advises housekeepers to put up an ample supply of fruits and vegetables this summer, suggesting that thev use every available glass, can and bottle as containers, because the European war and the most neutral neu-tral American kitchen become more closely related every day. Here is a recipe for sugarless can- ning by Mary E. Williams, noted do- I mestic science expert j Prepare firm fresh fruit in the usual way. ! Boll until tender in water, without sugar. When thoroughly cooked, put in cans which have been perfectly ster-ilized. ster-ilized. Fill to overflowing. Screw on air tight tops immediately. When jars are opened for use, add sugar to suit taste. This process cannot fail if the, utensils for canning and the fruit itself it-self are perfectly sterilized, and the cans are properly sealed. |