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VOL. Lin. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., JAN. 7, 1899. NO. 1 gspjcvicucjc gipavtmcnt How Do You Prevent Wasta in the Kitchen, Dining Room and the Pantry. let Premium.—Prevention of waste In tho ' household is largely a matter of experlenc?, and is dillicult to explain without geing too much into detail. Many young Tioueekeep- erri have ab,out as clear an idea of ravine as had a little girl who onco visited at my house. Having lectured the cook somewhat severely for throwing away a plato of cold meat, I turned to the little girl and said, "If you were keeping house you wouldn't do that, would you?" No, indeed," she answered quickly. "I'd keep three or four dogs to eat up the scraps." Some leavings from the table have to be thrown away, of course, and I have seen persons scrape the plates over the fire; but I never see this waste without remembering tny mother's early teaching, "think of all the hungry creatures outside." By these are not meant dogs alone,butchickens,birds, and tho faithful catthat catches more mice that you give her credit for,and who loves the ciumbs of cake and pie that usually go into the slop pail. If the bread comes out of the oven with too hard a crust, it is best to trim it off then and tliere and lay it aside. If not too badly burnt it can be made into bread pudding, or soaked for a time in sour milk for batter cakes, or best of all scalded, seasoned well with pepper and salt, and baked in the oven as dressing under some juicy slices of ham or other meat that you may have convenient—none of this will be wasted. Soda biscuit left over, are about as hard to manage as anything in the culinary line. The best thing to be done with them is to lay them ina pan, sprinkle a little cold water over them and warm them slightly, then put on a Spartan look and tell the family they can either eat those biscuits or starve. If your manner is sufficiently severe, and you perse" vere long enough, they will get overtheir prejudice about warmed over biscuit and you will have no more trouble. Very often peoplo fill the dishes unnecessarily full when they set the table. I have many times seen a whole pound of butter on the butter plate at one time, and instead of enough apple butter to last one meal, a great^dish full, sure to be returned again and again, meal after meal, until every one gives it up as a bad case and it has to be thrown out. Variety on the table is'the beet antidote; for waste in the dining room. This is not so hard to manage when you limit yourself to two or three thiDgs one day for dinner and two or three different things the next day. Fried eggs become monotonous, but they can be boiled or poached. You can get very tired Of beans and potatoes every day all winter, but if you alternate the days with tomatoes and turnirs, or corn and parsnips, or salsify and cabbage, tho children will have better appetites and they will learn to like almost anything. This is true. Tastes can bo acquired and who knows where their lot may in tho future be cast? It is wicked to waste—our Saviour taught us this by example. Besides, if the husband and children will only think that wasting and destroying things causes the mother much worry and many steps, Tory few will be found so hard hearted an not to make iome effort to lighten her labors. A daily oversight on the part of the head of the household, a willingness to learn from experienced housekeepers and tho serious thought that we have no right to throw away anything that may bo of use to others are some of the safeguards against waste in the home. Harrison Co. Mary. 2d Premium. I think that bread, meat, bird and sugar need tho closest watching. Tho left-over pieces of light bread on the bread plate aro made Into toast, fried in cream or kept for dressing for tho smothered or roust chicken for Sunday dinner. I usually roast the chicken on Saturday and make the dressing warm with the broth tho chicken is roasted in. Of meats of all kinds I am very careful. In slicing ham or shoulder I never cut more than enough for three meals at a time. I oncQ had a neighbor that In order to help the "wlmen folks" along as he said, would slice a whole ham at one time and tho family was a very small one too. I savo tho fryings; they go a long way in frying potatoes and some other vegetables. They savo the lard and aro iust ns good. I'otato chips are much nicer if the lid of the skillet is taken off as soon as tho potatoes aro tender; they fry brown and dry. I keep a glass jar about half full of good cider vinegar in a handy place near the kitchen stove and when I do not care to replenish a dish of fruit butter, jam, jellies or dried fruit, and thero ifc not enough to put on tho table again and too much to wash out I put it in the vinegar jar. try waste can bent bo prevented by the use of proper receptacles in which to hold provisions. If one can do no better label baking powder cans for spices and such things. Keep the cereals In glass fruit jars, as also all dried fruit and always provide flour and meal chests. A big coffee box of tin with lid which you can get from your grocer, makes the best of flour holders, as it is lighter and more quickly scalded out than wood. Buy wholesale as far as possible and learn by experience tho right quantity to uso and ever afterwards uso a measure in preference to guess work, especially insist upon tills if you keep help. It is with "help" that wasto comes usually, and it is only in careful oversight of the?e that trouble can bo avoided. She who dees her own work soon lenrns to avoid much waste, which is one of the compensations in sueh labor. 0. B P. REVIEW. Our writers mention waste of time, of labor and of food. The first two are caused by lack of conveniences and system, and tho watte of 52 Numbers j 1.00. It helps to make tho strongest of vinegar. I pour it all off, wash the jar and commence anew occasionally. On all fair days I keep the pantry windows raised and screened, same as in summer, and everything keeps nicely there. The small earthen pan kept in the reservoir of the kitchen stove, half full of cistern water, made strong with borax, catches the small pieces of soap and is nice for dish washing or anything else. The wasto vegetables, skimmed milk and dishwater is fed to the pigs. 0. B. Connersville. ^r^ssM^^ 3d Premium. "Eternal vigilance" is here, also the price to be paid in preventing trouble and loss. It ls often a difficult matter in the first inexperienced years of the young housekeeper to avoid some wasto, but with thought and with the ability and knowledge the years bring, one of the compensations of growing older is that the trouble smooths itself out and the danger Is sometimes in running to the other extreme, devoting too much time to looking after details to the sacrifice of time and strength better devoted to greater things. But some general rules may well be adopted by tho average housekeeper. To avoid waste in the dining room lt is best to prepare only as much food as can bo eaten at the next or the succeeding meal, at most. There is really more expense in making cold dishes palatable than in cooking it afresh, with tho advantages in favor of the latter in point of digestibility. One pource of wasto in many farm homes is the quantity of jellies and jams always on tablo where ono variety would suffice. Train the tastes of your family and serve the dishes of their choice as attractively as possible, but never too many at a time. In the kitchen tho waste to be avoided comes in the preparation of fruit and vegetables, much of which goes out in tho peeling-pan, under wasteful hands, and in tho burning of cereal foods, which can be best avoided by tho use of the double boiler. Such waste as is unavoidable can be well utilized by the poultry. Keep a vessel to collect such, to this end, and never throw it to the hogs, as many do. Pan- food by slovenliness and lack of tact. Taking kitchens as they are, one may improve very much by dividiog foods so as to offer a small variety each meal, as one lady suggests. A cook's riches may consist in tho abundanco sho possesses but not in displaying all of it at every meal. While at the home of Mrs. Stoy, at Edwardsville, I noted thatevery peeling and scrap was cooked and mixed with clover leaves and bran for poultry, and she'is selling eggs now at 25 cents a dozen. The New Year's motto crowded out last week was: "What victory have you gained for humanity tho past year? What do you stand for among your neighbors?" Send nil mail to mo at Lafayette, for the present, No. 140, Jan. 14 —Rural free mail delivery. How does it succeed in your county? Why should it be established? No. 150, Jan. 21.—Wido or narrow tires, which is used mostwith you? Whichdo you think best and why? No. 151, Jan. 28.—Sanaitary management of swine. How do you prevent hog cholera? How stamp it out? No. 152, Feb. 4.—The winter management of breeding ewes. WThat are the best methods? No. 153, Feb. 11.—Agricultural superstitions. Namo a number wo have outgrown and a number that still have advocates. No. 151, Feb. 18.—Name oneor more books, or persons, or events that have greatly impressed and shaped your life. No. 155, Feb. 25 —What do you mean to the people who know you? What do you stand for? crowded from the beginning. The sneaker, S. H. Todd, Ohio, said it wus the best he had ever attended in this State. Todd is a fluent, practical speaker, with a fine voice. He holds his audience well. Mrs. Bates, of Broad Ripple, read several lino papers. There is melody in her voice thatproduces good effects. Homo talent was up to date, especially the papers of tho Hon. Marshall Newhouse, E. F. Fee and Perry McLain. Our president, R F. Darnell, proved his ability to preside and was reelected. He was compelled to call down instead of up. One feature in the program was the entertainment. Tho K. P. huliwascon- verted intoa kitchen and dining hall and 200 persons took throe warm meals a day there during the institute. Transients wero all kept over night. (ireensburg was well represented and took an active part, especially XV. XV. Hamilton, Thompson, Donnell and your agent, T. G. Powers. It was generally conceded that Sardinia, down in Jackson town-hip, was a good place to hold an institute. V. M. C. Idlewild. ' Premiums of $1, 75 and 50 cents will be given to 1st. 2d and 3d best articles each week. Let copy be as practicable as possible and forwarded 10 days beforo publication to Lafayette. E. H. Collins. The Institutes. Editors Indiana Farmeb. Tue Decature County Farmers' Institute was held at Sardinia, Dec. 12th and 13th. Weather very inclement. Snow 10 inches deep. Mercury at 10 degrees below. House Our Export Balance of Four Hundred Six Million of Dollars Surpasses all Previous Records. Editors Indiana Farmer. The confusion of war seems only to have stimulated our commerce, when the very contrary would naturally have been expected. The difference between last year and 1873, when our balance in exports was on tho other Bide of theledgcrtotheamountof $119,000,000, Is $525,O00,CO0 in "our favor. The average balance in our favor since that time has been about $115,0(10,000, although four years of tho twenty-five, have been slightly against us. Last year was, or lS'M', Was tho largest, being $250,- 000,000 in our favor. The average reader is apt to pass this immense transaction without stopping to compare its value or its greatness, or its advantage to tho United States. Only ten of tho thirty-three nations of the world havo gold, silver and paper money to the amount of $100,000,000 each. The entire amount of gold of the thirty- three nations outside of tho United Statos have only a circulation of $3,303,000,000, and about the same of silver. So that in nine years, lite the past year, we would absorb the entire gold of tho world, if tho laws of trade and commerce did not carry it back to other countries; and in four and one-half years our balancc'wottld equal tho en- tiro silver coin of the world at its intrinsic value, as it would take $812,000,000 of silver to be equal in value to our balance of $400,000,(100. As Mexico only has $100,000,000 of silver.it would take eight nations like Mexico to equal our yearly balance with her forty-six cent dollars. China is tho only nation having silver coin equal to our balance at gold value. A. million of silver dollars weigh 50,!>31 pounds avoirdupois. Estimating 10,000pounds to the car, it would take at its intrinsic value, 4,500 car loads of silver to equal our 400,000,- 000 dollars balanco of this laEt year. If 500 United States Senators and Representatives would conspire to rob she Treasury vaults of its 400,000,000 of silver, and would each member carry away 25 pounds each day, for 313 days each year, commencing Jan, 1, lfefKl, it would tako live years to complete tho job, and if they omitted the legal holidays, there would still be as much silver left in tho vaults as there was silver in the United States in 1873, One thing is sure, if our $400,000,000 had been against us as it was in 1873, we would havo been $812,000,000 poorer than we are today; but our daily average gain has been $1,105,000, and our hourly gain for tho year has averaged $15,83$, Our balance for tlio year is estimated at $000,000,000. Jeffersonville. Wm. Adams.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1899, v. 54, no. 01 (Jan. 7) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA5401 |
Date of Original | 1899 |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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Title | Page 1 |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | Indiana |
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Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Transcript | VOL. Lin. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., JAN. 7, 1899. NO. 1 gspjcvicucjc gipavtmcnt How Do You Prevent Wasta in the Kitchen, Dining Room and the Pantry. let Premium.—Prevention of waste In tho ' household is largely a matter of experlenc?, and is dillicult to explain without geing too much into detail. Many young Tioueekeep- erri have ab,out as clear an idea of ravine as had a little girl who onco visited at my house. Having lectured the cook somewhat severely for throwing away a plato of cold meat, I turned to the little girl and said, "If you were keeping house you wouldn't do that, would you?" No, indeed," she answered quickly. "I'd keep three or four dogs to eat up the scraps." Some leavings from the table have to be thrown away, of course, and I have seen persons scrape the plates over the fire; but I never see this waste without remembering tny mother's early teaching, "think of all the hungry creatures outside." By these are not meant dogs alone,butchickens,birds, and tho faithful catthat catches more mice that you give her credit for,and who loves the ciumbs of cake and pie that usually go into the slop pail. If the bread comes out of the oven with too hard a crust, it is best to trim it off then and tliere and lay it aside. If not too badly burnt it can be made into bread pudding, or soaked for a time in sour milk for batter cakes, or best of all scalded, seasoned well with pepper and salt, and baked in the oven as dressing under some juicy slices of ham or other meat that you may have convenient—none of this will be wasted. Soda biscuit left over, are about as hard to manage as anything in the culinary line. The best thing to be done with them is to lay them ina pan, sprinkle a little cold water over them and warm them slightly, then put on a Spartan look and tell the family they can either eat those biscuits or starve. If your manner is sufficiently severe, and you perse" vere long enough, they will get overtheir prejudice about warmed over biscuit and you will have no more trouble. Very often peoplo fill the dishes unnecessarily full when they set the table. I have many times seen a whole pound of butter on the butter plate at one time, and instead of enough apple butter to last one meal, a great^dish full, sure to be returned again and again, meal after meal, until every one gives it up as a bad case and it has to be thrown out. Variety on the table is'the beet antidote; for waste in the dining room. This is not so hard to manage when you limit yourself to two or three thiDgs one day for dinner and two or three different things the next day. Fried eggs become monotonous, but they can be boiled or poached. You can get very tired Of beans and potatoes every day all winter, but if you alternate the days with tomatoes and turnirs, or corn and parsnips, or salsify and cabbage, tho children will have better appetites and they will learn to like almost anything. This is true. Tastes can bo acquired and who knows where their lot may in tho future be cast? It is wicked to waste—our Saviour taught us this by example. Besides, if the husband and children will only think that wasting and destroying things causes the mother much worry and many steps, Tory few will be found so hard hearted an not to make iome effort to lighten her labors. A daily oversight on the part of the head of the household, a willingness to learn from experienced housekeepers and tho serious thought that we have no right to throw away anything that may bo of use to others are some of the safeguards against waste in the home. Harrison Co. Mary. 2d Premium. I think that bread, meat, bird and sugar need tho closest watching. Tho left-over pieces of light bread on the bread plate aro made Into toast, fried in cream or kept for dressing for tho smothered or roust chicken for Sunday dinner. I usually roast the chicken on Saturday and make the dressing warm with the broth tho chicken is roasted in. Of meats of all kinds I am very careful. In slicing ham or shoulder I never cut more than enough for three meals at a time. I oncQ had a neighbor that In order to help the "wlmen folks" along as he said, would slice a whole ham at one time and tho family was a very small one too. I savo tho fryings; they go a long way in frying potatoes and some other vegetables. They savo the lard and aro iust ns good. I'otato chips are much nicer if the lid of the skillet is taken off as soon as tho potatoes aro tender; they fry brown and dry. I keep a glass jar about half full of good cider vinegar in a handy place near the kitchen stove and when I do not care to replenish a dish of fruit butter, jam, jellies or dried fruit, and thero ifc not enough to put on tho table again and too much to wash out I put it in the vinegar jar. try waste can bent bo prevented by the use of proper receptacles in which to hold provisions. If one can do no better label baking powder cans for spices and such things. Keep the cereals In glass fruit jars, as also all dried fruit and always provide flour and meal chests. A big coffee box of tin with lid which you can get from your grocer, makes the best of flour holders, as it is lighter and more quickly scalded out than wood. Buy wholesale as far as possible and learn by experience tho right quantity to uso and ever afterwards uso a measure in preference to guess work, especially insist upon tills if you keep help. It is with "help" that wasto comes usually, and it is only in careful oversight of the?e that trouble can bo avoided. She who dees her own work soon lenrns to avoid much waste, which is one of the compensations in sueh labor. 0. B P. REVIEW. Our writers mention waste of time, of labor and of food. The first two are caused by lack of conveniences and system, and tho watte of 52 Numbers j 1.00. It helps to make tho strongest of vinegar. I pour it all off, wash the jar and commence anew occasionally. On all fair days I keep the pantry windows raised and screened, same as in summer, and everything keeps nicely there. The small earthen pan kept in the reservoir of the kitchen stove, half full of cistern water, made strong with borax, catches the small pieces of soap and is nice for dish washing or anything else. The wasto vegetables, skimmed milk and dishwater is fed to the pigs. 0. B. Connersville. ^r^ssM^^ 3d Premium. "Eternal vigilance" is here, also the price to be paid in preventing trouble and loss. It ls often a difficult matter in the first inexperienced years of the young housekeeper to avoid some wasto, but with thought and with the ability and knowledge the years bring, one of the compensations of growing older is that the trouble smooths itself out and the danger Is sometimes in running to the other extreme, devoting too much time to looking after details to the sacrifice of time and strength better devoted to greater things. But some general rules may well be adopted by tho average housekeeper. To avoid waste in the dining room lt is best to prepare only as much food as can bo eaten at the next or the succeeding meal, at most. There is really more expense in making cold dishes palatable than in cooking it afresh, with tho advantages in favor of the latter in point of digestibility. One pource of wasto in many farm homes is the quantity of jellies and jams always on tablo where ono variety would suffice. Train the tastes of your family and serve the dishes of their choice as attractively as possible, but never too many at a time. In the kitchen tho waste to be avoided comes in the preparation of fruit and vegetables, much of which goes out in tho peeling-pan, under wasteful hands, and in tho burning of cereal foods, which can be best avoided by tho use of the double boiler. Such waste as is unavoidable can be well utilized by the poultry. Keep a vessel to collect such, to this end, and never throw it to the hogs, as many do. Pan- food by slovenliness and lack of tact. Taking kitchens as they are, one may improve very much by dividiog foods so as to offer a small variety each meal, as one lady suggests. A cook's riches may consist in tho abundanco sho possesses but not in displaying all of it at every meal. While at the home of Mrs. Stoy, at Edwardsville, I noted thatevery peeling and scrap was cooked and mixed with clover leaves and bran for poultry, and she'is selling eggs now at 25 cents a dozen. The New Year's motto crowded out last week was: "What victory have you gained for humanity tho past year? What do you stand for among your neighbors?" Send nil mail to mo at Lafayette, for the present, No. 140, Jan. 14 —Rural free mail delivery. How does it succeed in your county? Why should it be established? No. 150, Jan. 21.—Wido or narrow tires, which is used mostwith you? Whichdo you think best and why? No. 151, Jan. 28.—Sanaitary management of swine. How do you prevent hog cholera? How stamp it out? No. 152, Feb. 4.—The winter management of breeding ewes. WThat are the best methods? No. 153, Feb. 11.—Agricultural superstitions. Namo a number wo have outgrown and a number that still have advocates. No. 151, Feb. 18.—Name oneor more books, or persons, or events that have greatly impressed and shaped your life. No. 155, Feb. 25 —What do you mean to the people who know you? What do you stand for? crowded from the beginning. The sneaker, S. H. Todd, Ohio, said it wus the best he had ever attended in this State. Todd is a fluent, practical speaker, with a fine voice. He holds his audience well. Mrs. Bates, of Broad Ripple, read several lino papers. There is melody in her voice thatproduces good effects. Homo talent was up to date, especially the papers of tho Hon. Marshall Newhouse, E. F. Fee and Perry McLain. Our president, R F. Darnell, proved his ability to preside and was reelected. He was compelled to call down instead of up. One feature in the program was the entertainment. Tho K. P. huliwascon- verted intoa kitchen and dining hall and 200 persons took throe warm meals a day there during the institute. Transients wero all kept over night. (ireensburg was well represented and took an active part, especially XV. XV. Hamilton, Thompson, Donnell and your agent, T. G. Powers. It was generally conceded that Sardinia, down in Jackson town-hip, was a good place to hold an institute. V. M. C. Idlewild. ' Premiums of $1, 75 and 50 cents will be given to 1st. 2d and 3d best articles each week. Let copy be as practicable as possible and forwarded 10 days beforo publication to Lafayette. E. H. Collins. The Institutes. Editors Indiana Farmeb. Tue Decature County Farmers' Institute was held at Sardinia, Dec. 12th and 13th. Weather very inclement. Snow 10 inches deep. Mercury at 10 degrees below. House Our Export Balance of Four Hundred Six Million of Dollars Surpasses all Previous Records. Editors Indiana Farmer. The confusion of war seems only to have stimulated our commerce, when the very contrary would naturally have been expected. The difference between last year and 1873, when our balance in exports was on tho other Bide of theledgcrtotheamountof $119,000,000, Is $525,O00,CO0 in "our favor. The average balance in our favor since that time has been about $115,0(10,000, although four years of tho twenty-five, have been slightly against us. Last year was, or lS'M', Was tho largest, being $250,- 000,000 in our favor. The average reader is apt to pass this immense transaction without stopping to compare its value or its greatness, or its advantage to tho United States. Only ten of tho thirty-three nations of the world havo gold, silver and paper money to the amount of $100,000,000 each. The entire amount of gold of the thirty- three nations outside of tho United Statos have only a circulation of $3,303,000,000, and about the same of silver. So that in nine years, lite the past year, we would absorb the entire gold of tho world, if tho laws of trade and commerce did not carry it back to other countries; and in four and one-half years our balancc'wottld equal tho en- tiro silver coin of the world at its intrinsic value, as it would take $812,000,000 of silver to be equal in value to our balance of $400,000,(100. As Mexico only has $100,000,000 of silver.it would take eight nations like Mexico to equal our yearly balance with her forty-six cent dollars. China is tho only nation having silver coin equal to our balance at gold value. A. million of silver dollars weigh 50,!>31 pounds avoirdupois. Estimating 10,000pounds to the car, it would take at its intrinsic value, 4,500 car loads of silver to equal our 400,000,- 000 dollars balanco of this laEt year. If 500 United States Senators and Representatives would conspire to rob she Treasury vaults of its 400,000,000 of silver, and would each member carry away 25 pounds each day, for 313 days each year, commencing Jan, 1, lfefKl, it would tako live years to complete tho job, and if they omitted the legal holidays, there would still be as much silver left in tho vaults as there was silver in the United States in 1873, One thing is sure, if our $400,000,000 had been against us as it was in 1873, we would havo been $812,000,000 poorer than we are today; but our daily average gain has been $1,105,000, and our hourly gain for tho year has averaged $15,83$, Our balance for tlio year is estimated at $000,000,000. Jeffersonville. Wm. Adams. |
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