Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1912 — Eating Poor Man’s Dinner [ARTICLE]

Eating Poor Man’s Dinner

Party of English Newspaper Meir Try t - it and Find It Very Good. London.— A party of newspaper men recently met at the rooms of the Society of Medical Officers pf Health to eat a poor man’s dinner. It was, of course, such a dinner as no poor man ever eats, but that is because he does not know how to lay his money out so as to get the best and most feeding stuffs, neither does his wife know how to cook them properly when bought These things they could learn from the secretary of the society, a barrister and an enthusiast on dietetics. It was interesting to learn what can be done by judicious buying at the open air markets of London, where the food is probably cheaper and of better quality than in any other capital. They started with some tasty coup made from parts of fish usually thrown away as useless by^thriftless cooks, each helping costing about a fourth of a cent to make. The foreigners In Sohc are well aware of these economies. Then there were admirable c?nt apiece herrings, haddock and three meat courses any one of which would have made a good meal. There was roast mutton from Australia —nine cents a pound la the open air market: flank of Australian beef—a part commonly ignored by English housewives, but gcod to egt all the rame; steak and kidney pie. costing about six cents a jnrtion: and Jugged hare made from colonial ha»K

bought at fifty cents for nine pounds and tasting as good as the Norfolk variety. The lemon pudding was so alluring that most of the newspaper men came again for more. The dessert was West Indian limes (five for a cent), pears (four cents a pound), and so on. The meal cost much less than the tinned meat and fruit so much patronized by the poor and was tar more nourishing.