Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1913 — WORKS ON SCHEDULE [ARTICLE]

WORKS ON SCHEDULE

WOMAN'B EXCELLENT ARRANGEMENT FOR THE “DOGi DAYS." Cooking for the Week, by Her Method, Practically Confined to One Day Means Ease and Rest for the Other Six. Following is the way 09c housemother arranges the meat courses in her home during the “dog days.’’ She is blessed, fortunately, with a family that value her highly enough to insist on easy work in hot weather. She uses her coal stove only once a week, cm Saturday, when she does all her baking, On other days, she uses the flrelese cooker for the preparation of vegetables and other foodstuffs which do hot require quick cooking or much heat. She uses an oil* stove for making coffee and tea, and cooking such vegetables and other foodstuffs as require but short time. Oh Saturday she bakeß enough cake, bread and pie to last through most of the week to come, and Bhe also roasts a big piece of meat. On Sunday the roast is served cold, with a special acid jelly of chili sauce. On Monday the meat is chopped fine and molded in aspic jelly, which is made from a stock prepared by boiling the bones of the roast. On Tuesday meat enough for two days is cooked in the flrelesß cooker, and what is left over by Wednesday is turned into a loaf 6f pressed beef. On Thursday chops or cutlets are used, and on Friday fish is served. Two pies, each of a different variety, and often a pudding are baked on Saturday. One of the pies is used for Saturday’s dinner, and the pudding or an ice is served on Sunday. The other pie is reserved for Monday or Tuesday. On the other days the desserts are jellies, Bavarian cream or chilled desserts, or something that requires no hot fire to prepare. Two loaves of cake are also baked on Saturday, one that is of the kind that improves with keeping a few days. While the oven is being used the tdp of the stove is put to a good purpose. A whole ham and a beef tongue are boiled on Saturday to use throughout the week at luncheons. Enough boiled salad dressing • to last through the week is prepared and placed in the refrigerator. If Saturday happens to be a mercury record-breaker the baking is done on Monday or Tuesday. With plenty of fruits, vegetables, cheese, eggs, salad and herbs an excellent table is set throughout the sqmmer. Of course it requires some hard work and much judgment and executive ability to do the bulk of the week’s cooking on one day, but the housewife has an excellent rest for the other six days. There is little or no heat from the kitchen during the week, and much oil and coal are saved —an item worth considering.