Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1919 — CANNED MEAT USEFUL WHEN VISITORS COME [ARTICLE]

CANNED MEAT USEFUL WHEN VISITORS COME

Heat and Labor on Hot Summer Days Are Saved. Delicious Chicken Dinner Put on Table by Indiana Woman When Machine Load of City Guests Arrive Unexpectedly. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) The amount of meat canned in home kitchens has increased year by year since the process was first found to be practicable. Slowly but surely women are realizing tha t it Is better to distribute the eating of fresh meat over many months by canning part when it is plentiful than to overeat for a few weeks and then go meatless until the next Heat and labor on hot, busy summer days are saved by winter canning of meat, and a supply of canned fish and meat is very handy in emergencies which arise even in the best-regulated households. A woman in White county, Tpdiana, did not think it practical for country women to can meat, but she did “put up” a few cans of chicken because everyone in her club was doing it The home demonstration agent, supervised by the United States department of agriculture and the state college at Purdue, had given a meat-can-ning demonstration in the county, and when the women learned that meat could be. canned, nearly all tried IL Several months after canning the meat the skeptical one *waf hanging the week’s washing on the line, when a machine load of city guests drove in the yard. Glad as the hostess was to see them, her first thought was of the pick-up dinner she had planned giving her family that day. She was noted as a good cook, and it was hard to see her renown in that line suffer even a temporary eclipse. Then came remembrance of the canned meat ‘ln a • short time a delicious chicken dinner was on the table and her reputation as a cook was saved.