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Cost of Menu.

Clear soup $0.1340

Chicken ragout 1.4283

Mashed potatoes 0899

Canned corn 1313

Cranberry jelly 1283

Lettuce and tomato salad 1076

Hot rolls 1000

Mince pie 1417

Salted almonds 2563

Coffee, black, 12 T @ 30c lb... .0500

Sugar, i/2 c 0208

Butter, 3 oz. at 50c 0936

Total cost $2.7018

— Mrs. S. Manin, 260 East Forty-first street, city.

MENU, BY MRS. REID.

Beef Soup, Crackers. Roast Chicken with Bread Dressing-.

Giblet Gravy. Blackberry Jelly. Mashed Potatoes. Creamed Carrots.

Mashed Turnips.

Bread. Butter.

Lettuce Salad with French Dressing-.

Cheese. Crackers.

Pumpkin Pie.

Walnuts. Brazil Nuts.

Beef Soup.

1 soup bone $0.1000

1 c strained tomatoes 0332

1 T salt 0008

Vi t pepper 0021

Parsley from garden 0000

Gas to simmer 3 hours 0120

$0.1481 Put soup bone on in 2 quarts cold water, add 1 sprig parsley, salt and pepper. Simmer 3 hours, strain, add tomatoes and serve in buillon cups with one-half of the crackers al- lowed.

Roast Chicken and Dressing.

4y2 lbs. chicken at 27c $1.2150

1 t salt 0003

Cost of chicken $1.2153

Gas to roast 2 hours 0510

Total cost of chicken $1.2663

Dressing — Cost.

1 loaf of stale baker's bread. . .$0.0900

2 c hot water 0000

2-3 c chopped giblets 0000

2 small onions (% c) 0083

1 T salt 0008

1 t pepper 0083

1 T poultry seasoning 0083

Cost of dressing $0.1157

Clean and wash chicken thoroughly. Put giblets on and cook until tender, which will take about two hours. Crumble bread very fine, add giblets, chopped onion, salt, pepper and poultry seasoning. Mix lightly with the hot giblet water and fill chicken. Sew up. Rub the teaspoonful of salt on the chicken. Render out the fat from inside the chicken, roll chicken in this, put a little hot water in pan and place in oven. Add a little water as needed and roast two hours. Put dressing that is left over in another greased pan and bake while roasting chicken.

2 T flour $0.0018

1 qt. hot water 0000

1 t salt 0003

% t pepper 0021

$0.0042 Put water in pan after removing roast, add thickening, salt and pepper and let boil up. Serve.

Mashed Potatoes.

3 lbs. potatoes $0.0600

1 T salt 0008

14 t pepper 0021

% c hot milk 0201

Gas, 20 min 0038

$0.0868 Cook potatoes in water and salt un- til done; drain, mash, add pepper, then hot milk, a little at a time; beat until light.

Creamed Carrots.

2 bunches carrots, at5c $0.1000

1 t salt 0003

Vi t pepper 0021

1 T flour 0009

1/2 c milk 0134

Gas, 1 hour 0114

$0.1281 Scrape and slice carrots, then cook for 1 hour in salted water; add flour and pepper to milk; pour in carrots; cook for about five minutes, and serve.

Mashed Turnips.

Turnips $0.1000

1 t salt 0003

% t pepper 0021

Gas, 45 minutes 0084

$0.1108 Peel turnips, cut up, cook '45 min- utes, mash, add salt and pepper, serve. A little sugar, if liked sweeter.

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Lettuce with French dressing:

2 heads lettuce, at 5c $0.1000

% c Wesson oil 0453

1 T vinegar 0016

V2 t salt 0001

Ys t cayenne pepper 0010

$0.1480 Take off outside leaves of lettuce, wash inside and break leaves in two or three pieces; drain. Mix dressing, put salt and pepper in dish, add oil and last vinegar to dressing and mix thoroughly. Serve with the rest of the crackers and the pimento cheese.

To Make the Coffee.

1-6 lb. of coffee, at 27c $0.0450

13 y2 c water 0000

Gas, 20 min 0038

Cost of coffee making $0.0488

Top of 1 qt. milk for table use .0500

Total $0.0988

Pumpkin Pie Crust.

1 c flour $0.0141

iy2 T Crisco 0120

% t salt 0001

About 3 lbs. water 0000

Cost $0.0262

Pumpkin Filling.

2 c cooked pumpkin $0.0364

2 c milk 0536

1 egg 0500

3 T sugar 0078

V4, t salt 0001

V2 t ginger 0041

V4. t alspice 0020

% t cinnamon 0020

2 t syrup 0026

Cost $0.1586

Cost of crust 0262

$0.1848 Steam pumpkin y2 hr., remove meat from shell, put the 2 T of syrup on the pumpkin and cook for one-half hour longer, add spices, salt, sugar, beat egg, add to milk, mix together, run through colander, put in crust and bake with roast. One-half of a 5c pumpkin makes two cups.

Prices of Menu.

Beef soup $0.1481

Roast chicken 1.2663

Dressing 1157

Gravy 0042

Mashed potatoes 0868

Creamed carrots 1281

Mashed turnips 1108

Salad 1480

Cheese 1000

Crackers 1000

Coffee 0988

Dessert 1848

1 glass blackberry jelly 0500

1 loaf homemade bread 0600

6 T sugar for coffee 0156

3 oz. butter for table use 0938

94 lb. walnuts @ 25c 1900

V2 lb. Brazil nuts @ 20c 1000

$3.0010 — Mrs. J. A. Reid, Portland, Or.

MENU, BY MRS. HARDY.

Clear Tomato Soup.

Bread Croutons.

Olives. Mixed Pickles.

Roast Chicken, Bread Stuffing.

Giblet Gravy. Wild Blackberry Jelly.

Whipped Potatoes. String Beans.

Brown Bread. Butter.

Apple, Celery and Nut Salad.

Carrot Pudding with Sauce.

Pumpkin Pie.

Mrs. Hardy says: My Thanksgiving dinner is really going to cost a great deal less than $3, for the string beans, pumpkin, pickles, etc., were raised in our war garden and canned for win- ter use. The wild blackberries for jelly I picked myself. The rooster has been raised and fed mostly on table scraps. The bread crumbs for stuf- fing I save when cutting bread, dry and keep in a glass jar. I have used no lard or other cooking compound for over a year now, as all my pies, cookies, cakes, doughnuts are made from cottonseed oil, with which I have splendid results. A tablespoon- ful of the oil in vegetables instead of butter is equally satisfactory and much more pleasing to Mr. Hoover. In my conservation pumpkin pie I use a teaspoonful of Egaho powder and a teaspoonful of corn starch, instead of an egg, for while the egg substi- tute does not contain the nourish- ment of an egg, it has no harmful in- gredients, and in this kind of a din- ner there is plenty to nourish one without the egg in the pie.

Clear Tomato Soup.

6 large tomatoes $0.0500

2 c milk (scalded) 0520

% t salt 0001

Dash of pepper 0001

Dash of soda 0001

1 T cottonseed oil 6057

Total cost $0.1080

Cook tomatoes until tender; mash through sieve; add baking soda to to- matoes, then stir slowly into milk; add salt and oil and serve at once.

Squares of Toasted Bread.

y2 loaf of stale bread $0.0200

Cut slices of bread in squares and brown on pan in oven and serve at once.