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The Business of Being a Housewife / A Manual to Promote Household Efficiency and Economy

Chapter 209: INDEX
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A practical manual treating household management as an economic enterprise, offering guidance on food selection, purchasing, storage, and meal planning to maximize efficiency and economy. It clarifies how meat prices reflect carcass yields, grades, and processing costs rather than live-animal price per pound, and outlines shifts in production, preservation, and commercial handling that affect quality and cost. Emphasizing waste reduction and informed buying, it recommends reliance on inspected products, reputable brands, and labor-saving prepared foods, and provides tips for conserving raw materials and composing nutritionally balanced menus aligned with broader production and distribution systems.

INDEX

BREADS
  PAGE
Baking bread 39
Beaten biscuit, recipe 40
Corn fritters, recipe 40
Good bread, qualities of 39
Hominy bread, recipe 39
How to judge bread 39
Points to remember in bread making 39
References regarding bread 39
Rolled oats bread, recipe 39
Southern egg bread, recipe 40
 
CEREALS
Cold cooked cereals 38
How to serve cereals 38
Table for cooking cereals 38
Use of cereals in the diet 38
 
CHARTS AND TABLES
Balanced rations, food classification for 27
Beef, dishes, cuts, and ways to use 12
Beef, retail cuts, food value, cost, cooking, uses 7
Beef, standard retail cuts (illustrated) 8
Beef and veal, extra portions, food value, cost, uses 15
Cakes, recipes for making 36
Calorie requirements 44
Cereals, table for cooking 38
Cheese, how to use 34
Chicken, ways of serving 13
Cook books, popular list of 28
Cream sauces, foundation recipes for 31
Dependable products, list of Armour’s 26
Eggs, uses and ways of cooking 34
Eggs, ways to serve 18
Family budget, example for apportionment 5
Family budget, form for 6
Fats, chemical composition of Armour’s 22
Fats, smoking point, calories, how to use 22
Foods, list of equivalents in 46
Fruits to serve with meats 23
Ham and bacon, ways to serve 16-17
Household equipment 45
Lamb and mutton, extra portions, food value, cost, uses 15
Lamb dishes, variety and cuts for same 14
Lamb, retail cuts, food value, cost, cooking, uses 9
Measures, list of equivalents in 46
Menus for unexpected demands 27
Oven temperatures 46
Pantry supplies 27
Pork dishes, variety of, and cuts for same 14
Pork, extra portions, food value, cost, cooking, uses 15
Pork, retail cuts, food value, cost, cooking, uses 9
Sauces and garnishes for various cuts of beef 12-40
Sausages, varieties of 19-20
Time for baking, broiling, frying, roasting 46
Veal, retail cuts, food value, cost cooking, uses 9
Vegetables to serve with meals 23
Weights and measures 46
 
DAIRY PRODUCTS
Butter in cold storage 10
Cheese, how to cook and keep 34
Cheese, how to use, cooked and uncooked 18
Cheese sauce, recipe 34
Cheese soufflé, recipe 34
Dairy products, list of Armour’s 26
Milk as a food 17
Milk, evaporated 17
Milk, evaporated, uses of 17
 
DIET
Balanced diet chart 27
Calories 44
Children, food for 42
Elements of foods 44
Food in the home, care of 42
 
EGGS
Eggs in cold storage 10
Eggs, how to preserve 34
Eggs, uses of 34
Eggs, value in the diet 18
Eggs, ways to serve 18
Eggs, ways of cooking, time required to digest 34
 
FATS
Chemical composition of Armour Fats 22
Clarifying fats 22
Fats, how to use (chart) 22
Fats, use of drippings 22
Foods that soak fats 22
Salad oils in cooking 22
Shortenings and frying mediums, list of Armour’s 26
Test for frying fats 22
 
FISH
Cream sauces 31
Creole sauce, recipe 40
Fish in the menu 14
 
FRUITS
Canned fruits 38
Fresh fruits, serving 38
Fruits to serve with various meats 23
Fruits, value in diet 23
 
HOUSEHOLD EQUIPMENT
Bread making equipment 45
Cleaning purposes equipment 45
Dessert making equipment 45
Fish cooking equipment 45
General kitchen equipment 45
Meat cookery equipment 45
Popular cook books 28
Salad making equipment 45
Sundry equipment 45
Vegetable cooking equipment 45
 
LEFT-OVERS
Uses of left-overs 39
Ways of serving left-over fowl 32
 
MEATS
Bacon, how to select 16
Bacon, ways to serve 16
Beef extract 20
Beef sauces and garnishes 12
Beef, ways to serve 12
Boiling meats 29
Braising meats 29
Broiling meats 29
Canned meats, list of Armour’s 26
Creole sauce, recipe 40
Deep frying of meats 29
Fresh meats, how to select 11
Gov’t inspection of meats 10
Ham and bacon sauces 17
Ham, baked, recipe 30
Ham, baked, ways to serve 16
Ham, boiled, ways to serve 16
Ham, how to select 16
Hungarian Goulash, recipe 31
Jellied loaves 20
Loaf meats, list of Armour’s 20-26
Luncheon meats, list of Armour’s 20-26
Pan broiling meats 29
Pot roast of beef with spaghetti, recipe 30
Pot roasting meats 29
Roast chuck, recipe 30
Roast shoulder of mutton, recipe 30
Roasting and baking meats 29
Rolled flank steak, recipe 30
Sauces and gravy for meats, recipes 31
Sautéing meats 29
Smoked meats, list of Armour’s 26
Steak, rump, planked, recipe 31
Steak, sirloin, broiled, recipe 31
Stewing meats 29
 
MENUS
Christmas dinner 40
For unexpected demands 27
Southern dishes 40
Thanksgiving dinner 40
 
MINCE MEAT
Food value of mince meat 23
List of Armour’s mince meat 26
Variety of uses of mince meat 23
 
PANTRY SUPPLIES
Cereals and flour 27
Condiments and seasonings 27
Flavoring extracts and baking powder 27
Fruits, canned 27
Miscellaneous articles 27
Plum pudding (Veribest) 26
Products easily served 27
Quality products for the pantry shelf (illustrated) 24-25
Sea Foods, canned 27
Soups, canned 27
Spreads, shortenings and frying mediums 27
Vegetables, canned 27
Vegetables, fresh 27
 
POULTRY
Chicken, smothered, recipe 40
Chicken, ways to serve 13
Fowl, preparation of 32
Fowl, pressure cooking of 32
Fowl, roasting, stewing, broiling, frying and dressing 32
Fowl, serving left-over 32
Poultry in cold storage 10
Poultry, how to select 13-32
Poultry, how to thaw frozen 13
Poultry, list of Armour’s 26
Poultry, U. S. Dept. of Ag. bulletins 13
 
SALADS
Care of materials 33
Cheese salad dressing, recipe 33
Dressings, boiled, cheese, French, mayonnaise, Russian,
Thousand Island, whipped cream, recipes
33
Fish salad, recipe 33
Fruit salad, recipe 33
Lettuce salad, recipe 33
Vegetable salad, recipe 33
When to serve salads 33
 
SANDWICHES
Brown bread sandwich, recipe 41
Graham bread sandwich, recipe 41
Nut bread sandwich, recipe 41
Raisin bread sandwich, recipe 41
Rye bread sandwich, recipe 41
Sandwiches, how to prepare 41
White bread sandwich, recipe 41
Whole wheat bread sandwich, recipe 41
 
SAUCES
Varieties of 12-17, 31-34
 
SAUSAGES
Sausage, dry, how to serve 19
Sausages, dry, smoked and unsmoked, list of Armour’s 26
Sausages, fresh and smoked, list of Armour’s 26
Sausage, pork, fresh, how to serve 19
Sausage, smoked, how to serve 19
Sausages, varieties of 20
 
SOUPS
Soups, canned 28
Soups, preparing 28
 
SPREADS
Butter as a spread 21
Nut margarine as a spread 21
Oleomargarine as a spread 21
Peanut butter as a spread 21
Peanut butter, list of Armour’s 26
Peanut butter, uses of 18
Spreads, list of Armour’s 26
Spreads, proper fat for every cookery use 21
 
TABLE SERVICE
Care of the table 43
Russian, English and mixed service 43
Standard rules 43
 
VEGETABLES
Asparagus, baked with cheese, recipe 35
Beans, value in the diet 18
Boiling, steaming and baking vegetables 35
Candied sweet potatoes, recipe 35
Cream sauces 31
Creole sauce, recipe 40
Garnishes of vegetables 35
Vegetables, composition of 23
Vegetables, selection of 35
Vegetables to serve with various meats 23
Ways of serving vegetables 35

Transcriber’s Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired. Consistent unusual spellings were retained such as “Peperoni” and “vitamines.”

Page 16, “Amercan” changed to “American” (foods in the American)

Page 17, “effected” changed to “affected” (affected by the process)

Page 25, “knobloch” changed to “knoblach” (Garlic or Knoblach Sausage)

Page 39, “by” removed from italics to match rest of text’s usage (in Making and Judging Bread by)