Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six

Sunday is the workingman's festival. It is not only a day of rest from manual labor, a breathing space in his struggle for existence, an interval during which his devotional asp...

The previous chapter was devoted to cheap and good sweet dishes of the kind usually called dessert in this country; the dessert proper, however, consists of fruit, creams, ices,...

In times of scarcity and distress, when the question has arisen of how to feed the largest number of persons upon the least quantity of food, the aliment chosen has always been...

I have already spoken of the value of fish as strengthening food, and in support of what I say I need only to remind you how vigorous and healthy the inhabitants of the sea coas...

Homemade bread is healthier, satisfies hunger better, and is cheaper than bakers' bread. Make bread yourself if you possibly can. Use "middlings" if you can possibly get them; t...

The most perfect meats are taken from well-fed, full-grown animals, that have not been over-worked, under-fed, or hard-driven; the flesh is firm, tender, and well-flavored, and...

Before giving you receipts for cooking peas, beans, and lentils, I want to show you how important they are as foods. I have already spoken of the heat and flesh forming properti...

Good puddings are nutritious and wholesome, and an excellent variety can be made at a comparatively small expense. Pies, as they are usually made, with greasy and indigestible p...

Before beginning to give you receipts, I wish to tell you about the effect of cooking food in different ways. We all want it cooked so that we can eat it easily, and get the mos...

In my little book on "FIFTEEN CENT DINNERS," I decidedly advocate the substitution of milk or milk and water as a drink at meal times, for tea and coffee, on the score of econom...

Economy of Combination Dishes--Roast Fowl--Forcemeat or Stuffing--Chicken Gravy--Fried Chicken--Frying Batter--Chicken Broth--New York Cooking School Fricassee--Suet Dumplings--...

Directions for making cheap and enjoyable delicacies from Fruit--Apple Black Caps--Apple Snow--Apple Cakes--Cherry Cheese--Candied Cherries--Currant Salad--Iced Currants--Compot...

Comparative price and nutritive value of different kinds of bread--Homemade Bread--Rice Bread--Potato Bread--Pulled Bread--Bread made with Baking Powder--Breakfast Rolls--Tea Bi...

Nutritive value of Fish--Pickled Fish--London Fried Fish--Fish and Potato Pie--Fish Pudding--Fish and Potato Pudding--Codfish Steaks--Red Herrings with Potatoes--Cheap Meats--Sh...

Value of Leguminous Vegetables for Hard Workers--Oatmeal and Peas--Peas-Pudding--Peas and Bacon--Baked Peas--Peas and Onions--Baked Beans--Stewed Beans--Fried Beans--Beans and B...

Effect of different methods of cooking--Roasting or Baking--Broiling--Boiling and Stewing--Frying--Cooking Salt and Smoked Meats--Seasoning Food--Dried Celery and Parsley--Dried...

Nutritive value of Soup--General directions for making Soup--Scotch Broth without Meat--Pea Soup--Thick Pea Soup--Bean Soup--Lentil Soup--Onion Soup--Spinach Soup--Francatelli's...