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DISHES
Trying out fat. Extending the flavor of meat. Meat stew. Meat
dumplings. Meat pies and similar dishes. Meat with starchy materials.
Turkish pilaf. Stew from cold roast. Meat with beans. Haricot of
mutton. Meat salads. Meat with eggs. Roast beef with Yorkshire
pudding. Corned beef hash with poached eggs. Stuffing. Mock duck.
Veal or beef birds. Utilizing the cheaper cuts of meat.
CHAPTER XIV
RECIPES FOR MEAT DISHES
Prolonged cooking at low heat. Stewed shin of beef. Boiled beef with
horseradish sauce. Stuffed heart. Braised beef, pot roast, and beef a la
mode. Hungarian goulash. Casserole cookery. Meat cooked with
vinegar. Sour beef. Sour beefsteak. Pounded meat. Farmer stew.
Spanish beefsteak. Chopped meat. Savory rolls. Developing flavor of
meat. Retaining natural flavors. Round steak on biscuits. Flavor of
browned meat or fat. Salt pork with milk gravy. "Salt-fish dinner."

Sauces. Mock venison.
CHAPTER XV
HOUSEHOLD RECIPES
Various recipes arranged alphabetically.

INTRODUCTION
What a tribute to the worth of woman are the names by which she is
enshrined in common speech! What tender associations halo the names
of _wife, mother, sister_ and _daughter!_ It must never be forgotten
that the dearest, most sacred of these names, are, in origin, connected
with the dignity of service. In early speech the wife, or wife-man
(woman) was the "weaver," whose care it was to clothe the family, as it
was the husband's duty to "feed" it, or to provide the materials of
sustenance. The mother or matron was named from the most tender and
sacred of human functions, the nursing of the babe; the daughter from
her original duty, in the pastoral age, of milking the cows. The lady was
so-called from the social obligations entailed on the prosperous woman,
of "loaf-giving," or dispensing charity to the less fortunate. As dame,
madame, madonna, in the old days of aristocracy, she bore equal rank
with the lord and master, and carried down to our better democratic age
the co-partnership of civic and family rights and duties.
Modern science and invention, civic and economic progress, the growth
of humanitarian ideas, and the approach to Christian unity, are all
combining to give woman and woman's work a central place in the
social order. The vast machinery of government, especially in the new
activities of the Agricultural and Labor Departments applied to
investigations and experiments into the questions of pure food,
household economy and employments suited to woman, is now
directed more than ever before to the uplifting of American homes and
the assistance of the homemakers. These researches are at the call of
every housewife. However, to save her the bewilderment of selection
from so many useful suggestions, and the digesting of voluminous
directions, the fundamental principles of food and household economy

as published by the government departments, are here presented, with
the permission of the respective authorities, together with many other
suggestions of utilitarian character which may assist the mother and
housewife to a greater fulfillment of her office in the uplift of the home.

CHAPTER I
THE SINGLE WOMAN
Her Freedom--Culture a Desideratum in Her Choice of
Work--Daughters as Assistants of Their Fathers--In Law--In
Medicine--As Scientific Farmers--Preparation for Speaking or
Writing--Steps in the Career of a Journalist--The Editor--The
Advertising Writer--The Illustrator--Designing Book Covers--Patterns.
She, keeping green Love's lilies for the one unseen, Counselling but her
woman's heart, Chose in all ways the better part. BENJAMIN
HATHAWAY--_By the Fireside._
The question of celibacy is too large and complicated to be here
discussed in its moral and sociological aspects. It is a condition that
confronts us, must be accepted, and the best made of it. Whether by
economic compulsion or personal preference, it is a fact that a large
number of American men remain bachelors, and a corresponding
number of American women content themselves with a life of "single
blessedness." It is a tendency of modern life that marriage be deferred
more and more to a later period of maturity. Accordingly the period of
spinsterhood is an important one for consideration. It is a question of
individual mental attitude whether the period be viewed by the single
woman as a preparation for possible marriage, or as the determining of
a permanent condition of life. In either case the problem before her is to
choose, like Mr. Hathaway's heroine, "the better part."
The single woman has an advantage over her married sister in freedom
of choice, of self-improvement, and service to others. Says George
Eliot of the wife, "A woman's lot is made for her by the love she
accepts." The "bachelor girl," on the other hand, has virtually all the

liberty of the man whom her name indicates that she emulates.
To the unmarried woman, especially the one who may subsequently
marry, education in the broad sense of self-culture and development is
of primary importance. The question