1. Flat green clouded glass bowl, planted with primula malacoides, with the soil carpeted with moss.
2. A rustic basket spilling over bunches of lightly tied polyanthus, of different shades but all to tone.
3. Japanese garden planted with a sprig of fresh cherry-blossom to impart a fresh touch.
4. Bowl massed with wallflower, arranged so that each different shade forms a ring.
5. Flat silver or iridiscent glass fruit-dish lined with damp moss and planted closely with either pale pink or mauve tulip heads, with sprigs of forget-me-nots spraying up between.
6. China shoe, or "bachel" filled with water and a little shot. Arrange in it sprays of varying lengths of flowering currant, fruit-blossom, etc.
7. Low oblong earthenware jardinière, overflowing with a green growing carpet of "Mrs. Gossip," planted with any garden flowers that tone with your colour scheme.
(The Housewives' Monthly Calendar by Elizabeth Craig, 1936 Chapman & Hall, London)
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Thursday, April 02, 2009
The Housewives' Monthly Calendar 1936: Tea Breads For The Month Of April
Pastries: Eccles cakes; apricot cheese cakes; cream puffs.
Biscuits: Oatmeal; almond shortbread; jam fingers.
Buns: Oatmeal; coco-nut; ginger.
Layer cakes: Marble, with apricot jam filling; Victoria sandwich with rum butter; spiced chocolate cake with vanilla custard filling.
Large cakes: Slab raisin gingerbread; Genoa; walnut; ribbon.
Sandwiches: Kipper cream; sieved cooked chicken; veal or pork, moistened with butter and seasoned to taste, then used with brown bread and mustard and cress; shredded lettuce, moistened with mayonnaise, strongly flavoured with Gorgonzola cheese, and mixed with a little minced walnut, used with brown bread; split toast, thinly buttered and filled with tuna fish mayonnaise and a little minced cucumber.
Note: Any of the fillings suggested for sandwiches can be used for filling oblongs of cooked pastry, or bridge rolls.
(The Housewives' Monthly Calendar 1936, Chapman & Hall, London)
Biscuits: Oatmeal; almond shortbread; jam fingers.
Buns: Oatmeal; coco-nut; ginger.
Layer cakes: Marble, with apricot jam filling; Victoria sandwich with rum butter; spiced chocolate cake with vanilla custard filling.
Large cakes: Slab raisin gingerbread; Genoa; walnut; ribbon.
Sandwiches: Kipper cream; sieved cooked chicken; veal or pork, moistened with butter and seasoned to taste, then used with brown bread and mustard and cress; shredded lettuce, moistened with mayonnaise, strongly flavoured with Gorgonzola cheese, and mixed with a little minced walnut, used with brown bread; split toast, thinly buttered and filled with tuna fish mayonnaise and a little minced cucumber.
Note: Any of the fillings suggested for sandwiches can be used for filling oblongs of cooked pastry, or bridge rolls.
(The Housewives' Monthly Calendar 1936, Chapman & Hall, London)
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
The Housewives Monthly Calendar 1936: The Cook's Guide: April
1. Give rhubarb fool - equal quantity of stewed sieved rhubarb and cream or custard - for dinner.
2. Buttered boiled spring greens, turnip-tops or hearting and sprouting broccoli, go well with grilled or fried steak or chops.
3. Why not a prawn and new potato mayonnaise for lunch or supper?
4. Start breakfast with orange juice or tinned figs.
5. Soak salt fish in cold water, and boil rice, ready to make kedjeree, for to-morrow's breakfast.
6. A South African granadilla or two added to your fruit salad is a great improvement.
7. If you want a bird for dinner, why not a casserole of pigeons, well browned before placing in casserole? But don't forget to add some tinned or bottled peas just before serving.
8. Pickle some herring for to-morrow's lunch or supper, and either make or buy potato salad to go with them.
9. Stuffed roast shoulder of English or Canterbury lamb sounds good to me for dinner, but put mint in the stuffing instead of making it into sauce.
10. Make a salmon loaf with egg sauce the principal course at lunch, and give it mashed potatoes for company.
11. Fried rabbit, browned in bacon fat, then cooked with a little stock, in a covered pan, might appeal to you for dinner. Serve with a green vegetable.
12. If you do not like tripe and onions, try Tripe a la Nicoise—cooked in equal quantity of stock and white wine with plenty of sliced carrots and onions and well seasoned.
13. How would you like a slice of fried or grilled gammon and a slice of fried pineapple (tinned) for breakfast?
14. If you serve a shrimp omelet for lunch, give it an endive salad for company.
15. I think it's time we had a mixed grill, with mushroom sauce or grilled tomatoes, and latticed potatoes.
16. Try a crown roast of pork for dinner, with apple and onion sauce flavoured with sherry.
17. Turn the remainder of pork into a mayonnaise for lunch, but give it a little minced pimento for seasoning, if you can.
18. Let's start dinner with a grapefruit cocktail.
19. Make cream cheese, moistened with cream, seasoned and mixed with a little chopped pimento and walnuts, the filling for brown bread sandwiches for tea.
20. If you are calling on the poulterer, take a look at the guinea-fowls. Cooked on a bed of sliced onion and bacon, after flouring and seasoning, in a casserole, with or without mushrooms and chipolata sausages, they are delicious. But give them half a glass of stock and wine before serving.
21. I want grilled herrings and mustard sauce for lunch.
22. What about curried prawns and boiled rice for breakfast?
23. You must have a roast of beef (I insist on Scotch!) with horseradish sauce, and a green pea pudding in place of Yorkshire.
24. If tired of biscuits and cheese, have a Welsh rarebit or cheese soufflé for dinner.
25. Make some lemon and orange marmalade, as long as lemons and oranges are cheap.
26. Devilled eggs and lettuce salad make a good luncheon dish, if followed by a substantial sweet.
27. Should you want a small bird for two, try a hazel-hen and roast and serve like a partridge.
28. A fish pie, made of sea bream, which is so inexpensive, may appeal for lunch.
29. I would like ham and cress rolls and an orange layer cake for tea, but you can also
have hot tea-cakes or cinnamon toast if you want.
30. Say "Good-bye" to April with chicken pie made from boiled fowl, neatly cut up, and moistened white sauce, and flaky pastry, followed by gooseberry fool. You can start with smoked salmon or Scotch broth, if you please.
(The Housewives' Monthly Calendar by Elizabeth Craig, 1936 Chapman & Hall, London)
2. Buttered boiled spring greens, turnip-tops or hearting and sprouting broccoli, go well with grilled or fried steak or chops.
3. Why not a prawn and new potato mayonnaise for lunch or supper?
4. Start breakfast with orange juice or tinned figs.
5. Soak salt fish in cold water, and boil rice, ready to make kedjeree, for to-morrow's breakfast.
6. A South African granadilla or two added to your fruit salad is a great improvement.
7. If you want a bird for dinner, why not a casserole of pigeons, well browned before placing in casserole? But don't forget to add some tinned or bottled peas just before serving.
8. Pickle some herring for to-morrow's lunch or supper, and either make or buy potato salad to go with them.
9. Stuffed roast shoulder of English or Canterbury lamb sounds good to me for dinner, but put mint in the stuffing instead of making it into sauce.
10. Make a salmon loaf with egg sauce the principal course at lunch, and give it mashed potatoes for company.
11. Fried rabbit, browned in bacon fat, then cooked with a little stock, in a covered pan, might appeal to you for dinner. Serve with a green vegetable.
12. If you do not like tripe and onions, try Tripe a la Nicoise—cooked in equal quantity of stock and white wine with plenty of sliced carrots and onions and well seasoned.
13. How would you like a slice of fried or grilled gammon and a slice of fried pineapple (tinned) for breakfast?
14. If you serve a shrimp omelet for lunch, give it an endive salad for company.
15. I think it's time we had a mixed grill, with mushroom sauce or grilled tomatoes, and latticed potatoes.
16. Try a crown roast of pork for dinner, with apple and onion sauce flavoured with sherry.
17. Turn the remainder of pork into a mayonnaise for lunch, but give it a little minced pimento for seasoning, if you can.
18. Let's start dinner with a grapefruit cocktail.
19. Make cream cheese, moistened with cream, seasoned and mixed with a little chopped pimento and walnuts, the filling for brown bread sandwiches for tea.
20. If you are calling on the poulterer, take a look at the guinea-fowls. Cooked on a bed of sliced onion and bacon, after flouring and seasoning, in a casserole, with or without mushrooms and chipolata sausages, they are delicious. But give them half a glass of stock and wine before serving.
21. I want grilled herrings and mustard sauce for lunch.
22. What about curried prawns and boiled rice for breakfast?
23. You must have a roast of beef (I insist on Scotch!) with horseradish sauce, and a green pea pudding in place of Yorkshire.
24. If tired of biscuits and cheese, have a Welsh rarebit or cheese soufflé for dinner.
25. Make some lemon and orange marmalade, as long as lemons and oranges are cheap.
26. Devilled eggs and lettuce salad make a good luncheon dish, if followed by a substantial sweet.
27. Should you want a small bird for two, try a hazel-hen and roast and serve like a partridge.
28. A fish pie, made of sea bream, which is so inexpensive, may appeal for lunch.
29. I would like ham and cress rolls and an orange layer cake for tea, but you can also
have hot tea-cakes or cinnamon toast if you want.
30. Say "Good-bye" to April with chicken pie made from boiled fowl, neatly cut up, and moistened white sauce, and flaky pastry, followed by gooseberry fool. You can start with smoked salmon or Scotch broth, if you please.
(The Housewives' Monthly Calendar by Elizabeth Craig, 1936 Chapman & Hall, London)
The Housewives' Monthly Calendar 1936: April's Table of Work
If Easter happens to fall in late March, and you manage to finish your spring cleaning before it, April should be an easy month in the home. But if, when Easter happens to be early, you have to leave some of your spring cleaning until after the holiday, then finish it at once, or as soon as you can.
1. Hang up clean or new curtains.
2. Clean or wash winter curtains and other soft furnishings, and store them away in a moth-proof bag or cedar-lined chest.
3. Plan your spring wardrobe if you did not refurbish it for Easter.
4. Look over your bottling equipment, and renew anything required.
5. Prepare for egg pickling and early jam making, and if short of preserves, make lemon cheese and orange and pineapple butter.
6. If you did not make grapefruit marmalade when you made Seville orange, make it now.
(The Housewives' Monthly Calendar by Elizabeth Craig, 1936 Chapman & Hall, London)
1. Hang up clean or new curtains.
2. Clean or wash winter curtains and other soft furnishings, and store them away in a moth-proof bag or cedar-lined chest.
3. Plan your spring wardrobe if you did not refurbish it for Easter.
4. Look over your bottling equipment, and renew anything required.
5. Prepare for egg pickling and early jam making, and if short of preserves, make lemon cheese and orange and pineapple butter.
6. If you did not make grapefruit marmalade when you made Seville orange, make it now.
(The Housewives' Monthly Calendar by Elizabeth Craig, 1936 Chapman & Hall, London)
Thursday, March 13, 2008
The Housewives' Monthly Calendar 1936: Sandwiches and Fillings for the month of March
1. Bridge rolls, put together with liver sausage mashed to a paste with cream or salad dressing, and flavoured to taste with lemon juice. Use with thin slices of radishes.
2. Mix ½ cupful of picked shrimps with ½ cupful chopped fried chicken livers, and minced onion or shallot and pepper to taste. Season with salt if required. Moisten with mayonnaise. Use with thinly buttered white bread.
3. Stir ¼ pound ground dates, ¼ pound minced figs or raisins, and ¼ pound ground mixed nuts together. Mix in the strained juice of half a lemon and half an orange. Use with thinly buttered brown bread.
4. Wash, drain, and mince enough watercress to fill half a cup. Moisten a cream cheese with cream to taste. Stir in watercress. Spread on small rounds of wholemeal bread. Sandwich with a slice of scalded, peeled tomato.
5. Mix salmon and shrimp paste with chopped olives to taste. Use with white bread and butter and cucumber
(The Housewives' Monthly Calendar by Elizabeth Craig, 1936 Chapman & Hall, London)
2. Mix ½ cupful of picked shrimps with ½ cupful chopped fried chicken livers, and minced onion or shallot and pepper to taste. Season with salt if required. Moisten with mayonnaise. Use with thinly buttered white bread.
3. Stir ¼ pound ground dates, ¼ pound minced figs or raisins, and ¼ pound ground mixed nuts together. Mix in the strained juice of half a lemon and half an orange. Use with thinly buttered brown bread.
4. Wash, drain, and mince enough watercress to fill half a cup. Moisten a cream cheese with cream to taste. Stir in watercress. Spread on small rounds of wholemeal bread. Sandwich with a slice of scalded, peeled tomato.
5. Mix salmon and shrimp paste with chopped olives to taste. Use with white bread and butter and cucumber
(The Housewives' Monthly Calendar by Elizabeth Craig, 1936 Chapman & Hall, London)
The Housewives' Monthly Calendar 1936: Table Decorations for the month of March
1. Flat bowl of mauve and yellow crocuses growing in pebbles.
2. Specimen vases of scarlet anemones.
3. Short sprays of almond blossom, arranged in black Wedgwood bowl or vases.
4. Daffodils arranged in a flower holder in a green bowl, stalks hidden by moss.
5. Bowl of primroses, fringed with violets (very flat bowl).
6. Basket of Cape fruit, arranged on a lining of geranium leaves.
(The Housewives' Monthly Calendar by Elizabeth Craig, 1936 Chapman & Hall, London)
2. Specimen vases of scarlet anemones.
3. Short sprays of almond blossom, arranged in black Wedgwood bowl or vases.
4. Daffodils arranged in a flower holder in a green bowl, stalks hidden by moss.
5. Bowl of primroses, fringed with violets (very flat bowl).
6. Basket of Cape fruit, arranged on a lining of geranium leaves.
(The Housewives' Monthly Calendar by Elizabeth Craig, 1936 Chapman & Hall, London)
The Housewives' Monthly Calendar 1936: Tea Bread for the month of March
Pastries: Lemon cheese cakes; Bakewell tarts; Mille feuilles.
Biscuits: Chocolate; Ginger; and Coco-nut pyramids.
Buns: Cherry; Chocolate and walnut; and Hot Cross Buns.
Layer Cakes: Orange; Chocolate with butter cream filling; and George Washington.
Large Cakes: Madeira; Dundee; Seed and Ginger.
Sandwiches: Puree au foie gras; cream cheese and walnut; Tunny fish moistened mayonnaise and flavoured with minced pimento, used with bread toasted on one side; bridge rolls covered with chicken, or tongue salad and cress.
Note: To make toast sandwiches, cut toast in half, butter inside thinly, and put halves together with filling.
(The Housewives' Monthly Calendar by Elizabeth Craig, 1936 Chapman & Hall, London)
Thursday, January 31, 2008
The Housewives Monthly Calendar: The Cook's Guide: February (1936)
THE COOK'S GUIDE
1. Serve roast pheasant with chestnut puree.
2. Try kedjeree, made of Finnan haddock, for breakfast.
3. Mashed buttered Swedes go well with boiled mutton.
4. Start dinner with cream of artichokes.
5. Make a spiced fruit cake, or a Genoa or Dundee Cake.
6. What about fried pork sausage cakes, topped with steamed eggs, for lunch?
7. Say "Au revoir" to roast partridges at dinner.
8. Partridge paste and toast is a good savoury, better when served with celery.
9. Finish with apricot souffle pancakes at lunch or dinner.
10. Make fried whitebait and thin brown bread and butter the fish course.
11. Serve a piece of pickled pork with stewed rabbit.
12. What's wrong with braised halibut, mashed potatoes and a green salad for lunch?
13. Start dinner with oyster stew and salted cream-crackers.
14. A heart-shaped layer cake, please, for tea, with strawberry butter filling.
15. Ham a la king on buttered toasts for lunch, but with chicory salad, please.
16. Try scalloped potatoes and apple and celery salad with hot roast pork.
17. If you can obtain celeriac, boil and butter it, or make it into a salad.
18. Serve vanilla custard, enriched with sliced bananas, with steamed fig pudding.
19. Why not prawns a la Newburg, garnished buttered peas, and ringed boiled rice, for lunch?
20. Order oranges, lemons and sugar for marmalade.
21. Make a Simnel cake the piece de resistance at tea.
22. Serve Lyonnaise potatoes and scalloped tomatoes with grilled lamb cutlets for lunch or dinner.
23. Corned beef hash is seasonable for lunch but give it potato, onion and celery salad for company.
24. Celebrate the birthday of Capuchin Chabot, the inventor of omelets, by serving an omelet at one meal.
25. Let us have roast teal and orange salad for dinner.
26. Cream, custard sauce and junket all mate well with steamed rhubarb.
27. New Malta potatoes are in season. Serve, moistened butter, and sprinkled chopped chives.
28. Make your favourite galantine for supper to celebrate the birthday of Chef Prevost, who invented galantines.
29. Say "Good-bye" to February with oysters, hare pate and buttered toast, grilled medallions of steak, new potatoes, buttered spinach, orange compote, and biscuits, celery and Stilton cheese.
(The Housewives' Monthly Calendar by Elizabeth Craig, 1936 Chapman & Hall, London)
1. Serve roast pheasant with chestnut puree.
2. Try kedjeree, made of Finnan haddock, for breakfast.
3. Mashed buttered Swedes go well with boiled mutton.
4. Start dinner with cream of artichokes.
5. Make a spiced fruit cake, or a Genoa or Dundee Cake.
6. What about fried pork sausage cakes, topped with steamed eggs, for lunch?
7. Say "Au revoir" to roast partridges at dinner.
8. Partridge paste and toast is a good savoury, better when served with celery.
9. Finish with apricot souffle pancakes at lunch or dinner.
10. Make fried whitebait and thin brown bread and butter the fish course.
11. Serve a piece of pickled pork with stewed rabbit.
12. What's wrong with braised halibut, mashed potatoes and a green salad for lunch?
13. Start dinner with oyster stew and salted cream-crackers.
14. A heart-shaped layer cake, please, for tea, with strawberry butter filling.
15. Ham a la king on buttered toasts for lunch, but with chicory salad, please.
16. Try scalloped potatoes and apple and celery salad with hot roast pork.
17. If you can obtain celeriac, boil and butter it, or make it into a salad.
18. Serve vanilla custard, enriched with sliced bananas, with steamed fig pudding.
19. Why not prawns a la Newburg, garnished buttered peas, and ringed boiled rice, for lunch?
20. Order oranges, lemons and sugar for marmalade.
21. Make a Simnel cake the piece de resistance at tea.
22. Serve Lyonnaise potatoes and scalloped tomatoes with grilled lamb cutlets for lunch or dinner.
23. Corned beef hash is seasonable for lunch but give it potato, onion and celery salad for company.
24. Celebrate the birthday of Capuchin Chabot, the inventor of omelets, by serving an omelet at one meal.
25. Let us have roast teal and orange salad for dinner.
26. Cream, custard sauce and junket all mate well with steamed rhubarb.
27. New Malta potatoes are in season. Serve, moistened butter, and sprinkled chopped chives.
28. Make your favourite galantine for supper to celebrate the birthday of Chef Prevost, who invented galantines.
29. Say "Good-bye" to February with oysters, hare pate and buttered toast, grilled medallions of steak, new potatoes, buttered spinach, orange compote, and biscuits, celery and Stilton cheese.
(The Housewives' Monthly Calendar by Elizabeth Craig, 1936 Chapman & Hall, London)
The Housewives Monthly Calendar: February's Table of Work (1936)
Take a look at your store cupboard in the beginning of February. Decide how much orange marmalade you want to make this year, then wait until Seville oranges are at their cheapest, when order oranges, lemons, and sugar as required, and make and bottle some orange syrup.
ORANGE SYRUP (For Bottling)
4 sweet oranges
4 Seville oranges
1 lemon
4 mandarins
6 lb. sugar
6 quarts water
Wash 2 Seville and 2 sweet oranges and 2 mandarins and grate their rinds. Extract juice from all the fruit. Stir grated rind into the fruit juice. Cover and stand until the next morning. Place sugar in a preserving pan. Add water. Stir over fire until sugar is dissolved, then bring to the boil. Remove pan from fire. Cool. Stir the strained fruit juices into the syrup, taking care to squeeze the grated rind thoroughly so that none of the oil from the rinds is lost. Bottle and seal. Dilute to taste, when wanted, with aerated or still water.
TABLE OF WORK
1. Make a thorough inspection of your whole home about the middle of the month. Start with the ceilings and walls, then examine the windows and doors before going on to the floors, carpets, and linoleums. If you live in a house and own it, you won't take long. If you are paying rent, you must keep two lists of necessary repairs, one for the owner and one for yourself. If you own your home, or if you have taken it on a repairing lease, list repairs and requirements as you go along under the following headings:
(a) Structural; (b) Decorations; (c) Furnishings; (d) Cleaning, in the following way.
(2) Note any loose bricks, or slates, broken gutters, damaged pipes, broken windows, or crumbling plaster, or blocked drains. See that all lavatories are in proper working order. Examine scullery sink and taps in case any new washers or taps are needed. See that all electric sockets are secure, or that none have loosened. Look to all door locks and window fastenings.
(3) Make a note of any decorations necessary. Plan what you want done and arrange for estimates.
(4) Write out a list of any new furniture required, noting height, width, and depth most suitable for the space you can allow. Measure for any new curtains. Send away any bedding that needs renewing, and any valuable rugs that require expert cleaning or invisible repairs. If you have valuable Oriental rugs, send them to a reliable Oriental house. Take a note of any new lampshades needed and where. Send away any china that wants riveting, and any silver needing repolishing or repairing.
(5) Tell cleaners to call on a certain date for blankets, bed covers, eiderdowns, etc.
(The Housewives' Monthly Calendar by Elizabeth Craig, 1936 Chapman & Hall, London)
ORANGE SYRUP (For Bottling)
4 sweet oranges
4 Seville oranges
1 lemon
4 mandarins
6 lb. sugar
6 quarts water
Wash 2 Seville and 2 sweet oranges and 2 mandarins and grate their rinds. Extract juice from all the fruit. Stir grated rind into the fruit juice. Cover and stand until the next morning. Place sugar in a preserving pan. Add water. Stir over fire until sugar is dissolved, then bring to the boil. Remove pan from fire. Cool. Stir the strained fruit juices into the syrup, taking care to squeeze the grated rind thoroughly so that none of the oil from the rinds is lost. Bottle and seal. Dilute to taste, when wanted, with aerated or still water.
TABLE OF WORK
1. Make a thorough inspection of your whole home about the middle of the month. Start with the ceilings and walls, then examine the windows and doors before going on to the floors, carpets, and linoleums. If you live in a house and own it, you won't take long. If you are paying rent, you must keep two lists of necessary repairs, one for the owner and one for yourself. If you own your home, or if you have taken it on a repairing lease, list repairs and requirements as you go along under the following headings:
(a) Structural; (b) Decorations; (c) Furnishings; (d) Cleaning, in the following way.
(2) Note any loose bricks, or slates, broken gutters, damaged pipes, broken windows, or crumbling plaster, or blocked drains. See that all lavatories are in proper working order. Examine scullery sink and taps in case any new washers or taps are needed. See that all electric sockets are secure, or that none have loosened. Look to all door locks and window fastenings.
(3) Make a note of any decorations necessary. Plan what you want done and arrange for estimates.
(4) Write out a list of any new furniture required, noting height, width, and depth most suitable for the space you can allow. Measure for any new curtains. Send away any bedding that needs renewing, and any valuable rugs that require expert cleaning or invisible repairs. If you have valuable Oriental rugs, send them to a reliable Oriental house. Take a note of any new lampshades needed and where. Send away any china that wants riveting, and any silver needing repolishing or repairing.
(5) Tell cleaners to call on a certain date for blankets, bed covers, eiderdowns, etc.
(The Housewives' Monthly Calendar by Elizabeth Craig, 1936 Chapman & Hall, London)
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
The Housewives' Monthly Calendar: January's Table of Work
TABLE OF WORK
1. Use up any Christmas left-overs at once.
2. As soon as you have welcomed in the New Year, make a close inspection of your wardrobe and linen cupboard, and take advantage of the bargains at the White Sales. If you have children, inspect school kits and replenish where necessary.
3. Pay all club subscriptions which fall due now, also any dog or wireless or other licence.
4. Settle any accounts held over from last year and if you have a balance on the right side, keep it for an emergency.
5. If you have a country home or a town home with a garden, discuss, plan and decide on the flowers and vegetables you want, and order what requires to be sown at once.
6. Replace any shortages in your store cupboard, taking advantage of any cheap offers.
7. If short of Seville orange marmalade, make a supply of ginger marmalade, orange and apple jelly, and apricot jam from dried apricots.
To use up Oddments of Boiled Ham
Allow 2 oz. ham fat or 2 oz. butter to 1 lb. ham. Put both through a mincer with a fine knife. Season to taste with French mustard, and cayenne, and rub through a fine sieve. Pot, and cover with clarified butter or lard. Pot tongue in the same way, allowing 2 or 3 oz. butter to 1 lb. tongue, and flavouring with ground mace as well as cayenne and mustard.
(The Housewives' Monthly Calendar by Elizabeth Craig, 1936 Chapman & Hall, London)
The Housewives' Monthly Calendar: January
THE FAMILY BUDGET
The best way to budget is to deduct your income tax then divide your income into eight portions, and allot each portion in this way:
A. Food and Household Expenses ... ... ... 4 portions
B. Rent ... ... ... ... 1 portion
C. Clothing ... ... ... 1 portion
D. For Saving ... ... ... 1 portion
E. Doctor's and Dentist's Bills,
Insurance and Holiday Expenses,etc. ... ... 1 portion
If the net income is £iooo per year, the money would be allotted in this fashion:
A ... ... ... ... ... £500
B ... ... ... ... ... £125
C ... ... ... ... ... £125
D ... ... ... ... ... £125
E ... ... ... ... ... £125
To discover the sum you must allow for each item in your budget per week, divide each allotment by 52. Weekly expenditure under "Food and Household" should include all purchases of food, drink, cleaning materials, laundry, light, coal or other fuel, wages, household repairs, any minor household replenishing, servants' insurances, or portion thereof, any window-cleaning payment, etc.
(The Housewives'Monthly Calendar by Elizabeth Craig, 1936 Chapman & Hall London)
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