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Syrup By the quart, 16 1-3 cents $0,059 



Macaroni By the pound 09 



Coffee By the pound, 3 1-4 lbs. for 11 !307 



Tea By the pound 50 



As might have been expected it was found necessary to modify the 

 prepared bills oi fare from day to day. Sometimes it was impossible 

 to get or to prepare certain articles set down. It was found on trial 

 that certain members of the family could not eat certain things ; e. a., 

 the woman disliked cheese and the man would not eat salt pork. The 

 children cared for nothing at breakfast but oatmeal and milk, and with 

 bread and butter added the man and woman were satisfied. All had 

 been accustomed to butter, and it was found necessary to use more than 

 was reckoned on, 



'No attempt was made to limit the food in quantity. An excess over 

 that estimated was always prepared and the family allowed to satisfy 

 their appetites witli the object of seeing how nearly the two amounts 

 agreed. Very often, as would happen in any family, food was left 

 over from one meal which could be utilized at another, and as no waste 

 was allowable this sometimes upset the planned bill of fare. 



As the experimenter wished to know the exact quantities consumed 

 daily, a method of weighing different from that usually adopted in 

 food experiments was used. It involved much more work and was 

 probably less accurate in its final results. 



Instead of weighing all food in the house at the beginning of the 

 experiment, all that purchased during the experiment and deducting 

 that which was left at the end, including the waste, the raw material 

 used in preparing each meal was weighed at the time of using, as was 

 also the cooked food to get the gain or loss in weight through cooking. 

 All food left on the table, as well as the refuse on the plates and in 

 preparation, was then weighed, and from these figures the amounts 

 actually consumed were estimated. Had the sum total of food actually 

 consumed during the month of experiment been verified by the employ- 

 ment of the former method the work would have been of more value. 

 But it was difficult to do it for the reason that it was necessary for the 

 experimenter and her assistant to live in the house, and lack of time 

 to prepare entirely different food necessitated the weighing system 

 employed in order to get at just what the family consumed and the 

 exact cost of their portion. 



The work would also have been of greater value had it been possi- 

 ble to have had chemical analyses made from day to day of the food 

 actually used, instead of estimating these values from the tables. 

 Flour, cereals, milk, butter and vegetables are fairly constant in their 

 analyses ; the greatest variations would be in the meats, the same cuts 

 from different animals often varying quite largely. 



The waste of food during the month was very small. Great care 

 was taken in the selection of meats to buy those pieces which had as 

 small a proportion of bone as possible and no superfluous fat. Every 

 scrap of meat left over was utilized. Bones, any uneaten fat, etc., were 

 put into a stock pot and allowed to simmer for hours in the Aladdin 

 oven, to form a basis for the bean or pea or cabbage soup. There was 



