animals have had their turn, will serve as fertilizer for plant life. After the bones have been picked, keep them together in a barrel, and finally bury or burn them. Have a compost heap properly covered where the un- eaten fragments will decompose and make fertilizer, or bury them at orice if preferred. When the two girls had finished all the work, and went to the broad piazza for rest, Marjorie said, " Isn't this fine training for a girl ! Better than mathematics." And MoUie added, " Do you know, there's a kind of mathematics in it all, I do believe." Then Grandmother remarked, " Any reason why you shouldn't have the book kind and this kind, too .? " EXERCISES AND PROBLEMS 1. Why is it so important to take pains in caring for food after every meal ? 2. How do you dispose of food waste at home ? 3. What do you do with tin cans when you use canned food ? 4. Explain why food must be kept cooj and dry. 5. How does a refrigerator keep food cool ? 6. Can you explain what Mollie meant when she said there was a kind of mathematics in getting a dinner ? REVIEW 1. Give a simple rule for making a dinner menu. 2. Plan the work in preparing a dinner for next Saturday. 3. Do you think we need meat as a food ? 4. Is there anything to be careful about in buying meat ? 5. Give two experiments that show the effect of different methods of cooking upon meat. THE HOME DINNER 267 6. When meat is tough, can you improve it by cooking ? 7. Give directions for cooking tender meat. 8. You have a five-pound roast. Tell exactly how to prepare It. 9. You are planning to have steak for dinner. How will you cook it ? 10. In the country where one raises beef or pork, a large quantity may be killed at one time. How may this meat be preserved ? 11. Tell how to cook corned beef. 12. Do you know what foodstuffs vegetables give us ? 13. What does cooking do for vegetables } 14. Tell in what way an4 how long to cook all the common vege- tables. 15. Tell how to make two milk desserts and two fruit desserts. 16. Have you ever run a fireless cooker ? Can you describe such a cooker f 17. Think of what you can do to be sure the food in your home is clean. 18. What conveniences will you have for keeping food clean ? 19. What are some of the important things about using ice ? About the care of the refrigerator .? 20. What are the points of a good cellar ? 21. What can we cook on Saturday to save work on Sunday f CHAPTER VI OTHER FACTS ABOUT FOOD Lesson 28 a study cf loo-calorie portions How may we know just how much food to give to the family every day, and how can we measure it ? One rainy Saturday when Marjorie Allen was look- ing over her notebook of lessons on foods, sanitation, and cookery, and putting together in one place every- thing that she had studied and learned about meals from her teacher and from her mother, she found that there were facts enough to fill several pages. If you yourself will review the lessons in the five chap- ters of this book and recall the talks at school with your teacher, you will find that you have learned quite a little about the three meals a day and your own school luncheon. 268 OTHER FACTS ABOUT FOOD 269 When Marjorie had finished this task, however, she sat* quietly a few minutes, looking rather puzzled ; and then she asked the question at the beginning of this lesson. Mrs. Allen replied that she herself had learned by ex- perience, and that in a large family the left-overs can always be used in some good way. But Marjorie had in mind something more exact than this, as a result of the talks at schooi about food for body building and energy ; and she already had grasped the idea that dif- ferent people require not only different kinds of food, but different quantities.

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animals have had their turn, will serve as fertilizer for plant life. After the bones have been picked, keep them together in a barrel, and finally bury or burn them. Have a compost heap properly covered where the uneaten fragments will decompose and make fertilizer, or bury them at once if preferred. When the two girls had finished all the work, and went to the broad piazza for rest, Marjorie said, " Isn't this fine training for a girl ! Better than mathematics." And MoUie added, " Do you know, there's a kind of mathematics in it all, I do believe." Then Grandmother Then Grandmother remarked, "Any reason why you shouldn't have the book kind and this kind, too?" 1. Why is it so important to take pains in caring for food after every meal ? 2. How do you dispose of food waste at home ? 3. What do you do with tin cans when you use canned food ? 4. Explain why food must be kept cool and dry. 5. How does a refrigerator keep food cool ? 6. Can you explain what Mollie meant when she said there was a kind of mathematics in getting a dinner ? 1. Give a simple rule for making a dinner menu. 2. Plan the work in preparing a dinner for next Saturday. 3. Do you think we need meat as a food ? 4. Is there anything to be careful about in buying meat ? 5. Give two experiments that show the effect of different methods of cooking upon meat. 6. When meat is tough, can you improve it by cooking ? 7. Give directions for cooking tender meat. 8. You have a five-pound roast. Tell exactly how to prepare It. 9. You are planning to have steak for dinner. How will you cook it ? 10. In the country where one raises beef or pork, a large quantity may be killed at one time. How may this meat be preserved ? 11. Tell how to cook corned beef. 12. Do you know what foodstuffs vegetables give us ? 13. What does cooking do for vegetables? 14. Tell in what way and how long to cook all the common vegetables. 15. Tell how to make two milk desserts and two fruit desserts. 16. Have you ever run a fireless cooker ? Can you describe such a cooker f 17. Think of what you can do to be sure the food in your home is clean. 18. What conveniences will you have for keeping food clean ? 19. What are some of the important things about using ice ? About the care of the refrigerator .? 20. What are the points of a good cellar ? 21. What can we cook on Saturday to save work on Sunday f CHAPTER VI Lesson 28 a study cf loo-calorie portions How may we know just how much food to give to the family every day, and how can we measure it ? One rainy Saturday when Marjorie Allen was looking over her notebook of lessons on foods, sanitation, and cookery, and putting together in one place everything that she had studied and learned about meals from her teacher and from her mother, she found that there were facts enough to fill several pages. If you yourself will review the lessons in the five chapters of this book and recall the talks at school with your teacher, you will find that you have learned quite a little about the three meals a day and your own school luncheon. When Marjorie had finished this task, however, she sat* quietly a few minutes, looking rather puzzled ; and then she asked the question at the beginning of this lesson. Mrs. Allen replied that she herself had learned by experience, and that in a large family the left-overs can always be used in some good way. But Marjorie had in mind something more exact than this, as a result of the talks at schooi about food for body building and energy ; and she already had grasped the idea that different people require not only different kinds of food, but different quantities.

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