Food and freedom

NYPL RESEARCH LIBRARIES 3 3433 07736332 7 ruuu dn i t?t? Mabel Dulon Purdy V J^ H ^.' Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2007 witii funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.arcliive.org/details/foodfreedomliouseOOpurd FOOD 'AND FREEDOM THE NEW YOHK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASZQ-R, LENOX : LD 1. is : C 'J i." DATIONS THE MAID OF ORLEANS AN ANCIENT AND A MODERN IDEAL From the clay model by Anna Vaughan Hyatt, before the statue was cast in bronze and erected on Riverside Drive FOOD AND FREEDOM A Household Book BY MABEL DULON PURDY Graduate of Teachers College. Columbia University and the Philadelphia Cooking School Household Editor, McClure Publications ILLUSTRATED ENDORSED BY THE U. S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION HARPER iff BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON PUBLIC UBMM 836 ASTOR .LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS R 1918 L Food and Freedom Copyright, 1918, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the United States of America Published May, 1918 E-S All Women who have already given help and All Women who may still need help This Book is thankfully and hopefully dedicated by the Author CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE Preface xi Introduction xiil I. Our Emergency i II. What You Can Do 8 III. What We Should Know 20 IV. The World on a Diet 34 V. Important Food Facts 52 VI. Planning the Meals 74 VII. Cooking the Meals no VIII. Serving the Meals . 127 IX Your Recipes 137 X. Preserving and Storing Food .... 190 XL A Kitchen that Will Help You . . . 210 XII. Just Thoughts 238 ILLUSTRATIONS The Maid of Orleans — an Ancient and a Modern Ideal Frontispiece Picnics Save Work and Give Pleasure .Facing p. 132 Jams and Marmalades Prevent Fruit Waste " 204 A Home-made Drying Outfit that Is Prac- tical AND Inexpensive " 206 The Dining Alcove 213 The New "Flush" or "Sanitary" Door . 217 Cross-section of Dresser Showing Lower Shelves 219 A Kitchen Floor Plan 221 Window Over the Kitchen Sink "... 227 Side Wall of the Kitchen 231 Let Us Make of Our Homes a Place where the Fairies Shall Love to Come and Dance among the Pitchers and the Tea-pots 236 PREFACE U. S. Food Administration, Washington, D. C. HE women of the country have ac- cepted the burden that the Food Ad- ministration and the President himself have thrust upon them. They have assimied responsibihty for the saving of food, for its right use, for its proper preparation. They realize that the situation has become critical; that there is not enough food in Europe; that the soldiers of the Allies must be maintained in full strength, and their wives and children at home must not face famine; that the friendly neutrals must not be starved; and that our own army in France must never lack a needed ounce of food. They are willing to do their utmost; but to do means not only resolution, it means knowledge. Such books as Food and Freedom are invalu- able in helping the housekeeper understand just what she ought to do, in pointing out to her the way, and in putting her in touch with the sources of scientific information that will aid her in her PREFACE