Food and freedom

For this luncheon, make the most of the pansies in all their variegated loveliness — white, purple, brown, yellow — and let no other color but a background of green and white mar the sunshiny-gold and purple-lavender sweet- ness of your table. Cover the table with a pure white cloth, use small white tea-napkins, green-and- white or white-and-gold china, and place a small, low, white- enameled basket filled with pansies and maidenhair in the center. Additional small baskets, similar in design, may be filled with white cream mints, topped with a pansy, tied with a lavender ribbon, and used as individual favors. PLANNING THE MEALS 109 REFERENCES: The Food Problem, Kellogg and Taylor. "Ten Lessons on Food Conservation," Special Bulle- tin, United States Food Administration. Feeding the Family, Mary Swartz Rose. Every Day Menu Book, Sarah Tyson Rorer. New Cook Book, Sarah Tyson Rorer. Lessons in Food Values and Economical Menus, Alice Bradley. The Cost of Food, Third Edition, Ellen H. Richards. Food and Flavor, Henry T. Finck. ''Planning and Serving Meals," Home Economics Bul- letin, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. "Food for School Boys and Girls," Mary Swartz Rose, Bulletin No. 23, Teachers College, New York, N. Y. "How to Select Foods," Farmers' Bulletin 808. "How to Select Foods," Farmers' Bulletin 817. "How to Select Foods," Farmers' Bulletin 824. "Food for Young Children," Farmers' Bulletin 717. "School Lunches." Farmers' Bulletin 712. Note, — The above, as well as other valuable food bul- letins, may be obtained free of cost, or for a nominal sum, by addressing the Division of Publications, or the Super- intendent of Documents at the Government Printing Office, United States Department of Agriculture, Wash- ington, D. C. Foods and Their Adulteration, Third Edition, Harvey W. Wiley. See also references listed at close of Chapters HI and IV. VII COOKING THE MEALS u H ill III l^^ If women are once more to become home-makers . . . we must put it within the strength and abiHty of the average woman to do the work of her home happily and comfortably. — The Craftsman Magazine. ND next we are faced with the work of preparing these meals so carefully planned. And it is here, in front of the kitchen stove, where so many lose their faith, their hope — and falter — for the days do come when it is hard, very hard, to make our cabbages look like roses; when it is hard to grip, and "keep your grip." These are the days when we must say, with the old philosopher, " This, too, shall pass," and begin again. Because its repetition is so consistent, and so endless, cooking forms the biggest part of all household work, and since approximately only six per cent, of the twenty-two million homes in America have outside assistance, the problem is COOKING THE MEALS in necessarily one that affects the personal daily life of the great majority of housekeepers.