How to Get Both: Interesting Lectures to American Two important staples of diet, méat_ and. milk, were the subjects (of addresses and discussion -at, the Home Economies Department of the American Woman's Club on Wednes-
[day morning. Mrs. G..B. Fryer talked about meats, what cuts to. buy, how best to prepare them and how to be sure of obtaining good meats. She said that the cheaper cuts of meat [were just as digestible as the more expensive cuts and contained exact-as much food value, only requ ing a more careful preparation. The ereentage of edible matter in a pound of various kinds of meats was given as for example, heart, 94 per cent.;.round steak, 91 per cent tongue, 73 per cent.; shin bone, 61 per cent.; and s0 on. The importance of personal marketing of meats was emphasized and the careful supervi sion of the kitchen, which includes the use of a stock pot into which to put trimmings off cute of meat, bones, odd vegetables and so on.
The address on milk was given by Mu Varney, who is a graduate fof the Agricultural Department of the University of California, He explained the food value of milk and cited as an example the fact that the grammar. schools in Los Angeles, a pint of milk per-child provided every day because it is! Yound that children who drink the proper amount of milk get through the grades two years ahead of those who do not drink milk. There is more solid food value in a pint of milk than there is in a pound of a ples or in the same amount of leafy: vegetables. On the whole, he said, the milk supply is good in Shanghai. It is not as good as in America but certain dairies are reliable. The most important. factor in getting clean milk is having the utensils clean, the milk pail, strainer cloth fand bottles. You cannot make dirty milk clean' by pasteurizing though you can make clean milk absolutely safe by doing 60. very difficult to get utensils d Ihe said, as particles of milk get into the smallest pores. of the utensils, The only way really to clean milk pails is to subject them to heavy pressure of live steam,
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