The Archive · 1941

Herbs Can Help You With Your Budget

Now, when we are all strenuously budgeting, making plans whereby in future stewing steak must deputize choicest rump, is the time to turn your attention to the herb bed, a staunch ally for these plans.

The average housewife. whose use "bouqu: t garri" or "maggot of herbs" of herbs stops short at mint and one so often comes across in recipes. parsley, or an occasional sprig ai (This bouquet. by the way, consists sage in the Christmas bird, has no of two or three stalks of parsley, a idea of the delights she is missing spring of fresh thyme, and a bay leaf.

simply through cold-shouldering and will work wonders when added thyme and marjoram. chives and|to the dullest stew.) There are sweet basil, chervil and tarragon. dozens of uses for a sprig of fresh There is no need fcr flat dwellers thyme. and dispirited battlers with the city Sage needs to be used sparingly or ts to stop reading at this point, be- i: will "drown" all the other herbs, cause herbs will flourish in window-jur there is no harm in planting a boxes and pots with the minimum of jacket for the days when we have care.

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