ANTI-WASTE CAMPAIGN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 13, 6 February 1942, Page 2

ANTI-WASTE CAMPAIGN

HOUSEWIVES CAN HELP ECONOMY IN THE KITCHEN Housewives to-day are making careful surveys of their housekeeping budgets and helping their country by waging intense Avarfare against waste. If thought is given for a moment to Ihe dozen and one tilings which are used every day in the average home, it will be seen that there arc just as many ways in which savings can be effected. Here are a few items on which savings can be made very easily. Never brew more tea than needed and don't use too large a teapot: omit the ''spoonful for the pot" when making family meals and use n spoonful in an infuser when making one cup of tea. There are uses for the last odd spoonful of chutney or sauce left in a bottle. A little warm water added will collect the condiment remaining on the sides of the vessel and make delicious flavouring for stews. Never waste a scrap of crystallising jam or jell 3' in the bottom of a tin or jar, but utilise it for a boiling pudding flavouring or a jam sauce.

Keep the water in which vegetables have been boiled to make the basis to a cheap, nutritious soup. Don't throw away stale wholemeal bread. When the oven is in use, it can be put in and baked hard. The resulting "scrunch" is delicious with butter, honey or cheese and good for children's teeth. Drainings from milk jugs and bottles, kept in a warm place in the kitchen, will be useful for making scones -and cakes when sour. Keep adding scraps of soap to a glass jar with a screw top lid. When sufficient have been collected, to make a good-sized cake of soap, add n little boiling Avater and when cool it is ready for use. Now that stoned fruit is becoming plentiful, many housewives find it a welcome variation on the menu. When stewing, leave the sugar out till the fruit is cooked, for not only is the flavour improved but less ■sugar is needed.