CHOICE OF MEALS

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32422, 24 April 1944, Page 7

CHOICE OF MEALS

RESULT OF RATIONING SMALL HOUSEHOLDS AFFECTED Larger families, of six or more members, will find it economical lo enjoy joints, but small households will be forced to depend largely on the less high couponed cuts, according to cookery experts. From every point of view, stewing meat will eke coupons out longer, but care will have to be taken that the waste through fat in the cheaper cuts does not more than offset the extra weight-loss of bone in. for instance, a joint. A joint of 41b should be enough for a family of from six to eight tor two meals. At. this rate (but onlj if care were taken that the joint did last, two days), requirements could be met. Chops, averaging four to the pound, will be an extravagant form of meat. A jib chop contains about an ounce of bone. Steak will fall within the coupon consumption allowed only so long as a steak” is reduced strictly to j-lb—at least half an inch all round smaller than the size most, people are used to!

Stewing steak, at the lower coupon rate, and baked on casserole w itli vegetables, will perhaps be tin* most economical.