Meals During Spring Cleaning

New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 123, 31 October 1941, Page 41

Meals During Spring Cleaning

URING the* housewite’s Ousy season she tends to leave meals more or less to chance, and to manage somehow by flying in at the last minute to dash to the frying pan or to warm up some of yesterday's stew. This is asking for trouble, not only from one’s weary body, which rebels at such treatment and deals out an attack of indigestion, but from one’s weary family, which is likely to deal out attacks of criticism. I have noticed that ‘the harder we women work and the nervier we get the less do we permit such criticism to pass unnoticed. So. for the sake of the health and happiness of the family, remember that the more bustled you are and the harder you are working -and the family too for that mat-ter-the more necessary it is that you should plan to serve good, nutritious, and easily digested meals, One can plan meals so that everything that has to be served hot can be cooked in the oven at the one time, and as nearly as possible in the one dish, to have trouble in serving. One can plan meals for which a simple cold pudding can be prepared overnight. One can plan to make several milk puddings or pies at one time for serving on successive days. One can plan to have salads at a.moment’s notice by washing lettuce overnight and making large quantities of salad dressing once every week. _from an A.C.E. Talk