Starting housekeeping / by Mrs. Alfred Praga.

  • Praga, Alfred, Mrs.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Starting housekeeping / by Mrs. Alfred Praga. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    maigre day, and the veal, roasted plainly and with the usual accompaniment of forcemeat balls, should figure at the evening’s dinner. Then the fricassee before spoken of might appear at Saturday’s lunch. For Saturday’s dinner I would suggest a roast or boiled fowl or roast duck, when the latter are cheap, the price of which would bring our butcher’s and poulterer’s bill, together with a sum of 6d. weekly which you must reserve for bones for the stock-pot, to just over 16s., leaving you with a small balance in hand; that is, pre- suming that £3 per week is the sum you can claim for housekeeping. And now I want you to understand that I am not for a moment suggesting that you should do anything so foolish as to follow the suggestions given above blindly, week in, week out, without variation. The sameness of such a course would be something appalling. No; these are merely intended for hints whereby you may limit your expenditure. Again, you may be able to effect many little savings upon certain articles for which I have not allowed in these columns. For instance, you may not care for tea, may drink very little coffee, and may dislike sugar in any shape or form. Where this is the case down goes the grocer’s bill at one bound. You may, probably do, eat very little bread—both you and your household—so that perhaps Is. Qd., or at the outside 2s. weekly, covers your baker’s bill. Once again, I daresay, if you are not very fond of fruit and vegetables, 10s. per week seemed a large sum to set aside exclusively for the benefit of the greengrocer. Perhaps you may, owing to your special tastes, be able to reduce it by half. Very well, then; there at once,