INDEX
Advantages, some financial, [63]
Advice, useful, [149]
Appliances, household, [49]
labour-saving, [185]-[186]
simplicity of labour-saving, [180]
Architects, reasons for women, [31]
Arrangements, advantages of labour-saving, [70]
Basement, general description of, [65]
house, disadvantages of, [54]-[55]
Bath, [45]
Bedroom, [45]
Bills, gas, coke, coal, [146]
Coke, economy of, [144]
Colleges, need of training, [20]
Companies, Electrical Supply, [183]
Cook, wages of, [120]
Cookers, gas, [83]
good idea for gas, [154]
Cooker, size of, [155]
Cooking, advantages of advanced, [127]
economy of electrical, [182]
Cost, counting the, [141], [145]
Current, electric, cost of, [182]
how to avoid waste of, [175]
Decoration, [44]
Dinner bogey, how to abolish the, [133]
Domestic premises, [41], [43]
Domestic problem, solving of, [25]
Domestic service, advantages and disadvantages of, [19]
Domestic training, advantages of, [13]-[14]
for all girls, [11]
national importance of, [12]
Dressing-room, clever idea for, [45]
Electric house, description of, [178]
Electric light, fitting and arranging of, [174]
Electricity, economy of, [171]
cooking by, [134]
Employer, ignorance of, [8]
Entertaining, [137]
Equipment, personal, [138]
Family arrangements, [93]
Fare, planning of bills of, [159]
Fires, advantage of electric, [153]
various makes of electric, [178]
Flat, description of, [77]-[78]
general arrangement of, [100]
labour-saving, [99]
Fuel, economy of, [147]
Furnace, feeding of, [94]
lighting of, [143]
Furniture, [44]
Gas, cost of cooking by, [160]
use of, [148]
Geysers, [151]
Governesses, secretaries, companions, [18]
Grill, management of, [162]
Heating, water, [150]
Home, the ideal, [37]
House, labour-saving, [66]
condition of the modern, [53]
country, [95]-[97]
furnishing of, [69]
heating and lighting of, [46]
how to reduce work of, [36]
inconvenience of the modern, [29]
suggestions for rebuilding, [30]
Houses, labour-saving method of heating, [142]
Kitchen, electrically fitted, [179]
warming of, [165]
Labour-making house, condition of, [76]
conversion of, [57]
description of, [56]
some experiences of, [75]
work of, [73]-[74]
Labour-saving house, arrangement of, [89]-[91]
convenience of, [110]
description of, [88]
domestic arrangements of, [79]-[80]
economy of, [115]
London, [87]
menu of, [113]
provincial, [108]
reasons for, [3]-[4]
suggestion for, [64]
the ideal, [35]
Labour-saving ideas, test of, [107]
Lamp, makes of, [176]-[177]
Lights, rate of basement, [172]
checking of waste of, [173]
Lighting, various means of, [152]
Look-ahead plan, advantage of, [130]
Meals, arrangement of, [114]
Meat, saving of, [181]
Menu, [121]-[124]
Meters, slot, [166]-[169]
Mistresses, new race wanted, [10]
Nurse and Nursery, [62]
Ordering, method of, [125]
Oven, temperature of, [161]
Restaurant, the electrical, [184]
Rooms, arrangement of, [109]
Rubbish, destruction of, [165]
Servants, [9]
shortage of, [7]
their dislikes, [21]-[22]
Service, cost of, [141]
Service room, [42]
Shopping, [126]
Soups, [128]
Stove, cleaning of, [164]
Suburban house, description of, [101]
furniture and fittings of, [102]-[103]
Sweets, [129]
Table, useful advice for, [49]
Time, division of, [114]
saving of, [119]
Utensils, cleaning, [135]
gas-cooking, [163]
Waste, checking of, [173]
Water service, [32]
Water system, question of hot, [58]
Work, dislike of menial, [17]
organization of, [92]-[93]
Worker, how to obtain best results, [26]
THE QUESTION OF THE MOMENT
WAR RATION COOKERY
(THE EAT-LESS-MEAT BOOK)
By Mrs. C. S. PEEL
The Director of Women's Service, Ministry of Food.
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Transcriber's Notes
Original inconsistencies in chapter titles between the Table of Contents and the first pages of each chapter have been retained. Likewise, the titles on the List of Illustrations and the illustrations themselves appear here just as they did in the original text, including [Plate 44]'s labeling of "Gas Oven" in the LOI and as "Electric Oven" in its caption.
Minor punctuation errors fixed on pages [45] and [162]. Punctuation on Plates [4], [5], [6], [16], [20], [22], [34], [39], [40], [41], [42], [42a], [44] was made consistent with the other Plates. Variable use of the words fire-place, fireplace, Croutons, and Croûtons was retained. Other variations in hyphenated words were retained only when they seemed to be used for emphasis or when part of a quoted letter. The following changes were made for consistency or due to typographical error:
Page 31, "house-work" changed to "[housework]." (...neither do they have to do housework...)
Page 79, "talboys" changed to "[tallboys]." (...tallboys in a shocking state of ill-usage.)
Page 121, "fourquarter" changed to "[forequarter ]." (...a forequarter of lamb has been in the house...)
Page 134, "House-Work" changed to "[Housework]." (A Letter from a Professional Woman who does her own Housework.)
Plate 15, "WASH-STAND" changed to "[WASHSTAND]." (GAS-HEATED TOWEL RAIL AND FIXED WASHSTAND)
Plate 32, "ELECTRC" changed to "[ELECTRIC]." (AN ELECTRIC KITCHEN IN A CITY INSTITUTION.)