This brings me to what is after all the gist of the matter. “Ten Dollars Enough” was intended for readers in widely different parts of the country. It would have readers where the meat and poultry prices would seem very high, and the groceries equally low. I therefore decided to take average New York retail prices and not to go below them.
There may be cities and suburbs where the prices are higher than in New York, but in my experience these are few compared with the many where they are lower.
As to the question of time, Molly is not represented as an inexperienced young wife, but as a graduate of cooking-schools, who could herself have joined the corps of culinary teachers had it been necessary.
Her expertness had not come without many failures, and the readers of “Ten Dollars Enough” were invited to profit by the finished result of her failures and experiments. Because she had often failed before she succeeded, she was able to avert failure from Marta or others.
Bearing in mind, then, that Molly knew precisely what to do and how to do it, it will be readily seen that her most elaborate dinner was very simple indeed, compared with the ménu prepared by one lady and her assistant at any first-rate cooking demonstration, in the same space of time.
Catherine Owen.
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