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THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER
Vol. VIII.—No. 364.]
[Price One Penny.
DECEMBER 18, 1886.
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TINNED MEATS; THEIR VALUE TO HOUSEKEEPERS.
THE SHEPHERD’S FAIRY.
EVERY GIRL A BUSINESS WOMAN.
A SONG FOR THE OLD YEAR.
MERLE’S CRUSADE.
CHRISTMAS IN THE GERMAN FATHERLAND.
“NO.”
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
TINNED MEATS; THEIR VALUE TO HOUSEKEEPERS.
By A. G. PAYNE, Author of “Common-sense Cookery,” “Choice Dishes at Small Cost,” “The Housekeeper’s Guide,” &c.
LOBSTER CANNING IN CANADA.
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Tinned meats and provisions may be regardedfrom two distinct points of view. Themajority of persons, especially in this country,look upon them simply as a convenience tohousekeepers, but the subject should beregarded from a far higher point than one ofmere convenience, for by means of tinnedprovisions the whole food supply of the worldis increased, and thereby the happiness andenjoyment of mankind at large.
By means of tinned meats the superfluitiesof one country help the deficiencies of others.Owing to this useful invention, no longer aresheep slaughtered for their wool and tallowonly, and the carcasses wasted, but the wholeis utilised. It should beborne in mind that economyin the use of food is a dutyclearly pointed out to us bythe highest of all authority.The age of miracles haspassed, but were it in ourpower to multiply our foodmiraculously, we are taughtthat it would still be a dutyto gather up the fragmentsthat remain, that nothing belost.
At present I will confinemyself to the considerationof tinned meats in relation totheir value to housekeepers,and I will illustrate my subjectby supposing the followingcase, which is by nomeans a rare one in Englandin the present day.
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There are, throughout the length andbreadth of the land, many hundreds of littlequiet country villages which, to a certain extent,may be said to be isolated from civilised life.There is the village inn, alas! generally morethan one; the village shop, a few scatteredhouses