I am planning to save cost since the petrol price increased 30%. I have been started to take train to work at least 3 times a week. And also bring overnight food to office everyday. I am not sure how much could I save using these two method but I think should better than nothing. If I could save $5 per day, then I will be able to save about $100 - $130 per month. Not a small amount though.

FROZEN PEACHES AND PLUMS. Pare a dozen and a half ripe, soft peaches. Remove the skin and seeds from a quart of sour plums; mash, and add to the peaches. Work the kernels of both to a paste; add them to the sugar and fruit; let stand two hours; then add a quart of ice water; stir, [...]

MACARONI AND CHEESE SALAD

1/4 lb. Macaroni—2 1/2d.

1/4 lb. Cheese—1 1/2d.

1 teaspoonful French Mustard

3 tablespoonsful Oil—1d.

3 tablespoonsful Vinegar—1/2d.

1/2 Head of Celery—1/2d.

1/2 Lettuce—1/2d.

Total Cost—6 1/2 d.

Boil the macaroni, or use any cold that may be in the larder. Cut it into pieces about three inches long, cut the cheese into very thin slices, and cut the celery into very small pieces. Lay these alternately in a bowl with some shredded lettuce. Make a dressing of the mustard, oil, and vinegar, and pour it over. Garnish with a little beetroot, and serve.

Recipes

SPAWN AND MILK Have the water boiling fast. Salt to taste, thenholding a handful of meal high in the left hand, let it sift slowlybetween the fingers into the bubbling water, stirring all the time withthe right hand. Stir until a thin, smooth consistency obtains, then pushback on the fire where it will cook slowly for [...]

BEAN SOUP

One-half pound or one cup is sufficient for one quart of
soup. Soups can be made which use milk or cream as basis. Any kind of
green vegetable can be used with them, as creamed celery or creamed
cauliflower. The vegetable is cooked and part milk and part water or
part milk and part cream are used.

Cooking Chicken

BREAKFAST ROLLS Sift a quart of flour and stir into it a saltspoonfulof sugar, a cup of warm milk, two tablespoonfuls of melted shorteningand two beaten eggs. Dissolve a quarter of a cake of compressed yeast ina little warm milk and beat in last of all. Set the dough in a bowl torise until morning. Early [...]

STEAK

Cut the steak half an inch thick from between the two ribs,
remove all gristle and fat, and trim in the shape of a flat pear.
Sprinkle both sides with salt, pepper and oil to prevent outside
hardening. Broil ten minutes over a moderate and even fire. Place about
four ounces of maitre d'hotel butter on a dish. Lay the steak upon it
and garnish with fried potatoes, serving either piquant, D'Italian, or
tomato sauce.

Recipes

Is an event that I missed out on, due to an inability to get cardamom in time to actually get it done.

Oh sure.  Ben gave an alternative, but really…  There is no substitute for cardamom, so I sat this one out.

So go check out what the Daring Bakers have been up to this month!  I’m hoping to join back in on the next round.

CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE Beat half a cupful of butter to a cream, and gradually beat into it onecupful of sugar. When this is light, beat in half a cupful of milk, alittle at a time, and one teaspoonful of vanilla. Beat the whites of sixeggs to a stiff froth. Mix half a teaspoonful of baking powder [...]

TRUFFLE STUFFING FOR TURKEY Brush well one and one-half pounds oftruffles, peel them, mince the peel very fine, cut the truffles intoslices, put them all into a saucepan with one-quarter pound of mincedfat bacon and any obtainable fat from the turkey. Also a good size lumpof butter, with salt and pepper to taste. Cook for ten [...]