| In addition to the fresh, raw meats that the housewife | | | | and may be purchased loose or in skins. |
| can procure for her family, there are on the market | | | | Some of these sausages are used so often in certain |
| numerous varieties of raw, smoked, cooked, and partly | | | | combinations of foods that they are usually thought of |
| cooked meats, which are generally included under the | | | | in connection with the foods that it is customary for |
| term SAUSAGES. These meats are usually highly | | | | them to accompany. Frankfurters and sauerkraut, pork |
| seasoned, so they keep better than do fresh meats. | | | | sausage and mashed potatoes, liverwurst and fried |
| They should not be overlooked by the housewife, for | | | | corn-meal mush are well-known combinations of this |
| they help to simplify her labor and at the same time | | | | kind. |
| serve to give variety to the family diet. Still, it should be | | | | Closely allied to these sausages, although not one of |
| remembered that when meats are made ready for | | | | them, is a meat preparation much used in some |
| use before they are put on the market, the cost of the | | | | localities and known as scrapple, or ponhasse. This is |
| labor involved in their manufacture is added to the | | | | prepared by cooking the head of pork, removing the |
| price charged for them. For this reason, the housewife | | | | meat from the bones, and chopping it very fine. The |
| must be prepared to pay more for meats of this kind | | | | pieces of meat are then returned to the broth in which |
| than she would pay if she could prepare them at | | | | the head was cooked and enough corn meal to |
| home. However, she need not be concerned regarding | | | | thicken the liquid is stirred in. After the whole has boiled |
| their safety, for the government's inspection and | | | | sufficiently, it is turned into molds and allowed to |
| regulations prevent any adulteration of them. | | | | harden. When it is cold and hard, it can be cut into |
| Among the numerous varieties of these meats, many | | | | slices, which are sauted in hot fat. |
| of them are typical of certain localities, while others | | | | Besides scrapple, numerous other meat preparations, |
| have a national or an international reputation. They also | | | | such as meat loaves of various kinds and pickled pig's |
| vary in the kind of meat used to make them. Some of | | | | feet, can usually be obtained in the market. While the |
| them are made from beef, as frankfurters and certain | | | | thrifty housewife does not make a habit of purchasing |
| kinds of bologna, while others are made from pork and | | | | meats of this kind regularly, there are times when they |
| include the smoked and unsmoked sausages, | | | | are a great convenience and also afford an |
| Liverwurst is made from the livers of certain animals, | | | | opportunity to vary the diet. |