Stocking the Supply Cupboard

The girl who is going to make a success of her job of running her home may be inexperienced but there is no reason why she should not be capable, and so she will recognise at once the advantage of managing on a budget, preferably a weekly one. She will soon acquire the foresight to apportion that money as efficiently as possible. If at the end of her week she finds she has a little money left, she will spend it on supplies for her cupboard. She will realise that a well-stocked cupboard is an economy and answers many emergency calls.

Suppose we make a tentative list of the articles that should be kept in stock.  The quantity of each depends on the amount one can spend, but the variety can be established. The most unpretentious list should include the following:

One box of cheese
One packet biscuits
One packet crispbread
Four tins of assorted soups
Two jars of jam
Four tins of vegetables
Two tins of grapefruit
One bottle of mayonnaise
One bottle of olives
Four tins of sardines
Two tins of tongue
One bottle of tomato catsup
One pound of rice

The Bride's Book, Edited by Dorothy Stone, March 1938

Comments

[kenju]

Tongue and sardines?

They had to be kidding!

[cally]

I always love snippets from these old sources and that book is definitely one of the all time classics.

As someone who gives her Gran's larder (yeh, proper larder) a good clean whenever I visit I can attest to the fact that old habits die hard. ALL those things are in there, even though she desn't/can't eat most of them anymore!

ps, my tea towel arrived, thanks ladies!

[Helen]

I think my favourite aspect of this post is the tone 'She will have....' is so authoritative... Which trembling new bride isn't going to do exactly as she is told???

Amazing.x

[Cal]

What on earth is a box of cheese that it will keep as a storecupboard standby??

[govokinolij]

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