County Home Demonstration Clubs Will Focus on Canning Meats in Steam Pressure, Other Food Demonstrations, Oct. 12, 1925

Home Demonstration Club Presidents Plan Work for Year. . . Officers Elected at Meeting in Lumberton—Club Presidents Will Relieve Miss Andrews for Outside Work as Much as Possible—Demonstration in Canning. . . Robeson Day in Kitchen Booth at State Fair

On Monday, Oct. 5th, the presidents of the various Home Demonstration clubs of Robeson county held an excellent meeting in the domestic science room of the school building in Lumberton.

The first important business of the day was the election of officers for another year. Mrs. D.A. McCormick of McDonald was elected president, Mrs. J.M. McIver, vice president, and Mrs. H.W. Bullard of Orrum, secretary.

Plans for the Year

The remainder of the day was devoted to a discussion of plans of work for another year and methods of how it could best be put over to the people in general. It was agreed that the club presidents would, as far as possible, give demonstrations to their clubs and thus give Miss Andrews opportunity to attend to some of the pressing services needed outside the clubs. For example, during this month the club presidents are holding their meetings in their various sections, giving demonstrations in canning of meats in steam pressure, salads and other demonstrations in foods and cookery while Miss Andrews is doing fair work, and when possible, visiting schools with a special message on school lunches. She hopes to reach every white school during the next six weeks and to speak to the children on the importance of proper school diet and suggest foods and methods of obtaining it.

Demonstration in Canning

After this discussion the home agent gave a complete demonstration in canning of various kinds of meat in steam pressure, this being the instruction meeting and demonstration which the club presidents are now giving to their own clubs. She also gave salad recipes and suggested other programs for the month to be carried out. Robeson Day at State Fair

The coming week the home agent will be in Raleigh attending the State fair, where she will on Thursday observed Robeson County Day in the kitchen booth. Mrs. W.M. Oliver of Marietta and Mrs. J.A. Love of Red Springs will have charge of the demonstrations in salad-making and nutrition lecture for the day. The club women have sent t the fair this week an exhibit of canned meats canned in steam pressure. An outstanding feature of this exhibit is the excellent work done by Mrs. A.F. Corbin and her women in Pembroke. Her women have 18 jars in the exhibit which were shipped yesterday and she with her local women, both white and Indian, are due special praise.

Along with the work and business of the day the club enjoyed an informal lunch, the food being prepared and served in the laboratory. The women of the county do enjoy and appreciate the use of the splendidly equipped domestic science room and the courtesy of Prof. W.B. Crumpton of the local school. We use the laboratory so much we almost hesitate to ask for it, but he always seems so glad for us to use it we feel that as an organization we are due him and the school board special thanks for being such great service to the county as a whole.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, Oct. 12, 1925. Without modern refrigeration and freezing, homemakers were relying on home canning of meat 100 years ago.

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