Let's Make A Meal In 20 Minutes (1950)

[Music] did you ever have to make a meal in 20 minutes literally from the time you entered the kitchen until the meal was ready to serve well Sally Gasco did once when the schedule for a before supper football game and an after movie got a little confused she wasn't in too much of a hurry though and you should never be thoroughly before starting to the meal because Sally is rapidly learning homemaking she knows most of the basic techniques of good kitchen behavior and knows how to use the tools of the craft but to get a meal in a hurry something more is required in this case a little intelligent pre-preparation in a convenient corner the Gasco kitchen is an emergency shelf of canned and packaged Goods appropriate to a quick meal here's where mother also tucks away a spare collection of cleansers the foods include canned soup cooked meat stews any good packaged food which will keep indefinitely Sally decides upon corn beef hash and hot date pudding for dessert other ingredients for the meal corn on the cob and green peas will come from the frozen food storage compartment of the refrigerator the gasos keep this Shelf full of the modern frozen foods which are not only useful in general but especially so for quick meals the basic meal the hash corn peas with a little cheese to spark up the flavor of the hash are spread out on the worksh along with the utensil she will need time to go to work High time even 3 minutes suffice to get all the packages open and the contents out in pans and cooking another convenient thing to remember in this quick cookery is that vegetables are best to eat and best for you if they are cooked a minimum length of time in the case of frozen vegetables the time is even shorter the pudding goes into the oven where it will warm slightly while they are eating the main course Sally will serve it with cream there's no time for fancy sauces how's the time going well fast but not too fast it's time to serve and Sally is going to be able to keep that 6:00 deadline mostly to be honest because of intelligent marketing rather than any great show of speed right now while she's serving we might remember as she's doing how it's possible to cook a meal quickly knowing how to handle the equipment involved in cooking to use the utensils deftly and to use them for the purpose for which they were designed is a matter of practice and a question of technique when the need of the moment is for fast efficient cooking a modern gas range can be the most important piece of equipment in the kitchen 6:00 and there we are it's possible to make a meal in 20 minutes if first you're well grounded in good kitchen techniques and have the right tools with which to work at the time and second if you're foresighted enough to purchase and keep an a special emergency shelf in your cupboard and the storage shelf of your refrigerator a good supply of those modern foods which have taken most of the Terrors out of cooking against the deadline [Music]