Healthful cookery

*Stew or Ragout of Protose. — Cut Protose into three-fourths- or one-inch dice, according to the way it is to be served. To each pound of Protose take two and one-half to three tablespoonfuls of strained tomato, about one quart of boiling water, and one-fourth to one-half teaspoonful of salt. Simmer from one to four hours. *Savory Protose Stew. — 1 pound Protose, 1½ tablespoonfuls chopped onion, teaspoonful sage. Stew as directed for Stewed Protose. Or add Healthful Cookery one and one-half teaspoonfuls of chopped onion to each half pound of Protose. Cook as above, and just before serving sprinkle in two teaspoonfuls of chopped parsley. *Protose Fricassee. — Add enough water to nearly cover three pounds of Protose cut into cubes. Stew slowly for an hour and a half, until nearly dry. Grate one onion into the Protose, and add the following dressing: Strain three cups of tomatoes, and stew for half an hour. Dilute one tablespoonful of Nut Butter. Stir this, and one tablespoonful of browned flour and two of white flour, into the tomatoes, and add the Protose. Serve with potato border or steamed rice, and garnish with parsley. *Nut Fricassee. — Take one small can each of Protose and Nuttolene, cut in rather small cubes. Mix well together. Pour over the mixture a tomato dressing, and bake. ^Fricassee of Protose. — i pound Protose, i small onion, 2 or 3 sprigs parsley, 1 tablespoonful flour, 1 tablespoonful Nut Butter, 1 egg. Cut the Protose from a pound can in halves. Place in a shallow stew-pan, with one small onion sliced, one carrot cut in quarters, and a few sprigs of parsley. Cover with water, and simmer for two hours. Drip the Protose, and place in a saucepan Flesh-Food Substitutes in which is a tablespoonful of Cocoanut Butter, mixed well with a tablespoonful of flour. To this add the stock in which the Protose was boiled. When ready to serve, add to this one egg yolk beaten with a tablespoonful of cream. Serve with rice or roasted rice as an accompaniment. Protose with Tomato. — Just before serving stewed Protose add to it tomato in the proportion of one cup to the pound of Protose. Let it just boil up, add salt, and serve. *Protose Stew with Rice. — To each half pound of Protose, which has been cut into one-third-inch dice, take three slightly rounded tablespoonfuls of rice, well washed. Put them into one quart of boiling water, with a little salt, into the inner cup of a double boiler. Keep it boiling rapidly until the rice is tender, then set in the outer boiler, and stew until ready to serve. It may be served at any time after the rice is tender. Macaroni may be used instead of rice. *Stewed Protose with Roasted Rice. — i cup rice, 234 cups water, 1 teaspoonful salt, 1 onion. Steam one cup of rice, well washed, in two and one-fourth cups of water, with one scant teaspoonful of salt, and one large onion, chopped or sliced. Serve a spoonful of this with each order of Pro- 8o Healthful Cookery tose, which has been stewed with browned flour and tomato, in the proportion of one-half cup of tomato and one tablespoonful of flour to each two pounds of Protose. Salt to taste. *Protose with Onions. — Slice onions, the dark red ones are the sweetest, and cook until tender; add an equal quantity of simmered Protose, salt to taste, and cook slowly until of a delicate brown, but do not scorch.