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Every-day dishes and every-day work

1897

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Presented as published in 1897. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Granose.— iJea^pe*.- Granose Fruit Dessert — Granose with Egg — Granose Pudding— Granose Fruit Custard — Molded Granose Dessert— Granose Dumplings — Qra- 16 CONTENTS. nose Dumplings with Nut Meal — Granose Drop Cakes — Granose Shortcake — Granose Biscuit. Crystal Wheat. — Recipes: Crystal Wheat — Brown Bread — Brown Bread No. 2. — Vegetable Roast — Vegetable Roast No 2. — Crystal Wheat Custard Pudding — Crystal Wheat Fruit Pudding. Gluten. — Becipes : Qlnien Gruel — Gluten Gruel No. 2 — Gluten Cream — Gluten Meal Gruel — Gluten Mush with Dates — Gluten Custard — Gluten Gravy — Lemon Glu- ten Gruel — Gluten Meal Gems — Gluten Mush — Tomato Gluten — Tomato Gluten No 2. — Gluten Bread Relish. Nut Butter and Nut Meal. — Recipes: A Quickly Pre- pared Soup — Nut Butter Pie-Crust — Baked Cabbage — Lentil and Tomato Soup — Nuts with Lentils — Lentil Dressing — Nut Sauce — Nut Butter Sandwiches — Al- mond Meal Gems — Nut Butter Puflfs. NuTTOSE. — Recipes: Stewed Nuttose — Stewed Nuttose with Tomato — Potato Stew with Nuttose — Nuttose Hash — Nuttose with Green Vegetables — Nuttose Sand- wich — Nuttose with Lettuce. Zwieback — Carlsbad Zwieback — Grades, Caramel-Cereal. —Results of Using Tea and Coflfee — Recipe. Hints about Every=Day Work ... 153 Economizing Time — System in Work — Program — Daily Morning Program of Kitchen Work — Economizing Money — Economy of Material — Uses of Stale Bread — Left- over Grains — Left-over Vegetables — Left-over Meats — Left-over Milk — Waste of Fuel — General Suggestions for Economical Housework — Order of Clearing the Ta- ble— Washing the Dishes — Dish-cloth and Towels — Cleaning Silver — Care of Table Linen — Disposal of Garbage- Every-Day Dishes. ^'' OME one has said that life to the average man is i^X but a series of incidents between meals. It is certainly often scarcely more than this to the aver- age woman who serves her household as caterer and cook ; while the question of what to provide for these same meals is frequently an ever-present and perplexing one. ' ' If meal-getting were only an occa- sional occurrence," said a housekeeper the other day, "the question would be more easily solved, but it is the never-ceasing round of every-day dishes that must be provided, — seasonable, palatable, and yet within the bounds of economy, — that taxes one's ingenuity and patience until she is tempted to wish life could be as well sustained without eating." Doubtless there are many housekeepers in whose hearts these sentiments find a responsive echo ; but since no provision has been made whereby we may live without eatmg, it may per- haps be well to investigate some of the ways and means by which meal-getting may be made less difficult and laborious. We shall need to begin, however, with these same every-day dishes, since it is these that furnish the ma- terial from which are manufactured the brains with which to solve life's intricate problems, and the strength and sinews with which to bear its burdens and carry for- ward the world's work. They are, in fact, the founda- 2 [17] 18 EVERY-DAY DISHES. tion upon which health, strength, and much of life's success and happiness are built, and that they should be of a character to produce the very best building material is a matter of the utmost importance.