Food and health

The dish can be made without tomato. Then water or gravy will be needed to moisten it. Meat with rice or potato. If there is cold boiled rice or cold mashed potato on hand, use either in place of the bread. Or, if the cold potatoes are whole, slice the potatoes, chop the meat, and make every other layer of those. A bit of some vegetable, onion, carrot, or tur- * If you ever visit a part of the coast where the large scallop shells wash up on the beach, collect a set of several, and use them for warming up meat or fish with crumbs on top, one for each person. nip can be mixed with the meat ; or use fish, oysters or clams, or hard-boiled eggs sliced, in place of the meat. As this kind of dish needs an oven, it is perhaps better for that reason in winter than in summer, unless for some cool day when there is a fire, -r- or if there is an oven to the oil stove. Some other supper dishes. The main dish for supper that has meat in it, or something to take the place of meat, can be a warmed-over dish, you see. The baked-bean loaf is a very good substitute for meat. C[illustration: Courtesy of the New York Produce Exchange, College of Agriculture at Cornell University.]. [illustration: Fig. 41. — Baked-bean loaf.] Baked-bean loaf. What and how much, 1 pint cold baked beans 1 tablespoonful finely 1 egg, beaten minced onion 1 cupful bread crumbs 2 tablespoonfuls tomato Salt and pepper catsup How to make. Combine the ingredients, and shape the mixture into a loaf. Bake it for twenty-five minutes. Serve with strips of broiled bacon on the top. With baked beans, one likes Boston brown bread. Boston brown bread. What and how much. Corn meal 1.5 cup Rye or Graham flour 2 cups Salt 1 teaspoonful Soda 1 teaspoonful Molasses 1 cup Thick sour milk 2 cups Butter (melted) 2 tablespoonfuls How to make. Mix in the order given, stirring the molasses and milk together first. Put the mixture in a greased pail, cover tightly, and put the pail in a kettle of water to boil 3 to 5 hours. In winter, a stew of clams or oysters made with milk is a comfortable or, as some one has said, a " comforting '* dish. These are not found fresh near Pleasant Valley, but canned oysters or clams are safe if they are put up in a good cannery. Marjorie Allen tried making a milk or cream vegetable soup one cold winter evening, and the family enjoyed it thoroughly. (See page 231.) We seem, in selecting the main supper dish, to be searching for something that satisfies the appetite, is nutritious, and does not make much work at supper time. 1. Explain why the cheese toast takes the place of meat. 2. Why is it just as well to use skim as whole milk in this dish ? 3 . Make out several plans for summer suppers and winter suppers. 4.. Make a list of other dishes that are good for supper. Lesson ii other supper dishes A SALAD is a palatable supper dish. What is the best way to make tea ? Marjorie Allen often makes a potato salad, one of her father's favorite dishes, and varies it by using other cold vegetables and adding cold meat or fowl. What is a salad ? The word " salad '' is supposed to be derived from the Latin "sal,'" salt. We use the term for a dish that gives relish to a meal by the crispness of fresh lettuce, celery, a shredded cabbage, or some other green vegetable. These may be combined with cold cooked vegetables, meat, fish, shellfish, fresh fruit, or nuts, and served with a dressing. Lettuce eaten with lemon juice or vinegar and sugar is a simple oldfashioned salad. Some people enjoy the lettuce dressed with olive oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper. A cooked dressing made with butter or cream is relished by those who do not like the flavor of olive oil.