Food and health

Remarks, Remember the other food materials that were used in meat scallop, and try cooked rice or hominy or oatmeal in place of the bread. One family calls the fruit scallop Brown Elizabeth when it is made with peaches or apricots ; and Black Betty, with blackberries. Perhaps you can name some other members of this group. Stewed dates, or figs, or prunes are delicious with rice in a fruit scallop served cold. They are especially good with milk for little children who are beginning to be given sweets. They need no sugar added. Foamy sauce. What and how much. Butter 2 tablespoonfuls Powdered sugar i cup Egg I Vanilla i teaspoonful How to make. Cream the butter. Add gradually the sugar, the egg well beaten, and vanilla. Beat while heating over hot water. If too thick, add a little hot water. Fruit tapioca. What and how much. Minute tapioca f cup Lemon peel Boiling water z\ cups Salt \ teaspoonful Tart apples 6 Sugar \ cup How to make. Cook the tapioca in the salt and water until it becomes transparent. Core and pare the apples and place in the bottom of the baking dish. Fill the cavities with sugar and add a little lemon peel. Pour the tapioca over the apples and bake in a moderate oven until the apples are soft. Serve cold with sugar and cream. Remarks, This is sometimes called bird's nest pudding. Other fruit can be used. Prunes, with the stones out, are very delicious in the tapioca. There are still other ways for using fruit in puddings and desserts. Some of these you will find mentioned in Lesson 25 and in all cook books. I. Make a definition of "cooking," from what has been said about the baked apple. 2. Make a list of all the different ways of cooking that you know. 3. Explain why fruit should be eaten daily. 4. Can you find a very important reason for cooking figs and dates ? 5. Compare the cost of a can of peaches from the grocery with home-canned peaches. What must you take into account ? Lesson 14 value of potatoes as food Warmed-over potatoes are one of the best supper dishes. Potatoes, either freshly cooked or served a second tinie, are good for any meal. How shall we have potatoes for supper ? Americans are said to have the potato habit. We are told sometimes that it might be better to use oftener in their place some other starchy food, perhaps rice or hominy. These do make a pleasant change, but if you prefer potatoes, you can use them as freely as you like ; and there are many ways to prepare them to give variety. In spite of the fact that potatoes are attacked by insects and by diseases which the farmer must fight steadily, they are one of our staple foods. Why are potatoes such an important food ? Recall to your minds the substances in the foodstuffs that we talked about finding in milk and in bread made from wheat. Make the list on the blackboard or on paper or in your notebook, and check them as we talk about potatoes. Study this chart (Fig. 55) of a potato, and see if you Fat:0.1 POTATO^ Rrotein:2.2 understand it. The perpendicular lines show what a large amount of water the potato has. State 78.3 per cent in a common fraction. There is so little of the fat and protein (see the dark lines toward the left) that we do not find the worth of the potato. in these. Notice the word " carbohydrate. "" In per cent it ranks next to the water in quantity. This is a word that you will understand when you study chemistry, but we can learn