How does the season of the year affect the meal ? In the summer time it is hard to digest sausage and griddle cakes with sirup. Meat is not the best food for hot weather. Yet the farmer needs a hearty breakfast to do a day's work. Give him some cheese. Indeed, in haying time bread and milk would make one of the best of breakfasts, if Father could be persuaded to think so. If he thinks that would not "stay by '' him, why not oatmeal, with bread and milk, then } Size and eating. Who eats more, the baby or a grown person ? A strong man, six feet tall, weighing say 180 pounds, must eat more for breakfast than a small person ; somewhat as a large stove takes more fuel than a small one. If he is in health and working hard, he can digest food and the body can use food of a kind that gives other people indigestion. But such a man even can make mistakes in his food sometimes. A few breakfast dishes. Suppose we plan for a break- fast like No. IV, — baked apples, oatmeal with milk and sugar, a meat dish, corn bread, and cocoa or coffee. What shall we have for the meat dish .? I50 FOOD AND HEALTH Do you know how to make a good corned-beef hash ? Corned-beef hash. What, Cold corned beef, and cold boiled or baked potatoes. How much* Equal amounts of both and enough to Hll the large frying pan, or "spider," as it is sometimes called, if that is enough for your family. How to make. Chop the meat and potatoes together ; add a little water and a tablespoonful of flour. Mix all well. Heat the pan, and put in enough fat — say beef fat✪ Corned-Beef Hash — to cover the bottom of the pan. Turn in the meat and potatoes, and smooth the top. Let it cook where it will brown but not burn. It should be put on when you are beginning to get breakfast. When breakfast is ready, slip a knife around the edge and under the hash. Turn it out on a hot plate or platter. It should have a nice, brown crust. Never mind if the crust breaks, for the hash will have a good flavor, even if if it does not look so well. Another way is to use mashed potato. Then the chopped meat must be mixed with the potato while the latter is hot. This mixture can be baked and served in an earthen dish. Fish hash. What, Salt codfish, raw potato✪ Fish Hash ; fish shredded, and potato cut into small pieces, i or 2 eggs. How much. Equal parts of the two : 2 cups of codfish, and 2 cups of potato. I egg will make a good dishful. How to make. Have a saucepan ready with enough boiling water in it to cover the potato and fish. Turn into it the fish and potato. Let them cook until the potato is tender — about 20 minutes. Drain off the water, break the egg into the hash, mash, and beat hard for a minute. While the potato and fish are cooking, grease a baking dish. Turn the mixture into the dish, and brown the hash in the oven. THE HOME BREAKFAST 151 Another way is to cook 2 eggs hard while the potato and fish are cooking, slice them, and put them on top of the hash in the dish in which you will serve it. Do not brown the top. Which of these two ways is quicker ? Creamed dried beef. Do you ever smoke beef on your farm .? You are fortunate, if you do. What. Dried beef sliced, milk or skimmed milk, beef fat, flour. How much. Enough beef to nearly fill the frying pan. 2 tablespoonfuls fat, and about 2 tablespoonfuls flour. Enough milk to cover the beef, a cup or more✪ Creamed Dried Beef. How to make. Put the beef in the pan. Pour on hot water and let it stand a few minutes on the stove. Pour off the water and let the beef steam off for a minute. Add the fat and stir until the fat begins to "sizzle." Shake on the flour, from a shaker if you have one, and stir again until the flour is mixed in evenly. Pour in the milk, cold ; stir once more. Let the pan stand back on the stove, stirring once in a while until the milk is thickened. Serve as it is, or on toast. " Frizzled " beef with egg.

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How does the season of the year affect the meal ? In the summer time it is hard to digest sausage and griddle cakes with sirup. Meat is not the best food for hot weather. Yet the farmer needs a hearty breakfast to do a day's work. Give him some cheese. Indeed, in haying time bread and milk would make one of the best of breakfasts, if Father could be persuaded to think so. If he thinks that would not "stay by '' him, why not oatmeal, with bread and milk, then } Size and eating. Who eats more, the baby or a grown person ? A strong man, six feet tall, weighing say 180 pounds, must eat more for breakfast than a small person ; somewhat as a large stove takes more fuel than a small one. If he is in health and working hard, he can digest food and the body can use food of a kind that gives other people indigestion. But such a man even can make mistakes in his food sometimes. A few breakfast dishes. Suppose we plan for a breakfast like No. IV, — baked apples, oatmeal with milk and sugar, a meat dish, corn bread, and cocoa or coffee. What shall we have for the meat dish .? Do you know how to make a good corned-beef hash ? Corned-beef hash. What, Cold corned beef, and cold boiled or baked potatoes. How much* Equal amounts of both and enough to Hll the large frying pan, or "spider," as it is sometimes called, if that is enough for your family. How to make. Chop the meat and potatoes together ; add a little water and a tablespoonful of flour. Mix all well. Heat the pan, and put in enough fat — say beef fat — to cover the bottom of the pan. Turn in the meat and potatoes, and smooth the top. Let it cook where it will brown but not burn. It should be put on when you are beginning to get breakfast. When breakfast is ready, slip a knife around the edge and under the hash. Turn it out on a hot plate or platter. It should have a nice, brown crust. Never mind if the crust breaks, for the hash will have a good flavor, even if it does not look so well. Another way is to use mashed potato. Then the chopped meat must be mixed with the potato while the latter is hot. This mixture can be baked and served in an earthen dish. Fish hash. What, Salt codfish, raw potato ; fish shredded, and potato cut into small pieces, i or 2 eggs. How much. Equal parts of the two : 2 cups of codfish, and 2 cups of potato. I egg will make a good dishful. How to make. Have a saucepan ready with enough boiling water in it to cover the potato and fish. Turn into it the fish and potato. Let them cook until the potato is tender — about 20 minutes. Drain off the water, break the egg into the hash, mash, and beat hard for a minute. While the potato and fish are cooking, grease a baking dish. Turn the mixture into the dish, and brown the hash in the oven. Another way is to cook 2 eggs hard while the potato and fish are cooking, slice them, and put them on top of the hash in the dish in which you will serve it. Do not brown the top. Which of these two ways is quicker ? Creamed dried beef. Do you ever smoke beef on your farm .? You are fortunate, if you do. What. Dried beef sliced, milk or skimmed milk, beef fat, flour. How much. Enough beef to nearly fill the frying pan. 2 tablespoonfuls fat, and about 2 tablespoonfuls flour. Enough milk to cover the beef, a cup or more. How to make. Put the beef in the pan. Pour on hot water and let it stand a few minutes on the stove. Pour off the water and let the beef steam off for a minute. Add the fat and stir until the fat begins to "sizzle." Shake on the flour, from a shaker if you have one, and stir again until the flour is mixed in evenly. Pour in the milk, cold ; stir once more. Let the pan stand back on the stove, stirring once in a while until the milk is thickened. Serve as it is, or on toast. " Frizzled " beef with egg.

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