Foods and home making

Wash the vegetables. Remove the skins from the carrot, turnip, and onion. Cut the carrot and turnip into cubes or other shapes. Cut the celery and onion into small pieces. Brown all vegetables except celery and tomatoes in the fat. Then add the meat stock, celery, tomato, and rice. Cook until the vegetables and rice are tender. Add seasoning if needed. Serve hot. Yield : 6 servings. Variation. — This soup may be made without meat stock. Use water instead. Use butter in place of suet. Browning the vegetables in but- ter will give a pleasing flavor. However, if a meat flavor is desired and meat stock is not used, 3 bouillon cubes may be added to the hot soup mixture. The bouillon cubes should be added after the vegetables are cooked. If the recipe for vegetable soup is made without meat stock, 1 tablespoon of salt will be needed. How can soup meat be used? Meat from which soup has been made has lost much of its flavor but little of its valuable proteins. Because the meat contains nourishment, it is waste- ful to throw it away. 37* Dinner Food should not only nourish the body, but taste good. How can meat used for making soup be made to taste good? The answer to this question is : Combine it with other foods which have a good taste. Bacon has a good taste. Onions have a decided flavor. Parsley is also a good flavoring material. These foods are all suitable to use with cooked meat. They are merely suggestions. There are, of course, many other foods having a pronounced flavor that may be used with left-over meats. A recipe for making a delicious dish from meat used for soup making or other left-over meat follows : Mix together all the ingredients except the bacon. Shape the mix- ture into 6 cakes. Around each cake put a slice of bacon. Fasten the strip of bacon with a toothpick. Place the cakes in a shallow pan. Set the pan in a hot oven — 450° F. Let the cakes bake for 75 to 20 minutes, or until the bacon is browned. Place the cakes or patties on a hot plat- ter. Remove the toothpicks. Garnish with parsley. Serve at once. Yield : 6 servings. Why should vegetables be eaten with meat? If much meat is eaten, vegetables are likely to be neglected. It is very im- portant to eat vegetables with meat. We have acquired the habit of eating butter with bread. We should make it a habit to eat vegetables with meat. To be sure, meat and potatoes are very often eaten together. It is all right to eat potatoes with meat provided other foods are added. Let us see what foods we need to eat with meat. We learned that meat was lacking in calcium and in vita- min C. Meat lacks also carbohydrates. From this we can readily understand that foods containing calcium, vitamins A MEAT PATTIES 2 cups chopped cooked meat i teaspoon pepper Salt, if needed £ grated or scraped onion 2 eggs, beaten 1 tablespoon chopped parsley 6 thin slices of bacon Meat Soups and Left-Over Meat Dishes 379 and C, and carbohydrates, including cellulose, should be eaten with meat.