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20 BEAN SANDWICHES. 40 slices bread. i cup cooked beans. 6 ounces butter. 34 cup dressing. Put beans and butter through grinder together. Add dressing and spread on 20 slices of bread, cover and wrap carefully. 20 EGG SANDWICHES. 40 slices bread. 6 hard boiled eggs. 6 ounces butter. 3%, cup dressing. Put eggs and butter through grinder and dressing. Finish as above. To cook the eggs put in hot water and let stand 40 minutes. CONCENTRATED COCOA SYRUP. 1 lb. cocoa. 14 gallon boiling water. % cup sugar. Boil 10 minutes. LEMON SYRUP. 2 Ibs. sugar. Juice and parings of 12 ! pint water. lemons. Boil parings and water three minutes, then add juice of lemons. | GALLON COCOA. Y |b. dry cocoa. | quart boiling water, yy |b. sugar. 3 quarts hot milk. Mix cocoa and sugar, add boiling water, boil 5 minutes. Add hot milk. 10 GALLONS COCOA. 5) Ibs. cocoa. 21% gals. boiling water. 21% \ps. sugar. 74% gals. boiling milk. FOR 1 CUP COCOA. 2 teaspoons cocoa. Y% cup hot water. 1, teaspoon sugar. 1% cup milk. 10 GALLONS COFFEE. i= 10 Ibs. coffee. 5 lbs. sugar. 10 gals. cold water. 74% quarts hot milk. Place coffee in muslin bag to cook. 1 GALLON TEA. ye ounces tea. 114% pints milk or 6 cans evap- % pound sugar. orated milk. 1 gal. freshly boiled water. Put tea in cheese cloth bag, add to boiling water, allow to stand 3 or 4 minutes in covered vessel without heat. After 3 minutes remove bag, add sugar and milk. Note.—The Canteen Work recipes from the New York county chapter are contributed by the Springfield chapter and acknowledgment is made. LEFT OVERS “Scraps saved here will save the Scrap. over there.” “Some of the dishes made from meal From vegetables and meat, Are just a few things of our own Our goo-ya so to speak; Please try them for food substitutes And add your favorite, Then pass them on to new recruits Who’ll cook to win the fight.” AMERICAN RICE. 4 cups cooked rice. | cup ground cooked ham 1 green pepper or pimento. (coarsely ground). % cup tomato. Salt. Heat all together (good). CREOLE RICE WITH CHICKEN. 2 cups cooked rice. 1 cup peas. 2 cups chicken gravy. 1 minced onion. % cup tomato pulp. Cook all together ten min- 2 cups diced, cooked chicken. utes. POULTRY WITH PEAS. 1 cup cold chicken, duck, or 2 tablespoons rice flour. turkey. 1144 cups skimmed milk. 1 cup canned peas. Salt, pepper. 2 tablespoons fat. Melt fat, add the flour, beat until brown. Add the milk gradually until thick. Add the chicken with peas, seasoning. BEAN CROQUETTES. il cup bean puree. % cup milk. il! tablespoon onion or green i cup bread crumbs. pepper. 1 egg. il teaspoon fat. Make into croquettes and fry in deep fat. SCALLOPED SALMON AND MACARONI. Place alternate layers of salmon and cooked macaroni in a baking dish, cover with cream sauce and bake in hot oven 30 minutes. Cold boiled potatoes, hominy or noodles may be used in place of macaroni. VICTORY MUSH. il cup corn meal. it teaspoon salt. 3 cups boiling water. Sauce—1 tablespoon butter (or substitute), 1 tablespoon flour, 1 cup milk, 1 inch cube cheese. Make as ordinary cream sauce. Put water in double boiler and stir in corn meal slowly, stirring until the mixture thickens and is smooth. Cook to very thick mush. Turn mush on platter and pour over it cream sauce with grated cheese. If desired a hard boiled egg may be chopped fine and used in the sauce without the cheese. Garnish with sprigs of parsley and small pieces of pimento. MACARONI SPECIAL OR “GOULASH.” Cook 1 cup macaroni in boiling (salted) water 30 minutes. Remove from fire, drain. To the cooked macaroni add 2 cups cooked kidney beans, 2 cups minced chicken, or beef, 2 tomatoes (or 34 cup) 1 large mango pepper. Cook all fifteen minutes. FISH FLAKE ENCASSEROLE. x, cups fish or fish flakes. 2 cups cooked rice. 2 cups tomato pulp and juice. Y% cup fat.