Lessons in cooking through preparation of meals

Wash well and cook 6 young fresh beets in boiling water until tender; drain, cover with cold water, and with the hands push ofif the skins, and cut the beets into thin slices. Melt 4 T butter in a frying-pan, add i small onion chopped fine, and stir constantly until softened and yellow, but not browned, then add 3 T flour, i/^ t salt, 54 t pepper, and stir until well blended. Add }^ t sugar, and 13/2 c milk; let cook, stirring constantly until the sauce boils ; simmer a few m, add i t vinegar, or i T lemon juice, and pour over the beets. Serve at once. Rhubarb Pie Peel and cut into inch pieces sufficient rhubarb to fill 3 c, pour boiling water over it and let stand 10 m. Drain, fill a pie plate lined with paste (p 130), sprinkle thickly with i c sugar and 2 T flour, dot with bits of butter, using 2 T, cover with a crust, and bake until the crust is brown and flaky and the rhubarb cooked. Preparing the Meal About 2^ h before dinner, prepare the Beef Roll. While cooking, make the Rhubarb Pie. Then wash and cook the beets, allowing at least 40 m for their cookery, wash and scrape the new potatoes, and cook about 30 m. Make the sauce for the beets, then for the potatoes, and complete their preparation. Remove the meat from the liquor, thicken the latter, using 2 T flour for i c liquid, and serve the dinner. Wednesday Lesson 159 Pettijohn — Cream and Sugar MILK TOAST — GERMAN STYLE COFFEE DOUGHNUTS Pettijohn One c pettijohn, 2 c boiling water, }^ t salt. Milk Toast— German Style To I pint scalded milk add i T butter, i T sugar, J^ t salt, I t cinnamon, and }i t nutmeg. Pour over 6 slices of rusk, preferably; if not available, 6 well toasted slices of bread. Serve at once. Preparing the Meal Reheat the cereal ; while the milk is heating for the toast, make the coffee and toast, put some doughnuts on the table, then add the seasoning to the milk. Serve the cereal, then the milk toast, coffee and doughnuts, which have been made previously. Pour the hot milk over the toast just before serving. Make the Chocolate Hermits immediately after breakfast, leaving the dough to chill until time to prepare the lunch. Bake with the meat pies. Also make the Pineapple Snow in the morning for dinner. Wednesday Lesson 160 INDIVIDUAL MEAT PIES CHOCOLATE HERMITS TEA Individual Meat Pies Make a biscuit dough, i c flour, 2 t baking powder, ^4 t salt, y2 T shortening, ^ c milk or water. Cut any of the Beef Roll left from the preceding evening into I inch cubes. If there is not enough left, i lb. beef stew may be used, all fat and gristle being removed from the pieces, however. Use equal quantities of meat and gravy, seasoning with ^ c currants, yi t each cloves and cinnamon for each 2 c of meat. Arrange in individual pans, cover the top with a round of dough, about 4 inches in diameter, and bake about 20 m in a hot oven. Serve at once. If raw meat is used, it must be cooked as a stew first, because the time allowed for baking is not sufficient to cook raw meat. Chocolate Hermits Cream together ^ c butter and 3^ c sugar, add the yolk of I eg{^, and beat well. Cook 2 T chocolate, i T sugar, and