One pint of canned tomatoes ; one slice of onion ; one' half ounce of butter; one clove; pepper and salt. Boil twenty minutes, remove from the fire and strain through a sieve, Melt the butter and as it melts sprinkle in a tablespoonful of flour. Stir it until it browns and froths a little, then mix with the tomato preparation and serve. Q A French boarding-house keeper takes for her tomato sauces a condensed canned soup. This is reduced nearly as much as for soup and then thickened with flour, and butter added. Q Brown Sauce If you use browned butter and browned flour in making tomato sauce, or in making white sauce into brown sauce, it will furnish a pleasant variety. 53 There is about all natural products a certain volatile and ethereal quality which represents their highest value, and which cannot be vulgarized, or bought or sold No mortal has ever enjoyed the perfect flavor of any fruit and only the godlike among men begin to taste its am- brosial qualities. — Thore&u. FRUITED CEREALS Hang your hurry habit up in the hall; it is bad form to wear it to the table. FRUITED CEREALS it is desirable to serve a warm dish for supper, or for a simple home lunch, cereals cooked with fruit and served with cream are delicious. Some combina^ tions which are popular with us are : (J Rice boiled or steamed with raisins and ground mixed nuts. (J Rice with raisins and blanched almonds. The almonds are not ground but broken in half lengthwise. <J Rice, dried currants and pecan nuts. The pecans should be boiled fifteen minutes before being added to the rice and currants and then should cook the twenty minutes needed to cook the rice. Q( The partly crushed or coarsely ground wheat pre' parations may be cooked with tender apples that have been peeled and quartered. The apples should not be too tart to serve with cream. (J The same kind of wheat preparations may also be cooked with raisins and figs ; the figs having been cut in narrow strips before cooking. (J Other wheat preparations are good with dates ; the dates cook very quickly, and should be stoned and cut in half or left entire, if the cereal is one that cooks in a short time the dates will cook to a mush if they are cut into small pieces. 57 58 An' it's a good sayin', ate as littli as ye kin an' yit kape falin* sthrong. —Shamrock Philosophy. Q The more finely ground breakfast cereals of wheat are especially good in combination with peaches, either canned or fresh. <J Cereals served with fruits should be well prepared not being so thin as to be suggestive of gruel nor so thick as to be heavy and lumpy. (J Rice for this purpose should be boiled until the grain has swelled to its full capacity and has just begun to break Rice should be carefully looked over and washed, and then thrown into boiling water and boiled con^ stantly for twenty minutes. The water should be drained off at once, leaving the rice tender and a hint soft but not in the least sodden or mushy. The water that is drained off from the rice contains nutritious matter and it should not be thrown away but used as a basis for soups or sauces at some other meal. (J A raw food cereal that is really delicious consists of raw oatmeal, seeded raisins and cream. Dates may be used in place of the raisins.

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One pint of canned tomatoes ; one slice of onion ; one-half ounce of butter; one clove; pepper and salt. Boil twenty minutes, remove from the fire and strain through a sieve, Melt the butter and as it melts sprinkle in a tablespoonful of flour. Stir it until it browns and froths a little, then mix with the tomato preparation and serve. Q A French boarding-house keeper takes for her tomato sauces a condensed canned soup. This is reduced nearly as much as for soup and then thickened with flour, and butter added. Q Brown Sauce If you use browned butter and browned flour in making tomato sauce, or in making white sauce into brown sauce, it will furnish a pleasant variety. There is about all natural products a certain volatile and ethereal quality which represents their highest value, and which cannot be vulgarized, or bought or sold No mortal has ever enjoyed the perfect flavor of any fruit and only the godlike among men begin to taste its ambrosial qualities. — Thoreau. FRUITED CEREALS Hang your hurry habit up in the hall; it is bad form to wear it to the table. it is desirable to serve a warm dish for supper, or for a simple home lunch, cereals cooked with fruit and served with cream are delicious. Some combinations which are popular with us are : (J Rice boiled or steamed with raisins and ground mixed nuts. (J Rice with raisins and blanched almonds. The almonds are not ground but broken in half lengthwise. <J Rice, dried currants and pecan nuts. The pecans should be boiled fifteen minutes before being added to the rice and currants and then should cook the twenty minutes needed to cook the rice. Q( The partly crushed or coarsely ground wheat preparations may be cooked with tender apples that have been peeled and quartered. The apples should not be too tart to serve with cream. (J The same kind of wheat preparations may also be cooked with raisins and figs ; the figs having been cut in narrow strips before cooking. (J Other wheat preparations are good with dates ; the dates cook very quickly, and should be stoned and cut in half or left entire, if the cereal is one that cooks in a short time the dates will cook to a mush if they are cut into small pieces. An' it's a good sayin', ate as littli as ye kin an' yit kape falin* sthrong. —Shamrock Philosophy. Q The more finely ground breakfast cereals of wheat are especially good in combination with peaches, either canned or fresh. <J Cereals served with fruits should be well prepared not being so thin as to be suggestive of gruel nor so thick as to be heavy and lumpy. (J Rice for this purpose should be boiled until the grain has swelled to its full capacity and has just begun to break Rice should be carefully looked over and washed, and then thrown into boiling water and boiled constantly for twenty minutes. The water should be drained off at once, leaving the rice tender and a hint soft but not in the least sodden or mushy. The water that is drained off from the rice contains nutritious matter and it should not be thrown away but used as a basis for soups or sauces at some other meal. (J A raw food cereal that is really delicious consists of raw oatmeal, seeded raisins and cream. Dates may be used in place of the raisins.

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