The school kitchen textbook

This will develop a rich flavor and some fruits will require no sugar, in fact a little lemon will improve them. Let them cook a few minutes after adding sugar and, if you wish the syrup clear, skim out the fruit and strain the juice before turning it over the fruit. Recipe, No. 224. Prune Whip Wash, rub, rinse, and soak one fourth pound of prunes. When plump, simmer until very soft. Remove the stones and rub pulp through a strainer. Add sugar if tart and lemon juice if very sweet, and cook five minutes. When cool add the well beaten whites of four eggs ; turn the mixture into a buttered melon mold or into small individual molds, stand them in pan of hot water and bake slowly about twenty minutes, or until the whip is firm. Serve very cold with a soft custard made with the egg yolks ; or with whipped cream if preferred. Recipe, No. 225. Picked-up Codfish Put enough salt codfish to fill a cup into a pan of cool water, and as it soaks tear it into strips and then into small ADDITIONAL RECIPES 291 pieces, keeping it in the water until all is stripped. Let it stand an hour, and if very salt turn off the first water after it is shredded. Heat the fish in the water slowly, but do not let it boil. Scald one cup of milk and stir it gradually into two tablespoons of butter and flour heated in a saucepan. When thick and smooth add the drained fish and keep it hot over boiling water until everything else is ready; then beat one egg slightly and stir it into the fish and as soon as the egg has the cooked look, serve it in a shallow dish. With perfectly baked potatoes, hot and mealy, this is a meal which you will enjoy, and which can be repeated often without tiring of it. SEASONABLE, WELL BALANCED MEALS FOR THE FAMILY TABLE Autumn. Breakfast : Peaches or Grapes, Granulated Wheat, Coffee, Hash, Corn Cake, Milk. Dinner: Chicken Fricassee with Short Cake, Sweet Potatoes, Celery, Shell Beans, Apple Pie, Candy or Block Sugar. Luncheon or Supper: Celery Soup, Scalloped Oysters, or Sweet Corn, Cream of Rice Pudding, Rolls, Cocoa or Milk for Children. Winter. Breakfast : Orange, Rolled Oats, Coffee, Milk, Baked Potatoes, Picked-up Codfish, Rye Muffins. Dinner: Beef Stew with Dumplings, Stuffed Green Peppers or Squash, Apple Tapioca Pudding, Nuts. Luncheon or Supper: Split Pea Soup, Brown-bread Wafers, Cocoa or Milk, Baked Bananas, Hermits. Spring. Breakfast: Grape Fruit, or Stewed Prunes. Coffee, Omelet with Dried Beef or Bacon, Toast. Dinner: Baked Fish, Mashed Potatoes, Creamed Onions, Stewed Tomatoes or Tomato Jelly Salad, Fruit Ice Cream, Sponge Cake. Luncheon or Supper: Cold Pot Roast of Veal, Bread, Asparagus or Greens, Fruit Shortcake. Summer. Breakfast: Melon, Flaked Cereal, Coffee, Milk, Eggs Scrambled or Soft Cooked, Berry Muffins. Dinner: Fish Chowder, Peas, Bread, Lettuce and Tomato Salad, Berry Charlotte. Luncheon or Supper: Scalloped Lamb, Peas, Biscuit, Gingerbread, Cocoa or Milk. Milk is not mentioned in every menu, but it may form a part of every meal for children, either plain, as a food not a beverage, or in cocoa shells, or custards and other simple puddings.