It may help the younger pupils to understand and remem-
ber the distinctions and uses of food stuffs, if we think of them
in this way.
In the body :
Protein makes and mends.
Fats heat and help.
Carbohydrates warm and work.
Water carries and cleans.
Minerals frame and form.
Afternoon Tea, — Combination No. 4. W^afers,
sardines, olives, gingersnaps, plums or raisins,
lemonade.
Recipe, No. 5. Sardine Sandwiches
Remove the skin and back-bone from plain or smoked
sardines ; mash to a paste ; add to each tablespoon of the
paste one-half teaspoon of lemon juice ; spread it on any thin
unsweetened wafers✪ Sardine Sandwiches ; put two together and wrap in waxed
paper.
Recipe, No. 6. Lemonade for Picnics
Cut lemons in halves ; remove seeds ; press cut-side on a
glass lemon grinder, turning it round till the pulp is all out.
Add to the juice twice the amount of sugar ; stir until dis-
solved ; bottle it and in serving dilute it with four parts of
cold water✪ Lemonade for Picnics.
PROPORTION OF FOOD STUFFS IN DAILY MEALS 93
Lunch, — Combination No. 5. Brown bread, canned
chicken, celery, macaroons, ice cream, cantaloupe.
Recipe, No. 7. Chicken Sandwich
Cut very thin slices of brown bread ; spread generously
with creamed butter; chop the chicken and chop also part
of the celery; mix it with the chicken; salt it well✪ Chicken Sandwich and
spread it on the bread ; wrap in a damp napkin. Use
canned tongue in the same way if preferred.
Recipe, No. 8. Fruit Ice Cream Made in a Pail (In-
dividual Recipe.)
^ c. cream. 2 tbsp. banana or peach pulp.
2 tsp. sugar. | tsp. lemon juice,
spk. salt.
Rock salt and crushed ice, amount depends on size of
outer pail✪ Fruit Ice Cream Made in a Pail.
Stir sugar and salt into the cream ; peel and mash the fruit ;
sift if lumpy; add lemon juice and more sugar, amount
depends on the fruit. Mix well ; beat till foamy ; turn it
into the pint can or pail, which should be water tight, with a
tight cover fitting over (not into) the pail. Set this pail
into a larger one : — the space between should be about
two inches wide. Crush the ice in a strong burlap bag by
pounding with a wooden mallet till fine. Remove small
pail and cover bottom of large pail with ice. Replace the
other pail.
Mix one cup of salt with three cups of ice and fill the space
between the pails ; pound it down with a stick, add ice to
cover the inner pail. Turn the pail back and forth for five
minutes ; push off the ice ; wipe the top ; open and scrape
the frozen cream from the sides to the middle. Cover and
turn again ; repeat this until the cream is all hard.
Follow the same method of packing if you have a
patent freezer, increasing the amount of salt and ice as
needed.
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Afternoon Tea, — Combination No. 6. White bread,
scraped raw beef, lettuce, cookies, peaches, pe-
cans.
Recipe, No. 9. Scraped Beef Sandwich
Select lean juicy beef from the top of the round near the
rump end. Cut it in thin strips ; scrape the pulp free from
the fibre ; season it highly with salt and pepper, or with
salad dressing. Put it between thin slices of white bread.
Cut the bread thin, spread with salad dressing ; cover
half of the slices with the scraped beef and half with lettuce.✪ Scraped Beef Sandwich
Put together and wrap in a damp napkin.
Recipe, No. 10. Preparation of Lettuce and Celery
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Presented as published in 1915. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
AI-modernized reading of the original text
It may help the younger pupils to understand and remember the distinctions and uses of food stuffs, if we think of them in this way.
In the body :
Protein makes and mends. Fats heat and help. Carbohydrates warm and work. Water carries and cleans. Minerals frame and form.
Afternoon Tea, — Combination No. 4. Wafers, sardines, olives, gingersnaps, plums or raisins, lemonade.
Recipe, No. 5. Sardine Sandwiches
Remove the skin and back-bone from plain or smoked sardines ; mash to a paste ; add to each tablespoon of the paste one-half teaspoon of lemon juice ; spread it on any thin unsweetened wafers ; put two together and wrap in waxed paper.
Recipe, No. 6. Lemonade for Picnics
Cut lemons in halves ; remove seeds ; press cut-side on a glass lemon grinder, turning it round till the pulp is all out. Add to the juice twice the amount of sugar ; stir until dissolved ; bottle it and in serving dilute it with four parts of cold water.
PROPORTION OF FOOD STUFFS IN DAILY MEALS 93
Lunch, — Combination No. 5. Brown bread, canned chicken, celery, macaroons, ice cream, cantaloupe.
Recipe, No. 7. Chicken Sandwich
Cut very thin slices of brown bread ; spread generously with creamed butter; chop the chicken and chop also part of the celery; mix it with the chicken; salt it well and spread it on the bread ; wrap in a damp napkin. Use canned tongue in the same way if preferred.
Recipe, No. 8. Fruit Ice Cream Made in a Pail (Individual Recipe.)
^ c. cream. 2 tbsp. banana or peach pulp.
2 tsp. sugar. | tsp. lemon juice,
spk. salt.
Rock salt and crushed ice, amount depends on size of outer pail.
Stir sugar and salt into the cream ; peel and mash the fruit ; sift if lumpy; add lemon juice and more sugar, amount depends on the fruit. Mix well ; beat till foamy ; turn it into the pint can or pail, which should be water tight, with a tight cover fitting over (not into) the pail. Set this pail into a larger one : — the space between should be about two inches wide. Crush the ice in a strong burlap bag by pounding with a wooden mallet till fine. Remove small pail and cover bottom of large pail with ice. Replace the other pail.
Mix one cup of salt with three cups of ice and fill the space between the pails ; pound it down with a stick, add ice to cover the inner pail. Turn the pail back and forth for five minutes ; push off the ice ; wipe the top ; open and scrape the frozen cream from the sides to the middle. Cover and turn again ; repeat this until the cream is all hard.
Follow the same method of packing if you have a patent freezer, increasing the amount of salt and ice as needed.
Afternoon Tea, — Combination No. 6. White bread, scraped raw beef, lettuce, cookies, peaches, pecans.
Recipe, No. 9. Scraped Beef Sandwich
Select lean juicy beef from the top of the round near the rump end. Cut it in thin strips ; scrape the pulp free from the fibre ; season it highly with salt and pepper, or with salad dressing. Put it between thin slices of white bread.
Cut the bread thin, spread with salad dressing ; cover half of the slices with the scraped beef and half with lettuce. Put together and wrap in a damp napkin.
Recipe, No. 10. Preparation of Lettuce and Celery
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