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Three short courses in home making

1917

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Presented as published in 1917. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Wash the prunes in two or three waters, then soak them in cold water for several hours. Heat them in the water in which they are soaked, and cook slowly until tender, an hour or more. Serves 6 to 8. Stewed Apples. 10 apples. £ cup sugar, f cup water. Cook sugar and water together until it boils. Wash, pare, and cut apples into quarters; core, and slice quarters lengthwise into [-inch slices; put apple slices into boiling sirup and cook slowly until tender. Re- move from sirup at once and let sirup boil down to thicken. II BSONS I N O0< >K I N < ; . .")."> .!/>/>// Saw id appl< i cup sugar Up 9 lI'T. Wipe, quarter, core, and pan- sour apples; :i<i.l the watei and cook until appli ften; add the Bugar and flavoring, cook until apples are 7ery Boft, then through a strainer and l>«xar well. Berv< 10. Farmers' Bulletin* No 249, Cereal Breakfast Poods; No. 5< n Meal I and Ways of I sing It I oited States Department of Agriculture, Bulletin l_'.'i I 'n jf< •-- iuiial Paper, Extension course in Vegetable Poods. Supl <>f Documei Government Printing Office, Washington, I) C METHOD OF WORK. As soon as the class meets discuss the recipes briefly and pul the on to cook at once. Prepare the fruit. While the long cook- ing of tlu1 cereal is in progress discuss the composition, food value, and met hods of using cereals. Then go on with another lesson and call the class together for serving later in the day. Serve the fruit and cereals tOget her. LESSON VII. CLASSIFICATION OF FOODS (Reviewed). SUBJECT MATTER. Those food- which build up and repair the tissues of the body are called protein foods, muscle builders, or flesh formers. Meat, fish, poultry, eggs, cheese, milk, cereals, legumes, and nuts arc: classed as protein f<><><; Those food- which serve Solely as fuel for the body providing heat. anil energy air classed under two groups: The carbohydrates (si. and Btarches), which the body is able to use in relatively large quan- tities; and the fat- and oils, which the body can not US6 in such large quantities, but which yield a large amount of heat and energy. Protein also Berves as fuel, though ti 3ue building is regarded as its Bpecial function. 9 and starch. are abundant in fruits and ibles. and oils are found in meats, fish, milk, and in some .•tabic foods. Heat-giving food may be stored m the body as fatty tissue. Mineral compound- mu-t be present in our Pood to help in the I ulation of the body pro and to enter into the composition of the structure and the fluids of the body. Mineral compound best supplied by the fresh green vegetables, fruits, and milk. Water is absolute) otial to the body ami is present in large quantity in many foods, and is combined frith many other foods during tie- processes of cookinj One or more of the foodstuffs sometimes predominate in a single food. For example, rice is almost entirely carbohydrate; butter THREE SHOBT COURS1 - IN HOME M \KI