Show I Men Menus and Recipes for fora a Week From Fm an an Expert in Cookery JI U Li NOTICE This This department will b be be in in charge of a a different instructor J UJ every month The plan will mil give the housewife the benefit of wide vide anc and ancl ii 1 f 1191 1 i d experience and will present topics of interest to all alt Z A r A JJ dI WI ABy By Alice Loomis Fro Professor of f Home Economics o College of Agri culture v of lincoln n irn time element elemen In the preparation preparation THE T tion o of at meals i Is always of at importance im importance im- im and It Is this that bothers the young oung housekeeper as much as if not more mOse than the bills This weeks week's menus are planned to use foods abundant and cheap in most moat markets but they are also planned with regard to time and preparation More results are obtained from the energy expended If it a a. number of aim sim similar ilar things can be done at one time This is the basis of the unaccepted argument that the million home kitchens In the United States should j be te converted Into tens of ot thousands of Institutional kitchens A much wiser plan Is for the home kitchen to be used at times like a factory I that Is is to full capacity A A. morning spent in cooking means a saving of ot the housekeepers housekeeper's time for several I days and a saving of from 10 to 50 O GOI I per cent of the money that would would I otherwise be spent if these articles articles articles' were ere bought at the delicatessen or bakery The difference In quality de depends depends depends de- de upon the workers and the choice of materials but the house house- keeper has bas the advantage If It the housekeeper will prepare preserves nut bread cinnamon rolls cookies baked ham salad dressing tarts and a a. few pastry shells one morning early In the week the will be more than saved later on ii C ri J The dinner planned for tor Thurs Thursday ay 3 l Is an example of a a. meal which can be served equally well at the time planned or two hours later It will J require a few minutes' minutes work Just be before before be- be fore serving to put together the salad If It a housekeeper er knows that the din din- ner ncr hour is uncertain she sie can prepare prepare prepare pre pre- pare for it The w waste ste of ot material and the strain upon the nerves nerve's nerves come only or should come only when omelet omel omelet ome ome- l let t rare beefsteak and similar articles articles arti arti- cles are aM are ready to serve and guests and amny are unexpectedly late The The- breakfast Friday for mornIng Is one that can be prepared d on a a. gas stove In ten minutes Similar breakfasts breakfasts breakfasts break break- fasts have been prepared in even less time by skilled workers In their own own well furnished d kitchens Tuesdays Tuesday's luncheon is the ther meal that can be prepared in half halt an hour with no previous preparation except the bread salad dressing dressings and canned foods The saving of gas Is an economy economy that Is easier to practice now than formerly The old gas ovens ovens often consume twice as much gas as the best modern ones Even with the good large oven the housekeeper should plan to bake a as many things at once as possible An An extra pan of baked apples or a a. pudding Dudding may take only a a. few minutes' minutes time to prepare and effect a saving In both gas and the housekeepers housekeep Js J's time later oh oil The small ovens costing 60 50 cents apiece f which set over one burner make possible possible possible pos- pos sible the preparation of a a. single baked dish with no waste of gas I Every housekeeper depends upon certain fundamental recipes from which she evolves various dishes as occasion depends Such a cake recipe Is particularly useful The recipe given hero here for Jelly cake makes an excellent shortcake when baked in a fairly deep pan When baked In a shallow pan Dan a Jelly cake can be made Either kind can be used for cottage pudding If It sour cream is JL v available It max mar be substituted la io equal volume for the water one egg half halt the sugar sugar and half the flour be being ing log omitted for the richer rIcher cake cake needs less less' sugar and flour One-half One of the baking powder Is omitted and one- one half teaspoon of soda added MONDAY BREAKFAST Grapes Cooked Cereal Creamed I Dried Beet Beef on en Toast Coffee Coffe LUNCHEON and Veal Salad Olives Cinnamon Rolls BOIlS Baked Apples 7 DINNER Baked Ham ITem Baked BaIted Potatoes Creamed Brussels Sprouts Graham Bread Celery i Cereal pudding Caramel Sauce Bauce Coffee Coffe TUESDAY TUESDAY BREAKFAST J 2 Cantaloupe I French Frenca Toast Tout With Jelly Coffee I 4 LUN LUNCHEON N Salmon Salad Spaghetti and Tomatoes Whole-Wheat Whole Bread Lemon Putt I DINNER Scalloped Salmon Potatoes Buttered Turnips Nut Bread Bread Pudding Coffee i WEDNESDAY BREAKFAST ABr Peache Ham Earn on Tout Toast Coffee Coffea LUNCHEON Mexican Dried Beef Deef Toast Tout Lettuce Salad Watermelon Preserves no Rolls Jelly rally Coke Cake Tea Tee DINNER Mutton Chops cf Currant t Jell J Boiled Potatoes With Parsley carros and Peas Peas- Tapioca Pudding Coffee Coffea THURSDAY BREAKFAST AST Apricots Browned Hash With Tomato Sauce Toast Coffee Coffea Coffee LUNCHEON N Vegetable Soup Cold Ham Rolls RoUs h 5 Marmalade Marmalade- Cookies DINNER nINNa Swiss Solas Steak With Carrots 4 f t Scalloped Pot Potatoes with Green Oree re n. n Peppers Tomato t a J Lemon Pie Pla Pia Coffee Coffea f r FRIDAY I I f. f P ii I Grapes P 4 Uncooked Cereal Soft Boiled Erg Eggs on Toast Tout COffee Coffea LUNCHEON V I Creamed Cheese in Green Greenp n Vegetable Salad Nut Bread r Tarts T. T Tea DINNER flINNER j. j Fish and Tomato Pie 0 Slashed Potato Green Corn Baked A Appl AppI PI Whole-Wheat Whole Dumpling Bread SATURDAY BREAKFAST SI Watermelon Biscuits and Honey Bacon Coffee or Milk I i LUNCHEON Scalloped Oysters Coleslaw Coleslaw- ce Cream Crean DINNER DINNER f Hamburg Steak on Plank Mashed Potatoes Nut Apple-Nut Salad Fruit Gelatin Coffee Coffea su SUNDAY D y BREAKFAST S r L L Watermelon r Y Malted Cereal and Cream T Toasted astad Rolls DINNER Bacon n Pork Fork Roast Boast Browned Drowned Sweet Potatoes Cranberries Creamed Carrots Carrots- Lemon Pie Coffee Coffea SUPPER and Olive Salad Lettuce and Brown Drown Bread Coffee Coffeo Chicken and Veal Salad Materials over Materials over Left chicken 4 cup veal neck i 34 cup celery cup salad dressing Utensils UtensIls Stew Stew pan knife mixing bowl tablespoon fork Directions Cook Directions Cook v land chicken together to together to- to gether until tender Cut up tip fine ne Mix meat and celery lightly together with salad dressing Baked Ham Materials Small MaterIals Small ham flour 3 3 c cups ps water 1 cup cloves 1 l dozen brown sugar 1 I pound cider 3 1 cup Utensils Utensils Large Large baking pan mixing bowl tablespoon knife cup Directions Scrape Directions Scrape trim and cover with fresh cold water overnight In la the morning drain and dry Prepare a a. thick dough by mixing flour and water together Roll out to inch 4 thickness and put around ham Press edges edges' firmly together Place ham in a large baking pan and bake in a slow oven three or or four hours Remove from oven break of off shell and skin Stick fat side with whole cloves about two inches apart Sprinkle ham with flour and return to the oven to brown Equal parts cider elder and water to bake balte the ham barn in improve the flavor Lemon Puff Materials Materials Eggs Eggs 4 granulated sugar 2 t tablespoons 1 lemon 1 1 powdered ered sugar f po 2 tablespoons water 2 cups s Utensils Utensils Eggbeater Eggbeater Eg mixing bowl tablespoon grater double boiler Directions Directions Beat Beat yolks of eggs with granulated sugar Add grated rind and Juice of lemon Stir into the hot water and cook In a a. double boiler until thick Beat whites e of eggs with t powdered r sugar i i n t h until stiff and add to the hot mixture rf Serve cold x I Jelly Cake I r Materials Materials Materials' Eg Eggs s 3 water i h cur cup vanilla anilla 1 tablespoon sugar 1 cups flour 2 cups baking powder 2 tablespoons table- table spoons Utensils Utensils One I One e large cake cako pan egg egg- be eb pg mixing b bowl spoon and cup p Directions Directions Beat Beat 3 eggs one minute add aaa sugar and beat five minutes Add 1 I cup In flour Beat o with one minute the baking Add powder o water sifted and the second cup of ot flour beat well and add flavoring Use the eggbeater as long as possible Bake one-half one hour Turn out on a a. cloth wrung out of hot water Nick edges with sharp knife spread on Jelly and roll using the cIoni to raise the cake from the board I Ithe If It the Jelly is firm beat In a a. bowl tor to cream Mexican Chipped Beef Materials Materials Chipped Chipped beef 1 cup hot water cup strained tomatoes 1 cup eggs 4 grated cheese 1 tablespoon onions 1 butter 2 tablespoons Utensils Utensils Frying Prying pan small stew tew pane pan cup eggbeater knife and tablespoon Directions Chop Directions Chop line fine the two hard- hard boiled eggs Chop the beef and soak in hot Water Mix Ux beef hard-boiled hard eggs tomatoes cheese onion butter and the raw eggs and turn into frying pan Lemon Pie Materials Materials Eggs Eggs 2 lemon 1 cornstarch cornstarch cornstarch corn- corn starch 4 tablespoons water 3 cup sugar 1 cup butter ut 2 tablespoons S. S Utensils Utensils Stew Stew ie pan eggbeater f cup tablespoon mixing bowl Directions Put Directions Put water on to heat add sugar butter and lemon Juice A little prated grated rind may be a added d If liked ks da 1 wl g Separate egg g yolks and d mix with cornstarch corn corn- starch Add to hot water and beat until smooth Remove from stove and pour into a cooked crust For the meringue I beat the egg whites until stiff tablespoons sugar su Spread over pie and brown In n hot oven Fish an and Tomato Pie PIG l Materials Materials rI Tomatoes 2 i 21 f cups tl fish h I 1 cup bread or cracker crumbs 3 cup flour 2 tablespoons butter 1 i tablespoon bles oon l salt pepper Utensils Utensils Baking Baking dish tUsh tablespoon Directions s-fla s lace e a layer of tomatoes tomatoes Ither either fresh dx or r canned with the liquor drained off oft iA tf ic the buttered baking baiting dish Add a layer of the fish season and dredge with flour Repeat until baking dish is full Cover with crumbs and bake Baked Apple Apple pin pins pin's s Materials Flour 2 S cups baking powder 2 tablespoons milk cup cupi apples fc 5 shortening 3 Z cup salt sail sugar cinnamon and nutmeg nutmeg- tablespoon vi Utensils bowl Mixing l baking pan panf T knife teaspoon rolling pin Directions Mix Directions Mix flour baking P powder salt t Make a a. adough adough shortening and sl dough with the mille mil Roll into a a. sheet 14 inch thick Cut Int four pieces Put Fut Futa Puta apple Jn in each filling a a. cored and pared and a a. speck of ot with Sugar the center Press wIth cinnamon butter Sprinkle of apple together at the top Bake the paste thirty minutes Serve hot with hard sauce or cream I Good Housekeepers Housekeepers' and Efficient Ones think That's where you are P PERHAPS you they are the same wrong Of course coming down to br brass ss tacks they really arc are The point is however that the women labeled by their deluded friends as good housekeepers arent aren't anything of the sort unless they are efficient nt ones into the bargain bargan Efficiency means doing one ones one's s housework in tle best possible way in the shortest time time time-it it doesn't mean making a slave of ones one's self to the dishpan and the scrubbing brush Efficiency means more than results results it it means methods Wake up See which you are If you dont don't know Caroline L. L Hunt will not hesitate e to tell you in her next weeks week's article to appear jip up is page entitled Ho Household Efficiency |