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Show CXXX300COOOC)(XXX3000000CO 8 Q'he Kitchen jj Cabinet oooooooooooooooooooooooooo How About Dried Fruit? WHEN fresh fruit is scarce or not at hand try using a package of dates to add variety to the daily menu. Children like them and they may be used at any meal or midnight supper. Dates, prunes, figs and raisins as well as dried apricots and peaches give us plenty to choose from for the needed need-ed variety. Orange juice and tomato juice are needed in the children's diet to supply the vitamines so essential to growth ; these may be varied with the dried fruits which are so valuable as laxatives and at the same time giving giv-ing them the mineral salts needed. Apples are very good, but If eaten as freely as children like them they will become tiresome if served daily. Serve dates with bread crumbs in a steamed pudding, add them to your gingerbreads and simple spice cakes. Serve them stuffed with cheese as a dessert Chop them and mix with nuts and serve with whipped cream for an emergency dessert, for it is one quickly quick-ly prepared. With prunes a little more attention is needed. Soak them overnight, then simmer in the same water until tender. Drain and place them in the Ice chest to chill. They will need no sugar for the average taste, but if any is added it should be very little and toward the last of the cooking. These prunes are now ready for various dishes. Save the liquor and add to the pudding sauce when making a prune pudding. Prune whip Is so well known and liked and so easy to prepare that it should be served often. Stew the prunes and put the pulp through a colander and it Is ready to use. There are few people who do not enjoy a dish of prunes with their breakfast menu. They are delicious stuffed with cottage cheese, or one may make a confection by stuffing them with fondant or chopped nuts. Figs and raisins may be served in the same ways, as puddings, salads, In cake and served as a desert to satisfy the craving for sweets that is natural for all children, by Western Newspaper Union. |