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Show Home Demonstration Agent Offers Tips To Hot Cereal Eaters Now that cool weather is just around the comer, serve a home-cooked home-cooked hot cereal to your school children on school mornings, suggests sug-gests Miss Emma Nielson, county home demonstration agent. Cooked Cook-ed cereals stick to their ribs longer. long-er. If. your family has not yet learned to be good cereal eaters, try some different combinations and variations. Many different cereals are available today. It is easy to have a different one every day of the week, Miss Nielson Niel-son states. She list those tips for making cooked cereal taste different. dif-ferent. Try cooking coarsely flaked cereal such as rolled oats with a finely ground one like cream of wheat. Add two tablespoons of molasses or honey to the cooking water for each cup of cereal you prepare. Use milk in place of half the water when you cook cereal. This adds more food value as well as' flavor. Use brown sugar and a little butter on top of the cereal occas-sionally. occas-sionally. Add a few chopped daes, figs or raisins or some candled fruit cake mix to the cereal about 10 minutes before vou serve it. Stir them in carefully with a fork. Stir in a level tablespoon of wheat germ for each family member 10 or 15 minutes before the cereal comes off the stove. This makes a good flavor and adds a lot of extm B vitamins as well. N Use a bit of bri(rit-co.!ored jam, marmalade or jr.y instead of sugar. Honey, masses and syrup sy-rup also make tid toppings. Sprinkle somecrlsP prepared cereal over the-f cocked variety after it is in iJndiviaHial bowls. Serve some fright red berries around a whit or light colored cereal. I Bananas atfd an interesting variation. Serve cream 0f wheat Cereal in yellow bowl with bright orange canned apriiiots on top. s . , Split andjtoast shredded wheat biscuits aad serve them under pijes of fluffy scrambled eggs to which k bit of chopped pars-lev pars-lev has been added. Use hot instead of cold milk on the cereal occasionally. Use different colored dishes to add interest. Serve your cereal in your prettier dishes. Let the small children have individual in-dividual pitchers from which to pour their cream or milk onto their cereal. Call it cereal instead of mush. You wUl be surprised how much better it tastes. |