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Show Of Interest to Women headers J A Dollar Dinner For Four OKI CLCLki A Lenten dinner which is unusual, delicious and inexpensive inex-pensive can be prepared for four people for a dollar as witness this menu: Cod Fish Patties Buttered Onions Mexican Corn Boston Brovm Bread and Butter. Peach Puffs Cafl-Noir make the codfish patties, lj mix the fish from a can of codfish flakes (which are redy to fry) with one cup of mashed potatoes left over from the day before. Mold into pat-tics, pat-tics, flour them, and saute in hot fat until brown. For Mexican corn, saute half a minced onion in one tablespoon butter until brown, add one-half tablespoon flour and stir; then add one cup of canned tomatoes, one eight-ounce can of corn, one canned, minced pimifi.to, one-half teaspoon sage, a dash of pepper and salt to taste. Bringr to boiling boil-ing and pour into a buttered baking bak-ing dish. Cover thickly with buttered but-tered crumbs and brown in a hot oven. A small u of Boston brown bread should be heated in boiling water for about fifteen minutes, then opened, turned out of the can and served. For peach puffs, put a marsh-mallow marsh-mallow in each of four canned peach halves. Bake until the marshmallows are purled and serve on circles of sponge cake with plenty of peach syrup. City prices, which are usually high, are as follows: cod fish patties, pat-ties, 23 cents; buttered onions, 19 cents; Mexican corn, 22 cents; brown bread and butter, 15 cents; (the can of brown bread is 10 cents); peach puffs, 17 cents (10 cents for the four peach halves); cafe noir, 5 cents; total, 92 cents. The extra 8 cents will take care of the incidentals. |