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Show BETTER BREAKFASTS May Bring You Prosperity 1)CILDING on the basis of the ) old adage, "we eat to live." some food experts maintain that we would live better if we ate bet-ler bet-ler food. Breakfasts, especially, determine our peak efficiency for the day. In this era of change, where vital problems are to be solved, It Is particularly important for people to start the day with adequate breakfasts. Gay Tables Pep Up Appetites Try stimulating appetites by serving a very cheery-looking breakfast. Attractive breakfast cloths may be made at home, in your spare time, out of green, yellow or perhaps rose linen, with feaiherstitched hems and tassels on the four corners. Alternate your cloths, choosing some attractive attrac-tive glassware which affords a gay and pleasing contrast. Plan a fruit cocktail that not only does something for your appetite ap-petite because of its taste, but which also enhances the appearance appear-ance of your table. Golden wedges of pineapple piled in high green glasses with red-ripe strawberries is something to look at and something some-thing to eat! Are You Inventive? If you are inventive, you will not serve toast and butter for every breakfast of the week. Consider Con-sider the variety of hot biscuits which can be quickly made with modern biscuit mixtures fruit biscuits, cheese biscuits, whole wheat biscuits with dates there are endless opportunities! There are also English crumpets on the market which need only toasting and buttering in the kitchen while they are piping hot, and various breadstlcks which are delicious when spread with butter, but-ter, sugar and cinnamon and toasted for a moment. Because dietitians have worked out breakfast menus which in clude properly balanced foods, it is important that housewives adapt these menus to their family's needs. The following suggestion is offered as a fining way to start the day feeling fit. Fresh Strati-berry antl Pineapple Cocktail , Chipped Beef Shortcake Hot Biscuits Crape Jelly Coffee Chipped Bee! Shorlealcc: Pull into pieces the chipped beef from a 2V4-ouuce jar and frizzle in two tablespoons butter for a few minutes. min-utes. Mix two tablespoons of Hour to a cream with one cup of water and three-fourths cup of evapo- j rated milk. Add to the chipped beef and cook until creamy, stirring stir-ring constantly. Add two tablespoons table-spoons of chopped blanched almonds and season to lasle with a few grains of pepper. Serve between split and buttered hot biscuits. This serves four persons. per-sons. Fresh Coffee the Crux Of course all the other things count, but the crux . of a good breakfast is strictly fresh coffee. This beverage gives breakfast a large part of its lure and also much of its tempting aroma. And that's the point. If the coffee is not fresh, both its taste and aroma will be conspicuous by their absence. Fortunately there is one way to be 100 sure that the coffee you serve will be fresh. That is to buy the brand you like best that comes in a vacuum packed can. Coffee so packed keeps fresh until it is opened, and so has a big head start on coffee packaged in any other way. The vacuum protects both, taste and the aroma, and makes you appreciate the above prosperity breakfast. |