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Show 4 I Mary's Kitchen -4 If fuel ls nn Item, the housekeeper who would keep her gas bill down had best cook beets In a flreless cooker cook-er liut the wornan who burns cheap gas or coal will find beets an econom-teal econom-teal and eb !l U.us vegetable Beets are ;i happy choice with fish or fowl especially es-pecially but may be served with any meat. Never cut the tops of beets too closo the root. Leave at bast an inch of stems. Pull off any network of roots that cover tho bulb-like root but do not cut the straight, tap root. DINNFK BFFTS Wash beets and boll about two hours. Blunge In cold water and slip I the skins. .Cut in neat dice or In balls with a vegetable cutter. Sprinkle, with salt, pepper, granulated sugar and dot1 with butter. Lift and stir with a fork to distribute the seasoning evenly through the beets. For thiee cups of dleed beeis allow 1 tablespoon butter, 1 teaspoon salt. 1 elessei t.--poon sugar, 1-8 teaspoon pepper. PI KLED BEETS Wash and boil beets till tender Plunge In cold water and slip skins. Cut in slices about 1-4 inch thick Put H layer in a crock or deep dish, sprinkle sprin-kle lightly with salt. Continue slicing slic-ing and salting until all the beets are useel. Heat 2 cups vinegar with l- cup granulated sugar to the boiling point, but do not let boll. Four ovor beets and let stand over night. There should bo moro than enough vinegar to cover bocts Drain from Inegar to serve. BEETS IN OR .l s I CE Wash beets and cook in boiling water wa-ter till tender. Drain and save 1-4 cup water in which the beets were boiled Make a sauco and pour over beets cut in tiny balls with a vegetable vege-table cutter. Sauco: l tablespoon butter. 1 tablespoon table-spoon flour, 1-4 cup beet water, l-: teaspoon grated ulnd of orange, 1-2 cup orange Juice, 1-4 cup cream, 1-2 teaspoon salt. 1-s teaspoon pepper. Melt butter, stir in flour and add beet water. Add grated orango rind, orange Juice, cream, salt and pepper. Cook, stirring constantly till thick and smooth. Beets may be prepared the samo as In the preceding rcclpo and served in pieiuanto sauce. PIQUANT SAUCE, One tablespoon butter, 1 tablespoon flour, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1-2 cup vinegar, vine-gar, 1-2 cup water, 1-2 teaspoon salt, 1-a teaspoon paprika, Melt butler, stir in flour and slowly add water Cook until smooth anci add vinegar, salt and pepper and sugar. sug-ar. Cook again until smooth and pour over beets. (Copyright. 1921, NEA Service) oo |