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Show Seasonable Dishes By NELLIE MAXWELL It is no great matter to associate as-sociate with the good and gentle, gen-tle, for this is naturally pleasing pleas-ing to all. But be able to live peacefully with perverse and disorderly persons or with such as go contrary to us, Is a great ' grace and a most commendable and manly thing. Thomas a Kempis. NOW that the weather is colder, we enjoy more hearty foods and have a craving for meats, fish and other protein foods. The following are a couple of meat dishes which will be well liked: Carolina Meat Dish. Take one and one-half pounds of chopped beef, one small onion chopped, one large green pepper chopped fine, two small pickles cut into bits, one and one-fourth teaspoonful of salt, one-fourth teaspoonful of pepper, the same of paprika and one pimento. pi-mento. Add strained tomato to the meat and seasonings enough to moisten. Place roll In a greased pan and over the top place strips cut from one pimento. Bake thirty-five thirty-five minutes in a hot oven. Then add some strips of bacon over the top and cook until they are crisp. Serve hot. Another Upside Down Cake. I'lace three tablespoonfuls of butter in a. cold frying pan. add one cupful of brown sugar. Melt and add sliced peaches, apricots or sliced pineapple canned may be used. Tour over this a batter made with one beaten egg, one-half cupful of brown sugar, one-fourth teaspoonful salt, one-half cupful of milk (hot) and one cupful of flour mixed with one and one-half teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Mix as usual and bake In the oven for forty-five minutes. min-utes. When ready to serve, turn upside down and serve with cream or a sauce made from the fruit juice used. Savory Spinach Salad. Dissolve one package of lemon jello in three-fourths three-fourths of a cupful of boiling water and three-fourths cupful of spinach juice, three tablespoonfuls of vinegar, vine-gar, and one-half teaspoonful of salt. When slightly thickened add one and one-half cupfuls of cooked, chopped spinach, three-fourths cupful cup-ful of onion juice and turn Into a mold. Serve unmolded on lettuce. Garnish with mayonnaise dressing and sliced cooked egg. It is wise to keep a few menus handy to look at In an emergency when one's mind is not working as well as usual. These suggestions will help in planning a meal, for often there are good things easy to prepare and ready, which in the flurry of the moment are forgotten. ((cj? 1929. Western Newspaper Union.) |