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Show SCHOOLS fiDOPIS PRESSJJREGOQKER Prove Solution of Rural School Children's Warm Lunch Problem. Getting a hot dish for the children's lunch In rural school, Is a problem that has been worked on by parents, teachers and school boards alike, because be-cause they all realize how much good this can do the children, especially iu severe weather. Its simple solution Is found when a pressure cooker Is added to the school, equipment, because In this way the" food can be prepared quickly, inexpensively inex-pensively and without adding a lot of extra work and responsibility to the teacher. Soup Is one of the best hot dishes to serve because it takes the place of beverage and at the same time affords af-fords a great deal of nourishment The bowl of soup should, of course, be supplemented by the child's own lunch box from home, with Its sandwich, fruit and nuts. Bake beuns are also good cooked this way. Before the close of school the teacher teach-er will ask some three or four children chil-dren to bring some one Item each to 2 - , I) I - i-? I P:' -:i contribute to the soup-pot a soup bone, a vegetablo chopped up, some beans soaked overnight, or whatever tomorrow's soup may call for. The parents' co-operation must first be won before this program can be started, start-ed, and then care must be taken to see that the children are called on for supplies In rotation. Staples such ns salt and other seasoning can be kept on hand. In the morning the Ingredients are placed Immediately In the cooker and thirty minutes before the soup Is to be served the pressure cooker la put on the fire over the stove If there la no other heat available. By using the pressure cooker soup which would otherwise require several hours simmering sim-mering can be prepared In half an hour and all the mineral salts and vltamlnes will be preserved instead of boiled away. The resourceful teacher will have no difficulty In getting the children Interested In-terested in helping and will make this an opportunity to teach them lessons In co-operation and personal responsibility respon-sibility as well as the more concrete lessons of simple cooking, the elements, ele-ments, of food chemistry and the necessity for right eating. The Increased In-creased alertness and attentlvenens of her well-nourished pupils will more than repay the costs and effort Involved. In-volved. (. National School ot Pruaura Cooking.) |
