Show use nuts in winter menu nuts will provide many hearty and delicious dishes for winter menus because they are nourish ling ing specially rich in oil and because they are adapts J to different cooking menus says miss myrtle davidson of the utah state agricultural college extension service A nut loaf makes a good main dish for a winter meal the most successful loaf mixtures contain I 1 chopped nuts chopped raw vegetables a cereal such as rice or breadcrumbs bread crumbs with a thick sauce to bind the ingredients together chopped celery green pepper or raw carrots provide the crips texture in the mixture the merld met method ld is to mix nuts vegetables aid cereal or bread c crumbs in t the le thick sauce mold into a loaf pack tightly in a well oiled loaf pan lined with paper and bako bake in a moderate oven for an hour chopped peanuts carrots and bread crumbs with tomato sauce make a delicious loaf as do da chopped pecans and rice miss davidson says nuts also make excellent cro co quetter if the mixture is softer and more moist than that used for a loaf mashed potatoes potatoe or cooked cereal may make the base a for nut croquettes croquet tes nuts may be used to give extra nourishment flavor to almost any recipe for bread bead or cake but they may be placed in boiling water and drained before be being ng added to the other in ingredients because nuts in a baked mixture tend to absorb moisture aal make the finished product dry an unusual use for chopp chopped nuts is in pie crust pecan nuts are substituted for half the fat in the ordinary pie crust recipe is then mixed as for plain pastry this crust is especially espe cally good with a cream or custard filling says miss davidson |