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Show . mi Wwtara NawaDaoe Ualeo.1 The nu who work and eiecte and analyiea and purpose!, la the mi who iuccd aa the world eounti uccena jral II la nont the leaa (rut that A dreamer Uvea forever, And a toller diet In a day. Martha Baker tunn. SUMMER FOOD Fitsh when fresh and ulecly cooked makes an Ideal warm weather food. It Is easily digested, digest-ed, not loo concentrated con-centrated at It contains a large per cent of water, making a most desirable food for the main dish. The following are -suggestions for different menus, as fish Is not served twice In the same menu : Crab Cocfctall. I'lace chilled crab meat In cocktail glasses and pour over the following sauce: Cocktail Sauce. Tak four tuble-spoonful tuble-spoonful of tomato catsup, two table-spoonfuls table-spoonfuls of lemon Juice, one-h-lf tea-spoonful tea-spoonful of tabasco sauce, one-fourth easpoonful of minced olives, one-eighth one-eighth teaspoonful ol salt and one ten-spoonful ten-spoonful of freshly grated horseradish. horserad-ish. Mix well. The tabasco sauce may be lessened and more ol the horseradish added. Smothered Fish. Take two cupfuls ol cooked flaked fish, add one cupful of white sauce, one tablespoonful of minced parsley and the same of green pepper. Meanwhile cook one and one-half one-half cupfuls of l until tender. Drain. Line a thickly buttered oval mold with rice, packing It In closely, then add the fish, .cover with more rice, put on the cover of the mold tud set In a steamer and steam forty-five forty-five minutes. Tip out and serve. Fish Souffle. Take two eupfuls of cooked or canned fish flaked, add one tablespoonful of minced parsley, one and onehalf cupfuls of thick white sauce, one teaspoonful of grated onion. Beat three egg yolks and add to the mixture, season with salt and pepper and fold In the at ffly beaten whites. . ur Into a well buttered pudding dish, set In a pan of hot water and bake In a medium oven until firm In the center. Serve at once with any desired sauce. Raspberry and Currant Ice. Make a sirup by boiling one quart of water with two cupfuls of sugar, twenty rain utes. Mash raspberries to make three-fourths three-fourths of a cupful of Juice, add the same of mashed currants. Squeeze through a cheese cloth, and add the cooled sirup and freeze. Strawberry Pie. Bake a pastry shell and fill with chopped and sweetened sweet-ened strawberries, cover with a thick coating of light, sweetened whipped cream, chill and serve. Hints and Things, j During the hot weather when there nre men working In the fields or other places in the hot sun, serve them with a good cool drink. Take a gallon Jug, cover cov-er with two thicknesses of asbestos as-bestos paper, tying ty-ing It securely, then cover with burlap, sewing It on. Fill the Jug with cold water, cork tlg-Uly and dampen the burlap, and you will have cold water for half a day. This will answer the purpose of the expensive thermos Jug or bottle. Doctor McCollum calls milk and leafy vegetables our "protective foods;" be advises eating, by everybody, every-body, every day, two salads of fresh raw uncooked fruits or vegetables. One to be eaten at luncheon or noon and the other at night Everyone should have every day, one quart of milk or Its equivalent In cheese, or such dishes as custards. Ice cream Junket, cocoa, cream soups or vegetables, or milk toast For stil ii (is. there are raw toniiitoLh. raw carrots, grated or ground ; sliceil oranges with shredded coconut, raw tomatoes, to-matoes, radishes, green onions, cucum bers; plain lettuce, head lettuce, tonia to and egg pear ; grapefruit and tin tin nit. orange, apple and himtina. sal mini and oriuiye. raw cabliage and pin1 apple; lettuce with onion and nnlislifs mid celery will be good with any or all It is Important that we realize ttint a diet which lacks s-uflicienl quantities of vegetables, dtilry products and fruits, is unsafe There are four vititmlnes the teutj vegetables supply three of these Rat nig sufficient .quantity of protective foods iusures an adexiinte supply of three, and generally all four of the j vltnmlnes. Milk supplies three, and i if not heated or pnsturlzed. all four; i DeHdes these, milk npplles highly vnl unhle minerals needed to build bone and teeth The leafy vegetables he sides supplying mineral matter and vitanilnea add hulk, which tends tn prevent constipation It Is a great pity that so many ot the foods that children should have i to give them health and happiness in life are not urged upon them when hnbits are forming. We all need plenty of dairy prod-ncts. prod-ncts. leqfy vegetables, succulent fruits and a moderate amount of meal or fish, every day the year round. With all the lecturing, newspaper and magazine writing about foods, we still are far from knowing how to feed the human body to get the bert re suits. |