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It's easy to produce. wholesome and palatable meals when you have as much money as you need to spend. But if you ́ häven't then the need for economy of eat- ing leads into. a rut and appe- tites lag from the sheer monotony of eating the same food done in the same way over and over dish.
Unusual seasonings, however, can do so much for every meat dishes:
Here's a Chili Con Carne that calls for pork in place of beef and adds corn and okra in place of the traditional beans, "
Chill Con Carne
One and one-half pounds lean pork: 1/3 cup flour, 1 teaspoon salt, teaspoon pepper, 1 clove garlle, 1 cup sifted tomatoes, I cup water, 1 cup corn. cut from. cob, 1 cup okra cut in diamonds, 1 tablespoon" chili powder.
Remove fat from pork and fry out in frying pan. Cut lean meat in small cubes and toss in flour which has been mixed with salt and pepper. Mince garlic and add to hot pork fat. Saute repared niest in hot fat until brown. Mix chili powder to a smooth past with about 1 table- spoon water and add to tomatoes and water which have been heat- ed to the boiling point. Put a layer of meat in casserole, cover, with a layer of corn and okra and then another layer of meat. 'Con- tinue layer for layer until all is used, Pour over tomato mixture, cover casserole and bake in a moderate" oven for two hours or
until meat is tender. Serve from casserole.
Casserole of Hamburg and Potatoes
This meat and vegetable combi- nation depends on powdered sage and crushed bayleaf for its sea- soning.
One pound round steak ground. 1 teaspoon powdered sage 1 crushed bayleaf, 4 to 8 potatoes, 2 medium sized onions, 1 ten- spoon salt, 1 teaspoon pepper, 2 cups canned tomatoes, 2 table- spoons butter, paprika.
Trim suet" from beef steak and fry out fat. Put steak through food chopper and season with *ige, baylerf, salt and pepper. Brown quickly in hot fat. Put a layer of thinly sliced potatoes in casserole. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and cover with, a layer of meat.
Add a layer of onions thinly sliced and cover with i layer of tomatoes. Continue layer or layer until all fa used, putting dots of butter on each layer pota- toes. Make the top layer of
•potatoes and sprinkle with papri- ka: Cover and bake two hours
In a moderate - oven, · removing cover for last half hour tó, brown” top.
Mest and Tomato Pie
Two cups chopped tomatoes, 2 tablespoons flour, 2 tablespoons bacon Mat, 1 tablespoon grated. onion, 1 tablespoon, minced pars- ley, 1 teaspoon salt, † teaspoon pepper, 2 cups chopped meat of any kind, 1 cup flour, 1 egg, tablespoons shortening.
Try One Of These Appetizing
Salads On Hot - Weather
Potato Salad
Menus
4 cups cold boiled potatoes
I chopped onion
1 cucumber or two pickles.
cupFrench dressing
4 slices cooked bacon
Cooked salad dressing
Cut the potatoes into dice or allces add the onion and sliced cucumbers or pickles. Mix with the French dressing and bacon. Mix with and chill.
the salad dressing, serve on lettuce and gar- nish with parsley. Celery cut into cubes or celery seed may be used with the other ingredients if desired...
Jellied Vegetable Salad
2 tablespoons gelatin
cup cold water
2 cups boiling water
cup sugar
1 teaspoons salt
cup vinegar.
1 chopped onion
cup shredded cabbage
1 cup diced celery
2 tablespoons chopped pimien-
tos
2 tablespoons chopped olives Soak gelatin in cold water Stir in boiling water, -sugar, and salt. Add vinegar, chill until mixture begins to thicken. Pour into a mold in alternate layers with the vegetables. Chill-in re- frigerator until set, turn out on platter and garnish with jelly." lettuce and mayonnaise. Any combination of vegetables or fruit may be used with this foundation. Fruit juice may replace part of the boiling water.
Tomato Jelly.
i can tomato soup.
1 cup boiling water
2 tablespoons gelatin
cup cold, water
Seasoning
Combine tomato soup with boll- ing water. Soak gelatin in cold water and stir into hot mixture. Add seasoning to taste, chill in.. refrigerator until set. (Any or all of the following seasonings may be used: I teaspoon sugar, teaspoon salt, 8 cloves. seed, or a bay leaf),
1 celery.
spoon salt. cup milk, 2 tea- spoons baking powder.
Heat bacon fat and sdd meat. tir and cook until brown. Stir over flour and mix thoroughly. Add tomatoes, onion and parsley and bring to the boiling point. Season with salt and pepper and pour into a well buttered baking dish. Mix and sift flour, salt and baking powder and dub in shor- tening. Beat egg until light and add with milk, cutting it into flour with a knife. Spread rough- ly over mixture in baking dish which has been baking. In a hot” oven for fifteen minutes. Reduce heat to moderate (375 degrees F.) and bake thirty mmutes longer, until crust is well done and brown. Serve from baking dish.
'HEAT WAVE”
MEALS
Here are some "heat wave" sug-. gestions for the evening meal which may be helpful alike to the hostess or the housewife faced with family catering." They make cool beginnings for summer dinners.
CUCUMBER BASKETS-
Choose large cucumbers, peel them and cut into three-inch. lengths. Make these into bas- kets, leaving a handle on top. and scooping out the seeds with a sharp knife.
Cut a piece from underneath. so that they will stand.
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Frozen Cheese and Fruit
1 cream cheese
cup mayonnaise
tablespoon lemon juice
i teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons
apple
cup nut meats
crushed
1 bananas, sliced
cup whipping cream
pine-
Combine cheese, mayonnaise, lemon juice and salt. Mix in pineapple and nuts. Fold in bananas and whipping cream. Turn into refrigerator tray and freeze 4 hours. Blice" and serve on lettuce with French dressing..
Cottage Cheese Salad
paund cottage cheese cup minced chives or onions
1 teaspoon paprika
Cream
Add seasoning to cheese and add cream. to soften Pack in a small greased bowl or mold. Chill in refrigerator en hour or more. Serve
with a
vegetable salad. Cream cheese may replace cot- tage cheese,
Variations: arrange spoonful of current or guava jelly around mold. Make cheese mixture into balls and serve in a bowl of let- tuce dressed with sweet-sour dressing.
Ham Bolls
pound cottage cheese
1 tablespoon minced onion
teaspoon paprika
pounds sliced boiled ham Salt
Mix cheese with seasonings and form into small rolls. Wrap each in a slice or thin ham. Chill in refrigerator at least half an hour.- Serve with salad or as an appet-' szer.
Variations:
Two tablespoons
of Roquefort cheese may be mix- ed with the milder cheese instead of the minced onion,
Dried beef may replace the ham.
When ham roils are used for an appetizer, a toothpick may be in- serted in each roll.
SALMON BOATS
Large cucumbers are required for these, too, but this time cut in half lengthways, and cut. into boats. I
Line generously with thinly- sliced smoked salmon, and all. with a paste made by mixing chopped hard-boiled eggs with mayonnaise and anchovy paste. Decorate with strips of pimen- to.
LEMON PRAWNS
Fill grabe-fruits glasses with cracked ice, and allow half a large lemon for each péison.
Stick the sharp-prongs of the prawns into the lemon skin, and fill up all the space be- tween with paráley, covering the whole of the piece of le- Serve on the glasses of ice. ICED TOMATO COCKTAILS
Allow the juice of half a le- mon, a teaspoonful of tomato catsup, and half a teaspoonful of piquant sauce to each half- pint of tomato juice.
Fill small glasses with the iced mixture, and press into grape-fruit glasses of cracked ice Decorate with sprigs of parsley.
BRAISED BEEF
1 pounds top round beet
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
5 tablespoons fat" 14 cups water
1 cup diced carrots
Z tablespoons chopped onions
2 tablespoons chopped celery
- Whip beer with damp cloth and cut meat into one-inch pieces. Roll In flour, sprinkle with galt. Brown in fat heated in frying pan egga, a little cream, salt, pep-or kettle, Ada water and lid. per, and paprika. Fill the bas
Chop, some prawns, mix with chopped yolks of hard-boiled,
cook 20 minutes. Stir frequently
kets with the mixture, and put - add, rest of ingredients, cook 10
in the ice box to become very cold Berve or rounds of but- tered bread, bordered, with pink mayonnaise.
minutes. Mix 2 tablespoons dour with 21 tablespoons butter and add. to mixture cook until creamy and a little thick. Btir constantly,
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