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Why Eggs Are Good Food

By EDITH M. BARBER

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Egge, are among the most de servedly popular foods. In summer Becausó they are at their best... they are generally lower in price, and also because we think of them as comparatively light foods, use them more during the summer season than at any other time. As I. have mentioned before, the terms light and heavy are not actually ap- plicable for use in food descriptions. It is true, however, that in warm

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EGGS BENEDICT

cup butter.

2 egg yolks,

1 tablespoon lemon juice. Cayenne.

3 English muffins, spilt and toast- ed, or 6 slices toasted bread.

6 slices ham.

6 poached eggs.

not

Add

Divide the butter into two por- a smail weather, when appetites lag, eggs tions, but one piece in

and sometimes seem to furnish nourish-saucepan with the egg yolks

enjoyable lemon juice, hold the saucepan over ment in a particularly

a larger one containing hot, form.

boilding, water and stir constantly until the butter is melted.

and Eggs rank next to milk as far as the second portion of butter

Remove their contributions to nutrition stir until sauce thickens. are concerned. Most of the food from heat and season with cayenne. Arrange on each half of toasted value is in the yolk which contains

ham, English muffin a piece of most of the minerals and vitamins which has been frizzled in a frying as well as a small amount of fat. pan for a few minutes, and on this! Pour the Both egg yolk and white supply pro- drop a poached egg. tein in a form which is both effici-Hollandaise over and serve.

ent and rapidly digested. While eggs have less calcium, they contain more icon than does milk and for this reason one food; "supplements the other.

EGGS IN CASES

12 slices of bacon.

1

-6 eggs.

1 teaspoon salt.

1/4 teaspoon pepper.

Bread crumbs.

Toast. Place bacon in muffin tin to form a case for egg. Drop in egg, dust with salt, pepper and bread crumbs.

long Although there was for a time prejudice against hard-boiled eggs, it has been found that eggs in this form rank with eggs cook- ed by other methods. Raw eggs which chce were used to a large ex- tent in the diet of invalids should be thoroughly beaten for the sake Set in moderate oven and let cook of complete absorption.

until set. Serve on toast.

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Hot Pots For Summer

or

and Hot-Pot on the menu on a coldish Cut ham into neat pieces day sets the heart rejoicing, and the place them in a casserole. Sprinkle savoury steam and the aroma of with sugar and onion. Lay the ap aliced herbs. vegetables and meat that ples on the top, then the

Season with salt and arises when the lid is removed from potatoes.

stock Pour in the the casserole is the best of aperi-pepper. tives. Many housewives are in-water, put on the lid and cook for Add a little more stock clined to regard these good sustain- 11⁄2 hours. ing hot-pots as meant for the dark during the cooking, and remove the months of the year. When adapted lid a few minutes before serving to of allow the potatoes to brown.—Test- to the summer days by the use

re-ed by Mrs. Owens, 29, Cheyne-gar- the lighter meats, poultry and course to a choice of tender young dens, Liverpool. vegetables, the summer hot-pot can charm the eye as well as please the palate.

It is a mistake to rule out hot food entirely when the temperature

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TOMATO BRAEDE

This South African speciality re-

mounts up.

A popular maitre de quires lean lamb cutlets to each of cuisine at a fashionable. London which allow two good-sized toma-

toes, thinly sliced. hotel startled the restaurant guests some years ago by insisting on ser- Butter a deep stewjar and put a ving a consomme hot and strong on layer of tomato at bottom, then a the warmest days. People want layer of cutlets, seasoning well with stimulus, this expert explained, the salt and pepper between each layer. heat exhausted them, and cold food Fill up to two-thirds of stewjar alone was inadequate.

HAM HOT-POT.

with alternate layers, put on lid and stand in moderate oven for 172. hours if a small jar or two hours if fairly large one. Remove from oven and fill up with small

new

One lb of ham, 2 sliced apples, 1lb potatoes. Cover again and cook of potatoes, I chopped onion, 1 des slowly for one more hour. No sertspoonful of brown sugar, 1 gill water is required as juice from to- of stock or water, salt and pepper. Imatoes is sufficient to cook,

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