Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1910-02-17
From the Kansas city Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
Roasts that are roasted u never
steers: outlets not cut from sportire
calves; steaks that are mistakes and
sausages never within a stones throw
OF a squeal, all may be had for the
cooking of q few vegetables. mixed
With ingredients not down on the
unfair list" of the union meat boy
cotters. A Knowledge of these things
will enable amateur vegetarians to look
the coming 80 days of anti-meat hope
fully in the face. secure in substitutes.
There are cook books and cook books.
Also vegetarian cook books. Mary
Pope, an E-nglishwoman very strong for
the vegetable cart has written a
cook books called vegetarian avour-
les" In introducing it she writes:
Il have chiefly endeavored to meet
the requirements of those who, being
wisllfu, to give up flesh eating. are at
entrees to which they nave been ac-
customed. some people have no rou-
BILE in making so radical a change OF
diet: others many difficult
ties"
A good many of those who "en-
counter difficulties," may very likely be
found in Kansas City within the next
fortnight. for it is estimated fully 10000
persons will be setting up the spirit
against flesh. which. in this case. may
not prove particularly weak. Thirty
days isn't so very long, sometimes,
but
Well. Vegetarian %Savouries'' con-
tains many a recipe designed by the
author to fill an aching void for expert
mentally inclined persons With a Lean
ing toward sirloins n chops.
Now, There Are Beans.
And. before presenting the substi-
tutes for meat proposed in Vegetarian
S%avouries." the attention OF the hest
tating boycotter is directed to the voice
of science concerning the relative nutri-
tive values contained in the M
vegetables and meats. According to
Messrs. Fresenius. Church. Wolff and
other European analysts. h savorY
and seductive steak has precious little,
il anything. on the succulent bean
fact, the advantage lies with The Poor
Mans Beef Steak" us somebody has
dubbed thai essentially Boston product
Nitrogen is ordinarily taken to con
stitute the most important portion OF
any food. According to a table com
piled from the analyses of the hemfS
above mentioned, beans show a per
centage of 30.8 heterogeneous matter
against 1913 per cent in prime lean beef
string beans come next, having 25.5 pc
cent to put opposite the 1873 of leal
mutton, while %lentils. with 25.2, ant
SIlSdN ISdS, COIllGtIllIlls, 500. III -NSC'
in nitrogen fat beef and fat mutton
with 1913 and 12.4 per cent. respectively
But these are merely plain. cold fig
ures. i'll calculated to combat a longins
for the odorous %fieshpots of ~ante-boycot
days. and 1t is we'll to turn the leaves o
Vegetarian Savouries" toward substi
tntes for roasts, outlets, steaks-aye
and even sansages. For it's all in th
"SaVouries."
The Viennese Roast.
First FOR the roast. termed by TIN
author OF .%Savouries'' the piece de re
sistamce of the vegetarian table," cvel
as roast beef and other '"cnt-and-com
again joints of yorc gladdened TN
heart of the diner and eventually tight
ened his waistcoat. Here is the recip
for Nienn0se roast. White string beans
6 ounces: red lentils. 4 ounces; maca
roni, 4 ounces; bread crumbs. 4 ounces
tomatoes. n can: 1 small packet vege
table soup powder; . eggs; 2 ounce
vegetable at. 2 ounces fine sage; chop
ped peel of L lemon; a little mint an
lemon thyme, salt and pepper.
t Here's the way you fix it: Soak tn
: beans over night and skin them. Coo
them and the lentils. separately, in ju:
e enough water to make them tende
Stew the macaroni with the herbs, len
y on peel. tomato and a very little waite
Ii Mix together in a BOWL with the ia
crumbs, dry sage. eggs and soup pc"
o der. Press into a mold or shallow pi
dish. and bake brown.
d This Looks Good, Too.
i, Or here's another called Royal roas'
!. Butter beans. 4 ounces: red lentils,
y ounces; macaroni (smalD, . ounce:
grated bread, 3 ounces; tomatoes.
ounces: abilene. ? ounces; 2 eggs; Sc;
sonings. ] lemon peel. grated. l table
spoonful Yorkshire relish, ~ teaspoo,
'r tuls celery salt, . teaspoonfuls leme
"a thyme. Prepare and cook same as Y
enneSe roast.
A Vegetarian Outlet.
'e Now about those outlets. Probab
$ You thought the name put them Gle;
y outside the pale OF vegetarianism. N
so-iust look at this mushroom and e'
dish: -Four hard boiled eggs: Ne poun'
y, field mushrooms; q tab~lespoonfuls w
rs ter; a little rice -four; ] ounce butte
~ salt. and the nodus operandi: Peel q
s. -