New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-17
Meat Substitutes Cost
More than Meat Itself

egg for each pint OF the mixture. II very
st!n add also A little milk. Either butter
or bacon Fat can be used 10 enrich the
vegetables After they nre we'll blended.
either form into small cakes and fry. or
pack in a pan and bake 20 q light brown.
Serve the fried cakes with a tomato sauce
sliced cucumbers with vinegar and salt 20
finely with the baked ones.
To make the mixture the main portion OF
a dinner pack II down In a fairly deep
broad dish. make dcpresslons all over the
top. each big enough TO hold broken egg
Break an egg I'm each, dust 10 with salt and
pepper. then cover the whole surface rather
thickly with grated cheese and bake NJ
teen minutes In a moderate oven. on the
eggs may be hard boiled. cut in halves.
then set cut side W. in the mixture. sea
soned. not forgetting a dot Of butter I'm
each. and covered with the cheese Here
there is a suggestion for using a very little
cold meat Mince IL fine, mix IL well
through mashed potato. th"n pack and add
eggs and seasoning As before directed.
Grated checse ig indeed. a very present
help in making things tasty So Is plain
cheese. sliced very thin, and laid on top % A
Boil full-grovn green peas slowly IN uu-
saited water until very soft. mash through
A colander. season the pulp with salt pep
per. a little butter or cream, and II liked
pinch Of herbs-unless you have boiled a
mint sprig with the peas. Mix the seasoned
pulp the same as meat through 4 croquette
batter shape. roll I'm bread crumbs. chill
and fry as usual or the pulp, highly sea
soned with the addition Of minced onion
and tomatoes stewed thick. may be served
in patty shells. or baked between layers Of
buttered bread I'm a deep dish, with grated
cheese on top. For such use thin the pulp
with milk until II runs easily. Folk with a
relish for onions will Ike the dish better II
there IS at least one layer Of that vegetable
thinly sliced about midway between top and
bottom.
Vegetable soup that is ? meal IN itself
can be made with a basis OF fat bacon or
pork This is wisdom remaining from the
Civil War time-a friend used to the most
generous living, fed family Of thirteen
six months on six pieces Of bacon. less than
seventy pounds in all The meat was cut
very carefully and not A soap, even the
tiniest wasted. 1t was fried, not crisp. I'm
the beginning, at the bottom Of the soup
pot. Then water was added. also salt pep
per and parsley. and the whole simmered
three-quarters OF an hour Vegetables
pared and sliced or qusrtered were added
serially-drst white potatoes, next cabbage,
onions. beans-string beans-sheled black
eyed peas. asparagus in season. sliced tur-
nlps, when they came in The mass was
simmered slowly until everything was ten
der Okra. II TO be had was sliced thin
and put In twenty minutes before serving
Green corn. cut from the COP. went in after
the okra When tomatoes grew plenty, they
were added pee"d and sIic.d, along with
the onions. a lump of butter in the tureen
improved the brew. but It was good, very
good without IT. And after two plates ~ II
one really had not room for much else-ex-
cept. maybe. watermelon or peaches.