Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-21
WHAT TO DO WITH PEANUTS

The peanut can be made useful arti-
Gle of diet When peanut. butter was
first put on the market people flrst woke
up to the nutritive value of peanuts, ana
many persons who began to use peanut
butter when it first came out are using
it still Peanut butter sandwiches. made
of thiniy cut and lightly spread brown or
white bread, are nourishing. dsestible
and inexpensive and therefore have
many good qualities for those that like
them.
Peanut SOUP is one of the best peanut
dishes. and serves to vary the monotony |
of the usual round of home soups. TO
make it shell roasted peanuts enough 10
make two cupfus and then grind them
i'm vegetable grinder. Mix them with |
a quart of milk and two quarts OF water
and bring them to the boiling point. Ihen
pull them to the side of the stove or. IL
it is a gas stove. put them over the sim
mering flame. Add a couple of cut-up
onions and a cup-up stalk of celery and
simmer for two hours. At the end or
that time strain the soup add salt ana
pepper and teaspoonful of lemon juice,
and serve Immediately. Croutons are an
appetiZing addition to peanut soup.
To make saited peanuts-which. II well
made, almost equal almonds for piquancy
of taste-buy raw nuts. and remove the
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leave them in the boiling water long
enough to cook or soften them. but just
long enough to loosen the skins. Then
spread them in pie or cake pans and
sprinkle them with olive oil. Brown them
in medium oven. and then sprinkle
them with salt and put them on blotting
paper or brown paper to dry.
Peanut salad can be made in this way
Shell and skin the peanuts. roasted WELL
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parts of chopped celery hearts. Prepare
French dressing, made with three parts
of olive oil to one of vinegar and season.
ed with salt red pepper and a dash of
lemon juice, and mix the celery, nuts and
French dressing daintily but thoroughly
Arrange the mixture in mounds on white
lettuce leaves and serve chilled through.
Here Is an easy recipe for peanut
taffy: Put two cupfuls of sugar in
granite saucepan over the fire and heat
1t until ii turns brown and all melts. 1t
must not burn, but must brown through.
| 1t over shelled and skinned peanuts ar
ranged in buttered pans. Let it harden,
| when it should be brittle.
| Here is an easy recipe for peanut
candy: Mix a pound of brown sugar. a
cupful of water and a cupful of molasses.
| Boil this mixture until drop of 1t
| hardens in cold water Then add four
even teaspoonfuis of butter and three
| fourths of pound of shelled and skinned
peanuts Pour it into buttered dishes
| and let it harden
Peanut sandwiches can be made in
| many ways. Grind and pound peanuts
| to a paste, season them with salt and
lemon juice and spread them between
whole wheat or white bread. lightly but
tered. Mince peanuts. salt them we'll,
| spread them between slices of white
| bread and butter and garnish with
! watercress. Mash and pound the nuts to
| a paste and moisten with mayonnaise
| before spreading between bread and but
| ter Chop peanuts fine and mix with an
! equal quantity of chopped stuffed olives,
| moistened with cream or mayonnaise and
| spread between slices of white bread and
| butter.