The Washington times., 1913-10-26

gravy poured over il. In any case it
should be served with hot gravy. which
should be made spicy with garlic or
bay leaf seasoning.
Some Specimen Recipes.
Potato pie-Ingredients used: Two
pounds of potatoes, boiled or mashed;
one-and- -one-fifth pounds of beef. diced: i:
one-third pound onions, Drowned; few
slips of parsley.
Season the mashed potatoes with pep
per and salt, put a layer of potatoes
about half an inch thick in a vegetable
dish, roll the beef in flour, season with
salt and pepper, and fry brown in lit
tie fat: brown the onions and mix with
the beef; add a little beef stock and
cook for about fifteen minutes; place
thin layer of chopped onions inside of
the layer of potatoes in the vegetable
dish; till up with the mixture of meat:
chop a little parsley, very fine and
spread over it. Place a layer OF mash
ed potatoes on the top and round off
nicely. Grease well and bake until
nicely Drowned. Serve hot in the dish
in which baked
and one-half pounds inions. medium
|, size: one-third pound toasted bread
crumbs; three-fourth pound meat
scraps; three-fourth pound bread scraps.
Peel the onions and dig out the cen
| ter from the top end. leaving shell
MeanYhile prepare dressing. using the
meat and bread. and stuff each onion
! full. Sprinkle the toasted bread crumbs
! in a well creased bake pan and place
| the onions IN the pan; grease we'll over
/ the top and bake forty minutes in a
| medium oven. Serve hot with chilli OF
! tomato sauce poured over it.
! Apple rolIs-1ngredients used: Two
! thirds pound flour: one-third pound
/ lard; one-and-one-quarter pints ste"ed
apples.
Prepare the dough the same as for
pies, and the apples the same as for
! apple pies, but little drier; roll the
dough into strips about seven inches
| wide and a little longer than the width
! of the pan: Sci the farther end of the
pan up about four inches from the
: able: spread one OF the strips of dough
! across the lower end of the pan and
/ place the apples for one roll on this
| strip; fold the farther side of the strip
! Of dough over toward YOU and then
! fold the nearer side from YOU, tucking
| it under tie roll. Continue making the
| rolls in the same manner. rolling them
| up like cigarette, and placing them in
! succession beyond the previous one
I made. When the pan is filled trim off
| the ends with a knife. In no case should
! the rolls be over three inches thick.
! Bake about forty minutes in a fifteen
J count oven. cut lengthwiSc of the pan
( into pieces about three inches long.
! Serve hot or cold with a cream sauce.
/ in. vegetable dishes Any kind of
| stewCd fruit may be substituted for the
| apples, and the rolls named according
! ly.
( There are Just 2Jl recipes of this kind.
! all prepared by army cooks, and all can =
rying as careful instructions. In addi-
/ ton there are detailed instructions for
baking bread, in which the army cooks
| at the Washington Barracks school can
! well claim 10 be experts. when II Is con-
sidered that they bake 7G0 two-pound
loaves of bread every day in the year:
! There is no waste in the army kitch-
ems The garbage cans never contain
| anything but potato Feelings, coffee
| and tea grounds and matter of which
no use could be made. The left
/ overs" from meals are done over
I again, but the officers of the mess
! try to keep down the amount of food
returned to the kitchen by caution
ing the soldiers not to pile their
plates too high. And anyway. soldiers
are such husky" eaters that there
is seldom much to go back TO the
! kitchen.
The army cooks 60 to greater pains
in the preparation of a meal than
! most cooks do says Quartermaster
Scrgt. Francis BanSert. who Is IN
active charge of the Washington
stance, in boiling cabbage they take
off the first water. to get rid OF the
! poisons that form. Then when the
! cabbage is boiling with the second
| water they Keep the nd OF the pol
to allow the gases to escape. When
they cook beans, which is often, they
are thoroughly soaked and then hull
ed. by rubbing the beans between
the hands. 1t is the hull Of the bean
that is indigestible. We learned from
! the Filipinos the advantage OF hull
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