Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-12-23

the products Of our neighbor in the
country, who can give us better stuff
for the same price because there is
no shipping expense attached to it..
The fault Of our farmers having no
better market for their surplus crop
is not with the merchant generally,
but with the consumer. He must
keep what We demand in order to
Fay his rent.
Hcw much wisdom in that request
that we eat an Arkansas Christmas
dinner.
''The ightest wave CT Influence set
in moticn Widens and extends to the
eternal shores"
If We would individually and collec
lively heed that admonition, within
a very short while We would cease
to import common everyday eatsDles,
and have enough to supply ourselves
and export to others who haven't our
opportunity to feed themselves. in
stead of importing now $20,eo0.0o
worth Of canned goods and the same
amount Of meats.
Here are some menus that every
family having the ground at their
command should grow at home:
For the Practical Dinner.
Cream of Tomato Soup.
Crackers Radshes
Roast Chicken and brown gravy
CAandied Vans Apple Sauce
Mashed Potatoes
Green Beans (canned) Corn Bread
Hot Rolls
Fruit Salad With Nuts
Pumpkin Pie Buttermilk
Jam Cake Sassafras Tea
GrGwn-in- Arkansas Christmas Dinner.
Celery Radishes
Consomme aux Crotons
Baked White River Black Bass
Tomato Gelatine Bread Sticks
Roast Turkey with Dressing
Mint Ice Dixie Biscuits Sloe jelly
Mashed Potatoes
Scalloped Cauliflower
Cctt3ge Cheese
Sweet Breads and Dreamed Peas in
Timbales
Beaten Biscuits Gherkins
Broiled Quail On Toast
Poinsetti Salad
Arkansas Plum Pudding and Hard
Boiled Sauce
Fruit Cake Sweet Cider
Rye-o Coffee Cheese Straws
Homemade Candy Pecans
Tomato Gelatin.
Tomato gelatine is made just as
lemon gelatine except that a can OF
tomatoes is rubbed through the col
ander and steamed and the juice used
with jello instead of using the lemon
juice.
Pour into small molds to harden
or into a baking powder can and cut
in slices and lay on parsley Or celery
tops.
A good substitute for cranberry
sauce is the sloe jelly or sauce made
from species of wild plum much
like the cranberry.
Scuppernong jelly is also a good tart
substitute as we'll as plum and APP
pie.
Poinsetta Salad.
Mix grated cheese, chopped nuts
and little pepper and butter aud
roll into balls about the size Of a
hickory nut. This makes center OF
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leaf. then arrange around this slices
of ripe tomatoes on lettuce leaves
and garnish with rich yellow salad
dressing, either the mayon1Naise or
the old-fashioned kind made OF hard
boiled eggs.
Water Lily Salad may be made by
using slices of canned pears for the
petals instead of the tomatoes.
Arkansas Plum Pudding.
One cupful bread crumbs; | cupful
flour; cupful brown sugar; Il cup
| full Snowdrift; / teaspoonful salt;
| teaspoonfuls baking powder; l tea
| spoonful mixed spices; 3 eggs;
oupful milk; u cupful chopped figs;
| e cupful chopped candied citron;
cupful currants; u cupful candied
carrots; II cupful chopped pecans.
Mix flour with breacrumhs salt
baking powder, spices and sugar. Add
| Snowdrift, nuts, fruits, milk, and
teggs well beaten.
Put in pudding bowl level full, COW
err with several thicl1nesses of cloth
dipped in boiling water and Toured
tie well so that water cannot get IL
sink in boiling water for or ) hours