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Of Agriculture Gives Suggestions Thanksgiving

"something different" in the way of
meat for the gala occasion will well
come the following mock wild duck
recipe:
Ingredients ! flank steak Or IL pounds round
steak cut u inch thick; lamb kidneys; Y cup
butter drippngs; " cup cracker crumbs;
tablespoonful minced onion: salt pepper and pow
dered thyme sage aud savory; . tablespoOnfuls
flour; l tablespoonful sugar; cupfuls water or
stock.
Trim the kidneys of all fat, cords and
veins. Cut into small pieces and spread
evenly over one side of the steak, to-
gether with the crumbs. onions and sea-
sonings. Roll and tie with cord. Brown
the roll in fat, then remove and make a
gravy by heating the -four in the fat
and adding three cupfuls of stock or
water. and the sugar. Put the meat
into the gravy and cook slowly until
tender in a covered baking dish,
steamer, or a fireless cooker. If steam
ed or cooked in fireless cooker the
roll should be Drowned in the oven be-
fore serving
Mock rabbit is another out-of- the-or-
dinary dish. The recipe for this is:
Ingredients: u pound round steak and / pound
sausage ! pound round steak and V pound
sausage meat 3 slices of bread, moistened with
water: I egg; onion: pound salt pork: pepper
and salt.
Chop the meat. Chop the onion and
cook (but do not brown it in the fat
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heat in the oven until it is delicate
brown, stirring frequently. Make the
nut cream by mixing peanut butter
with cold water and heating. 1t should
be of the consistency of thick cream.
While the nut cream is hot. stir in the
cornmeal, which should also be hot
Beat thoroughly. The mixture should
be of such consistency that it can be
dropped from a spoon. Bake in small
cakes on creased pan.
If preferred, these biscuits may be
made with cream or with butter in
place of peanut cream, and chopped raj
sins may be added one cup being the
allowance for the quantities given
above.
Cornmeal can be utilized in different
ways than for biscuit purposes. Blocks
of fried cornmeal mush are sometimes
served with roast pork. and are a com
mon accompaniment of fried chicken.
in the southern states. The
mush is made by the usual method is
cooled and cut into slices. and fried a
delicate brown either in a creased pan
or in deep fat.
Chicken and Cornmeal Croquettes.-
One cup white cornmeal mush, one cup
chicken, few drops onion
juice. one egg, salt and pepper.
Combine the ingredients and drop
by spoonfuls into hot fat.
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HIHE question rarely arises
III whether or not the various
III dishes on the Thanksgiving
q menu are digestible. whether
they are particularly economical and
whether they contain the proper
amount of nutriment. Discretion and
conservatism in eating, it seems. are
utterly disregarded on that day And
OF the morning after the reckless diner
often finds that he is suffering from a
bad attack OF indigestion.
He wouldn't have to thus pay the
piper had he studied some of the tested
recipes prepared in connection with the
nutrition Investigations of the Office of
home economics. Department of Agri-
culture.
And, what's more. he would have de-
rived far more nourishment from them
FOR great deal less money than it
cost him to provide the big, indigesti
Bile Thanksgiving dinner he did eat.
These recipes, number of which fol-
low later. were collected from many
sources, teachers of home economics In
agricultural colleges and other educa-
tional institutions and various house
keepers helping to supply the data
They were studied eXperimentally by
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were better informed on these pros
poets than were investors in the United
States.
Russia's resources are reasonably we'll
known to students of international eco
nomics, and to the investing public of
England. France. Holland and Germany.
Since the war, something of them has
become known in the United States. but
there is still a wide field for informa-
ton.
Agriculture is the principal resource,
both that of the forest and that of the
soil. but the mineral wealth is also
vast.
In 1912. out of exports totaling
$3.50, 100000, the agricultural exports
amounted to s550,000,0O0. That is about
the relative proportion, though it is
assumed that after peace is restored
the development of the mines will in
crease the ratio of mineral exports.
The leading cereal crops are wheat,
rye, barley and oats.
The production of wheat during a
five-year period ending with 1913 aver
aged above 550,000,O0O bushels annu-
ally. Some years it exceeds the bumper
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stuff them with bread crumbs fried in
butter, instead of depending upon the
gravy to season them.
No Thanksgiving dinner is complete
without cranberries a very good recipe
for preserves made from cranberries
and honey. which will remain in good
condition for a long time, follows:
Take equal weights of cranberries.
honey and water. Cook the berries in
the honey and water until the skins are
soft. Remove the berries and boil down
the sirup until just enough remains to
cover the berries. Pour into glasses and
cover as you would jelly. The appear
ance of the cranberries is improved if
each one is pricked several times before
cooking and if the cooking is slow at
first. This gives the sirup an opportu-
nifty to penetrate the berries without
destroying their form. A satisfactory
method is to place all the ingredients
in double boiler and heat them very
slowly. If this method is followed. the
boiling down of the sirup is even more
necessary than when the berries are
cooked more rapidly
A delicious salad dressing: Four egg
yolks, two tablespoonfuls vinegar or
two tablespoonfuls honey. one tea
spoonful mustard. one teaspoonful salt.
paprika to taste, one cupful cream.
Heat the cream in double boiler.
Beat the eggs. and add to them all the
other ingredients but the cream. Pour
the cream slowly over the mixture,
beating constantly. Pour it into the
double boiler and cook until it thick
ems. or mix all the ingredients but the
cream and cook in a double boiler until
the mixture thickens. AS the dressing
is needed combine this mixture with
whipped cream. This dressing is par
ticularly suitable for fruit salads.
For the Thanksgiving dessert the
following honey charlotte russo will
serve admira bly,: One quart cream, six
lady fingers, one-half cup delicately
favored honey.
Chill the honey by placing the dish
containing it in pan of ice water.
Whip the cream and add it to the
honey. mixing the two WELL Line dish
with lady fingers and fill it with the
honey and cream. Serve very cold.
Here is recipe for delicious ribbon
cake, utilizing candied honey for filling,
for the Thanksgiving dinner:
Ingredients: Half cup butter: cups sugar: 4
ssfns ground
in pieces; Y cup figs. finely chopped; tablespoon
honey.
Rub the butter and sugar together
and add the yolks of the eggs. Sift to-
gether the -four and baking powder and
them with the milk. Finally, add the
whites of the eggs well beaten. Bake
of the mixture in two layer
cake pans. To the remainder add
spices. fruit and honey, and bake in a
pan. Put layers together
with crystallized honey.
A dinner is never quite complete
without hot bread or biscuits of some
sort, and the following recipe for
parched cornmeal biscuits is an excel
lent one:
One cup yellow cornmeal, two tea
spoonfuls of salt. two cups peanut
cream
Put the meal into a shallow pan and
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beetS were free to export regardless of
their policies in regard to bounties
Russia has been able to seek a foreign
market for her beet sugar. and this en-
ters some years into the exports
though not as leading product.
Live stock resources are not suscep-
tible of an entirely accurate calcula-
tion, but five or six years ago, when an
effort was made to obtain full informa-
tion, the figures showed $4,000. 900
horses, 4S.0Oo.0Oo cattle. 81 200. 900 sheep
and goats and 100000 swine Hides
and skins are n leading export. as is
wool. Dairy products are also growing
exports.
The mineral products include both the
precious metals and the baser minerals,
Iron ore and coal. although their pro-
duction is extensive, are not produced
for export in great quantities, since the
economic policy of Russia encourages
utilizing them in native iron ana steel
industries. Similar use is made of the
copper that is found in some sections.
Manganese ore, especially in the eau
casus, is a profitable mineral product
for export. In normal times the ex-
ports approximate million tons an
nually.
The platinum found in the Ural noun
tains has almost a monopoly of the
worlds market. The only competition
being the limited output of Colombia,
in South America.
The prospective value of the gold
mines in Siberia and the Urals is as
much matter of guesswork as of sci
entific estimate. While there have been
some wild Siberian gold mine fotations
on the London market, large sums of
European capital and smaller sums of
American capital have found the ST.
berian mine investments satisfactory.
At one time Russia held the first rank
as a producer of petroleum. Increased
production in the United States has
taken that distinction from her, but the
output. which is chiefly that of the
Baku fields in the regions of the Black
sea and the Caspian, still ranges from
6S.000.000 barrels to 10000 900 barrels
annually. While the oil deposits can
not be considered one of Russia's unde-
veloped resources, they will continue to
be a national credit asset.
Russia's income in the past has been
derived more from internal taxes of
various kinds than from customs du-
ties. The customs duties have not
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OBTAINS Loans, With Her Allies as the
" Underlying Security AN Empire
With an Area of One-Seventh of the
Globes Land Surface and Population of
175,00O,O0O People-Anglo-French Loan
of $5OO,OOO,OOO Negotiated in the United
States Did Not Specifically Include Rus
sia, But 1t IS Understood That She Will
Indirectly Be Beneficiary Situation in
the Empire Somewhat Like That Which
Existed in the United States During the
Civil War.
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A number of the recipes include meat
prepared with starchy materials. Maca-
roni cooked with chopped ham, hash
made of meat and potatoes. or meat and
rice. meat croquettes made of meat
and some starchy materials like bread
crumbs, cracker dust or rice, are famil-
lar examples.
Turkish pilaf, dish very common in
the orient and well known in the
United States, is of this character and
easily made.
toes, stewed aud strained; l cup stock or broth
tablespoonfus of butter.
Cook the rice and tomatoes with the
stock in double boiler until the rice
is tender. removing the cover after the
rice is cooked. if there is too much
liquid Add the butter and stir 1T with
fork to prevent the rice from being
broken.
A little catsup or chill sauce, with
water enough to make three-quarters
of cup, may be substituted for the
tomatoes. This may be served as a
in the place of vegetable. or may
make the main dish at a meal, as it is
savory and reasonably nutritious.
Meat pies represent a method of COM
llOuT Will L.. Inc following
Is good ~ o'clock pie recipe:
1t Is made with shoulder of mutton,
boiled with carrot and onion. then cut
up. mixed with potatoes. separately
boiled and cut up, and put into a bak-
ing dish. The crust is made by mix
ing smoothly mashed potatoes. to
which tablespoonful of shortening
has been added. with enough -four and
water to make them roll out easily. A
pie made of a pound of meat will re-
quire five or six small boiled pota-
toes. a cupful of mashed potatoes and
eight or ten tablespoonfuls of -four. and
should be baked about twenty minutes
in a hot oven. Salt, pepper and other
seasoning, as onion and carrot. may
be added to taste. A teaSpoonful of
baking powder makes the crust lighter.
The following is a good recipe for
roast beef with Yorkshire pudding:
The beef is roasted as usual and the
pudding made as follows:
Three eggs. one pint milk, one cup
flour, one teaspoonful salt Beat the
eggs until very light. then add the
milk. Pour the mixture over the flour,
add the salt and beat well. Bake in
hissing-hot gem pans or in an Or
dinary baking pan for forty y-five min
utes. and baste with drippings from
the beef If gem pans are used they
should be placed on dripping pan to
protect the floor of the oven from the
fat. Many cooks prefer to bake York
shire pudding in the pan with the
meat; in this case the roast should be
placed on rack and the pudding bat
ter poured on the pan under it.
Among the recipes is found the fol-
lowing advice for preparing economical
meat salads which, incidentally, might
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reached s200.000,000 annually, and
usually have been considerably below
that. In the year before the war they
were s122,OO0,OO0.
The national budget estimates for
1914 provided for a total ordinary reve-
nue. of approximately $500. 00O, 900.
while that for 1915 provided for several
million less than $500, 100000. Out of
these estimates of revenues in either
year. between $500, 100000 and $780,
100000 were credited to state property
and capital and to reimbursement of
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M ISS CAROLINE L. HUNT Assistant in the Office of Home
A Economics, Studied Recipes Experimentaly- for
Typical New England Thanksgiving Dinner Includes Dishes That
Are "a Little DieentRecipes Collected From Many Sources
Teachers of Home Economics in Agricultural Colleges and Other
Educational Institutions and Various Housekeepers Helping to Sup
ply the Data
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bushels; oats, 97S.0O0.oOo bushels, and
barley, 466,000,0o0 bushels.
Flax and hemp are also counted as
leading agricultural asset Russia
ranks second of all the countries in the
world in their production. In a recent
year the exports of flax were valued at
$60.000,000. and of hemp $10.000,000,
while the value of linseed amounted to
10,500, 900.
The extent of the timber resources is
so great as to be difficult of adequate
description. The estimate is that in Eu
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British Marine Losses.

mURING the month of October the
W British Board of Trade received
reports of fifty-five lost English ves-
sells, a total tonnage of 41,971. OF these
twenty-five were sailing vessels and
thirty-three steam. Eight were re-
ported sunk by German warships and
one by a mine. The lives lost on them
number l0l.
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Menu for New England
Thanksgiving Dinner

oyster Soup Crisp Crackers
Celery. Salted Almonds.
Roast Stuffed Turkey
Giblet Gravy. Cranberry Jelly.
Mashed Potatoes. Turnips
Onions in Cream.
Chicken Pie.
Thanksgiving Pudding.
Sterling Sauce.
Mince. Apple and Squash Pie.
Vanilla Ice Cream.
Fancy Cakes.
Fruit Bonbons.
Nuts and Raisins.
Crackers. Cheese.
Cafe Noir
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VIEW OF MOSCOW.

said to approximate 1000, 900, 900 acres.
This undoubtedly constitutes the
worlds greatest timber reserve. It is,
in reality. very largely a reserve re-
source on which borrowing may be
based, since the timber exports at pres
ent are almost negligible.
Sugar beets are another agricultural
resource. About 100000 acres are un-
der cultivation. with production ap-
proximating 100000 tons Since the
Brussels convention was abrogated, and
the various countries producing sugar
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crop of the United States The bulk of
the crop, of course, is consumed by
Russia's vast population, yet there is
always surplus for export. This
usually runs above 10O.000,000 bushels.
The wheat crop for 1871 approximated
150, 100000 bushels. After provision
had been made for seeding and home
consumption, it was estimated that
nearly 150,00o,000 bushels were avail
able for export.
In the present stage of the great war
no one will venture to predict when the
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ropean Russia there are 474,000.00
900 acres, and in the Caucasus 100000
acres Poland has about 100000 acres,
but subtracting it and allowing for
possible excessive calculations there
would still seem to be above 500, 900, 900
acres of forest area in Russia, exclusive
of Siberia. How much Asiatic Russia
has cannot be accurately estimated, but
usually it is placed at not less than
ber area of the Russian empire may be
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time home economics has been intro
duced under that. name.
This home economics Office is the di-
rect outgrowth of the nutrition inves-
LEGATIONS office, but in future, instead
of studying only foods, it will also
study textiles and household manage
ment.
THE chief of the office is DR.. c. F.
Langworthy, who is so fortunate as tc
have associated with him Miss Helen
w. Atwarer. the daughter of Dr. O. w
AtWater, whose name is mentioned
whenever anything is said about the
study of nutritive values of foods in
this country.
"Other women in the department are
Miss Ilena Bailey, who is making a
thorough study of the amount of time
the housekeeper on the farm spends do
ing various household tasks. She is a
graduate of the University of Mis-
souri,.
Miss Whittelsey of Smith College and
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology Is making a special study of
textiles"
Owing to it's wide range of climate
and soil the United States produces the
staple foods in great variety and abun-
dance, as well as many of those which
are usually termed 'luxuries." For this
and other reasons the problem of Sc
lecting an ample and pleasing Thanks
giving day menu is simpler one than
in many countries where food materials
are less plentifully produced.
Recipes collected from many sources
have been tested experimentally, with a
few exceptions, by Miss Hunt; and
number of them follow. They may be
used to good advantage by the house
keeper who is anxious to serve palata-
BILE. economical and nutritious dishes
for her Thanksgiving dinner.
While many Thanksgiving diners
would not think their dinner complete
without turkey or fowl of some kind,
there are still others who depend on
some variety of meat to furnish the
principal part of their dinner. And
those who have the customary turkey
would not use any but their own tried
and true recipes. not desiring to .ex-
pertinent with a new recipe for the
preparation of the Thanksgiving fowl.
The housekeeper who wants to have
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This is the first time that there has
been such an Office specially designed
to help the housewife. of course. there
have always been different depart
ments in the Department of Agricul-
ture which have aided her. such as the
dairy division, which sees that she gets
pure milk. the bureau of chemistry,
the bureau of animal industry, which
takes care of her meat supply. and the
nutrition work; but this is the first
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PELOWSKI PALACE. MOSCOW.

will be opened. or when
Russia's surplus wheat crop will be
finding it's customary market in other
countries, but in any calculation of
Russia's economic prospects and of her
ability to meet her financial obligations
the wheat crop may be properly. con-
sidered as one of the great permanent
assets.
Rye, barley and oats are also export
crops. In 1912, which was a good agri-
cultural year. the production of rye in
the eastern provinces was 3S4,000,000
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Thanksgiving day supper the leftovers
from the Thanksgiving day dinner:
Whether meat salads are economical
or not depends upon the way in which
the materials are utilized. If In
chicken salad, for example, only the
white meat of chickens especially
bought for the purpose and only the
inside stems of expensive celery are
used. 1t can hardly be cheaper than
plain chicken. But if portions of meat
left over from a previous serving are
mixed with celery grown at home they
certainly make an economical dish and
one very acceptable to most persons.
Cold roast pork or tender veal-in
fact, any white meat-can be utilized
in the same way.
Apples cut into cubes may be sub
stituted for part of the celery; many
cooks consider that with the apple the
salad takes the dressing better than
with the celery alone. Many also pre-
fer to marinate (mix with a little oil
and vinegar) the meat and celery or
celery and apples before putting in
the final dressing, which may be either
mayonnaise or a good boiled dressing"
This is the way to prepare a Spanish
beefsteak: Take a piece of round steak
weighing two pounds and about an
inch thick; pound until thin, season
with salt and cayenne pepper, cover
with a layer of bacon or salt pork,
cut into thin slices, roll and tie with
a cord. Pour around it half a cup of
milk and half cup of water. Place
in covered baking dish and cook two
hours, basting occasionally.
For those who like well seasoned.
tasty dishes the following recipe for
curry of veal will be welcome:
Ingredients: Two tablespoonfuls butter or drip
pings; ~ pounds veal; y onion. chopped: pint
milk; 1 tablespoonful -four; / teaspoonful curry
powder; salt and pepper.
Fry the onions in the butter or drip
r,tr 4 fYxr h
is brown. Transfer the meat to the
double boiler. cover with milk and cook
until the meat is tender. Add the curry
powder a short time before the meat Is
done and thicken the milk with flour
before serving.
Mock Venison.-Cut cold mutton into
thin slices and heat in a brown sauce
made according to the following pro-
portions: Two tablespoonfuls butter
two tablespoonfuls flour, one table
spoonful of bottled meat sauce (Which
ever is preferred), one tablespoonful
red currant jelly. one cupful water or
stock.
Brown the flour in the butter, add the
water or stock slowly and keep stir
ring. Then add the jelly and meat
sauce and let the mixture boil up we'll.
simple recipe for dumplings. which
so much improve meat dishes, consists
of: Two cups flour, four teaspoonfuls
baking powder. two-thirds cup milk or
a little more If needed, half teaspoon
full salt, two teaspoonfuls butter.
Mix and sift the dry ingredients:
Work in the butter with the tips OF
fingers, and milk gradually. roll out to
a thickness of one-half inch and cut
with biscuit cutter. In some countries
1t is customary to season the dump
linSs themselves with herbs. ETC.. or to