El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-28
CROWDS THRONG COOKING SCHOOL
AND GET VALUABLE ADVICE AND TIPS
Tonight the Fashion PrOmena Opens to be Continued
For Four Evenings; How to Cook Potatoes and Save
ALI the Nutriment; Some Of the Great Medicinal
Values of Ordinary Vegetables; Good Music

, are invaluable to the woman who wishes
her children to be strong and health
! and to provide proper food for her hus
band.
"How many women know, Tor instance.
how to prepare potatoes properly? l
strongly advise cooking potatoes with
out peeling First this prevents waste
fulness, as about % percent of the po-
tato Is peeled away. The mineral prop
critics of a potato lie directly under
the skin and that is always lost in the
peeling.
Leave Jackets on.
even If you intend serving mashed
potatoes, you should peel and mash
after cooking The flavor is much bet
ter. Another thing, never leave potatoes
in the sun, as potatoes are not used to
the sun. II potatoes are cooked after
peeling have the water boiling and salt
ed, then allow the fruit of the SOIL as
the French say. to boil slowly. In this
way there is always less waste and the
basis Of being a good cook is to curtail
on the waste.
Potatoes are largely starch and eat
ing a great many of them is apt to
make people very witty. The Irish. for
instance, eat great many potatoes.
The main trouble with this starch, which
is the main trouble of the Irish. is that
II has not matured. New potatoes
which greedy people swallow whole.
not only cause indigestion and cholera
morbus in infants, but are not so health
ful as those which reach maturity. In
my text you will note that he dug up
large potatoes not the small, tooth
some. one-mouth sort. Observe, there
fore. the wisdom OF the text
Potatoes with Rheumatism.
Now old potatoes, those just at the
close of the season. are some times at
fFaH.n o.
tism, are often dark and watery after
cooking. II you will pour the water
from them and take them TO an open
window and gently shake them for
few moments, their lungs will fill up
with fresh air and they viii become
light and mealy-which is the proper
function of a properly gardened potato.
If potato is cooked with the jacket on.
il should be poked now and then with a
fork to allow the steam to escape.
"a potato is like any other thing
that grows upon this fine old sod-it's
got to have some way Of letting off
steam and the fork CT inqusitional
method, as we say in high brow cook
ing is the method here employed.
Medicine in Vegetables.
Every vegetable has a medicinal
property" continued Mrs. Evans. Car
rots being vegetable. have high food
value as a liver tonic as well as in
culcating a lovely complexion. Celery is
fine for the nerves. while asparagus
and spinach are excellent for the kid
neys. Lettuce is a seductive vegetable |
and has the art OF the poppy inducing |
sleep and relieving rheumatism; so do /
onions.
"A great physician once remarked |
that we would all live to be a hundred I
years old If we would consume plenty |
of garlic every day, but ] think he said
this because he knew very well that
i e
practice at all. as nobody would care to
live around anybody smelling like
sausage and spaghetti and EOulash all !
Of the time. But. aside from the hui I
morous, we would be much better off if /
we were kinder to our stOmachs."
Advocates Emergency Shelf
Mrs Evans advocated an emergency |
shelf in the pantry so that unexpected 4
would not cause a mild panic /
and scurrying of the children to the I
corner grocery This shelf should con- /
tain several cans Of sardines. corn. (
tuna, asparagus chilli and so forth. so /
that creamed tuna might be prepared in I
a minute. The tuna idea is because Mrs. |
Evans is from the coast Now IL it's an /
Ell PasO get-together, the Mexican din F!
ner ingredients viii do, and If in BOs /
ton hold in reserve a jar of beans. But |
always hold something in reserve and |
look at il now and then so that the /
school boys won't catch you unawares," I
she said.
The recipes for dishes prepared by <
Mrs. Evans on Saturday and Monday |
are as follows:
Bismark DOughnuts.
Two and three-quarters cups of /
cream Of wheat flour (sifted): half tea /
spoonful Of salt; four level teaspoons |
ful Royal Baking powder; one-quarter |
teaspoonful OF mace; one-half cup Of !
sugar; two level teaspoonsful Snow
drift shortening; one egg and yolk of 1
another; one-half cup OF milk; one tea
spoonful orange extract Put ingredi- |
ents together as follows: Scar. short {
ening, eggs, milk, flour, salt mace, ex-
tract, baking powder. Mix well, roll
thin. cut with biscuit cutter, put one
teaspoonful Of jelly or jam in center Of