Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-12
SOME WARTIME
MENU PLANS
SUGGESTIONS GIVEN BY MISS
HOPKINS FOR WELL-PLANNEO
MEALS

It is of the utmost importance that
housewives choose their food wisely
during the present food crisis. They
are asked to study the five food groups
given below, and as homemakers, be
sure that each group is represented
daily in their menus:
I, Body regulators, mineral salts,
organic acids, such as vegetables and
fruits.
2. Protein foods, such as milk,
eggs. fish, meat, cheese, beans, peas,
peanuts.
3. Starch, that is cereals, cornmeal,
oatmeal, rice, bread.
4. Sugar, that is honey, molasses,
syrups, jelly, dates, figs, raisins and
sugar.
5. Fats, butter, margarine, cotton
seed oil, olive oil, drippings, suet.
Note: Group may be omitted.)
The following days menu has been
planned to conform to the above re-
quirements. and at the same time, to
comply with the food administration
regulations:
Days's Menu
Breakfast. Rolled oats with dates.
top milk, hominy mullins, creamed
Goldfish, beverage.
Dinner. Salmon loaf, scalloped to-
matoes, baked potato, Boston brown
bread, jelly.
Supper. Potato soup, toasted hon.
my mullins, scalloped fruit with rice.
Recipes-Hominy mullins: cup
soft boiled or leftover hominy. l tea
spoonful salt, TX tablespoon shorten
ing, 1 egg. q cup milk, 2 cups corn
flour, 4 teaspoons baking powder. MIX
together hominy, salt, melted shorten
ing, beaten egg and milk. Add flour
which has been sifted with BAKING
powder. Beat we'll and bake IN
creased muffin tins or shallow pan IN
hot oven IS to 80 minutes.
scalloped Fruit with Rice: u cup
rice, u cup apple juice from cooked
apples, 1 cup cooked sliced apples, 2
eggs, II cup sugar, nutmeg. (Note,
other fruits may be substituted II de-
sired.) Cook rice in sailed boiling
water and drain. Beat the whites and
yolks of the eggs separately: add
tablespoonfuls sugar to the apple
Juice, heat and pour over the beaten
egg yolks: cook until 1t thickens and
add one half of the cooked rice. Pace
mixture in the bottom of baking dish
and cover with the cooked apples;
add 2 tablespoonfuls sugar to the
beaten egg whites; season with nut.
meg and fold in the remainder OF
cooked rice. Pile on top of apples
and bake in a moderate oven until
the top is well Drowned.
Potato Soup Cornell Bulletin: 2
cups hot diced or mashed potato, I
quart milk, slices onion, table
spoons -four or 1 tablespoon corn
starch. Q tablespoons fat, Y teaspoon
salt. celery salt and pepper teaspoon
chopped parsley. Mix flour with a lit
tie of the cold milk. Add the rest OF
the milk slowly to the mashed pota-
to. Combine the two. Add the re-
naming ingredients except parsley,
and boil one minute, stirring constant
". Add finely chopped parsley and
serve. The pulp of any vegetable
NAV be used instead of the potato.
emitting the onion Vegetable soups
NAV be served with little whipped
cream if desired
Salmon loaf: / can salmon (may
use any fish,; ! cup fine stale bread
crumbs, egg, tablespoons melted
butter or drippings. salt, pepper or
minced parsley, Y cup milk, more or
less, to bring to right consistency for
shaping. Strain off liquor and save
It. Remove all bones and skin. Mash
the fish finely. Add bread crumbs,
beaten eggs or milk, and other lngre-
dents. Make into loaf and bake.
Sauce: / cup sweet milk. ! table
spoon cornstarch, tablespoon butter
inc or drippings, liquor of fish, l egg
Juice Of lemon, make as white sauce:
Egg may be omitted and tomato used
in place of milk. In that case omit
lemon also.