Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-01-29
One Dish Dinners.


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One Dish Dinners.
"What shall We have for dinnerf"--
the daily question that never grows old:
Well. you want good, satisfying meal
which the whole family will enjoy. II
must be cheap and easy to cook and
must supnly what your bodies need to
belp Won grow, and to help You work or
play and keep warm. And, II the spirit
of war sacrifice abides In your house.
hold, the meal should reflect your food
saving efforts.
People Of all nations have used com.
binations of foods cooked together In
one dish. Perhaps you can remember
such dinners In your grandmother 9
home. Why not renew the custom and
serve your family with nutritious one
dish dinner occasionally, for variety at
least? For such Q dinner you might
serve fish chowder. Here 1t Ia, dinner
| in one dish, sure enough. This one, and
the others that follow, makes enough
for five persons:
FISH CH0WDER.
11.2lbs. fresh fish food, paddock,
etc.) or "a ID. salt or dried fish
potatoes, peeled and cut In small
pieces
onion, sliced
cups carrots, cut 10 pieces
IA ID. salt pork
cups milk
1-s teaspoon pepper
8 tablespoons -four
Cut pork in small pieces and Try with
the chopped onion for 8 minutes. Put
pork, onions, carrots, and potatoes In
kettle and cover with boiling water.
Cook until vegetables are tender. Mix
| s tablespoons Of -four with IL cup OF
the cold milk and stir In the liquid In
the pot to thicken It. Add the rest Of
the milk and the fish, which has been
removed from bone and cut In small
pieces. Cook until the fish 10 tender
about 10 minutes. If salt fish 10 used
soak first. Serve hot.
This one dish makes . satisfying meal
served with crisp crackers or corn dodg-
ers with stewed fruit or jam for the
"something sweet you like with your
meals.
Now that meat is so high priced you
like to make q small amount 90 as far "a
possible. A meat stew can be made
very appetizing and with proper care in
the selection of the ingredients to COM
bine with the meat you may make an
other one-dish meal.
A HOT POT OF MUTTON AND BARLEY
An English stew that Is especially
good.
pound mutton
IL cup pearled barley
tablespoon salt
potatoes
8 onions
Celery tops or other seasoning herbs
Cut the mutton In small pieces and
brown with the onion In fat cut from
meat. This will help make the meat
tender and improves the flavor. Pour
this into . covered saucepan. Add 2
quarts OF water and the barley. Simmer
for 1-2 hours. Then add the potatoes
cut in quarters, seasoning herbs and
seasoning, and cook l 2 hour longer.
This is also good served as shep'
herds pie with mashed potatoes lining
the dish and piled on top for crust
The stew Is better II thickened with q
little -four In this case before adding to
the mashed potato crust.
Or your one-dish meal might be OF
dried peas or beans instead OF meat OF
fish combined with other vegetables
Here Is hearty dish made from split
peas. Many kinds of dried peas or beans
could be used in the same way.
SPLIT PEAS, RICE AND TOMATOES
IL cups rice
pint split peas
onions
tablespoon salt
IA teaspoon pepper
cups tomato fresh or canned)
Soak peas over night in quarts oil
| water. Cook until tender in water IL
which they soaked. Add rice, onions
tomatoes, and seasonings, and cook Il
| minutes.
Such meals are q help to the, busy
housewife on especially busy days, Of
they are easy to prepare and make but
| few dishes to wash. With bread and
butter and jam, perhaps, or stewed
fruit, any one of them makes we'll
chosen nutritious meal. II there are
children in the family give each one Q
glass Of milk besides. Suoh meal Will
satisfy the body's needs Is we'll as Q
more elaborate one.