Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-05-15
UncleSam'S
Food Lessons
Especial Information Service u. s. De-
partment Of Agriculture)
A WHOLE DINNER IN oNE.DIsH.
Everybody Will Like the One-Dish
Dinner

Dinner.
A dish hot and savory-good for
work or play-that is why the father
and the children will like it.
Easy to cook and serve-that is one
reason why you will like it. Only one
dish to cook, few plates to wash, steps
saved.
Good, nourishing food-you can feel
sure that you are feeding your family
right If you give them this dinner. 1t
contains all their bodies need to help
them work and grow strong.
This dinner helps you do your part
for your country. You can save wheat
and meat to ship abroad. Our soldiers
and the allies need them more than we
| do.
Try These One-Dish Dinners.
Each of these dinners contains suf.
ficient for family of five.
Fish chowder.
Rabbit, fowl, or any meat may be
used instead of the fish, or tomatoes
instead of milk. Carrots may be
omitted.
One and one-half pounds fish (fresh,
salt. or canned).
Nine potatoes, peeled and cut in small
pieces.
One onion, sliced.
Two cups carrots cut in pieces.
One-fourth pound salt pork.
Three cups milk. Pepper.
Three tablespoonfuls flour.
Cut pork in small pieces and fry
with the chopped onion for five min
utes. Put pork, onions, carrots, and po-
tatoes in kettle and cover with boiling
water. Cook until vegetables are ten
der. Mix three tablespoonfuls of flour
with one-half ,cupful of the cold milk
and stir in the. liquid in the pot to
thicken. Add the rest of the milk and
until vegetables are tender. Mix three
tablespoonfuls of -four with-half cupful
of the cold milk and stir in the liquid
in the pot to thicken. All the rest Of
the fish, which has been removed from
the bone and cut In small pieces. Cook
until the fish is tender, about ten min
utes. Serve hot. You can omit salt
pork and use tablespoon of other fat.
Dried Peas With Rice and Tomatoes.
One and one-half cupfuls rice. 49,
Two cupfuls dried peas. ~
Six onions.
One tablespoonful salt.
One-fourth teaspoonful pepper.
Two cupfuls tomato (fresh or
canned).
Soak peas overnight in two quarts of
water. Cook until tender in water
in which they soaked. Add rice, onions,
tomato and seasonings and cook 20
minutes.
Potted Hominy and Beef.
Hominy is excellent to use as part
of one-dish dinner, If you have fire
in your stove so that you can cook it
| for long time, or use fireless cook
er. Heat one and one-half quarts of
water to boiling; add one teaspoonful
of salt and two cupfuls of hOminy
I which has been soaked overnight. Cook
| in a double boiler for four hours or in
the fireless cooker overnight. This
makes five cupfulS This recipe may
be increased and enough cooked in diff
ferent ways for several meals. HON.
my is excellent combined with dried,
canned, or fresh fish, or meat and vege-
table left-overs may be used. Here Is
one combination:
Five cupfuls cooked hominy.
Four potatoes.
Two cupfuls carrots.
/ One teaspoonful salt.
One-fourth pound dried beef.
Two cupfuls milk.
Two tablespoonfuks fat.
Two tablespoonfuls flour.
Melt the fat, stir in the flour, add the
cold milk, and mix we'll. Cook until it
thickens. Cut the potatoes and carrots
in dice, mix all the materials in a
baking dish. and bake for one hour.
These dishes supply all five kinds Of
food. Each is enough for the whole
dinner for family of five. Eat them
with Bread and with fruit or jam for
dessert. Then you will have all the
five kinds of food your body needs.
These five kinds are shown on the next
page.
| IHC tive TOou aTodPSs
1. Vegetables or fruits.
2. Milk, or cheese, or eggs, or fish,
or meat, or beans.
3. Cereal: Corn, rice, oats, rye, or
wheat.
A. Sirup or sugar.
5. Fat: Such as drippings, oleomar-
garine, oil, butter.
Choose something from each of these
five groups every day.
More One-D Meals.
There are some more recipes for
dishes Of this kind in other United
States food leaflets.
"Instead of Meat" Qeafiet No. 81
tells what foods are good to use when
you don't buy meat, and how to make
some meatless one-dish meals.
snake Little Meat Go q Long
Way" Qeafiet No. 81 will help you to
cut down your meat bills. The savory
stews and meat pies show how you
can give your family good one-dish
meal by using little meat In various
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