The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-03-07
Centralized Meals
Sane Work and Food
One-dlsh Dinner Is Hot and SavOry,
Easy to Cook and Serve and Is
NOurishing.


What shall we have for dinner?''-
1.-THE daily question that never grows
old Well, you want good satisfy
Hing meal which the whole family will
/ enjoy 1t must be cheap and easy to
cook and must supply what your
bodies need to help you grow, and to
| help you work or play and keep warm.
Hand, if the spirit of war sacrifice
abides in your household the meal
should reflect your food saving eff
llforts
1 People of all nations have used
combinations of foods cooked togeth-
er in one dish. Perhaps you can re-
member such dinners in your grand
mothers home. Why not renew the
custom and serve your family with
nutritious one-dish dinner occasion
ally. for variety at least? For such
dinner you might serve a fish chow
der. Here it is a dinner in one dish,
sure enough. his one, and the others
THAT follow, makes enough for five
persons:
Fish ChOwder
~ lbs. fresh fish (cod haddock,
etc) or q lb salt or dried fish; po
ltatoes, peeled and cut in small pieces;
l onion, sliced; cups carrots, cut in
pieces; a ID. salt pork; 3 cups milk
Is teaspoon pepper; tablespoons of
flour.
Cut pork in small pieces and fry
with the chopped onion for minutes.
Put pork, onions, carrots, and pota-
toes in kettle and cover with boiling
water Cook until vegetables are ten
der. Mix 3 tablespoons of flour with
y 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 tender-about 10 minutes. If
salt fish is used soak first. Serve
hot
This one dish makes a satisfying
meal served with crisp crackers or
corn dodgers with stewed fruit or
liam for the something sweet you
like with your meals.
Now that meat is so high priced
you like to make a small amount go
las far as possible. A meat stew can
be made very appetizing and with
Ilproper care in the selection of the in
Ingredients to combine with the meat
IIyou may make another one-dish meal.
/ A hot pot of mutton and barley.
/ An English stew that is especially
Ilgood.
/ One pound mutton; Y cup pearled
Harley; 1 tablespoon salt; potatoes;
lib onions; celery tops or other seas
oning herbs.
II Cut the mutton in small pieces and
Thrown with the onion in fat cut from
meat. This will help make the meat
IItender and improves the flavor Pour
this into a covered saucepan. Add
lquarts of water and the barley. Sim
Imer for u hours. Then add the po-
ltatoes cut in quarters, seasoning herbs
land seasoning, and cook u hour long
Her.
/ This is also good served as a shep-
Ilherd's pie with mashed potatoes lin
Hing the dish and piled on top for
Ilcrust The stew is better if thicken-
ed with little flour in this case be-
Ifore adding to the mashed potato
Icrust
Or your one-dish meal might be of
lldried peas or beans instead of meat or
IIfish combined with other vegetables.
Here is a hearty dish made from split
IIpeas. Many kinds of dried peas or
: beans could be used in the same way
Split Peas, Rice and Tomatoes
II IL cups rice; / pint split peas;
lonions; tablespoon salt; a tea
spoon pepper; cups tomato( fresh
or canned.)
II Soak peas over night in 2 quarts
of water Cook until tender in water
lin which they soaked. Add rice
lonions. tomatoes, and seasonings, and
lcook 20 minutes.
II Such meals are help to the busy
Housewife on especially busy days, as
they are easy to prepare and make
but few dishes to wash. With bread
and butter and jam, perhaps or stew
led fruit, any one of them makes {
Iwell chosen nutritious meal If there
- are children in the family give eacl
one a glass of milk besides. Such
- meal will satisfy the body's need a
well as a more elaborate one