The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-06-14
UncleSam'S
Food Lessons
Especial Information Service u. 8.
partment Of Agriculture.)
DO YOU KNOW oATMEAL7

OF course, you know 1t Is a good
fixed up for dinner or supper. 1t
makes
Excellent buildings.
Wholesome bread and cookies.
An appetixins soup for q cold day.
Baked dinner dish In place of meat
To cook oatmeal, stir slowly two
and one-half cupfuls of rolled oats in
to five cupfuls of boiling water which
has In 1t two and one-half teaspoon
fuls of salt. Cook for one hour or
over night In a double boiler or fire.
less cooker. This will serve five peo-
pie. If you want it for two meals,
cook twice the amount to save time
and fuel.
Delicious Oatmeal Puddings.
Do you know that oatmeal makes
delicious buildings and other good
things?
Try one when you have light din
ner or supper.
Oatmeal Betty.
Two cupfuls oatmeal.
Four apples cut up small.
One-half cupful raisins.
One-half cupful sugar.
One-fourth teaspoonful cinnamon.
Mix and bake for one-half hour
Serve hot or cold. Any dried or fresh
fruits, dates, or ground peanuts may
be used instead Of apples. Either will
serve five people.
Scotch Soup.
With bread and dessert 1t Is enough
for lunch or supper.
Two and one-half quarts water, one
and one-quarter cupfuls rolled oats.
Five potatoes cut In small pieces.
Two onions, sliced, two tablespoon
fuls flour.
Two tablespoonful fat.
Boil the water and add the oatmeal,
potato, and onion, one-half tablespoon
full Of salt and one-half teaspoonful
pepper. Cook for one-half hour Brown
the flour with the fat and add to the
soup. Cook until thick. One cupful of
tomato adds to the flavor. Serves five
people.
Oatmeal Bread
is delicious with all meals-try 1t.
One cupful milk or water, one tea
spoonful salt.
Two and one-half cupfuls wheat
-four. 49,.
One cupful rolled oats.
Scald the liquid, add salt and pour
over the oats, cool half an hour, add
the yeast mixed with one-quarter cup
full lukewarm water, and the flour.
Knead and let rise until double the
size. Knead again and let rise in the
pan until the size is doubled. Bake In
moderate oven for so minutes. Makes
one loaf weighing one and one-quarter
pounds.
"Fittest" Under Arctic Circle.
We think Of Greenland as frozen
and desolate land. fit only for the
abode Of the hardy Eskimos. And yet
In Finland, In severe northern eli
mate, has grown up hardy and virile
race, Nevin o. Winter writes in the
Christian Herald. Perhaps it was be-
cause only the sturdiest could survive
under such conditions, for isolation
bred self-reliance and industry was ne
cessary to existence. At any rate, the
fact remains that the Firms have de-
velOped q civilization that Is unique
and Of interest. 1t is not surprising,
to one familiar with the Firms and
their history, to know that republic
has been proclaimed. No people are
more truly democratic. Under the au-
tocratic rule of the czars Finland main
tanned her democratic institutions, and
1t was the only part Of Russia where
the traveller was free to move about
without having demand made almost
daily for his passport. The Russian
calendar, which Is thirteen days be-
hind our own, was ignored and in ev-
cry way the public and social customs
differed from those of the Russians.