The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-01-14
Advice to Housekeepers

Start the day right with a good
breakfast: Fruit, cereal, milk. These
make a meal-nourishlng, easy to
cook and cheap, of foods the govern
ment asks US to eat.
Use Fruit
Fruit helps to keep your body in
good health and to prevent constlpa-
ton.
Use fresh fruit when possible.
Use prunes, dried apples, dried ap-
ricots. Soak them in water over night
and cook them long enough to make
them tender.
Use dates or raisins. There are good
added to the cereal ten minutes before
taking it from the stove. Then you
will not need sugar.
Use ripe bananas with dark skins.
Bananas with greenish-look skins
are hard to digest unless cooked.
Use Cereals
Corn4neal much, oatmeal, rice,
hor1iny (grfts).
These are much cheaper than the
"ready-to-eat" breakfast foods. A
"ready-to-eat" breakfast food may
cost Is cents for a big package, but
if the package contains only one
quarter pound-60 cents pound for
cereal! This is eight or ten times as
expensive as corn meal at 6 or z cents
pound. Look for the weights print
ed on the package and get the most
fer your money.
Corn-meal mush and oatmeal ars
good only when well cooked. Many
people use too little salt and don't
cook them long enough.
To cook corn-meal mush for five
people use 1 " cups corn meal, 2 tea
spoons salt QeveD, 5 or 6 cups water.
Bring salted water to a boil. Stir in
corn meal slowly Don't let it lump.
Cook it as least 80 minutes. It is
better when cooked for three hours, or
overnight. Use a double boiler on the
back of the stove, or fireless cooker.
For oatmeal use 27s cups rolled
oats, 21z teaspoons salt, or 6 cups
water. Bring water to a boil. Stir the
rolled oats slowly into the boiling wa
ter and cook for one hour, or over
night.
Eat the cereal with milk or strip or
butter or butter substitutes. You
don't need bread besides.
A large amount of corn meal or
oatmeal may be cooked at one time.
The unused part placed in creased
bowl may be kept for a few days in
a cool place. Do you know how good
sliced and fried oatmeal is?
Instead of breakfast food you can
take bread-preferably on of the
war breads. Corn bread and milk is
delicious.
Milk is an excellent food. A quart
of whole milk gives as much nourish
ment as one pound of lean meat.
Children especially need it to make
them grow strong and keep well. 1t
is good for grown people, too. Give
each child at least glass for break
fast. Drink it hot or cold, or use it on
the cereal, or make it into cocoa.
Even at high price milk is cheap
food for children.
No coffee or tea for children. They
are not food. Let the grown people
have them if they want them, but do
not give the children even a taste.
The children's drink is milk.
Mr.. J. Fl. Tuten is home from q
brief visit to his aunt, Mrs. benson at
Mascotte.
Miss Dorothy Lancaster has return
ed home from a two weeks visit to
friends and relatives in Georgia.
The members of the Tuesday auc-
ton club will be entertained tomorrow
afternoon by Miss Dorothy Hickman.
Miss Georgia Mulhall leaves Tues
day afternoon for her home in Null
hall, Okla, after a visit to her sister,
Mrs. Weller Carmichael. Mrs. Car
michael and little daughter, Virginia
viii accompany her as far as Jack