The Monticellonian., 1918-03-08
MAKE A LITTLE MEAT GO A LONG
 WAY.

MAKE A LITTLE MEAT GO A LONG
 WAY.
 Don't think that you must eat lot of meat to be strong. Meat is good te help build up the body, but so are many other foods.
 In these dishes part of your baiId- ing material comes from the more ex- pensive meat and part from the eheap- CT peas. beans. heminy. and barley. The little meat with the vegetables and cereals will give your body what it needs.
 savory stews and Meat Pies.
 Do you know how good they are? They may he So varied that you ean have different one every day in the week. and all of them delicious. It needs only a small piece of meat to give flavor to a hearty dish.
 Try them They can be whole meal and q nutritious one. These reel pes serve five people.
 Here is an English stew that is espe- eially good:
 Hot Pot Of Mutton and Barley.
 One pound mutton.
 One and half eupfuls pearled bar ley.
 One tablespoonful salt.
 Four potatoes.
 Four 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 a covered saucepan. Add two quarts water and the barley. Simmer for che and half hours Then add the potatoes cut in quarters. seasoning herbs. and seasoning, and cook one half hour longer.
 Beef Stew.
 One pound beef.
 Four potatoes cut in quarters.
 Quarter peck peas or one can.
 One cupful carrots cut up small. One teaspoonful salt.
 Cut the meat in small pieces and brown in the fat from the meat. Sim mer i'll two quarts of water for one hour. Add the peas and carrots and cook for one-haIf hour, then add the potatoes. If canned peas are used. add them ten minutes before serving. Serve when potatoes are done.
 Different SteWs
 Here is the way you can change the stews to make them different and to suit the season:
 l. The meat This may be any kind and more or less than a pound may be used. Use the cheap cuts, the flank, trump, neck, or brisket. The long, slow cooking makes them tender. Game and poultry are good.
 ?. Potatoes and barley may be used or barley alone or rice hominy, or maearoni.
 3. Vegetables. Carrots, turnips, onions, peas, beans. cabbage, tomatoes are good canned or fresh. Use one or more of these. as you wish.
 4. Parsley. celery tops, onion tops, seasoning herbs, or chopped sweet pep pers add to the flavor.
 5. Many left-overs may be used-not only meat and vegetables, but rice or hominy.
 How to Cook the Stews.
 All kinds of stews are cooked in just about the same way. Here are directions which will serve for mak- ing almost any kind.
 Cut the meat in small pieces and brown with the onion in the fat cut from the meat. Add the salt and pep per, seasoning vegetables (onion. eel cry tops, ete), two quarts of water, and the rice. or other cereal, if 1t Is to be used. Cook for an hour, then add the vegetables except potatoes. Cook the stew for half an hour, add the potatoes cut in quarters, cook for another half an hour, and serve.
 The fireless cooker may we'll be used the meat and the vegetables being put in at the same time.
 Left-overs or canned vegetables need only to be heated through. Add them 15 minutes before serving.
 Dried peas or beans should be soak ed overnight and cooked for three hours before adding to the stew; or better cook them overnight in a fire less cooker.
 Meat Pies. Another good way to use a little meat Have you ever used rice, corn meal mush, or hominy for crust This Is less work than a pastry crust and saves wheat.
 Four cupfuls cooked cornmeal, rice or hominy.
 One onion, two cupfuls tomato eighth teaspoonful pepper. One tablespoonful fat. One pound raw meat or leftover meat cut up small. Onp-half teaSpoonful salt.
 Melt the fat, add the sliced onion and if raw meat is used, add it an6 stir until the red color disappears l Add the tomato and seasoning. Il cooked meat Is used, add it with tht tomato and seasoning, after the onior 1 is Drowned. and heat through. Grease Il baking dish, put in layer of th' cereal, add the meat and gravy, anC cover with the cereal dotted with fat 1 Bake for half an hour. l Shepherd,s Pie