Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-01-31
CENTRALIZED" MEALS SAVE
WORK AND
FOOD.

the daily question that never grows
old. Well you want good, satisfy
ing 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.
And, if the spirit of war sacrifice
abides in YOUR household, the meal
should reflect your food saving eff
forts.
People of all nations have used
combinations of foods cooked together
in one dish. Perhaps you can remem-
Der such dinners in your grandmoth-
er's home. Why not renew the Gus
tom and serve your family with a nu-
tritious one-dish dinner occasionally,
for variety at least? For such din
ner you might serve a fish chowder.
Here it is, dinner in one dish, sure
enough. This one, and the others
that follow, makes enough for five
persons:
Fish Chowder
IL lbs. fresh fish (cod, had
dock, etc. or y lib. salt
8 potatoes, peeled and cut
in small pieces.
! onion, sliced
2 cups carrots. cut in pieces
v lb. salt pork
3 cups milk
rs teaspoon pepper
3 tablespoons flour
Cut pork in small nieces and fry
with the chopped onion for minutes
Put pork. onions, carrots and potatoes
in kettle and cover with boiling
water. Cook until vegetables are
tender. Mix 3 tablespoons of -four
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 is tender-about 10
minutes. If salt fish is used soak
first. Serve hot.
This one dish makes a satisfying
meal served with crisp crackers OF
corn dodgers with stewed fruit or jam
for the something sweet" you like
with your meals.
Now that meat is so high priced
you like to make small amount "a
as far as possible. A meat stew can
be made very appetizing and with
proper care in the selection Of the in.
gradients to combine with the meat
you may make another one-dish
meal.
A Hot Pot of Mutton and Barky
An English stew that il especially
good.
l pound mutton
y cup pearled barley
l tablespoon salt
4 potatoes
onions
Celery tops or other season.
ing herbs.
Cut the mutton in small pieces and
brown with the onion fat cut from
meat. This will help make the meat
tender and improves the flavor. Pour
this into a covered saucepan. Add
2 quarts Of water and the barley.
Simmer for IN hours. Then add the
potatoes cut in quarters, seasoning
herbs, and seasoning, and cook " nour
longer.
This is also good served as a shep-
nerds pie with mashed potatoes lin
ing the dish and pied on top for q
crust. The stew is better if thick
ened with little flour in this case
before adding to the mashed potato
crust.
Z. Or your one-dish meal might be Of
dried peas or beans instead of meat
or fish combined with other vegetables
and here is hearty dish made from
split peas. Many kinds of dried peas
or beans could be used in the same
way.
split Peas, Rice and Tomatoes
III cups rice.
! pint split peas.
= onions.
l tablespoon salt.
u teaspoon pepper.
a cups tomato (fresh or
canned.
Soak peas over night in quarts Of
water. Cook until tender in water in
which they soaked. Add rice, onions.
tomatoes, and seasonings, and cook
20 minutes.
Such meals. are help to the bpsy
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
ed fruit, any one of them makes q
well-chosen nutritious meal. If there
are children in the family give each
one q glass of milk besides. Such q
meal will satisfy the body's needs as
well as a more elaborate nm