Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-14
Cheaper Cuts Of Meat


terest to the housewife who wishes
to buy wisely. But cheaper cuts of
meat, given skill in preparation and
serving are equal or even superior
to choice steaks or roasts. Care
fully planned cooking processes.
casserole cookery, roasting, plank
ing, and pan-broiling should be
used in preparing cheaper cuts.
A prime essential in making
cheaper cuts of meat attractive is the
methods of serving. For your cheap
cut dinner, serve the vegetables
combined with the meat dish. A
few simples recipes, combined with
attractive methods of serving, may
prove an inspiration and urge you
to use at least once or even twice
a week cheaper cut of meat
Lamb Roast With Apricot Dressing.
Select three and one-half pound
rib roast of lamb. Trim the meat
away from the ribs, exposing about
one-half of the ribs. Into this slit
place an apricot dressing. Roast in
moderate oven for two and half
hours, basting frequently. Serve
on a large platter attractively gar
nished with head lettuce; around the
roast place border of apricots
Apricot Dressing.
can apricots
u loaf stale bread (crumbed)
Salt and pepper
l egg
Chopped mint leaves
tablespoons oleomargarine.
Method: Mix bread crumbs with
the apricots; use apricot syrup for
liquid. Add seasoning, beaten egg
aud chopped mint leaves. Add to
this mixture the melted butter or
substitute.
Chopped Beef Au Casserole.
IA pounds clod, ground
y cup tomato relish
Tabasco sauce
can beets
Method: Mix chopped beef with
tomato relish; add three teaspoon
fuls of Tabasco sauce. Season we'll
with salt and pepper. Put into a
glass casserole and bake for two
hours, basting frequently with
high-quality table sauce.
Serve garnished with one can of
beets cut into quarters.
Fresh Pork With Vegetables.
pound of pork (belly)
| small cabbage
4 large carrots
Chopped seasoning
Method: Cook fresh pork in piece
one and half hours i'll boiling salted
water. Cook cabbage and carrots in
small kettle until soft. Remove from
kettle, and finish cooking the meat.
Cut tip the pork into thin slices.
Arrange side by side down the mid
die of a large platter. Around the
meat serve carrots and cabbage
Quartered.
Scatter chopped parsley over all
and dot meat slices with a high
quality meat relish.
Planked Regular Roll.
2H-pound regular roll.
A regular roll may be secured
upon application to your local
butcher.
Method: Place upon a small, we'll
seasoned plank, which has been well
creased with butter or substitute.
Place beneath broiler and broil
for two and a half hours, bastina
frequently with oleomargarine. Re-
move from broiler and finish, roast
ing in moderate oven.
To Garnish: Around edge of plank
arrange a border of duchess pota-
toes. Duchess potatoes are mashed
potatoes to which an egg yolk has
been added. This mixture is forced
through pastry bag, forming ro-
settes around the roll. Garnish with
canned peas ard canned asparagus
tips. Serve on the plank.
These combinations and cheaper
cuts of mea. should be an incentive
to you, Madam Housewife, you to
whom the food bill is a constant
source of worry. Prepare these and
other cheaper cuts, and do your
share in doing away with this tre-
,nendous extravaganza that has so
recently besieged this country.
Broiled Ham.
Cut the ham very thin. Broil over
bright Goals or under the broiler in
the gas oven for three to four min
utes. This method is used with the
mild sugar-cured hams which come
N special wrapping that is used
TO hold in the juices and delicate
favor. For fried ham, proceed in
The same way, using a hot frying
pan in place of the broiler.
Baked Half of Ham.
After removing the slices of ham
or broillng, baking in slice and
creaming, remove the protruding
zone, remove skin, stick the ham
With cloves, rub with brown sugar,
md cover with a thick paste made
If -four and water. Bake four hours
n a moderately hot oven. Remove
taste before serving.
Baked Bean Soup.
(Broth Made from Ham Bone.)
After removing the bone from the
lam, make broth from the scraps
nd bone by cooking in a large
mount of water two or three hours.
strain. To this broth, which should
Measure about four cupfuls when