San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-07
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FOODS AMONG
ESSENTIALS
Housewives Are Learning
Requirements Of Human
Body.
NEED MINERAL SALTS
1t Is Easy Matter to Pro-
cure Necessities in
Regular Diet.

The young housekeeper in her
natural eagerness to serve we'll
balanced meals has probably studied
the fundamentals of food values !:
she is careful to provide plenty %
body building food. she has counted
the calories' TO such good purpose
that she and her husband are pro-
vided with sufficient emery to keep
their healthy young bodies keyed up 10
the pitch required by their full and
varied days; she knows i'll Il more
or less vague way that she must have
plenty of vegetables
A complete understanding of that
other requirements of the bod, that
is its 'need. for mineral salts. and
the reasons therefor is less apt TO be
clearly in the housewives mind.
Now the three chief minerals re-
quired by the body are lime pbos-
phorus and iron.
Lime is the principal element in
the bones, and bone-making or
lime-bearing foods are milk. eggs,
and cheese. oranges and pruncs, peas,
beans. cauliflower. parsnips. carrots,
spinach and celery. oatmeal, walnuts
and peanuts.
We have already talked about the
principles underlying the prope: cook
ery of eggs. how the white must not
be subjected TO too great heat. else
| it will be tough and leathery and
indigeStible; how soft cooked. coddled
or shirred eggs are more digestble
| than are fried. This matter of the
! degree of heat applies as'well 70 Gus
| tards.
Prepare Baked Custard.
In preparing baked cusCar'l for two
beat three eggs slightly, add one
fourth cup of sugar and one-eighth
teaspoon of salt: then pour on slowly
two cups of scalded milk; strain into
small pudding pan; set in a larger
pan of hot water and bake into a
slow woven. If nutmeg is used for
flavoring sprinkle on top of custard
just before baking; if vanilla. stir in
jus. before custard begins to set. The
test for custard is to run silver
knife blade through the center, with
a quick stroke; if the knife comes
out clean the cuStard is firm. If the
custard is to be served in cups the
usual proportion is one egg for each
cup of milk.
Delicious variations of plain
baked custard are: Coffee custard:
in which a tablespoon of ground
coffee is scalded with each cup of
milk and then strained out; ginger
custard. using strips of Canton
ginger as a garnishing for cup Gus
tards. and French custard; which
calls for three egg whites and two
cups of thin cream, two tablespoons
of sugar. one-half teaspoon of vanilla
and Qne-fOurth teaspoon of salt. The
cream is heated, the egg whites beaten
stiffly and stirred with the sugar salt
and vanilla into the cream. After
beating with dover egg beater the
mixture is baked in cups set in pan
of hot water. When firm the custardS
are chilled, removed from cups and
served with sugar and cream.
Ways of Saving Peas.
Recipes for cheese dishes have al
ready been given in this series.
Peas and beans may be served in
a number of ways either as soup.
country style" with the thoroughly
soft vegetables still remaining in
the soup, the whole favored with
tomato. or as a cream of pea or
bean soup. To make these last. al
low two cups of strained vegetable
pulp to two cups of thickened milk
or white sauce. combine and serve
very hot with croutons or small one
fourth inch clubes of toasted bread
on top.
Cauliflower. another lime-bearing
vegetable. is one of the cabbage fami-
Is. 1t may be served creamed. or
with a Hollandaise sauce or with
cheese or Drowned crumbs. \ good
sauce to serve with cooked cauliflow-
or is made as follows:
Beat the yolks of three eggs. add
one and one-half teaspoons of mus
tard. one and one-fourth teaspoon
of salt, one teaspoon of powedcred su-
gar: one-fourth cup Of olive oil and
one-half cup of vinegar. Cook the
mixture i'm double boiler until creamy
remove from the fire and add one
half tablespoon of curry powder. two
tablespoons of melted butter. and one
teaspoon of minced parsely.
Cook Lime-bearin. Foods.
The next lime bearing vegetable.
the parsnip. is not always in high
favor; many persons do not enjoy its