San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-10
Table Talks
Weeks Menus
Bv Alice IRWIN
Baked Beans with Bacon
BrOiled Tomatoes
Cheese and Nut Salad
Fresh Pineapple
By Alice IRWIN

! BAKED Deans scarcely seem 10 pc
long in midsummer menus; but re-
Gently have had letter which says
that in one particular family baked
beans are in all-the-year around de-
mand, but that the mother OF the fam
lily breads preparing them because OF
the long baking required. So l am
using this space today to suggest
what is known as the boiling method
of preparing baked beans.
Beans to be palatablc and easily
| digGsted require long cooking, but this
may be accomplished either through
long baking or long boiling. If your
| family enjoys cold baked beans as well
as hot, probably it will be desirable
to double the amounts called for here,
Boil two cups of navy beans with
one minced onion until the beans are
done; TO do this cover with boiling
water and cook over n simmering
burner three or four hours. The best
way | know OF to ascertain when the
beans are tender is TO take few Of
| them out with n spoon and sec If the
beans crush easily between the fin
gers.
When the beans are tender. pour off
the liquid, rcscrving one cup. Mix
| this with one cup tomato sauce 1.-THE
prepared kind, with or without chilli,
according to your prefcrCncc), one
| tablespoon butter, two tablespoons
sugar which has been sifted with one
teaspoon mustard and n dash IT
cayenne. and One-fOurth pound fried
salt pork with drippings. Add the
beams to this sauce and bake i'll u
moderate oven $3.50 degrees) for one
hour.
If you are preparing baked beans
for this menu, broil the bacon and to,
matoes. But if you are using canned
baked beans, as many Of us do, turn
them from the can into shallow BAH
ing dish. spread over the top four
slices of bacon and put into hot
oven until the bacon is crispcd.
1t is often the simplest dish for
which it is most difficult to find a
recipe; it is often the simplest pro-
ccsscs for which no cookbook gives d.
rcctions. In slicing pineapple, do not
make long, painful task Of it. Cut
off the top, slice directly across tue
pineapple. cutting it into halt-lnch
slices. Put these slices down on a
bread board and with sharp knife
cut away the needless rind: you waste
bit of the pineapple in this way but
you save a lot of time and labor. Then
cut the slices Of pineapple up into
wedge-shaped pieces, discarding the
woody core.
MENUS FOR A WEEK.
Breakfast and Luncheon.
TUESDAY.
Breakfast
Fresh Apple Sauce
Cereal with Top Milk
Bran Bread Toast Coffee Milk
Luncheon
Souffle Omelet
Cornmcal Mullins
Bananas and Cream
WEDNESDAY
Breakfast
Grapes
Cereal with Top Milk
Toast Coffee Milk
Luncheon
Fish and Potato Cakes
Sliced Tomatoes
Nut Bread
Iced Tea
THURSDAY
Breakfast
Blackbcrrics
Cereal with Top MIX
Toast Coffee Milk
Luncheon
Potato Soup
Strawberries and Cream
Walnut Cookies
FRIDAY
Breakfast
CautalOupe
Cereal with Top Milk
Toast Coffee Milk
Luncheon
MacarOni and Cheese
Lognnbcrries and Cream
Walnut Cookies
SATURDAY
Breakfast
Sliced Peaches
Cereal with Top Milk
Toast Coffee Milk
Luncheon
Bacon and Eggs
Parker House Rolls
Watermelon
SUNDAY
Breakfast
Honey Dew Melon ...
Waffles with Maple Syrup
Coffee Milk
Supper
Ham n Ia King
Jellicd Fruit Salad
Chocolate Fud"c Cake
Iced Coffee
MONDAY
Breakfast
Cantaloupc
Cereal with Top Milk
Toast Coffee Milk
Luncheon