Evening star., 1933-02-17

| 1rleO noodles. Roast DeeI or meat lOd
cut into bits In gravy makes q delicious
italian sauce for spaghetti. Lamb com
bined with tomato and baked IN AZ
eggplant, squash, cucumber or greer
| pepper shell Is unusual and delicious
When serving fish as the main course
either buy small ones like butterfish
| smelts, or small makerel, or choos,
filletS and slices of such fish as cod
haddock and halibut, or shellfsh, such
as oysters. CLAIMS, shrimps and crab
| either fresh or canned, are good "
serve creamed, scalloped or in chow
ders. Fish fillets and steaks are about
the right size, as are also the smaller
fish and shellhsh. Then there is the
canned food supply. Fish and meat
entrees and puddings for dessert, COME
in many sizes, available for all needs
and ready to serve.
Serving Vegetables.
Potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, arti.
chokes, endive, Brussels sprouts, corn
peas, string beans, lima beans, aspara.
gus, mushrooms, spinach and Other
quantity. The drained pulp of a can
of tomatoes is available for such
things as scalloping and the Juice saved
for soup, sauce or cocktail. You will
of course, wish to avoid unnecessary
vegetable leftovers, yet in planning sew
eral days meals ahead you can cook
more Of any vegetable than you will
need at one meal. 1t can then be served
in salad, soup, or in main dish the
next day. A few extra cooked potatoes
are delicious when creamed, scalloped
sauted, or made into potato salad for
another meal.
Bread and Pastry.
Baking powder biscuits and mullins
are ideal breads for the small family
They art easily made in any quantity
desired. Leftover mullins can be split
and toasted at the table. Baking pow
der biscuits, split, buttered, sprinkled
with cheese and toasted, will be new
again for afternoon tea. When making
up q batch Of mullins sometimes use
the whole recipe. baking half of them
plain to be served hot, and the other
half with chopped raisins, dates, or
nuts added, to be served the next
day for supper. You can easily reheat
In q moderate oven after sprinkling
them lightly with water. With baking
powder biscuits you can do much the
same thing.
You can buy muffin pans in sets of
six. As for pies, there are heatproof
glass individual pie plates, plain or
etched. They hold plenty Of pie. Ghen
there are individual casseroles or rame-
kins for baking and serving savory main
dishes Of meats, cheese or vegetables
and for all baked puddings, too. Pies
In small pans are Just enough for two,
and extra shells may be made, to be
warmed up later on and filled with any
kind Of one-crust pie filling. Many of
the standard recipes for cakes, puddings
and desserts will do for various occa-
sions by slight change In form and
cooking.
Ons-Dish Meals.
Stuffed Cabbage.-Wash and cook
one cupful Of Yice until tender in a
double boiler. Boil IL large cabbage
leaves until they are well blanched, or
for about i've minutes. Remove from
the water and lay three Of the leaves
in the bottom Of baking dish. Drain
one cupfu Of rice and put alternate
layers Of the rice and ground round
steak on the cabbage, first browning
the meat in one tablespoonful Of butter
and tablespoonful Of fat In q hot
skillet. Top each pile with another
cabbage leaf and pin the top and bot
tom leaves together with toothpicks.
Bake IN q moderate oven for IS min
utes. You viii need one pound Of the
ground steak, Serve with grapefruit
salad on lettuce leaves With French
dressing.
Nut Vegetable Loaf.-Mix one cupful
OF ground peanuts with one cupful of
cooked rice, one cupful Of ground raw
carrot, half cupful of bread crumbs
and one cupful of canned tomatoes.
Pack in a creased bread loaf pan and
bake for Is minutes In q medium oven.
Serve with tomato sauce made with one
cupful Of strained tomatoes, one table
spoonful Of butter, one tablespoonful OF
flour, half teaspoonful of salt and a
pinch Of pepper. Serve with q salad
made Of raw cabbage, canned pineapple
and few marshmallows nloistened with
mayonnaise.
Dinner Menu for Two.
Savory Broiled Hamburg Steak.
Baked Idaho Potatoes.
Green Peas Canned
Lettuce Salad With French Doessing.
Coconut Apple Betty.
Bake the potatoes at the same time
as the apple betty in a medium oven,
then raise the temperature of the oven
for broiling or baking the hamburger.
Savory Broiled Hamburger.-Mixo one
pound of hamburger steak with one
teaspoonful of salt. Spread in a shall
low pan about three -fourths inch thick
Cover with half a cupful of chopped
green pepper and one-fourth cupful OF
chopped onion. Pour one can OF tomato
soup over the meat Broil for about 10
minutes under the flame or bake in a
hot oven for On minutes