The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-11-09
Homemakers Column
By Miss Margaret Kirby Burtis
Home Demonstration Agent

good mixers. Rice is one. 1t mixes
well with almost anything. 1t readily
takes on flavor from other foods, and
lends its delicate texture to modify
theirs, but keeps its own identity.
| Thus it makes good f1avors go far
Their. 1t is an economical food for
this reason as well as because of its
price. In food value, white rice is an
energy giver. That is to say, it
plays the same part the other grains
play in the diet, and serves that pur-
pose admirably. Polished rice, the
ordinary white rice, has about the
same food value as highly milled
wheat flour. 1t is composed chiefly
of a very digestible starch. For this
reason, says the bureau of Home Eco
Monies, if you are trying to keep down
food costs, it is good thing to cook
rice in milk. In that combination you
have good start for a well-rounded
diet. AS with other cereals and milk,
you can get along with fewer foods,
and cheaper ones, than if you begin
with any other combination. The
cheapest rice is white rice, sold in
bulk. This is the rice grain after it is
milled and polished.
Rice cooked in milk for breakfast;
rice in soups; rice with gravy; rice
and fish; meat stews in a rice ring;
rice in hot breads; fritters, or pan
cakes; rice scalloped with tomatoes;
rice creole; rice and cheese croquettes;
rice with prunes or raisins; rice pud-
dings-these are some of the almost
countless rice dishes the housekeeper
can provide at very modest cost to
the great satisfaction of most fami-
lies. To cook rice, boil it gently in
plenty Of water e quarts of sailed
water to cup of rice). When cooked
the grains should be tender but I'M
broken, and should stand apart. For
best results with brown rice, cover it
after 80 minutes of gentle boiling, and
let it simmer until it is cooked
through and the water is absorbed.
Rice was not growing in this country
when the first settlers came, but was
introduced from Madagascar by
rowing sea captain in 1894. Now, we
grow nearly 80 million bushels year,
chiefly in Louisiana, Texas, California
and Arkansas.
Beef and Ham GumbO in Rice Ring
" pound cured ham, 2 tablespoons
chopped parsley, l onion, sliced, 1
at. okra, canned or dried and soaked,
q pound beef, diced; 1 green pepper,
chopped fine; celery seed, if desired;
l pint water, quart tomatoes, fresh
OR canned; Z cup chopped celery, salt
and pepper to taste.
Cook the ham and beef until
Drowned in large heavy frying pan.
Add the parsley, onion, green pepper,
and cook for few minutes. Add the
water and tomatoes, cover, and SIM
mer until the meat is almost tender.
Then add the okra. Season to taste
and simmer uncovered until the okra
is tender and the stew has thickened.
Serve the gumbo in a rice ring made
as follows:
Rice Ring
cup rice, cups water, l teaspoon
salt, 2 tablespoons butter, 2 dashes
Tabasco sauce.
Wash the rice well, and sprinkle it
into the rapidly boiling sailed water.
Cook for about 20 minutes, or until
the rice is tender and the water alb
sorbed. Add the seasoning, put the
rice into a well-greased ring mold,
and pat it down. Reheat in the oven,
turn onto a round platter, fill the
center with the gumbo, and serve at
once.
Mullins
2 cups corn meal, l tablespoon
sugar, u teaspoon salt, 21a teaspoons
baking powder, l cup cooked rice, 2
cups sweet milk, egg, l tablespoon
fat.
Sift the meal, the sugar, the salt,
and the baking powder together. Mix
the rice, the milk, the well-beaten
egg, and the melted fat; then add
the meal and other dry ingredients.
Bake the mixture in well-greased
muffin pans. This will make ID to IS
average mullins.
Wheat Facts
underground wheat, or the whole
grains themselves, cooked until tender,
make an excellent breakfast food.
You can get the wheat grain at feed
store. Clean, whole wheat will keep
for several weeks in cool, dry place.
One pound of whole wheat cooked
will make breakfast cereal for a fam
lily of five for two days at cost of
two cents.
Fifteen pounds Tor 1 peck will
make breakfast cereal for family of
five for one month at cost of 80
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