The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-09-19
The Homenaker's
Corner
By MARY DOUGLAS

Cooking for two has always been
problem, avoiding leftovers and
providing variety being the chief
worry of most homemakers with two
in family.
Menus for "twosomes" can be APP
petizingly varied once you have a
working plan for not too much left
overs. For instance, this meat mix
ture is used twice in separate dishes.
Meat Mixture: One pound ground
raw meat, kind available; Apound
ground ham, pork; l y cups cooked
rice or macaroni, Y teaspoon salt, "a
teaspoon pepper, teaspoon dry
mustard. Dash nutmeg. Mix in
gradients well. Divide, put half in
refrigerator, use other half to stuff
green peppers.
Stuffed Green peppers: One-half
of meat mixture, 4 good size green
peppers, tablespoons buttered
crumbs, l egg yolk, paprika. Cut
tops off peppers, remove seeds. Scald
minutes, invert to drain. May be
prepared ahead. Mix egg yolk and
/ tablespoon water with the meat
mixture. Stuff peppers with it. Put
crumbs over tops. Sprinkle with
paprika. Set peppers in shallow bak
ing dish with inch or two of water
in it. Bake 375 degrees F. oven As
minutes. Serve with tomato, lettuce
salad, crisp crackers. Iced tea, Canta-
loups for dessert.
Next day have an in-between the
meat mixture dishes.
In-between: Two lamb chops or
thick chop size pieces of meat, or
slices of pressed meat; 2 slices canned
pineapple, 2 tomatoes. If you want
a full meal and can get them, 2
little sausages.
Put pineapple in bottom of brOiler
to catch meat juices. Cut tomatoes
in thick slices. Dip in milk, then
cracker crumbs. Dot with mar
garine. Put meat, tomatoes on grill.
When nicely Drowned, turn on other
side. Serve on plates, meat on
pineapple, tomatoes at side This
dish cooks in short time with 350-75
heat
Individual meat IOaves, second
meat mixture dish. Meat mixture,
/ egg yolk, tablespoon water, Mix
all ingredients together, fill cups or
rings full of this mixture Bake in
3T5-degree oven for As minutes
Serve with tomato sauce, easily made
from canned PURGE, or soup cooked
thick.
Then you can have stuffed baked
potatoes, white or sweet, for main
dish. Bake 2 large white potatoes in
skins. Cut in half, scoop out, leaving
y inch thick shell. Mix potato pulp
with 3 tablespoons evaporated milk,
"a tablespoon margarine or peanut
butter, salt and pepper. Beat light
after mixing all together Heap in
the shells, dot with extra margarine.
Bake in 400 degree F. oven for Is
minutes. Leftover ham minced is
nice to stuff baked sweet potatoes,
or use corer and use lengthWise po-
tatoes and insert sausage in cavity
and bake.
A dessert hint: Have on hand 2
egg whites, 2 cup cakes or tarts may
be made festive by this topping.
One-third glass jelly, any flavor; l
egg white. Beat egg stiff with rotary
beaten. Add bits of the jelly, beating
until smooth and blended and holds
shape. Heap on top of cakes or
tartS just before serving, with the
other egg white.
Marguerites: One egg white, 2
tablespoons powdered AK may be
used) sugar: Y teaspoon lemon or
vanilla; II cup chopped nut meats;
Y cup chopped raisins, or dates, or
spread crackers with orange mar
malade, using l dozen crisp, not too
thin crackers.
Beat eggs until stiff; add sugar
slowly, beat very stiff, add f1avoring;
fold in nuts and raisins or instead of
raisins spread crackers with marina
lade. Put meringue by spoonfuls on
crackers. Brown 20 minutes in $50
degree F. oven. These will keep.
Apple Sauce
Apple Sauce is best canned without