Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1917 — Mother’s Cook Book [ARTICLE]

Mother’s Cook Book

Food for the Family. Before the good greens are frost bitten and spoiled one should can a few Jars with carrots, celery and an onion or two to use for the children In the winter. Two or three carrots cut up with a stalk or two of celery and onion with the bulk of the jar filled with spinach, or Swiss chard will take its place. This combination is highly recommended by dieticians, for little people, beginning as soon as vegetables may be given. Two or three tablespoonfuls of this mixture put through a puree sieve may be added to any meat broth or a cream soup. Children may early learn to enjoy all vegetables by adding them to soups and various dishes. As the mineral matter contained in vegetables is so valuable to growing children a variety of vegetables should be served and always in some attractive and, tasty form to induce the liking for them. Potato water contains valuable mineral matter, which water may be added to bread when setting the sponge, buckwheat griddle cakes instead of water and gravies of all kinds In place of water or milk. Canned Vegetables for Soup. Scald, peel and mash one peck of ripe tomatoes. Cook a dozen ears of corn, cut from the cob and scrape oft all the tender bits of the kernel. Put a bunch of celery, one-half peek of onions, two medium heads of cabbtfge, one dozen small carrots and three bunches of well-washed celery through the meat chopper. Pack In jars and cook under water, following the directions for cold pack canning. In the winter add the amount of cooked vegetables needed to any kind of broth. Potatoes and turnips may be added when used. Tomatoes and corn may be omitted and any liked combination used. If corn is used, however, the cooking must continue three hours, Peanut Butter Soup. A delicious and nourishing soup may be made from peanut butter and skim milk. Heat a pint of milk until warm, add two tablespoonfuls of peanut butter, mixed to a paste with a little of the milk. Salt and season to taste and thicken with a teaspoonful each of butter and flour cooked together until smooth. When scalding hot, serve. Fried corn is del lei pus. Mix with a little finely chopped green pepper and cook in any swteet fat, corn oil or olive oil. Season salt and pepper and serve with crispJbacon.