Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1918 — Uncle Sam's Food Lessons [ARTICLE]

Uncle Sam's Food Lessons

(Special Information Service TJ. a Department of Agriculture.) A WHOLE DINNER IN ONE-DISH. Everybody Will Like the One-Dish Dinner. A dish hot and savory—good for •work or play—that Is why the father •nd the children will like It. Easy to cook and serve —that Is one reason why you will like It. Only one dish to cook, few plates to wash, steps saved. Good, nourishing food —you can feel sure that you are feeding your family right if you give them this dinner. It contains all their bodies need to help them work and grow strong. This dinner helps you do your part for your country. You can save wheat and meat to ship abroad. Our soldiers and the allies need them more than we do. Try These One-Dish Dinners. Each of these dinners contains sufficient for a family of five. •S.'Fish Chowder. Rabbit fowl, or any meat may be used instead of the fish, or tomatoes Instead of milk. Carrots' may be omitted. One and. one-half pounds fish (fresh, salt, or canned). Nine potatoes, peeled and cut in small pieces. One.onion, sliced. Two cups carrots cut in pieces. One-fourth pound salt pork. Three cups milk. Pepper. Three tablespoonfuls flour. Cut pork in small pieces and fry with the chopped onion for five minutes. Put pork, onions, carrots, and potatoes in kettle and cover with boiling water. Cook until vegetables are tender. Mix three tablespoonfuls of flour with one-half cupful of the cold milk end stir in the liquid in the pot to thicken. Add the rest of the milk and until vegetables are tender. Mix three tablespoonfuls of flour with-half cupful of the cold milk and stir in the liquid in the pot to thicken. All the rest of the fish, which has been removed from the bone and cut in small pieces. Cook until the fish is tender, about ten minutes. Serve hot. You can omit salt pork and use a tablespoon of other fat. Dried Peas With Rice and Tomatoes. One and one-half cupfuls rice. Two cupfuls dried peas. Six onions. One tablespoonful salt. One-fourth teaspoonful pepper. Two cupfuls tomato (fresh or canned). Soak peas overnight in two quarts of water. Cook until tender in water In which they soaked. Add rice, onions, tomato and seasonings and cook 20 minutes.

Potted Hominy and Beef. Hominy is excellent to use as part of a one-dish dinner, if you have a fire In your stove so that you can cook it for a long time, or use a tireless cooker. Heat one and one-half quarts of water to boiling; add one teaspoonful of salt and two cupfuls of hominy which has been soaked overnight. Cook in a double boiler for four hours or in the tireless cooker overnight This makes five cupfuls. This recipe may be increased and enough cooked in different ways for several meals. Hominy is excellent combined with dried, canned, or fresh fish, or meat and vegetable left-overs may be used. Here is one combination: Five cupfuls cooked hominy. Four potatoes. Two cupfuls carrots. One teaspoonful salt One-fourth pound dried beef. Two cupfuls milk. Two tablespoonfuls fat Two tablespoonfuls flour. Melt the fat, stir in the flour, add the cold milk, and mix well. Cook until it thickens. Cut the potatoes and carrots in dice, mix all the materials in a baking dish, and bake for one hour. These dishes supply all five kinds of food. Each is enough for the whole dinner for a family of five. Eat them with bread and with fruit or jam for dessert. Then you will have all the five kinds of food your body needs. These five kinds are shown on the next The Five Food Groups. 1. Vegetables or fruits. 2. Milk, or cheese, or eggs, or fish, or meat, or beans. 3. Cereal: Corn, rice, oats, rye, or wheat. 4. Sirup or sugar. i 5. Fat: Such as drippings, oleomargarine, oil, butter. Choose something from each of these five groups every day. More One-Dish Meals. There are some, more recipes for dishes of this kind in other United States food leaflets. “Instead of Meat” (leaflet No. 8) tells what foods are good to use when you don’t buy meat, and how to make some meatless one-dish meals. “Make a Little Meat Go a Long

Way” (leaflet No. 5) win help you to cut down yotfr meat bills. The savory •tews and meat pies show' how you can give your family a good one-dish meal by using a little meat in various combinations. You can make up other recipes for yourself by combining foods from most of the five groups. Pass them on to