Foods That Will Win The War Part 11

Mix well. Bake in greased pan 30 minutes.

SOY BEAN CROQUETTES

2 cups baked or boiled soy beans 1-1/2 tablespoons mola.s.ses 2 tablespoons b.u.t.ter or drippings 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon vinegar Pepper to taste 1 egg 1 scant cup breadcrumbs

When the beans are placed on to boil, put tablespoon fat and half an onion with them. After draining well, put through the foodchopper, keeping the liquid for soup stock. Mix all the ingredients, beating the egg white before adding. Form into b.a.l.l.s or cylinders, dip in the leftover egg yolk, to which a few drops of water have been added, and then coat with stale bread or cracker crumbs. Be sure the croquettes are well covered, then fry brown. Serve with cream sauce or with scalloped or stewed tomatoes. With a green salad, this is a complete meal.

LEGUME LOAF

1/3 cup dried breadcrumbs 2 tablespoons corn syrup 1 egg 1 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon pepper 2 teaspoons chopped nuts 1 teaspoon onion juice 3 tablespoons fat 3/4 cup milk 1/2 cup pulp from peas, beans or lentils, soaked and cooked until tender

Mix well. Bake in greased pan 30 minutes. Serve with tomato sauce, or white sauce, with 2 tablespoons nuts, or 2 teaspoons horseradish added.

VEGETABLE LOAF

One cup peas, beans or lentils soaked over night, then cooked until tender. Put through colander. To 2 cups of mixture, add:

2 eggs 3/4 cup dried breadcrumbs 2 teaspoons poultry seasoning 2 teaspoons celery salt 1/2 cup whole wheat flour 1-1/2 cups tomato juice and pulp 2 teaspoons onion juice 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 cups chopped peanuts

Mix thoroughly. Place in greased baking dish. Bake 30 minutes.

KIDNEY BEAN SCALLOP

Two cups kidney beans, soaked over night. Cook until tender. Drain.

To each 2 cups of beans, add:

2 tablespoons fat 1 tablespoon chopped onion 1/4 cup tomato pulp 1 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon pepper

Mix thoroughly. Place in greased baking dish. Cover with 2 cups crumbs, to which have been added 2 tablespoons melted fat. Bake 30 minutes in moderate oven.

VENETIAN SPAGHETTI

1 cup cooked spaghetti or macaroni 1 cup carrots 1 cup turnips 1 cup cabbage 2 cups milk 1/2 cup onions 1/4 cup fat 1/4 cup flour 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup chopped peanuts Pepper

Cook spaghetti until tender (about 30 minutes). Cook vegetables until tender in 1 quart water, with 1 teaspoon of salt added. Melt fat, add dry ingredients, add milk gradually and bring to boiling point each time before adding more milk. When all of milk is added, add peanuts.

Put in greased baking dish one-half of spaghetti, on top place one-half of vegetables, then one-half of sauce. Repeat, and place in moderately hot oven 30 minutes.

HORSERADISH SAUCE TO SERVE WITH LEFT-OVER SOUP MEAT

3 tablespoons of horseradish 1 tablespoon vinegar 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon cayenne 1/2 cup of thick, sour cream, and 1 tablespoon corn syrup, or 4 tablespoons of condensed milk

Mix and chill.

BROWN SAUCE FOR LEFTOVER MEATS

1/3 cup drippings 1/4 cup of whole wheat flour 1/8 teaspoon pepper 1-1/2 cups meat stock or water 1 teaspoon salt

Melt the fat and brown the flour in it. Add the salt and pepper and gradually the meat stock or water. If water is used, add 1 teaspoon of kitchen bouquet. This may be used for leftover slices or small pieces of any kind of cooked meat.

FOOD WILL WIN THE WAR DON'T WASTE IT

"_To provide adequate supplies for the coming year is of absolutely vital importance to the conduct of the war, and without a very conscientious elimination of waste and very strict economy in our food consumption, we cannot hope to fulfill this primary duty._"

_WOODROW WILSON._

[Ill.u.s.tration]

SAVE SUGAR

_REASONS WHY OUR GOVERNMENT ASKS US TO SAVE SUGAR WITH PRACTICAL RECIPES FOR SUGARLESS DESSERTS, CAKES, CANDIES AND PRESERVES._

One ounce of sugar less per person, per day, is all our Government asks of us to meet the world sugar shortage. One ounce of sugar equals two scant level tablespoonfuls and represents a saving that every man, woman and child should be able to make. Giving up soft drinks and the frosting on our cakes, the use of sugarless desserts and confections, careful measuring and thorough stirring of that which we place in our cups of tea and coffee, and the use of syrup, mola.s.ses or honey on our pancakes and fritters will more than effect this saving.

It seems but a small sacrifice, if sacrifice it can be called, when one recognizes that cutting down sugar consumption will be most beneficial to national health. The United States is the largest consumer of sugar in the world. In 1916 Germany's consumption was 20 lbs. per person per year, Italy's 29 to 30 lbs., that of France 37, of England 40, while the United States averaged 85 lbs. This enormous consumption is due to the fact that we are a nation of candy-eaters.

We spend annually $80,000,000 on confections. These are usually eaten between meals, causing digestive disturbances as well as unwarranted expense. Sweets are a food and should be eaten at the close of the meal, and if this custom is established during the war, not only will tons of sugar be available for our Allies, but the health of the nation improved.

The average daily consumption of sugar per person in this country is 5 ounces, and yet nutritional experts agree that not more than 3 ounces a day should be taken. The giving up of one ounce per day will, therefore, be of great value in reducing many prevalent American ailments. Flatulent dyspepsia, rheumatism, diabetes, and stomach acidity are only too frequently traced to an oversupply of sugar in our daily diet.

Most persons apparently think of sugar merely as a sweetening agent, forgetting entirely the fact that it is a most concentrated food.

It belongs to what is called the carbohydrate group, upon which we largely depend for energy and heat. It is especially valuable to the person doing active physical work, the open-air worker, or the healthy, active, growing child, but should be used sparingly by other cla.s.ses of people. Sugar is not only the most concentrated fuel food in the dietary, but it is one that is very readily utilized in the body, 98 per cent. of it being available for absorption, while within thirty minutes of the time it is taken into the system part of it is available for energy.

As a food it must be supplied, especially to the cla.s.ses of people mentioned above, but as a confection it can well be curtailed. When it is difficult to obtain, housekeepers must avail themselves of changed recipes and different combinations to supply the necessary three ounces per day and to gain the much-desired sweet taste so necessary to many of our foods of neutral flavor with which sugar is usually combined.

Our grandmothers knew how to prepare many dishes without sugar. In their day lack of transportation facilities, of refining methods and various economic factors made mola.s.ses, sorghum, honey, etc., the only common methods of sweetening. But the housekeeper of to-day knows little of sweetening mediums except sugar, and sugar shortage is to her a crucial problem. There are many ways, however, of getting around sugar shortage and many methods of supplying the necessary food value and sweetening.

By the use of marmalades, jams and jellies canned during the season when the sugar supply was less limited, necessity for the use of sugar can be vastly reduced. By the addition to desserts and cereals of dried fruits, raisins, dates, prunes and figs, which contain large amounts of natural sugar, the sugar consumption can be greatly lessened. By utilizing leftover syrup from canned or preserved fruits for sweetening other fruits, and by the use of honey, mola.s.ses, maple sugar, maple syrup and corn syrup, large quant.i.ties of sugar may be saved. The subst.i.tution of sweetened condensed milk for dairy milk in tea, coffee and cocoa--in fact, in all our cooking processes where milk is required--will also immeasurably aid in sugar conservation.

The subst.i.tutes mentioned are all available in large amounts. Honey is especially valuable for children, as it consists of the more simple sugars which are less irritating than cane sugar, and there is no danger of acid stomach from the amounts generally consumed.

As desserts are the chief factor in the use of quant.i.ties of sugar in our diet, the appended recipes will be of value, as they deal with varied forms of nutritious, attractive sugarless desserts. It is only by the one-ounce savings of each individual member of our great one hundred million population that the world sugar shortage may be met, and it is hoped every housekeeper will study her own time-tested recipes with the view of utilizing as far as possible other forms of sweetening. In most recipes the liquid should be slightly reduced in amount and about one-fifth more of the subst.i.tute should be used than the amount of sugar called for.

With a few tests along this line one will be surprised how readily the subst.i.tution may be made. If all sweetening agents become scarce, desserts can well be abandoned. Served at the end of a full meal, desserts are excess food except in the diet of children, where they should form a component part of the meal.