Salads

Water Lily Salad.

Remove shells from hard-cooked eggs. Cut eggs in halves crosswise or lengthwise, cutting in such a way that the edges will be cut into sharp points. Remove yolk, mash and season with salt, pepper and melted butter, or moisten with salad dressing. Refill whites with yolk mixture and arrange halves on lettuce leaves. Serve' with cooked salad dressing. MEAT SALAD. Meat Salad (Chicken or Veal) Remove bones and gristle, fat and skin, from cold, cooked meat. Cut meat into 1/2 inch cubes and mix it with an equal amount of celery which has been scraped, chilled and cut in in small pieces.

*Marinate with French dressing. Add mayonnaise dressing to moisten. Arrange on lecture leaves; garnish with curled celery.

Waldorf Salad

1 Cup celery

Cup nut meats 1 Cup cubed apple

Enough salad dressing to moisten.

Cut slice from tops of green or red apples; scoop out the inside pulp, leaving just enough to hold the skin in place. Fill the shells with the salad mixture and serve on lettuce leaves.

Tomato Salad

8 medium sized tomatoes, 2 cups celery or cucumber cut in cubes, 1 cup mayonnaise dressing.

Scald and peel tomatoes; slice off their tops. Scrape out the seeds and a little of the pulp, and fill cavities with the celery or cucumber, mixed with mayonnaise dressing, or fill with shredded pineapple and nuts mixed with mayonnaise dressing. Tomato may be cut to imitate a tiger lily by cutting into sixths almost to the stem end. Serve on lettuce leaves.

French Salad Dressing

1/2 Teaspoon salt. 1/4 Teaspoon pepper

1/8 Teaspoon paprika. 2 Tablespoons vinegar.

4 Tablespoons oil.

Mix ingredients 111 order given, stirring vigorously.

*To MARINATE means to moisten a salad mixture with French dressing and then allow it to stand until well seasoned.

Mayonnaise Dressing

1/2 Teaspoon salt. 1/2 Teaspoon sugar. 1/8 Teaspoon paprika.

Yolk 1 egg.

1 Tablespoon lemon juice.

1 Tablespoon vinegar.

3/4 to 1 cup olive oil.

Mix dry ingredients; add yolk. When well mixed, add 1/2 teaspoon vinegar. Add oil gradually, at first drop by drop, stirring constantly. When very thick, add a few drops of vinegar or lemon juice. and continue to beat, adding oil and vinegar alternately, until the mixture is smoothly blended. The dressing should be thick enough to hold its shape.

Questions

1. For what are fruits and vegetables valuable?

2. What kinds of mineral matter does the human body contain?

3. What do they help form in the body?

4. Name a food frequently used containing a large percentage of mineral matter.

5. What are fruits?

6. What do fruits contain?

7. What kind of fruit should we select for eating?

8. What should be done to fresh fruit before serving it?

9. Why?

10. How did you prepare the fruit salad today?

11. Name another combination for fruit salad that will be just as good.

12. Does garnishing have any bearing on digestion of food?

13. Name the digestive fluids in the mouth.

14. Name the digestive fluids in the stomach.

15. Discuss the importance of the appearance of a dish when it is ready to serve.

The Household Budget Problem

We hear much about the business of housekeeping these days, and it is interesting to note the rapid changes that are taking place in the management of the home. With the changing of the home from an industrial center and a place of production, to one of consumption only, the manager of it has become the chief spender of the family income. With this responsibility on her shoulders, the housewife is coming to realize the necessity of applying the same business methods in the management of the home as the manager of a business house does in his establishment that the money may be wisely spent.

Efficiency principles are advantageously applied in the world of business and these same principles may be applied as successfully in the business of housekeeping.

Running the household on business principles calls for a household budget. In order to make this out intelligently there must be a full appreciation of the family income and its limitations that proper divisions may be made. A living standard must be established, one that is well within one's income, if peace, harmony and comfort shall prevail in the household.

The natural divisions' are:

First - Shelter - which may be rent or taxes and repairs on a house and carfare for the provider to and from the place of business. In selecting the house, sanitary conditions should be the first consideration - social requirements second.

Second - Operating expenses - including cost of heating, lighting, ice and service. A minimum income naturally requires that the work in the household be accomplished by the members of the family.

Third - Food - including groceries, meat, dairy products, classified under necessities and luxuries.

Fourth - Clothing.

Fifth - Higher Life - including church and charity, education, periodicals and books.

After establishing the standard of living from necessity or choice, a percentage for each department should be allowed.

Mrs. Ellen Richards and others, after careful study of living conditions and tabulations of expenses recorded by a number of housewives, found the average percentages on a $1,000 income are: Rent, etc., 20 per cent; operating expenses, 10 per cent; food, 30 per cent; clothing, 15 per cent; higher life, 20 per cent.

A minimum income must provide the necessities of life - shelter, food and clothing. Health is the working man's capital, and his physical welfare depends largely on the way these requirements are met. All the elements needed for nutrition must be provided, but the choice must be limited to the foods that will give the maximum amount of nourishment at a minimum cost. This necessitates the purchasing of foodstuffs only when in season, substituting peas, beans, lentils and fish for meat frequently; buying of the cheaper cuts of meat and combining them with vegetables - using liberally of the cereal foods and wasting nothing of the purchased material. The choice of clothing is one that requires good judgment, as well as common sense. We are constantly tempted by fashions rather than by quality and durability.