Tired housekeeper seeks new vegetable ideas
The article recalls a housekeeper sighing for inventions beyond steaks and roasts and lists underused vegetables like dasheen salsify and Japanese Crosnes. It offers recipes such as creamed dasheens, detailing peeling slicing and baking with milk.
Canned Tomatoes Have Two Values
In days of cowboys on the range, canned tomatoes served as vital food and drink, easily carried and resilient to hard use. They provided essential nutrition, though then few realized their vitamin richness.
Window Box Makes Ideal Garden Spot
If your kitchen has a small window place a shelf level with the lower sash and set a window box there. Fill it with igum to grow parsley chives mustard and cress and other herbs for fresh flavor. You will also enjoy the joy of growing things.
Digestive System Takes Less Sugar From Starch Rich Diet
The text explains starch in daily foods becomes sugar in the stomach and warns against piling on sugar with porridge. It then gives two baking methods: a layered bake with dash deens butter salt and milk, and a scalloped salsify with cream sauce and bread crumbs baked until top is crumbed and golden.
Food chopper misuse and canning cherries guidance
The passage warns that food choppers ruin juicy foods and promotes using a double knife. It also provides detailed canning steps for cherries including pitting blanching dipping cooling and packing in jars with hot syrup followed by sixteen minutes of boiling water sterilization and seal testing.
French chefs urge simple inside for roasting duck
In roasting duck or duckling, French chefs advise placing a leek or onion slice, a tart apple slice, and a sprig of thyme inside. The normal bread crumb stuffing should be omitted to preserve natural flavor.
Lettuce Leaves Add Flavor to Peas with Gentle Simmer
A kitchen tip suggests using coarse lettuce outer leaves to flavor fresh or canned peas. Tear leaves into shreds and simmer with peas in barely simmering water. A hint of leek or onion and a small sugar touch may be added before serving.
Dainty Tea Sandwiches Favor Small Elegant Bites
A guide for tea service prescribes tiny crustless sandwiches with very thin bread and neatly chopped fillings. Mousse of chicken or ham is noted as especially suitable to avoid fillings slipping out.
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