Nuts, Cheese, Grains, Pastes, Eggs

Ingredients

• 4 quarts of fresh boiling water
• 3 people costs
• 6 cents
• 6 persons
• 1 tea- spoonful salt
• four portions $0
• 30 min- utes
• 4 crackers
• four people costs $0
• salt
• pepper
• paprika

Directions

1. Vegetables

2. Escalloped Potatoes and Cheese.

3. Put into buttered baking dish alter- nate layers of cheese sauce (as in cheese sauce and eggs) and cold boiled potatoes sliced or cut in dice. Cover with buttered crumbs and bake. — Mrs. Welch.

4. Cheese and Corn.

5. 1 c chopped corn $0.0250

6. 1 c grated cheese 0750

7. 1 T chopped green pepper 0100

8. Vt, c flour 0038

9. 1 T Crisco 0082

10. 2 c milk 0536

11. 1 t salt 0003

12. Vs t pepper 0010

13. Gas 30 minutes 0128

14. Enough for 3 people costs. . .$0.1897

15. Portion for each costs 6 cents.

16. Melt the fat in a pan and cook the peppers until thoroughly done. Put milk in double boiler and bring to the boiling point. Mix the flour into a smooth paste with a little cold milk and add the corn and seasoning. Turn into a well-greased baking dish and bake in a moderate oven 30 minutes. — Mrs. A. E. Estes, 667 Vancouver avenue.

17. (I have not figured chopped green corn, or chopped green peppery, but I presume Mrs. Estes' figures are right in these, as her other pricing nearly all was. I will be glad to have any of you call attention to any mistake in pricing or figuring that appears in my columns, as we want our work absolutely correct and reliable, and mistakes may creep in in spite of the utmost care.)

18. Curried Rice and Kidney Beans.

19. (A meat substitute.)

20. V2 c rice $0.0040

21. 1 c kidney beans 0875

22. V2 c minced onion 0125

23. 4 T grated cheese 0450

24. 1 T salt 0008

25. % t pepper 0021

26. 1 t curry powder 0083

27. Vs t (dash) paprika 0016

28. 1 T drippings (sausage or ba- con) 0102

29. Gas for cooking rice V2 hour... .0057 Gas for cooking beans 3 hours

30. (simmerer) 0120

31. Gas for cooking onion, curry,

32. etc., 15 minutes 0028

33. Will serve 6 persons for .... $0.1925

34. Or 3% cents a portion.

35. Cook beans over night; boil in 4 quarts of fresh boiling water, to which has been added 1 t salt; cook until tender, which varies from 2 to 8 hours. Drain and keep in double boiler on back of stove or over sim- merer. Cook rice as usual with 1 tea-

36. spoonful salt. Put drippings in fry- ing pan, add onion, fry but do not brown. Mix curry powder with V2 cup of cold water. Add to onion, boil until It thickens slightly. Add salt, pepper and paprika to season, then add grated cheese. Cook but a few minutes longer or cheese will be stringy. Place beans in center of platter, rice around the edge and where they meet the onion and curry sauce. Sprinkle rice with paprika, garnish with parsley. — Mrs. H. C. Fixott.

37. Corn and Cheese Souffle.

38. 1 c corn, chopped $0.0500

39. 1 c grated cheese 0750

40. 1 T butter 0156

41. 1 T chopped green pepper 0200

42. V4, c flour 0036

43. 2 c milk 0535

44. V2 t salt 0002

45. Gas V2 hour 0128

46. Cost for four portions $0.3747

47. Or 9% cents each, counting cost of corn in own garden.

48. Melt the butter and cook the pep- per thoroughly in it. Make a sauce of the milk, flour and cheese; add the corn, cheese, yolks and seasoning; cut and fold in the egg whites beaten stiffly, turn into buttered baking dish and bake in moderate oven 30 min- utes.— Mrs. Welch.

49. Escalloped Peas with Cheese.

50. 1 can peas $0.2000

51. 1 a salt 0003

52. Vs t pepper 0010

53. 1 T butter 0156

54. 4 crackers (crumbs ) . .0100

55. J4 lb. cheese diced 0750

56. 1 lb. bacon fried and diced 0600

57. Gas 1 hour 0255

58. Cost of dish $0.4409

59. Paying for peas canned from gar- den.

60. Heat the peas, make a gravy of the milk, salt, pepper and butter. Butter a baking dish and put in layer of peas; sprinkle with cracked crumbs, repeat, and on top put layer of diced cheese and fried bacon; put in oven and bake till brown. — Mrs. Welch.

61. Scalloped Cheese and Hominy.

62. 3 c lye hominy $0.0750

63. V2 lb. grated cheese 1500

64. 3 c milk 0804

65. 3 T Crisco 0246

66. 3 T wheat flour 0027

67. 1 t salt 0003

68. Vs t pepper 0010

69. Gas 30 minutes 0128

70. Enough for four people costs $0.3468

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.