THE MANITOBA HEALTH COOK BOOK

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If extra food—beyond the three meals—is required for a very
active growing child, it should not be given by “piecing” but given
at a definite time. Such addition may consist of orange juice, or
other fresh fruit, a small sandwich or a cookie and a glass of milk.

Beef Stew with Vegetables

1!4 lb. round steak 4 ec. flour 2 onions, chopped
1 qt. water 3 c. diced potatoes 2 c. diced carrots
Salt 2 T. chopped parsley

Wipe meat and cut into inch cubes. Fry out the fat in a
skillet and add the meat, which has been rolled in flour, and the
chopped onion. Cook and stir until browned. Then transfer meat
and onions to a kettle. Add water, after first pouring it into the
skillet so as to get full benefit of browned-meat flavor. Cover
and simmer about | hour. Add vegetables, cook until tender.
Season with salt and sprinkle top with parsley after stew is placed
in serving dish.

Liver and Rice Loaf

VY, ¢. rice 2 t. salt 1 Ib. sliced liver
2 T. butter 4 c. boiling water 1 c. chopped celery
4 ec. chopped parsley 1 onion, chopped fine 1 c. tomatoes

2 T. flour

Cook rice in boiling water until tender. Do not drain but let
rice absorb water so as to form sticky mass. Wipe liver with damp
cloth and remove skin. Sprinkle liver with salt and flour and cook
in fat in skillet for about 3 min. Remove liver and:chop or grind
very fine. Cook onion, celery, parsley in drippings for a few
minutes, add flour and tomatoes (canned or fresh), and stir briskly
until thickened. Mix all ingredients until thoroughly blended, form
into loaf with hands on parchment paper, place on rack in open
roasting pan. Bake for about 30' minutes in moderate oven . (350

deg. F.)

Creamed Fish with Vegetables

1 Ib. fish 1 gt. milk 2 c. diced potatoes
1 c. diced carrots 1 onion chopped fine 4 T. butter
34 ¢. flour 214 t. salt 1 T. chopped parsley

Simmer fish (cod, halibut, or salmon) in a small quantity of
water about 5 min. Drain and remove skin and bones and flake
fish. Cook potatoes and carrots until tender and drain. Mix
flour with small quantity of cold milk, and stir into heated milk to
which onion, salt, and butter have been added. Cook until thick-
ened. Add vegetables and fish, cook a few minutes longer, sprinkle
parsley over top, and serve. If canned fish is used, it does not need
the preliminary cooking.

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