DAUGHTERS OF THE ALLIES

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SPANISH MINCED BEEF IN MEAT BOX (Very pretty and palatable) Use any of the cheaper cuts

1 tablespoon oleomargarine, 1 onion (chopped fine), 6 sweet peppers cut in strips, 4 tomatoes peeled, cut in halves and seeds squeezed out, % teaspodn salt. Make the filling first. Put the — oleomargarine in upper half of an oatmeal kettle, add onion and peppers, and simmer gently for twenty minutes. Then add the tomato halves cut into three or four pieces each and cook twenty minutes longer. Then add salt and pepper and set over hot water in lower half of kettle to keep hot till wanted. Now make the Meat Box: 2 Ibs. uncooked beef chopped fine, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 egg un- beaten, 14 teaspoon pepper. Work all well together. Form into a box whose sides are about an inch thick. Place this box on a piece of oiled paper in the bottom of a baking pan and bake in a quick oven for 30 minutes, ‘basting twice with melted oleomargarine.

ENGLISH HOT. POT

1 large onion, 2 tablespoons drippings or butter, 2-3 to 4-5 Ib. of beef (round or flank), flour (to dredge meat), catsup (1 table- spoon), vinegar (1 tablespoon), potatoes (three), celery (one stalk or dried leaves crumbled), carrot (one), Turnip if desired, poultry seasoning or kitchen bouquet (one level teaspoon). Salt, pepper and water or soup stock. Fry the chopped onion in a skillet or broad shallow iron pan or kettle, in the hot drippings. Dredge meat (cut into inch cubes) with flour and cook it in the hot fat until seared well on all sides. ‘Now pour in gradually a pint of hot water or stock, the catsup and vinegar. Stew gently one hour, stirring occasionally. Then add potatoes, celery, carrot and turnip, all diced and kitchen bouquet of sweet herbs. Salt and pepper to taste. Stew one ‘hour more and serve like soup in a tureen. More liquid may be added as it cooks away. This quantity will serve six persons liber- ally.

—Mrs. G. S. Fuller.

HAMBURG TAMALE

Work sufficient cream into Hamburg Steak to make it into an easily pliable consistency. Season with salt and Grandma’s Spanish Pepper. Roll in bread crumbs and fry. Should Grandma’s Spanish Pepper be unobtainable take equal amounts of cumin, coreander seed organo, grind very fine and add a fourth amount of cayenne pepper with small quantity of garlic chopped fine. This mixture gives the tamale flavor. It should ‘be kept air tight in a tin box. - The quantity to be used should first be moistened with water as it does not readily dissolve.

—Annie F. Merrick.

A housewife’s delight—Tisgood Shortening.