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AMERICAN COOKERY

FORMERLY THE

BOSTON COOKING-SCHOOL

MAGAZINE

OF

Culinary Science and Domestic Economics SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR, SINGLE COPIES 15c FOREIGN POSTAGE: TO CANADA, 20C PER YEAR TO OTHER FOREIGN COUNTRIES, 40C PER YEAR

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To each man is given a marble to carve for the wall;

A stone that is needed to heighten the beauty of all;

And only his soul has the magic to give it a grace; And only his hands have the cunning to put it in place.

Yes, the task that is given to each man, no other can do;

So the errand is waiting; it has waited through ages for you,

And now you appear; and the Hushed Ones are turning their gaze

To see what you do with your chance in the chamber of days.

Edwin Markham in the Nautilus.

THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH
N these days, affairs of the greatest con-

IN
conclusion. Well nigh everywhere the
cern are moving swiftly to a logical
privilege of suffrage is almost universally
conceded to be a self-evident truth and
the natural right of mankind. The use
of alcohol, as a beverage, so long the curse
of the human race, is almost prohibited
among civilized peoples. The end of a
world-wide war is in sight and an era of
peace on earth and good will to man seems
to be approaching as something more real
than a dream or vision. When people
come once more to themselves they will
wonder what it was all about. The
losses over the most prosperous parts of
the earth have been enormous and awful;
they can neither be estimated in figures,
told in words, nor realized in thought.
From a material point of view certainly
no nation involved in the conflict has
gained anything. Years, even genera-
tions, will be required to repair the dread
havoc wrought by war. May we, at
least, cherish the hope that as a final re-
sult, some great wrongs may be righted,
and the reign of justice and righteousness.
be more widely spread over the earth.

JUSTICE AND FAIR-DEALING

N times of war everybody is supposed

IN war is

living in all its phases invariably goes up, as is so manifestly the case today. Everybody, too, is supposed to share the expenses of war, for war means destruction, loss and misery. And yet, in this land, and no doubt in other lands, there are those who have prospered in the past four years as never before. Strange as it may seem, many have grown rich on the misfortunes of others. Wrong is somewhere; it cannot be explained or justified. We call these individuals profiteers, and profiteers are many. In payment of the extraordinary expenditures of the times, it seems to us only just and fair that these people should be taxed most heavily and contribute most lavishly. Justice and

fair-dealing are the order of the day. Who has not suffered from wrong? Who has wrongs to right that were not inflicted through injustice? In every condition of life and under every form of government we want, above all else, simple justice. Even in religion we want justice, seasoned, perhaps, with mercy. Can it be true that right and not might is to be the rule of earth henceforth?

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READJUSTMENT

HE matter of readjustment of industries to normal conditions after the war looms before us. It is a most stupendous proposition. Of the many and conflicting features of the situation, the food problem is, perhaps, the foremost and most perplexing of them all. Hunger makes people restless, discontented and lawless. In every land and clime the primal need of the people is food. War breeds want, famine and misery. Already in large tracts of the earth starvation has become a menace to life. "Unless food is forthcoming in the half-starved regions of Europe there will be red revolution everywhere. History has proved, on many occasions, that hunger is the prime instigator of terrorism." It is up to America, it seems, for the present at least, to help provide the food supply for the greater part of Europe. To accomplish this we must still continue to observe our several lines of economies, and increase our varied productions in order to relieve, as far as possible, the absolute necessities of distracted nations abroad. A single year devoted solely to peaceful pursuits will bring about great changes in the present disrupted state of world-wide affairs. Speed the time when "people shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."

BACK TO THE LAND

OULD some millions of well-to-do women endure a season of freedom

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"from the tyranny of parlor curtains and dust-cloths," for the good of the nation? The query is suggested by a narration of this summer's experience of a mid-western merchant, past draft age and with grown children in the war. He sold his store last spring, intending to retire. He found that the old farm homestead, still a family possession, was without a tenant. His report follows: "My wife and I went down to the farm and camped for six weeks in the sugarhouse. I put up twenty-five tons of hay worth $30 a ton, and plowed seventeen acres which I sowed to wheat. My wife said she had not been free for thirty years from the tyranny of parlor curtains and dust cloths, and we greatly enjoyed the experience."

There were other details of clear profit, material and spiritual, in dewy mornings, fresh mushrooms, a too generous avoirdupois of 255 reduced to 220, and bettered health in general; but the main point was that this couple will have a credit in due course of some eighty barrels of flour and more than two tons of bran, as their addition to the nation's food supply. From the merely financial point of view they could well afford to remain non-producers and consumers. They chose another

course.

It is actual, direct work toward foodproduction which the country needs, from every one who can do it. The government does not now measure in bushels the amount of food supplies which this country must furnish; it speaks of millions of tons. And for the current year, we shall have to send abroad 6,000,000 tons more than we sent last year, or an increase of nearly 50 per cent above our past enormous shipping.

Every one who can must help, in this serious, vital, primitive human work of adding to the food supply. It is needless to say, also, that saving must be unrelaxing and comprehensive, as well. But let production be kept in mind and furthered in every possible way. That is the positive side of the problem; the saving is the negative side. We cannot save what is

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not produced. And if care of "parlor THIS CRY is full of good things for

curtains and dust-cloths" appears to stand in the way of any farmerette, of full rank or brevet, then let courage be summoned for a bit of study in neglect of non-essentials till the war famine is at an end. This will not be for many months after peace is won and signed and clinched fast! The Boston Herald.

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PEACE BY NEGOTIATION

A proposals for
N answer to any proposals for peace

by negotiation at the present time is contained in one line from Lowell: "They enslave their children's children, who make compromise with sin." And this is to be held to not out of sense of past injury, or any resentment or vindictiveness that ought to be cleaned out of the mind. The root of it is something. that ought not to be forgiven, and cannot be forgotten. The disposition to forgive and forget is admirable with reference to things that thus would sink into oblivion. The things we are set to overcome are things that never will sink into oblivion. They are not, indeed, things in themselves, mere events; they are principles, which, unless exterminated, will spring up into new evils; they are like the dragons in the stories, that must be destroyed utterly. Our duty is not punishment, as a penalty for wrong, a satisfaction of moral indignation; our duty is to lay the axe at the root of the tree, so that governments, resting on falsehood, lust, and cruelty, shall perish. While they are suing for peace they are continuing their black deeds, sinking hospital ships, laying waste, wantonly and without military necessity, towns, cities, and territory thickly populated, and dragging people into slavery. There needs a new Edmund Burke, to impeach, with scorching molten words, the man and men who have committed high crimes and misdemeanors, and commit them still. These men must be brought before the bar of the parliament of the world and there learn what

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housewives. As we go to press the end of the war has come. Surely a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year are before us. As we pass from the old state of the sad past to the new state of the hopeful future, let us all cheer up and smile once more. Grateful for kindly support in time of stress, may we remind you not to forget or neglect your AMERICAN COOKERY now. Help to enlarge and strengthen our list of sub

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DETAIL OF ONE COVER FOR BREAKFAST

Seasonable and Tested Recipes

By Janet M. Hill

IN ALL recipes where flour is used, unless otherwise stated, the flour is measured after sifting Where flour is measured by cups, the cup is filled with a spoon, and a level cupful is meant. A tablespoonful or teaspoonful of any designated material is a LEVEL spoonful. In flour mixtures where yeast is called for, use bread flour; in all other flour mixtures, use cake or pastry flour.

Belgium Soup

Use the water in which a fish was boiled, or, cover the cleaned heads, the bones and trimmings of two or three fresh fish with cold water. Cover and let simmer slowly, twenty minutes after the boiling point is reached; drain off the broth. For one quart of broth, stir half an onion, sliced thin, and a stalk of celery, cut fine (leaves and all), in two tablespoonfuls of vegetable oil until softened and yellowed; add a cup of cold water and let simmer half an hour, then strain into the fish broth, pressing out all the liquid and pulp possible. Cook one-fourth a cup of flour, a teaspoonful of salt, and half a teaspoonful of pepper in one-fourth a cup of hot fat; add one quart of milk and stir until boiling. To the boiling fish stock add two dozen oysters, and shake gently until the broth again boils; add a teaspoonful of salt, skim as needed, and pour into the milk sauce. A cup of

cream may be added at pleasure; serve

at once.

Corn Chowder de Luxe

Peel a mild onion of medium size and cut it in thin shreds. Wash two stalks of tender celery (outside stalks, if they are solid without too many coarse threads), and cut stalks and leaves into fine slices; put the onion and celery over the fire in two or three tablespoonfuls of vegetable oil, chicken or pork fat, and let cook slowly, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables are softened and yellowed a little; add about two cups of broth or boiling water and let cook about an hour. Half an hour before serving, pour boiling water on three medium-sized potatoes, pared and cut in thin slices; let boil two minutes, drain and add to the celery, etc., and let cook (adding water to cover, if needed), until the potatoes are about tender. Meanwhile cook three table

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add more salt if needed, and sprinkle with fine-chopped parsley.

Vegetable Stew

Cut two slices of fat salt pork in tiny cubes, and let cook over a slack fire until crisp; skim out the bits of pork and add an onion, peeled, cut in thin slices and the slices separated into rings, a cup of sliced celery, and a cup of sliced carrot; stir until yellowed and softened a little; return the bits of pork, add a quart of boiling water, cover and let cook. Meanwhile pour boiling water over a pint of raw potatoes, cut in cubes or slices; heat to the boiling point, let boil five minutes, drain, rinse in cold water and drain again, then add to the other vegetables and let cook about twenty minutes longer, or until the potato is done. The onion,

A Layer Fish-Pie

Grease a casserole; to serve four, have about one pound and a half of fresh fish (flounder, hake, haddock, cod or pollock) in slices or filets, freed of all bones and skin, one onion, cut in very thin slices and cooked, without discoloring, in one or two tablespoonfuls of vegetable fat until softened, one cup and a half of pared-and-sliced potatoes, parboiled in boiling water about eight minutes and drained. Set a layer of fish in the casserole; add a layer of potatoes, another layer of fish, the onion, a few bits of butter or a sprinkling of vegetable oil and the rest of the potatoes. the rest of the potatoes. Sprinkle on a teaspoonful of salt and about half a teaspoonful of black pepper; add hot milk, just to cover the potato. Let bake about one hour; serve in the casserole.

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