Good Food

Good food and how to prepare it — a full course of home cookery, soups through beverages, preserved from the keyed text.

Cereals

14 recipes in this part of Good Food.

Cereal with Fruit

3/4 cup fine wheat breakfast food 3/4 cup cold water 2 cups boiling water 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 lb. dates, stoned, and cut in pieces Mix…

Boiled Rice (Cup rice quarts boiling water)

1 cup rice 2 quarts boiling water 1 tablespoon salt

French Chef (Pick over rice add slowly)

Pick over rice; add slowly to boiling, salted water, so as not to check boiling of water. Boil thirty minutes, or until soft, which may be…

Steamed Rice

1 cup rice 2 3/4 to 3 1/4 cups boiling water (according to age of rice) 1 teaspoon salt Put salt and water in top of double boiler, place…

Turkish Pilaf II

1/2 cup washed rice 3/4 cup tomatoes, stewed and strained 1 cup Brown Stock, highly seasoned 3 tablespoons butter Add tomato to stock, and…

Turkish Pilaf III

1/3 cup rice 3 tablespoons butter 1/2 cup canned tomatoes 1/2 cup cold cooked chicken cut in dice White Stock highly seasoned Salt and…

Rissoto Creole

3 tablespoons butter 1 cup rice 2 3/4 cups highly seasoned Brown Stock Canned pimentoes Melt butter in hot frying-pan, add rice, and stir…

Boiled Macaroni

3/4 cup macaroni broken in inch pieces 2 quarts boiling water 1 tablespoon salt 1/2 cup cream Cook macaroni in boiling salted water twenty…

Macaroni with White Sauce

1/2 cup macaroni broken in inch pieces 2 quarts boiling water 1 tablespoon salt 1 1/2 cups White Sauce Cook as for Boiled Macaroni, and…

Baked Macaroni

Put Macaroni with White Sauce in buttered baking dish, cover with buttered crumbs, and bake until crumbs are brown.

Baked Macaroni with Cheese

Put a layer of boiled macaroni in buttered baking dish, sprinkle with grated cheese; repeat, pour over White Sauce, cover with buttered…

Macaroni with Tomato Sauce

Reheat Boiled Macaroni in one and one-half cups of Tomato Sauce I, sprinkle with grated cheese, and serve; or prepare as Baked Macaroni…

Ravioli

1 1/2 cups flour 1/2 egg Warm water 1/4 cup cracker crumbs 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese 1/4 cup chopped cooked spinach 1 egg Chicken…

Tomato Sauce (Cup butter onion finely)

1/3 cup butter 1 onion, finely chopped 3/4 teaspoon salt Few grains pepper 1 small can condensed tomato 2/3 Ib. lean beef Cook first four…

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