Breakfast
BREAKFAST starts the day right or wrong.
Too much food is as bad as none.
A substantial meal, hastily swallowed, is often worse than nothing.
Each breakfast makes a new beginning. It should be a happy-gay-satisfying meal.
When there are little children, a cereal is always needed. With cooked fruit, toast or muffins, cocoa or milk, children up to ten will be well nourished.
For most adults, and athletic growing boys and girls, more will be needed. Eggs, codfish balls, or waffles or crumb griddle cakes, with Karo syrup for energy, may replace the cereal or be served in addition.
Get as much of the breakfast ready the night before as possible. Measure the coffee in the pot.
Pour the cream in the pitcher. Prepare the fruit for serving. If you are having hash, or creamed dried beef, put it together. Sift the dry ingredients for a hot bread, ready to add to the liquid, Karo and Mazola in the morning. It will be done by the time the family is ready.
Karo on piping hot griddle cakes is always hailed with delight. Have plain griddle cakes one day-cornmeal or rice griddle cakes another-or add a little canned or grated fresh corn to the crumb griddle cakes in this book for the Sunday morning surprise. Karo makes any of these more delicious.
Nothing adds more to the everyday breakfast than a hot bread. Waffles, muffins, breakfast cake are delicious and easy to make with Mazola, Argo and Karo.
Set the table-it takes only a minute-after finishing the dishes at night. Use a fresh, gay cloth or washable stenciled doilies. Put a fern dish or the fruit in the centre-place the silver straight-be sure the dining-room is picked upand watch for results. A good breakfast with a surprise now and then, is the keynote of a happy, successful day.