Foods That Will Win The War And How To Cook Them | Page 8

sheet. Bake 15 minutes in hot oven.
PANCAKES AND WAFFLES
SOUR MILK PANCAKES
1 cup sour milk
1/2 cup cooked cereal or
1 cup bread crumbs
1
tablespoon melted fat
1 egg
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon
soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
Mix bread crumbs, flour, salt; add beaten egg, fat and cereal; mix soda
with sour milk and add to other ingredients.
SPLIT PEA PANCAKES

2 cups split peas
2 egg whites
1/3 cup flour
1 cup milk
2 egg
yolks
2 tablespoons pork drippings
1/8 teaspoon cayenne
1
teaspoon salt
1 teaspoonful baking powder
Soak peas over night, cook, and when tender, put through a food
chopper and mix the ingredients. Bake on hot greased griddle.
BREAD GRIDDLE CAKES
2 cups sour milk
2 cups bread
Let stand until soft
Put through colander. For each one pint use:
1 egg
1 teaspoon soda
2 teaspoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4
cup flour
1 egg beaten
Mix well; bake at once on hot greased griddle.
OATMEAL PANCAKES
2 cups oatmeal
1 tablespoon melted fat
1/8 teaspoon salt
Add:
1 egg beaten into a cupful of milk
1 cupful flour into which has been
sifted 1 teaspoonful baking
powder.
Beat well. Cook on a griddle. This is an excellent way to use left-over
oatmeal.
POTATO PANCAKES
2 cups of chopped potato
1/2 cup milk
1 egg
1 teaspoon salt
2
cups flour
5 teaspoons of baking powder
2 cups of hot water

Parboil potatoes in the skins for fifteen minutes. Pare and chop fine or
put through food chopper. Mix potatoes, milk, eggs and salt. Sift the
flour and baking powder and stir into a smooth batter. Thin with hot
water as necessary. Bake on a greased griddle.
RICE WAFFLES
1 cup cold boiled rice
1-1/2 cups milk
2 eggs
2 cups flour
1/3
teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon melted fat
4 teaspoons baking powder
Add milk to rice and stir until smooth. Add salt, egg yolks beaten; add
flour sifted with baking powder and salt; add fat; add stiffly beaten
whites.
RICE GRIDDLE CAKES
1/2 cup boiled rice
1/2 cup flour
3 tablespoons fat
1 pint milk

2/3 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon soda
Stir rice in milk. Let stand one-half hour. Add other ingredients, having
dissolved soda in one tablespoon cold water.
CORNMEAL WAFFLES
1 cup cornmeal
1/2 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking
powder
1/4 cup corn syrup
1 egg
1 pint milk
1 tablespoon fat
Cook cornmeal and milk in double boiler 10 minutes. Sift dry
ingredients. Add milk, cornmeal; beaten yolks; fat, beaten whites.
CORNMEAL AND RYE WAFFLES
1 cup rye flour
3/4 cup cornmeal
1 teaspoon salt
4 teaspoons
baking powder
1 tablespoon melted fat
2 eggs
1-1/4 cups milk
Sift dry ingredients. Add beaten yolks added to milk. Add fat and
stiffly beaten whites. If waffles are not crisp add more liquid.

[Illustration: Each Food Shown is Equivalent in Protein to the Platter of
Meat in the Center of the Picture.]
SAVE MEAT
_REASONS WHY OUR GOVERNMENT HAS ASKED US TO
SAVE MEAT WITH PRACTICAL RECIPES FOR MEAT
CONSERVATION_
As a nation we eat and waste 80 per cent. more meat than we require to
maintain health. This statement, recently issued by the United States
Food Administration, is appalling when we consider that there is a
greater demand for meat in the world to-day than ever before, coupled
with a greatly decreased production. The increase in the demand for
meat and animal products is due to the stress of the war. Millions of
men are on the fighting line doing hard physical labor, and require a
larger food allowance than when they were civilians. To meet the
demand for meat and to save their grains, our Allies have been
compelled to kill upward of thirty-three million head of their stock
animals, and they have thus stifled their animal production. This was
burning the candle at both ends, and they now face increased demand
handicapped by decreased production.
America must fill the breach. Not only must we meet the present
increased demand, but we must be prepared as the war advances to
meet an even greater demand for this most necessary food. The way out
of this serious situation is first to reduce meat consumption to the
amount really needed and then to learn to use other foods that will
supply the food element which is found in meat. This element is called
protein, and we depend upon it to build and repair body tissues.
Although most persons believe that protein can only be obtained from
meat, it is found in many other foods, such as milk, skim milk, cheese,
cottage cheese, poultry, eggs, fish, dried peas, beans, cow peas, lentils
and nuts. For instance, pound for pound, salmon, either fresh or canned,
equals round steak in protein content; cream cheese contains
one-quarter more protein and three times as much fat; peanuts (hulled)
one-quarter more protein and three and a half times as much fat; beans

(dried) a little more protein and one-fifth as much fat; eggs (one dozen)
about the same in protein and one-half more fat. It is our