Oatmeal Soup

Boil 1 cup rolled oats with 2 cups boiling water. When thoroughly done, add:

1 pint milk 1/4 teaspoon pepper

1 teaspoon butter or butterine 1 slice of onion

I cup celery water (or flavor with dried celery leaves) Add 1 more cup of milk. Strain and serve.

Green Pea And Oatmeal Soup

Drain 1 can of peas. Add a slice of onion, a sprig of parsley, a sprig of mint.

1 teaspoon sugar 1/4 teaspoon pepper

1/2 teaspoon salt 2 cups water

Cook slowly 15 minutes. Rub through a coarse sieve. Boil 1 scant cup oatmeal in 1 pint water until well done. Then add 1 pint milk. Pour slowly over the peas. You may add 1 tea-spoon butterine. Rub through a coarse sieve. Heat in double boiler.

Oatmeal And Spinach Soup

1 cup oatmeal 6 1/2 cups water

I onion; seasoning

2 teaspoons sugar 1 cup tomato 3/4 cup cooked spinach

Boil water; add the oatmeal and the other ingredients and cook together 3/4 hour in a covered saucepan, stirring frequently. Add milk if possible.

Rice And Onion Soup

3 tablespoons rice 1 onion, sliced fine 1 1/2 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon drippings, lard, or other fat

2 tablespoons parsley

1 clove; 1 bay leaf; scraps of celery 7 cups boiling water

Put the drippings in a pan, and when smoking hot, fry the rice and onion in it. Pour this into a kettle with the water, salt, celery, clove, and bay leaf. Boil till the rice is cooked (about 30 minutes). Add the parsley and serve.

Scalloped Rice

Home recipe

3/4 cup rice

2 tablespoons fat 2 tablespoons flour 1 cup milk 1/4 cup cheese, grated 1/4 cup bread crumbs

Individual

2 tablespoons 1 teaspoon 1 teaspoon

1/4 cup

1/2 tablespoon 1 tablespoon

Boil rice in large kettle of water. Drain and mix with white sauce, made as follows: Melt the fat and add the flour, when smooth pour in the cold milk and cook until it boils, stirring constantly. Butter a baking-dish. Put in the creamed rice with the layer of cheese in the middle and on the top. Cover with buttered bread crumbs.

Baked Hominy

3/4 cup fine hominy I teaspoon salt

1 cup boiling water

2 cups milk

1/4 cup butter

1 tablespoon sugar 1 egg

Add hominy and salt to boiling water. Let boil 2 minutes, then cook in double boiler until water is absorbed. Add one cup of milk and cook 1 hour. Remove from range, and add butter, sugar, egg slightly beaten, and the other cup of milk. Pour into a buttered dish and bake in a slow oven 1 hour.

Use instead of rice or potatoes at a "meatless" meal.

Rice With Parsley Or Chives

1/2 cup rice 2 tablespoons butter

I tablespoon finely chopped parsley or chives

Cook rice until tender in boiling salted water; add butter and parsley or chives, mixing gently with fork to avoid breaking the grain. Serve as a vegetable.