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1933 Eat It Once a Week... Virginia Rowe Iowa State College

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Clean one quart of a.ncl pour Eat: It: Once a Week • • • over the juice of one lemon, 1 table­ spoon olive oil, 1h teaspoon finely chopped By Virginia Rowe parsley, 1 teaspoon and % t easpoon pepper. Cover and let stand 30 minutes. Drain. Mix 3 tablespoons chopped cooked OW many people that you know hacldie which has been steamed until ham, 4 tablespoons soft, stale bread H eat fish because it is a ''brain cooked through, and then served with crumbs, 2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese food ~ '' Some persons still be­ drawn butter sauce and lemon. and 1 teaspoon chives, finel y cut. Dip lieve that the phoophorus content of fish present still another problem. the scallops in egg, roll in the mixture, makes it valuable for this purpose, but They may be served raw, such as , fry in cleep fat, and drain on brown the majority of authorities now agree , clam or cocktails. 'rhey, paper. Sprinkle with salt, Temove to a that it is chieflly desirable because of its too, may be scalloped, roasted, creamed, hot platter, and garnish with paTsley. digestibility. As a whole, fish is gen­ fried or sauted. erally considered cheaper than meat of One delicious recipe for panned And if you've never wrestled with a other animals. This is not true in the follows: live lobster, how about it now ¥ case of the better cuts, but it holds for Clean one pint oysters. Place in a Split a one and a half pound lobster. the cheaper ones. dripping pan small oblong pieces of toast. Put in a dripping pan. Brush well with Most experts agree that fish should Put an oyster on each piece. Sprinkle olive oil or melted butter and bake in a be included in the diet 1·egularly. A with salt and pepper and bake until hot oven for fifteen minutes. Remove to good many of them recommend serving oysters are tender and plump. Serve with a plank and garnish with Julienne pota­ it at least once a week. lemon butter made by creaming 3 table­ toes, slices of peeled and chilled to­ The1·e a1·e five main methods of cook­ spoons butter, adding % teaspoon salt, matoes, slices of cucumber ancl parsley. ing fish, namely: boiling, broiling, bak­ 1 tablespoon lemon juice, and a few Pour melted butter, seasoned with salt, ing, frying, and sauteing. Small cod, grains of cayenne. pepper a.ncl lemon juice, over the lobster. haddock and cusk may be cooked whole If you are foncl of fried scallops try Even if you are not already a veteran in enough water to cover, to which salt, this one. It is fried scallops a la Hunt­ fish eater, perhaps these will suggest some lemon juice or vinegar has been added. ington. new ideas for tempting your appetite. The two acids keep the flesh white, 'vhile the salt retains flavor. Salmon and hali­ but may be cut in thick pieces and boiled likewise. The fish is cooked when the flesh leaves the bone, regardless of the Find Your Partner • • • length of time. By Evelyn Covault: SMALL fish may be split down the back and broiled whole. Large fish I'rH the first robin comes an un­ the men go where their strings lead them may be cut into one-inch strips, sprinkled W controllable desire to dmw your in the opposite direction, so that they with salt and pepper ancl placed in a friends together and meet spring, meet their partners at the end. Thus, well-greased broiler. The fish should be the festive season, with a spirit of fes­ automatically, the floor is cleared foT placed with the flesh sicle up at first, and tivity. And after all, is there a season dancing, and partners have been secured. then be turned frequently. more alive with delightful possibilities Another method of mixing the guests To bake fish, clean them ancl place for gay parties than these days when all so that everyone may have a chance at them on a greased fish-sheet in a drip­ nature is donning her freshest ancl gay­ the goocl dancers is to use tl1e old quota­ ping pan. If you don't own a fish-sheet, est aspecU tion method where a. slip of paper bear­ strips of cotton cloth may be placed un­ Spring parties will necessarily have to ing some quotation is cut in two, the der the fish to facilitate lifting the go lightly on the purse this year, but that gir1 holding one half ancl the boy the cooked fish out. doesn't mean that they cannot be quite other. Those whose quotations comple­ is usually clipped in egg, as attractive ancl merry as the ones of ment each other aTe partners for the then in flour or crumbs, salted and pep · last year. dmJCe. To give this the proper setting pered, ancl fried in deep fat. Sauted April brings with it a multiplicity of only rainy day quotations may be usecl fish is prepared in the same way as for ideas-April showers ancl Easter, with such as ''Rain, rain, go away, come frying, but is placed in a small amount its daffodils ancl bunnies. It is a month again some other clay,'' or extracts from of grease in a frying pan. Cocl steak when parties are adaptable to people of popular songs which abound in the ''sun­ ancl smelts are often cooked in this way. all ages. shine after rain'' iclea. ''Let a smile be Fish loaves, croquettes, and hash arc your umbrella on a rainy, 1·ainy day,'' i~ well known methods of using remnants T HERE are excellent opportunities a suggestion. or left-overs. Perhaps you'd like to try during the month of many moods for This may sound like a difficult job, but Fish a la Provencale: the young hostess who wishes to have the if you just start humming all the songs 1,.i c butter 1 t. anchovy sauce ''gang'' in for an eYening 's dancing ancl you know about rain, you'll be surprised. 2V2 T. flour 2 c. colcl boiled fish fun ancl yet would like things to be a There are a great many more than the 2 c. milk (flaked) little different. Why not, when the guests one starting, ''It ain't a -go in' to rain Yolks of 4 harcl cooked eggs arrive, confront them with a maze of no more, no more.'' To facilitate matters Make a sauce of butter, flour, ancl green strings (spring's own color) wind­ this quotation may be written on the milk. Mash the yolks of eggs and mix ing hither and yon under table legs, un­ oTigina.l umbrellas, half on a yellow one, with anchovy sauce. Add to the sauce, der chairs ancl through hall ancl livii1g and half on a green. Thus they may be then acld the fish. Serve as soon as room. used twice. heated on pieces of toasted graham On one end of each string is a. yellow bread. paper umbrella for a. girl ancl on the NOVEL idea is for the grls to fish The salt fish may be cooked as fish other a green one for a boy. The girls A for partners. The boys stand behind balls, or they may be steamed or baked each choose a string ancl begin untangling a screen (or a sheet held acrOss the or broiled. Some people prefer finnan and following it in one direction, while (Continued on page 15)