Cooked Cucumbers

Cooked cucumbers are much easier to digest than raw ones.

Peel and cut in halves, lengthwise; if very large, in fourths. Boil in salt water from eight to ten minutes. (They need very little cooking. ) Drain carefully.

Cooked Cucumbers.

Serve with Hollandaise sauce.

As a vegetable, they are particularly nice with fish.

War-Time Hollandaise Sauce

1 pint milk

2 tablespoons corn flour

2 teaspoons butter (or butter substitute - chicken fat can be used) ½ teaspoon salt Dash of pepper Yolks of two eggs

Mix the flour and seasonings. Melt the fat; add the flour, then the heated milk. Add the egg yolks and the juice of one lemon just before serving.

Scalloped Sweet Potato And Apple

6 potatoes (sweet) boiled and sliced 6 raw apples peeled, cored and sliced

Arrange in alternate layers in a baking dish, with four tablespoonfuls of maple sugar or maple syrup sprinkled over the apple. Bake in a moderate oven, with cover on, for twenty minutes to one-half hour. Remove cover for the last ten minutes to brown.

Decorate with parsley.

Baked Bananas - Served As A Vegetable

Bananas are a plentiful ana inexpensive food; and when cooked a little, they are much more digestible than when taken raw.

6 bananas ½ cup vegetable oil . ½ cup bread crumbs

Skin the bananas; cut in half lengthwise; dip in or brush with the vegetable oil, and roll in bread crumbs. Bake ten minutes.

Apple Rings

6 apples ½ cup maple sugar 1 tablespoon butter substitute

Wash, peel and core six apples. Cut the apples across in slices one-fourth of an inch thick. Fry in fat till light brown on each side. Arrange in a roasting pan, and sprinkle well with maple sugar.

Bake five minutes or until the sugar is melted.

Serve as a vegetable with poultry or game.

Baked Apples Stuffed With Sweet Potato

Wash and core sour apples. Scoop out about half the inside of the apple.

Stuff with cooked mashed and seasoned sweet potato and add a bit of candied ginger.

Bake for about twenty minutes, and serve hot.

Fresh Lima Beans Au Gratin

Shell two quarts of lima beans and boil one-half hour with one-eighth of a teaspoonful of baking soda and one teaspoonful of salt.

When cooked put in casserole (family size); pour cream sauce over, and sprinkle one-half cup of grated cheese on top. Bake in oven until brown.

(Cream Sauce is given under Chicken and Crisp Noodles recipe.)

Rice Fritters

1 cup rye flour ½ cup boiled rice

1 egg ½ cup milk 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 tablespoon of butter Pinch of salt

Mix the flour, baking powder and salt. Stir in the milk, well beaten egg and butter. Drop from spoon into hot fat to brown.