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SOUP COMBINATION VERY APPETIZING

Something New to Eat and Appealing to Many Tastes.

(Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.)

Something new to eat-very dainty and appetizing with a pink color scheme for luncheon, and appealing to most tastes, is a soup evolved in the course of a series of experiments with vegetable cookery carried on by the bureau of home economics of the United States Department of Agriculture.

Although these experiments were intended to develop ways of treating the more widely used vegetables to conserve their mineral constituents and vitamins rather than to originate unusual recipes, in "apple blossom soup," a combination was worked out in the laboratory which many housekeepers will welcome for the sake of change.

1/2 pint cooked beets, finely cut,
1 tablespoonful butter,
1/2 cupful vinegar (very strong),
if cream is used (half water, if no cream is used)
1 teaspoonful salt,
Few grains pepper
1/4 cupful sugar,
1/2 tablespoonful or less, if desired
cornstarch
1 1/2 cupfuls milk

Mix all the ingredients except the milk and cream, and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Sugar and vinegar must be properly balanced; if the amount of either be increased or decreased, the other must be increased or decreased accordingly. Now mix the cooked beets with the milk and cream. There should be no curdling if the beets and sauce are stirred vigorously into the milk, rather than the milk into the beets. After the mixture has stood for 15 to 20 minutes, pour through a coarse strainer to remove the beets, which are to be served separately, at some other meal. The soup may be served in cups with a teaspoonful of whipped cream in the center or a garnish of cooked beet cut in fancy shapes. This amount makes one and one-half pints of soup, which will serve six persons.