. Add the rice,
heat, and serve. (Will serve six.)

_Cracker Pudding_

6 soda crackers
3 c. milk
3 eggs
6 tbsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt

Roll the crackers and soak them in milk. Beat the yolks and sugar well
together and add to the first mixture, with some salt. Make a meringue
with white of eggs, pile lightly on top, and put in the oven till it is
a golden brown. Serve hot. (Will serve six.)

_Note._--Dried bread crumbs may be used in place of the
crackers.

_Candied Fruit Peel_

The candied peel of oranges, lemons, grapefruit, and other fruits makes
a good sweet which is economical, because it utilizes materials which
might otherwise be thrown away. Its preparation makes an interesting
school exercise. The skins can be kept in good condition for a long time
in salt water, which makes it possible to wait until a large supply is
on hand before candying them. They should be washed in clear water,
after removing from the salt water, boiled until tender, cut into small
pieces, and then boiled in a thick sugar syrup until they are
transparent. They should then be lifted from the syrup and allowed to
cool in such a way that the superfluous syrup will run off. Finally,
they should be rolled in pulverized or granulated sugar.

A large number of recipes have been given, in order that a selection may
be made according to season, community conditions, and market prices,
and so that sufficient variety may be secured from day to day.

Attention given to this matter will be well repaid by the improved
health of the pupils, the greater interest taken in the school by the
parents, and the better afternoon work accomplished. It has been well
said: "The school lunch is not a departure from the principle of the
obligation assumed by educational authorities toward the child, but an
intensive application of the measures adopted for the physical nurture
of the child, to the end of securing in adult years the highest
efficiency of the citizen".

USEFUL BULLETINS

_The Rural School Luncheon_: Department of Education, Saskatchewan

_The Box Luncheon_: New York State College of Agriculture,
Cornell University

_Hints to Housewives_: Issued by Mayor Mitchell's Food Supply
Committee, New York City

_Home Economics in Village and Rural Schools_: Kansas State
Agricultural College

_Home-made Fireless Cookers and Their Use_: Farmers' Bulletin,
United States Department of Agriculture

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