THE "KITCHEN" FRONT

Evening Star, Issue 23666, 28 August 1940, Page 11

THE "KITCHEN" FRONT

Women organisers in England on the Ministry of Food’s " kitchen front ” are delighted with women’s response to their campaign for making the most of vegetables. Although it has taken a war to make English women “ salad-minded,” the Ministry officials believe that a great deal of spadework has been done over the past years by dietitians and bcautitians. Men are less responsive to their appeal. “We have no difficulty in inducing women to try out new dishes,” the organiser said. “ Our real problem comes when we try to got them to give them to their husbands.” Last winter’s snow and ice, however, made experiments more or less a ueces : sity. Spoilt crops sot country housewives looking for substitutes. They found them—not in their gardens, but in fields and hedgerows. Dandelions—despised in England and revered in Fra nee—make a particularly pieplant salad when carefully dressed with a touch of garlic and a little chopped chives and parsley. A little sugar with the oil and vinegar dressing counteracts a certain over-sharpness. Sorrel folded raw into an omelet is another recipe from a -French housewife’s cookery book. Hop-shoots, cooked in a little water and served like asparagus, are said to be delicately flavoured. Nettles can be used in soup or as a vegetable. They are cooked like spinach. Housewives who have tried any of these “ wild ” vegetables are beginning to develop a pioneer’s, (irge. Modern dietitians are supporting them-.