March 8, 1955 Nursery Education Week Tuna Fish Casserole, Peanut Butter Cookies

In cooperation with Nursery Education Week, Home Cooking dedicated March 8 and part of the 9th to all little ladies and young gentlemen who would like to help mother and learn to cook.

Before you start cooking, promise mother you will do these things:

1. Never, never start cooking until you have first washed your hands with soap and water.
2. Look the part of a little cook and wear a clean cotten dress or apron to keep you nice and clean.
3. Show mother what you want to do and ask her if she thinks that would be nice for you to make and if it would help her if you made it. Talk it over with mother and be very sure you understand the recipe.
4. If you are making cookies or something that uses the oven, better have mother or big sister turn it on for you.
5. After you have finished wash your dishes, it's not much fun maybe, but that's part of the game.

Something For Lunch -- Tuna Fish Casserole

1 7-oz. can tune fish
1 can cream of mushrook soup
1/2 c. milk
3/4 c. crushed potato chips

First have mother get you a 1 1/2 quart casserole dish, grease it with butter using a small piece of wax paper. Mash the potato chips fine with your hands. P.S. Don't eat too many. Have mother or sister  open a can ot tune fish and mushroom soup for you. Empty the soup into a bowl, add the milk and stir until blended. Place the tune fish in the bottom of the greased baking dish, if there are some big chunks break them up a little with a fork, not too much, though, just enough to make them even in size. Pour the soup mixture over the top. Bake in the oven at 375 degrees for 25 minutes. This will serve 4 to 5 people.

What to Drink? Milk, Of Course

Hope all you boys and girls drink lots of milk, you need a quart a day. For lunch today how about a chocolate ice cream float.

1. Put 2 T. chocolate syrup in a glass.
2. Add enough milk to fill glass 3/2 full -- not too full, remember to leave room for ice cream.
3. Stir with a spoon until chocolate syrup is mixed
4.  For a special teat float a spoon full of ice cream on top of the cold cocoa.
5.  On a very cold day have mother heat the cold cocoa for you in a double boiler (so it won't boil over). Serve with a marshmallow.

Here comes Cookie -- Peanut Butter, of course

3 c. flour
2 t. baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 c. shortening
1 c. white sugar
1 c. brown sugar
2 eggs
1 c. peanut butter
1 t. vanilla

1. Sift flour once, then measure, sift again with soda and the salt. 
2. Grease cookie sheet (with a piece of paper as you did with the caserole), not too much, just enough to keep cookies from sticking.
3. Cream shortening with both the brown and white sugar. This just means that you mix them together well. Use a wooden spoon, take lots of time to mix the ingredients well.
4. Now add the 2 eggs, one at a time, mixing and stirring well. Better get mother to break the eggs for you.
5. Now add peanut butter and beat. Getting tired? Rest a bit, then come back and stir some more.
6. Add the vanilla and stir it in.
7. Start adding the flour mixture a little at a time. Maybe mother will help you mix if you get very tired, stir slowly and carefully so you don't splash the flour out of the bowl. Flour all added? Good. Are hands clean? Here's the trick now and the most fun.
8. With your fingers lift out a little bit of the dough the size of a walnut. Put this dough in the palm of your left hand. Place your right hand hand over it and gently roll dough around until it forms a ball. If the dough is sticky, put a little flour on your hands.
9. Put the ball of dough on the greased cookie sheet. Keep making balls until you have 16 of them. Leave a space between each ball for the cookies will spread. 
10. Take a fork, like you use at the table, and gently press down crossways on the dough balls, then press the opposite direction, looks like a waffle doesn't it?
11. Bake the cookies at 375 degrees for 15 minutes. This recipe will make about 4 dozen.