Carbo-loading for March

Happy almost-March! Martha Meade's Modern Meal Maker (1935) greets the month with a poem by Bayard Taylor:
With rushing winds and gloomy skies
The dark and stubborn Winter dies;
Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries,
Bidding her earliest child arise;
                     March!

I'm not sure whether Spring is supposed to be calling her child by name or telling the child to GET MOVING ALREADY. I'll vote for the latter (and suggest that Spring learn the difference between semicolons and colons).

March meals tend to be very carb-heavy, I guess to help diners survive the rest of the cold weather. (One day's breakfast menu is just pineapple juice, hot cereal, and butterhorns, the 1935 equivalent of those cereal commercials that used to encourage children to eat their Trix with toast and juice.)

Even fried rice is not sufficiently carby. It has to be mixed with flour (since Sperry didn't sell rice!) to make Fried Rice Dumplings.

A longing for summer vegetables might be indulged by dipping into the canned tomato supply for a Tomato Chip Souffle.

I'll admit that I chose this recipe in part just because it's fun to say "tomato chip." I'm not sure  how well a tomato custard encased in thick layers of potato chips will allay a case of the winter blahs, but at least it's better than eating yellow snow.

And speaking of tomato custards, March really seems to be the month for them. There's also a Cape Cod Custard.

That's code for a salt-cod-and-tomato custard topped with a creamed pea sauce, for the bland and mushy soft-on-soft textures that really make the end of winter seem just a little bit more unbearable.

To round out our Modern Meal Maker recipes for the month, we need yet another recipe that uses  Hearts (since a major component of the cookbook seems to be convincing readers that Sperry Wheat Hearts should be in everything).

This time, it's for a breakfast cobbler-- The sausage and apples topping the cereal-based cobbler mean that this is an all-in-one breakfast (and not just a pure carb-fest). Concerned moms should probably serve it with some extra cereal, though, just to be on the safe side.