A Forest Ranger's Cookbook - Helpful Food Facts

from The Lookout Cookbook, 1938. U.S. Forest Service, Region One

How to Use Left-Overs
The secret of success in cooking for two depends to a great extent upon the ability to use left overs at successive meals. In using this surplus food, it is important to supply whatever is lacking. If it is dry, it needs to be moistened; if it is lacking any particular flavor, it needs to be well seasoned or mixed with something that will give it a distinctive and appetizing taste; if it is hard, it needs to be softened.

Keep your Left-Overs Uncooked
For instance, if you have a steak that is too large for one meal because, in order to have it appetizing you had to have it cut fairly thick, cut out the heart or tenderloin and broil it, keeping the rest for a fresh meat disk the next day.

Left-Over Meat
With left-over meat, just add accessories to suit you, such as mushrooms, a few slices of potato, an onion or two, small cubes of any kind of vegetable, a few slices of bacon, or a few left-over sausages. If you wish an entirely different dish, just take a few scraps of meat, then mix them with butter and vegetables, and fry them; bacon and sausage, of course, need no butter.

Left-Overs in General
If a can of corn is opened and isn't eaten up, one can make scalloped corn by combining corn, crackers, salt, pepper, and enough milk to cover, and baking it in oven until it becomes firm.
Any left-over fruit may be utilized for fruit roll, by making biscuit dough and rolling the fruit in the dough and baking.
If you have cake left over, make a sauce for it and have pudding for the next meal. Left-over bread that becomes stale or dry may be used in bread pudding, toast, French toast, cinnamon toast, stuffing for meat, or it may be used in place of crackers where cracker crumbs are called for.
If you have any biscuit dough left over at any time, you can prepare a meat pie. Line a small baking dish with the rolled out dough, then place into it a mixture which has previously been cooked together. Or you may omit one tablespoon of shortening and add 1/2 can of cheese, thus making cheese biscuits. Proceed as for plain biscuits.