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Eighteenth Century Tarts
Two Old Recipes Of 1735.
are the delicneies which are
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FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS
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A Californian SHORT-CUTS IN Ways To Put Waffle Iron
Recipe
For this recipe take 6' eggs (whites and yolks to be beaten separately), 7ox sugar, Boz' flour, 2 |teaspoonfuls baking powder, pinch
COOKING
Three Easy Recipes.
Worth Trying.
If you feel that it takes too much
of salt, 1 teaspoonful of lemon precious time to roll and cut out
(cookies in order to keep your cookle
Sitt of quality.
To Use Suggested; Recipe May Be Varied
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Lucky Indeed is the Eride who it's much more convenient to mix juice, and glass of orange juice.jar filled, then try a shorter method. numbers a waffle fron among her the batter in a pitcher and pour it
Beat the yolks until foamy, add You can save from one-fifth to one- half the sugar and continue to beat half the time and make no sacrifice wedding on shower gifta
on the waffles Iron rather than dip Two favourite old-world tests until the sugar is dissolved. which are still immensely popular the flour, salt and baking powder,
it with a spoon from a mixing bowl. are few other dishes that are hail-
Never wash a waites fron! The One short-cut method of cookie ed with such enthusiasm at any cast-fron iron must be seasoned be- wayn described as "cokes"--"lemon juices. Lastly,, fold in stifly roll, chill it thoroughly and slice movie party. As a main course or material should not be washed. and add alternately with the fruit making is to shape the dough into meal from breakfast to the after-fore using, but after that even this beaten whites of eggs to which has it with a sharp knife.
in place of cake in the dessert. After each baking wipe with soft been added the remainder of the
crisp golden mafflo pleases every-crumpled paper and remove Bake for one hour in a
all the body.
crumba with atiff brush kept for the purpose.
Plain Waffles. One and one-fourth cups flour, 1
cheese" and "curd cheese."
The two recipes given here
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quoted from the manuscript sugar. cookery book kept by Mrs. Mary slow oven. Moore, and dated 1735:
Lemon Cheese Cakes, Work halt à pound of fresh but- fer to a cream with your hands, put to it a little orange flower or rose water, then put in It half a pound of white sugar.
Beat five eggs, throw off one white, mix them into your butter and sugar, then blanch half a pound of sweet almonds and pound them in a mortar very small. Put water to them, only as much as will keep them from oiling.
Cut the peel of a lemon first boiled tender in water, and pound
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Yorkshire Pudding.
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Rolled Oats Cookies, These cookies are spread. in pan and cut after baking.
Rice waffles and creamed chick Use one cup brown sugar, 2 eggs, en or, fish, plain waffice and maple 3-4 cup shortening, 1-2 cup sour syrup or honey, waffles and crush- milk, 2 cups rolled oats, 2 cups flour,fed strawberries, chocolate wafies: 1 cup seeded and chopped raisins, and ice cream, ginger waffles and teaspoon baking power, 2 table-
1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon cinna-whipped cream and later in the spoons sugar, 11⁄2 teaspoon salt, 1/3 Yorkshire pudding is much light-mon, 1-2 teaspoon vanilla, 1 teaspoon season,
waffles--these teaspoon soda, 2 eggs, 1 cup sour green corn er, either as a sweet or a savoury, salt.
are just a few suggestions for milk, 4 tablespoons melted butter. Cream shortening and beat in varying the wallies and their ways ing powder. And milk, stirring to Mtx and sift flour. salt and bak- when baked in fairly deep bun tins
of the kind that are sold in sheets sugar. Add egge well beaten. Mix of serving. of a dozen. An invalid will often well and add rolled oats, Mix and
be tempted by one of these little gift flour with salt and cinnamon
and combine with raisina.
Add
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keep smooth. Add yolks of eggs. Ideal For Emergencies. [wall beaten and melted shortening. One important point in favour of Mix thoroughly and beat in augar
'puddings when a slice off a larg soda to milk and stir until dissolved/wamen lies in the fact that they dissolved in a little cold water.
one would come away untouched,
when baked.
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For a supper dish grated chetse/adding at once to first mixture must always be made at the last Fold in whites of eggs beaten until CEYLON: it with your almonds; mix all these can be added to the batter and the Mix slightly and add vanilla and first rank of "emergency dishes,
minute. This puts them in the stiff. Bake in a bot waffle fron. together and put them in pans small puddings served with a rich until smooth and spread on, a baking ther they were planned or not; No until wanted.
remaining dry ingredients. Mix
The batter can be made several for the guest can never guess whe hours in advance and kept on fee with puff paste under then, Do tomato sauce. not fill them over, fill but half full, Another idea is to drop a little sheet which has been oiled and matter bow. Impromptu the meal, at most, and bake them a quarter | sausage meat into each tín, 'All up
To make chocolate waffles melt floured. Bake fifteen minutes in a
waffles are a treat. of an hour.
Cut in squares
two squares of Bakng chocolate with batter, then serve apple sauce oderate oven. Curd Cheese Cakes.
Remember that wefffer batter is and add 1⁄2 cup sugar. Decrease when cool.
a "pour" batter. For this reason amount of sugar 2 tablespoonfuls. Take a pint of curds with the Again, a little finely chopped Drop Vanilla Cookies. whey strained from it and work it pork and a sprinkling of sigo One-half cup butter, 1-2 cup with a quarter... of a pound of batforms a delicious addition to the granulated sugar, 3-4′ cup flour, 1 ter, then put them through a hair batter. School children are usual-egg, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 2 tablespoons sieve with your hand. Put to them ly delighted when these "Baby chopped almonds, 1-4.teaspoon salt. a quarter of a pound of sugar, half Yorkshires" are sorved as a sweet Cream butter and sugar until very a grated nutmeg, a quarter of A decorated with a slice of orange light. Stir in four sifted with salt. noggin of brandy, mix them well. dipped in cocoanut.
Add egg well beaten and beat the Put a very little salt-in the curd an
mixture hard. Drop from the tip You work it, then put in a quarter
of a teaspoon about two inches. of cleaned, picked currants. Mix
apart on an oiled and floured baking pan.
Flatten with a knife dipped in cold water, Sprinkle chopped al- monds on top of each and bake in a moderate oven for äfteen minutes. Drop Ginger Cookies.
all together and put them in pans, with puff paste under them and lay, cross bars over them.
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OLD-FASHIONED, RATAFIAS
These delicious cakes are made with equal quantities of bitter and sweet almonds. Blanch and beat well with the whites of three eggs One cup brown sugar, 1 egg, 1-2 to lib. of almonds. Then add 2lb.eup shortening, 1-2 cup milk, 1-2 of finely powdered sugar and the cup molasses, 1 teaspoon ginger, 1 Beat teaspoon salt, 3 cups flour, I tes whites of three more egye,
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spoon soda,·
A pleasing variation of fried egg plant is to split each slice in half. Then insert a slice of raw tomato and a strip of broiled bacon In Drop small pieces upon floured Cream shortening and sugar and each piece.
a. broiler, tins and bake in a moderate oven.jadd mglasses. Add one cup of flour Place on sprinkle with grated cheese and Apricot kernels may be added to and mix well. Mix and slft. re- brown. Serve promptly.
the mixture.
maining flour with salt and ginger. Add egg well beaten to first mixture Mix and add dry ingredients. Add
Menu Suggestions For To-morrow milk with soda dissolved in it. Mix
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TIFFIN
Malze Fritters
Beef Olives
Buttered Hubbard Squash
Fried Potatoaa Apricot Pasties DINNER
Lima Bean Puree Cod A La King
Steamed Browned Fowl
Coffee Eclairs
Pineaplende
Maize Fritters
blended add the milk gradually, Stir until boiling and boll for minutes, Add the salt, paprika, pimento and fish and allow these lo become thoroughly heated in the bolling mixture. Lastly add the egg coarsely chopped and serve on toast or biscuft.
Steamed Browned Fowl
and drop from teaspoon onto oiled and floured baking sheet. Bake Afteen minutes in a moderate oven,
Whole Hams Often Economical To Buy.
One 3 or 4 lb. fowl; 2 table- Whole hams often are economical spoons melted dripping or bacon purchase. To keep cured hams in fat; 1 teaspoon salt; 1/3 teaspoon good condition, when the entire pepper. Clean the fowl and truss purchase is not used within a few
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To one pint of grated corn pulp as for roasting. Cook in a steamer days, a cool place partly protected add enough sifted dry crumbs to
from 8 to 4 hours, according to the from light and air is suggested. hold the mixture together, also size and age. When partly done, Hama wrapped in muslin half a teaspoonful of baking pow
du with salt and pepper and when parchment and hung in a cool place der, with salt and pepper to taste. tender transfer to a baking pan. koop better than those stored in Drop the mixture from a teaspoon Add the dripping or bacon fat and other ways. Airtight covering In into hot fat. making the fritters cook in a moderate over 350 F, an- doces spoilage. The farm custom the size of an oyster. Fry to a browned, about 30 minutes, bast of burying hams to cats: or, salt, is light brown colour and drain on ing several times with the drip- not desirable. In eats the ham may ping. It may be necessary to add take on a musty smell and in salt more seasoning when putting the the meat becomes excessively dry, fowl in the oven.
Isalty, and tough,
soft paper.
Beef Olives 11⁄2 lb. thick rump steak; some| sausage meat; 11⁄2 pints. stocks; ok. butter; 1 ox, flour; a few dropa lemon juice; pepper and salt;/ mashed potatose; 'a macedoine of tomatoes or any other suitable vegetable. Cut the meat into thin stripa, lay a Httle sausage mest on each and roll them up. Tie sach' roll up with fine string. Put them in a stewpan, close together, and cover with the stock. Stew gently for 2 or 8 hours, until quite tender. Then remove the string and place them in a circle" on a border of mashed potatoes or spinach. Ro- move' any fat from the stock and atir in the butter and four thoroughly mixed together. Cook the four woll, add lemon juice. Strain and pour over olives: Place vegetables in centra.. Agape Cod a la Kiga
2 tablespoons butter;.: 2 table- spoons flour; 1 cupful milk; di tang spoon salt; 1⁄2 teaspoon!"aprika 1:1) tablespoon minted pimenico3. cup. fals flaked boiled fish; lyhard boll- ad egg; tokatĵor se ) biscuit.Put the butter and fol, together Inte a.saucepan and WASH-smoothly
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