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Magnolio Cake
6 eggs
2 cups sugar
1 cup boiling water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 caps pastry four
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FOOD AND HOME EGONOMICS
Dinner Menus Should Vary RULES WHEN
DATE LOAF CAKE
1⁄2 cup shortening
1 cup brown sugar
Graled rind of 1, orange
2 teaspoons baking powder
3 cups pastry four
1⁄4 teaspoon soda
1⁄2 cup milk
1 cup nut meats, chopped
3 teaspoons baking powder Separate eggs; beat yolks until thick and lemon coloured. Add 1 cup of the sugar gradually, beat- ing constantly. Add boiling water very slowly, then vanilla extract.
sugar Cream shortening, add Sift flour and baking powder to- gether 3 times. Fold into first slowly, beating well. mixture,
I pound dates, pitted and chop
ped
Tasty "Turkey Legs" Offers Welcome Change.
A SUGGESTED MENU
YOU COOK
VEGETABLES
BISCUIT DOUGH FOR SHORTCAKE. Berries Add Flavour.
What Timetables Do Two layers of biscuit dough, rolled out very thin, make the best Not Specify
shortcake. Use more butter than Jusual in the making, and be sure MANY FACTORS COUNT
the dough is very thinly spread in separate tins. A new cut of meat, a new way
Time tables for roasting and
After the of cooking an old favourite or a
cooked, dough is and atewing spread each layer with butter to new accompaniment for the meat baking and brewing
out in kitchen increase its richness. Then place means of adding have been worked are economical
the beginner the berries on the lower layer, put variety and interest to the family laboratories which
find invaluable. the second layer on top and add in cooking will dinner.
of veal but there are factors to be consi-more berries. Instead of a dinner Add orange steak and
mashed dered in the cooking of meats and gravy and rind. Sift together dry ingre potatoes, stewed tomatoes, salad vegetables that timetables cannot Beat egg whites until stiff; add dients. Add alternately with milk and cake and canned fruit for des- specify. remaining one cup sugar gradual-to first mixture. Add nuts and sert, try turkey legs, twice baked ing maturity, time from the gar
with cheese, den and size of materials. ly, beating constantly. Fold into dates. Pour into greased loaf pan potatoes, broccoli
lined with heavy waxed paper-stuffed apple salad, chocolate roll, mixture. Bake in very large un- greased tube pan in moderate oven Bake in moderate oven at 325 de-coffee.
Krees F. for 11⁄2 hours.
at 360 degrees F. for 14 hours.
Invert and let cool in pan. When could, split into three layers; spread with mint cream Alling. Cover top and sides thickly with marshmallow frosting.
Marshmallow Frosting
2 egg whites
1
cup granulated sugar
4 tablespoons cold water
9 large marshmallows, cut small
teaspoon vanilla extract
1⁄4 teaspoon baking powder
Place first three ingredients in top of double boiler. Place over boiling water and beat with eggi beater about 10 minutes or until
CHOCOLATE ICING.
2 tablespoon butter
3 tablespoons milk
2 squares unsweetened chocolate
2 cups confectioners' sugar teaspoon vanila extract
Soda Makes Chicken
Tender.
The "turkey legs" will be given enthusiastic applause but they will cost ne more than the ordinary veal steak served in the usual imanner.
Turkey Legs
For instance the vary-
To begin with generalisations. : All young, freshly gathered vege- tables will cook in less time than Vegetabler which older have wilted will take longer cook than unwithered ones.
oner.
to
Small vegetables or large ones cut in small pieces will cook more quickly than those left whole. The more surface exposed, the shorter cooking period.
CORN CHOWDER
4 cups diced bacon.
* tablesoons chopped celery
3 tablespoons chopped celery 2 cups corn
1 cup diced raw potato
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
2 cups water
3 cups milk
3 tablespoons butter
Cut bacon into small pieces. Heat in frying pan and when very not add and brown celery, and unions. Ad corn, potato, water. Cover and cook 20 minutes or until
Cooking Green Pess Then the time required for pre-
potatoes. for cooking
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One pound lean veal, 1 egg. sifted dried bread crumbs, 1 cup milk, 1 teaspoon salt, 1-4 teaspoon Heat batter, milk and chocolate pepper, few gratings nutmeg. in top of double boiler; add sugar Cui veal in strips two inches slowly, beating continually; add wide and twist around wooden Bavouring: beat until creamy. If skewers, Your butcher will sup- paring vegetables necessary, add more milk to make ply the skewers. Mix salt, pep-be considered in the planning of whole meal. For example, per and nutmeg and season each the good consistency to spread.
FOODS YOU NEED cook in 20 peaa should "leg." Roll in crumba, dip in egg green alightly beaten with 1 tablespoon minutes.
Do you need vitamins? Then crumbs. water and roll again in
But if they must be shelled Brown quickly on all siden in hot they are not a good vegetable to eat eggs, leafy vegetables, fat in a frying pan. Place in & choose when dinner must be fruits, and drink plenty of milk.
Do you want proteina? They're If the butcher sends you a chic-baking dish, add milk and bake in served in 30 minutes because it thick, adding marshmallowa asken which you fear may be less a moderate oven for one hour. takes time to shell peas, longer in milk, too, and in meat, veget until smooth. Remove from fre and tender than you had hoped. « Bake the potatoes while the than preparing beans or potatoes.ables, fish, nuts, cheese.
Do you want fats? They're in- mixture begins to thicken; beat pinch of sada in the cooking water meat is cooking and finish the
Aside from this, if they are not butter, cream, oils, bacon. add lavoring. Bent until thick will help make it tender.
broccoli dish with this same heat.
fresh from the garden and per- And, of course, if you-
nced and nearly cold; add baking pow-
Veal is such a delicious meat
fectly young and tender, they) der. Continue to beat until thick
that it deserves a wider use than won't be done in 20 minutes, but starchy foods or if you shouldn't have them-you'll be able to ac enough to spread on cake without
it enjoys.
cept or reject macaroni, potatoes, running.
Pork chops are another stand- If you're serving some sort
Asparagus cooks in 30 minutes rice, syrups. creamed meat or fish on toast, cut by that can be varied in innumer
chops and po- and is quickly prepared. Green CHEESE AND BISCUITS the toast in little stripe instead of able ways. Pork
fa a splendid beans, this means either the green in halves. Your guests will have tatics on casserole
the one-piece dish that depends on the yellow bean, should cook in 30
are fresh and. Cheese grated into the afternoon Jens trouble cutting it and
seasonings for its unusual flavour.minutes--if they
diamonds. If tea biscuits makes them delicious. servings will be more decorative.
young and cut in beans break with a snap you may
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Pork Chops and Potatoes
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SAVING PARAFFIN
Save the parafia from the tops Four nice pork chops, 4 good-be pretty certain they are fresh of jelly glasses. Wash the paraf sized potatoes, 2 medium-size on-and tender. Older beans should in, dry it, and it's all ready for ions, 1 cup diced celery, 1 teaspoon have their edges
cut in short use again. Ball, 1-2 teaspoon pepper, 1-8 tea-lengthe because as the beans проек mustard, 2 tablespoons mature the "strings" are sure to flour, 1 cup milk, 1 cup water, toughen and require a long timeĵ coarse bread crumba, 1 slice fat to cook. salt park.
GERANIUM LEAF FLAVOUR
A piece of sweet geranium leaf It is Remember to cook all green placed in grape jelly while Trim fat from chops. Cut salt
vegetables UNCOVERED. Start cooking adda flavour. park in cubes and sprinkle in bot-them cooking in boiling water and tom of baking dish cover with a layer of thinly sliced onion and serve just as soon as tonder. Pro- longed cooking not only caused loss of colour but makes the vege table unappetisingly soft and tzateless.
diced celery.
Cover with a layer of pork chops. Mix and Bift four, salt, pepper and sprinkle half of iti
Preparing New Carrots over the chops. Repeat the layers, making the fast one of pork chops.
New carrots, cut in slices, cook Cover with crumbs and dot with bits of the fat trimmed from the tender in 15 minutes. Diced ther chops. Pour in milk and water at will take longer. Since they are ont side of the dish. Cover and lightly scraped, they are quickly bake two hours in a moderate oven prepared and only a few minutes Remove cover for the last fifteen need be allowed for their prepara
tion. the minute of baking to brown
New beets require. only A crumbs on top. Serve from Jak
thorough scrubbing before cooking ing dish.
Serve this dish with a salad of And as they abould cook in 30 erlap, mixed greens if they are to 40 minutes, they are an excel- available. If not use shredded lent vegetable to use when an leaf lettuce and shredded cabbage hour is allowed for the prepara-
tion of the meal. tossed together with 盛 lemon dressing Deep dish, apple pie, Potatoes vary according to the apple dumplings to be eaten with method of cooking. Baked pota- sugar and
'cream or plain apple toes need an hour in an |sauce and ginger bread would which registers 400 degrees F.
make a delivious dessert.
Bolled potatoes usually need from thirty to 45 minutes, depending on the size. Cut in half lengthwise they will cook tender in boiling water in 80 minutes.
CELERY SANDWICHES
oven
Train yourself to cook green succulent vegetables in
Small pieces of celery 'rolled up and
in bread make tastly sandwishes. little water as possible.
Cornmeal Pudding Is Tasty
1⁄2 cup yellow cornmeal
1 cup sugar.
2 cups milk
1 tablespoon melted shortening
1⁄4 teaspoon nutmeg,
1 cup seedless raisins.
1 teaspoon lemon juice
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oven 250 degrees for, about 50 min-
upos. Serve with hard sauce.
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1⁄2 cup butter"
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