Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1911 — FOUR TASTY DISHES [ARTICLE]

FOUR TASTY DISHES

APPROPRIATE AND DAINTY FOR TABLE IN SUMMER’ ■ ■■■—■■ i . v . r German Potato Pancakes Excellent ft Properly Made—Jam Cake . and Banana Pie Equally Good, for the Dessert. German Potato akrr about six or eight large potatoes, peel and grate, pour over this half a cup of boiling milk or hot cream; beat Into it three or four eggs, a teaspoon - of salt and a cup of bread or cracker crumbs. If you like a little grated onion, do not use so many eggs. Bake like hot cakes. Spread the mixture rather thin. Excellent if made right. Jam Cake —Two eggs, one cup sugar, butter the'slze of a walnut, half a cup of Jam (blackberry or strawberry>. two cups of flour, one scant teaspoon of soda; one cup of baking powder, two tablespoons of sour milk «r one tablespoon of sweet milk, spices If liked, a fourth of a teaspoon each of cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Bake in layers and put together with whipped cream or soft frosting. If made right the dough will look rather stiff, otherwise it will fall. Tastes like honeycomb. Banana Pie —Line a deep tin with nice rich pie crust, fill it with sliced bananas, pour over this the juice of half a lemon and half a cup of sugar,, set In the hot oven and after 10 minuates pour over this egg, a. cup filled up with milk and a speck of salt. Beat the white of one or two eggs and spread on top after the piela baked and brown slightly. Or leave out the eggs and after the bananas are baked pour over some whipped cream. To Bave Dishes When Making * Cake—Take the same cup you measure the sugar in for the flour (after you have turned the same Into the cakedish), the measure the butter and lastly the milk. Take the same spoon for measuring salt, baking powder and flavoring. After the flour is measured turn It into the sieve vrith the baking powder and sift it onto a newspaper or other paper; when ready with the Ingredients pour the flour back:. Into the sieve and sift It Into the rest.