Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1913 — KEEP THE PROPORTION [ARTICLE]

KEEP THE PROPORTION

FOR GOOD RESULTS, RECIPESMUST BE FOLLOWED. 1 ““ ' Except in the Matter of Flavoring* Where One's Own Taste May Be Made Guide, Alterations Are. -: Likely to Spoil Dish. As a rule, a recipe should be faith- 1 fully followed. For Instance, in making soup you cannot, because you areshort of the given quantity of meat, put In the same quantity of water without damaging the soup, but you must reduce the amount of the water and every other Ingredient in the same proportion. In mattery of flavoring you naay vary to suit circumstances. If you are told to use cloves, a bit of mace may be substituted. If you read a recipe and it calls for something you have not, consider whether that something has anything to dowith the substance of the dish, or if It is merely an accessory for which something else can be substituted. If you are ordered to use cream In a sauce, milk-with a larger amount of washed butter may take its place. Where cream is the chief part of the dish, milk will not do. For a cake in which cream is used, butter whipped to a cream may take its place. Again, In cakes be very careful that the exact proportions of flour, eggs and milk are used. Never lessen the amount of eggs where soda and acid are depended on for lightness. Never add milk, If a cake is too stiff, when milk is not one of the ingredients, but another egg may be used. If milk tensed, a little more may be added. Flavoring may be always varied Sometimes in “cook books” you are told to use articles not frequently found in ordinary kitchens, such as a salamander, which is very useful but seldom found in small kitchens; but when you wish to brown the top of a dish and putting it in the oven will not do, or the oven is not quick enough to serve, an iron shovel, made nearly red, and a few red cinders in it, serves as a good salamander. It must be held over the article that requires browning near enough to color it, yet not to burn.

You must beware of attempting too much at once; perfect yourself in one thing before you attempt another.