Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1914 — USES FOR SOUR MILK [ARTICLE]

USES FOR SOUR MILK

18 VALUABLE INGREDIENT INI MANY DEBBERT DIBHEB. * Spice Cake With Nut Meats and Pitta* Dates May Be Especially Recommended—Excellent Gingerbread That Requires No Butter. In every thrifty family not a spoonful of milk is ever wasted. Small amounts left in the pitcher are poured into a jar and set aside to eour, and in the summer, especially, these accumulations follow thick and fast Here is an economical spice cake that is delicious: Melt a tablespoonful of chocolate shavings over hot water, then add half a cupful each of dark brown sugar and hot water. Stir the mixture until smooth ahd keep where it will stay warm until needed. Put nut meats and pitted dates through the food chopper until you have a cupful of each. Put three cupfuls of sifted flour Into the sifter and add one teaspoonful of baking powder, one-half of a teaspoonful of shda, two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, one-half of a teaspoonful of grated nutmeg and just a pinch of ginger. Rub enough of the flour into the bruit to coat each piece well and turn superfluous flour back into the sifter. Now cream onehalf of a‘cupful oY butter and add one cupful and one-half of brown sugar, then two eggs well beaten, the chocolate preparation and one cupful of sour milk. Beat thoroughly and stir In the flour. This may be baked In a square sheet and covered with a thin icing flavored with vanilla, in layers with a chocolate cream Ailing or a white icing, or in patty tins or gem pans. If the small cakbs are sprinkled with granulated sugar and a few chopped nut meats they will require no icing. For a good gingerbread that requires no butter, try this recipe: Beat three eggs well, then add one cupful and one-half of molasses and three quarters of a cupful each of sour milk and brown sugar. Sift a tablespoonful of ginger and one teaepoonful each of cinnamon, baking ppwder and soda with three cupfuls of flour. Stir into the liquid mixture, pour into a shallow pan and bake in a moderate oven about forty minutes.—Delineator.