Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1916 — TASTE OF “HOME COOKING” [ARTICLE]

TASTE OF “HOME COOKING”

Woman Who Lives In Apartment Can Have K If She Will Do • Little Planning. Many a woman living In a two-room-and bath apartment and taking her meals In an adjoining public dining room yearns at times for something "homemade” and delicious; chocolate layer cake, for instance; or scalloped oysters, or old-fashioned molaßses cake, or soda biscuit, tender and piping hot, and made rich with a little shortening. One woman condemned —as she expresses it —to live in a luxurious hotel apartment most of the year, satisfies her housewifely instincts by getting Sunday-night tea in her own apartment by aid of a chafing dish, a coffee percolator and a oneburner gas stove with a little oven about as big as a baby’s hatbox. It is surprising how many delectable things can be baked in this absurd little oven. Out of it come small layer cakes, pans of light biscuit, toothsome little drop cakes, small pans of pipinghot Sally Lunn and rich gingerbread for the Sunday night supper. The little oven bakes only a small quantity—enough biscuit for four persons, twice around, and layer cake which makes six good-sized slices; but the Sunday night opportunities to have a teste of real home cooking are much appreciated by privileged guests who also dwell In boarding places. No woman with fastidious taste — and thought for her neighbors —would venture to cook steak or fry potatoes in an apartment where odors of cooking are not supposed to permeate; but creamed entrees, salads, baking of the sort referred to and various appetizing Scalloped entrees may be prepared by aid of chafing dish and a little oven of the sort. The small ovens may he used on electric grills also, and rare is the woman who does not enjoy an occasional “cooking fest” to keep her hand in at housekeeping. — Pittsburgh Dispatch.