Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1916 — Tried Cooking Recipes [ARTICLE]

Tried Cooking Recipes

Creamed Lima Beans —If dried lima beans, soak over night, boll In a little salted water until tender, cook down all the water, or If In a hurry, drain. Add a cup of cream, a little butter, and pepper and salt, simmer a few minutes and serve. Macaroni Pudding—Two ounces of macaroni, two tablespoons of sugar, two cups milk, one egg and one-half a teaspoon of vanilla extract. Break the macaroni into short lengths and boll It for ten minutes In plenty of boiling salted water. Then pour away the water, add the milk and sugar and let simmer for fifteen minutes. Beat up the egg and add It to the macaroni and milk. Put all Into a buttered pudding dish and bake In the oven for half an hour.

Fish In Flemish Fashion —Fish is very good when cooked in Flemish fashion. Brush the bottom of an ordinary baking pan with a little butter and cover with a layer of chopped onions. On top of this place the fish, which has been carefully washed and dried; brush the top with the yolk of an egg, dust with salt and pepper and squeeze the juice of a lemon over all; bake in a quick even thirty minutes; dish carefully on a hot platter and garnish with parsley and lemon; put half a pint of water in the pan in which the fish was cooked, add two level tablespoons of butter and two of flour, rubbed together; stir until smooth, add one-half a teaspoon of salt, then strain this over the fish. Molasses Cookies Boil together (not more than three minutes) one cup of sugar, one cup of molasses, one cup of shortening, beef or pork drippings is the best if not burnt, take from fire and let cool; one rounded teaspoonful of soda, put it in cup you had your molasses in, and pour on it nearly one-half cup of boiling water, stir in the cooling mixture, when cool stir in two well beaten eggs, one teaspoonful each of ginger and cinnamon, sifted with some flour for mixing, add flour enough for rolling, using half-pint measure cups. This recipu makes four dozen good-sized cookies. Barley Soup—Whether looked upon as a sweet or sour, this is is nourishing, satisfying dish. Soak for twelve hours one teacup of carefully cleansed pearled barley. Drain; cover with three pints of boiling water, add a teaspoon ot salt, a teacup of seeded raisins, and the grated rind and juice of an orange; set on the back of the range and simmer for three to five hours, adding water as it cooks away. Epicurean Salad—Line a pretty cut glass or china salad dish with water cress; then heap on this one cupful of sliced, crisp celery, one onion sliced thin, one green pepper, boiled and sliced, with seeds first discarded, a dozen ot green nasturtium seed pods, two dozen round radishes cooked tender and sliced, a generous pinch of dry mustard, salt; smother in mayonnaise sauce and sprinkle with Roquefort cheese.

Quick Dessert—Beat two eggs, yolks and whites together, and turn into a cup. Fill the cup with sweet cream, add one cup of fine granulated sugar and one and one-half cups of flour in which three level teaspoons oLbaking powder have been sifted. Also a tea spoon of lemon flavoring. Bake in a round pan. When ready for qseAake a sharp knife, cut’ through the crust an inch from the edge and remove the crust and a part of the crumbs, leaving a thick shell of cake. Beat a cup of cream, sweeten and flavor it and fill the cake. This is nice if you happen tg have a loaf of sponge cake in the house and you want to prepare a quick dessert.

Veal Terrapin—Cut into wide dice sufficient lean cooked veal to measure a heaping pint. Melt in a saucepan two tablespoons of butter, add on® large tablespoon of chopped onion, and cook slowly for ten minutes without browning. Add one tablespoon and a half of flour, cook ten minutes, then stir in gradually one cupful and a half Of hot milk. When smoothly thickened add* the meat, salt and pepper to season'and simmer for fifteen minutes.. Add I the yolks of three hardboiled eggs cut fine, one tablefcpoon of lemon juice, one tablespoon of mushroom catsupland two tablespoons of sherry, and serve garnished with olives.