Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1917 — Mother’s Cook Book [ARTICLE]

Mother’s Cook Book

Inexpensive Dishes. When an emergency arises with but half enough meat to go round, mix It after chopping fine with equal parts of cooked rice, one small onion’chopped and one green pepper. For each pint .add a cupful of canned tomato. Season well and add gravy for moisture and a tablespoonful of butter. Cover with crumbs and bake. Sour milk can be used for so many delicious foods, spice cakes, doughnuts, griddle cakes, waffles, steamed bjead and biscuits. Surely one may find some dish among these to utilize the sour milk. Sour cream with small green onions sliced into it, salt and pepper added, is one of the most appetizing of salads. Children like bread, buttered, sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar and browned in- the oven. This may_.bß_ used with a cupful of tea when other cakes are lacking. Crumb Bread. When one has an accumulation of bits of bread left from sandwiches when entertaining, dry them thoroughly and put them through the food chopper. Dissolve a half a yeast cake in h half cupful of water^juld—two, cupfuls of warm w’ater, a tablespoonful of shortening, a cupful of graham flour, a teaspoonful of salt, a cupful and a half of crumbs and enough white flour to make a very stiff dough. Let -rise, cut down, then, when risen, place in the tins, let rise again and bake _ ,

Com Bread Country Style. Sift together three-fourths of a cupful of corn meal, half a cupful of flour, one-fourth of a cupful of sugar and half a teaspoonful each of salt and soda. Beat one egg, add a cupful of thick sour cream or a cupful of buttermilk or sour milk and three tablespoonfuls of melted shortening and stir into the dry Ingredients. Bake In a shallow pan about 25 minutes. Delicate Muffins, Sift together one cupful and a half of pastry flour, two and one-half tablespoonfuls of baking powder, half a teaspoonful of salt and one-third of a -cupful of sugar: add three-fourths of a cupful of milk, three tablespoonfuls of melted butter and mix well. Bake in hot, well buttered, iron pans about 25 minutes.