Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1917 — Mother’s Cook Book [ARTICLE]

Mother’s Cook Book

It requires a genius to order a dinner; It requires talent to cook a dinner;*it requires appetite and good health to enjoy and digest a dinner. Use More Honey. la order to use more honey we must have more bees to make more honey. Bees are really most wonderful workers on small rations and little outside labor. Honey deserves a far more conspicuous place in *bookery than it now occupies. If the price of sugar keeps up, we may all be compelled to “own a bee.” Honey Corn Bread. Thoroughly tnlx two pounds of corn meal and one-quarter of ef* pound of flour and add four cupfuls of boiling water. Stir briskly for three minutes; set aside and to two well-beaten eggs add two teaspoonfuls of honey, one tablespoonful of melted shortening and one and a half cupfuls of warm yeast mixture. When well mixed stir into the flour and meal and stir for half an hour. Pour into a well-greased, deep pan, cover with a piece of paper and set in a warm place for two hours to rise. Remove the paper and bake In a moderate oven until the top is a golden brown. This bread should be served hot and any left over may be reheated. Serve with honey if so desired.

Honey for Children. Honey is a most desirable sweet for children provided they do not swallow the wax as it is not at all digested. Strained honey for the small people will be safest and best. Baked apples, apple sauce, pies of various kinds using sugar for sweetening may all be sweetened with honey. Honey Gingersnaps. Into a double boiler put three-quar-ters of a cupful of shortening, a cupful of honey and two teaspoonfuls of powdered ginger. Allow it to cook three minutes after reaching the boiling point Remove from the fire and set aside to cool. When nearly cold, stir In enough flour to make the mixture stiff enough to roll. Roll out quite thin and cut Into small cakes. Bake in a brisk oven. Honey will sweeten custards, puddings of various kinds like tapioca, gelatin or bread puddings, as well as rice and cornstarch.

Honey Spice Cake. Stir together until creamy one and one-half cupfuls of honey and a scant cupful of shortening. Add gradually, in alternate quantities, two well-beaten eggs, one-half cupful of milk, three cupfuls of flour in which two teaspoonfuls of baking powder has been sifted. Add a cupful of raisins, some nuts If liked and spices to taste. Bake in a well-greased deep cake pan until brown.