Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1917 — Mother’s Cook Book. [ARTICLE]

Mother’s Cook Book.

The loyal heart is never alone. There are ever comrades real. Who will make the cause you love their own, And stand by you true as steel. —Mary Sangster. Seasonable Dishes. Bananas are fruit that should be ripe or well cooked before serving. Baked bananais may be given to the little people. Peel a half dozen bananas and place them in a baking dish with sugar, water, lemon juice and a little butter. Baste them often while baking and serve the sauce with the fruit. Corn Meal Muffins. Beat two eggs-until light, add threefourths of a cupful of sugar—or honey may be used—a fourth of a cupful of softened shortening, one cupful of sour milk, a half teaspoonful of soda, two cupfuls of flour and a cupful of corn meal with a teaspoonful of baking powder and a half teaspoonful of salt sifted with the flour. Bake in hot buttered muffin pans 25 minutes. Peach Ice Cream. Take a quart of thin cream, add a cupful of sugar, a teaspoonful of lemon juice, a fourth of a teaspoonful of salt, and two cupfuls of very ripe peaches put through a sieve. Mix and freeze. , Chicken Pie. A very good pie may be made from an old fowl. Cook it first as for fricassee, lay the pieces with pieces of pork in a buttered pudding dish, add slice of onion for flavor, season with salt and pepper, add a cupful of milk and Cover with a good crust. Just before serving add a cupful of cream which will make any chicken pie delicious, Boil the bone-of a fowl, add two or three tablespoonfuls of gelatine to thebroth with a cupful of finely minced chicken well seasoned and mold. This may be served with salad dressing on lettuce. Iced Chocolate. Make a sirup of six tablespoonfuls of grated chocolate and two cupfuls of water, simmer until dissolved, then add four cupfuls of sugar and cook seven minutes. Strain and add two teaspoonfuls of vanilla extract, a pinch of cinnamon if the vanilla is not liked. Put into a bottle and set in the ice chest. Use two tablespoonfuls in a half cupful of ice cold milk, topped with three tablespoonfuls of whipped cream on each glass.