Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 278, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1917 — Mother’s Cook Book [ARTICLE]

Mother’s Cook Book

However meager be my worldly wealth - Let me give something that shall aid my kind. A word of courage, or, a thought of health, Dropped as I pass for troubled hearts to find. Food for the Family. We must count the cost in these days of H. C. of L. and make desserts as well a* .other dishes as simple, wholesome and economical as possible. Date dhd Tapioca Pudding. Stir in a half cupful of quick cooking tapioca into a pint of salted boiling water, let cook until the tapioca is transparent, add a fourth of a cupful of sugar, the juice of a lemon, and half a pound or more of prepared dates, then fold in the beaten whites of two eggs and cook until the egg is cooked. To prepare the dates, cover, with boiling water, then drain and cut the dates In quarters, removing the seeds. Serve the pudding hot or cold with cream.

Ristorl Rice. Cut "three slices of bacon in squares, add a cupful of shredded cabbage and cook over a slow Are for half an hour, add a half cupful of rice that has been partly cooked, then blanched in cold water. After adding the rice, add a half teaspoonful of salt, the ‘same of paprika and two cupfuls of rich veftl broth. Let cook until the rice is tender, adding jnore broth as needed. Turn into a hot serving dish, dot with butter, sprinkle with -cheese and serve hot Peach Sherbet 801 l a quart of water with two cupfuls of sugar 15 minutes. Let cool and add one and a half cupfuls of peach pulp and juice, a half cupful of orange juice and the juice of a lemon. Freeze as usual. Drop Cakes. Take a cupful each of sour cream and brown sugar, two cupfuls of whole wheat flour, one egg. beaten, a third of a cupful of chopped dates, a teaspoonful each of salt soda, cinnamon and a half teaspoonfur of cloves. Mix all together and bake in small cakes. Chocolate Filling. Take two squares of chocolate, a half cupful of thick sour cream, a dash

of salt and heat all together until the chocolate is melted. Remove from the fire and stir in confectioners’ chocolate until thick enough to spread. Add a half teaspoonful of vanilla. If used for frosting spread on the cake while the cake is hot.