Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1918 — Mother’s Cook Book [ARTICLE]

Mother’s Cook Book

Just being happy is a fin® thing to do; Looking on the bright side, rather than the blue; Sad or sunny musing is largely in the And Just behig happy is brave work and ■MB® • • . • ; ** Food for the Family. r To save meat we must use more poultry, rabbits, fish and other sea food as our army, the armies of opr allies and the women and children “over there” must have food, and there can only be food enough if America provides it. If each person in the United States saved one pound of sugar a year it would make 50 train loads of 50 cars each, each car carrying 50,000 pounds of sugar; that would help some in supplying the demand for sugar, would it not? Let us not forget that a vepy small bit multiplied by a hundred million is enormous In result, that it leaves us stunned with its magnitude. Baltimore Chicken. Out up the well cleaned chicken Into serving size pieces, roll in highly seasoned flour and put into a hot frying pan with two or three tablespoonfuls of olive or any sweet corn oil, brown then finish cooking Slowly either on the stove or in the oven. Serve with corn fritters. » Potato Soup. Cut five medium sized potatoes in cubes, slice an onion and three pieces of the outside of celery together and mash with a potato masher, put through a sieve and add a cupful of thin white sauce, using a tablespoonful of flour and a tablespoonful of butter cooked together, then a cupful of milk and seasonings of salt and pepper. This makes enough for four servings.

War Biscuits. -Take five ounces each of oatmeal and white cornmeal; three ounces each of butter and sugar, one teaspoonful of baking powder, and one egg. Melt the butter and work in the dry Ingredients, roll as thin as possible and make into biscuits. Bake in a slow oven until a light brown. Bread Cake. Take two cupfuls of flour, a half teaspoonful of salt, two and a half tablespoonfuls of sugar, eight teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a half cupful of milk, a fourth of a cupful of .water, and two tablespoonfuls of butter. Spread over the top, two and a half tablespoonfuls of flour, five tablespoonfuls of sugar, a teaspoonful of cinnamon, and four tablespoonfuls of oleomargarine or other butter substitute. Mix the ingredients and sprinkle over the top as it goes into the oven.