Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1918 — Mother’s Cook Book [ARTICLE]

Mother’s Cook Book

In life’s universal garden We have each to hoe our row, And to make life worth the living. We must hoe, hoe, hoe. —Caroline L. Sumner. Seasonable Recipes. A most delicious dessert very simple and easy to prepare and one that is most attractive to look at is junket, served in sherbet cups, topped with a spoonful of raspberries or any sweetened fruit and over this a spoonful of sweetened whipped cream. To prepare the junket take a junket tablet and dissolve it in a tablespoonful of cold water. Warm a pint of milk until just luke warm, like new milk, add the dissolved tablet and .stir well to mix it thoroughly through the milk, flavor and sweeten to taste and pour into sherbet cups. Let stand in the kitchen until the junket is firm, then set oh ice. Fresh berries, of any kind when crushed and mixed with equal measures of sugar will keep indefinitely when carefully sealed and kept in a cool place. Junket tablets come in a small wooden box and will keep well until used. Canned frffit may be used for this dessert but it is not as good as the fresh.

Barley Flour Sponge Cake. Beat the yolks of five eggs very light; gradually beat in one cupful of granulated sugar, then the grated rind anfi juice of half a lemon. Fold in one cupful of sifted barley flour and the whites of the eggs beaten very light. Bake in a tube pan 50 minutes. Corn flour or potato flour may be substituted for the barley, using half as much. Rolled Jelly Cake, Potato Flour. Beat two eggs without separating the whites and yolks; gradually beat in seven-eighths of a cupful of sugar, a half teaspoonful of lemon' extract or a grating of lemon rind, two tablespoonfuls of butter substitute and onehalf cupful of hot water; then add a half cupful of potato flour, a half teaspoonful of salt, one and one-half teaspoonfuls of baking powder sifted with the flour. Bake in a shallow pan 15 minutes. Turn on a cloth wrung out ofi warm water, trim the edges and spread with fruit jelly. Roll, keeping the damp cloth between the hands and cake. Remove the cloth as soon as rolled. One cupful of barley or onehalf cupful of corn flour may be used in place of the potato flour.