Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1919 — Mother’s Cook Book [ARTICLE]

Mother’s Cook Book

There are sweet surprises awaiting many a humble soul fighting against great odds In the battle of a seemingly commonplace life. Food for the Family. The following is something different from the usual: Tapioca Pudding. Make a sago or tapioca pudding, using milk, sweeten slightly, add a bit of salt and bake in a slow oven. Send to the table with a pitcher ,of cream and one of caramel sauce, also cold. To make the caramel rrfelt four tablespoonfuls of sugar In a saucepan, stirring constantly until it is clear and bright brown. Add enough boiling water to make It of the consistency of thin sirup. . , .-y ea Cookies. Take one cupful of molasses, onehalf cupful of shortening, four eggs, one cupful each of sugar and chopped nuts, two cupfuls of raisins, cut fine; a teaspoonful of soda stirred into the molasses with spices to taste and flour to make a mixture to roll very thin. The egg yolks are mixed with the other ingredients, but the whites are reserved for icing the cookies after they arb baked. Peasant Pudding. Crumble, bits of rye or graham bread to fill a pint measure, mix with a little granulated sugar and put into a hot oven and let the bread dry. When sandlike in consistency, take out of the oven and cool; mix with a 'tart jam of plum or apricot and serve with whipped cream. Shred half a heafi of crisp cabbage and let stand !ftgp»ld water for an hour. 1 Drain and dry well and serve with the following dressing: Whip half a pint of slightly sour cream until thick; add sugar, salt and a dash of red pepper. Double Cheese Toast. r Toast strips of bread on one side, on the other spread a mixture of eream cheese and grated American cheese, mixed with a little chopped green peppers. Then toast until the cheese is slightly brown. Spice Cookies. ! Cream one-third of-a cupful of fat, add half a cupful of sugar, one beaten egg and a cupful of molasses, in which is dissolved a teaspoonful of soda. Add three and a half cupfuls of flour, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg to taste, with currants, chopped raisins and a .fewnuts. Drop on buttered tins and sprinkle with sugar. Bake in a moderate ■ X ' • _■ -1|«w1~ i *:■ ■xff- " < ■- aU