Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1919 — Mother’s Cook Book. [ARTICLE]

Mother’s Cook Book.

A bar of soap may become a murderous weapon. A poor cook stove has sometimes been the slow fire on which the wife has been roasted.

Food for the Family. A little meat with a combination of vegetables or dumplings make a meal sufficiently satisfying for an ordinary appetite. Veal With Vegetable Oysters. Cook a pound of vegetable oysters in salt water until tender. Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter, add two pounds of veal, two and one-half tablespoonfuls of flour and a cupful of water or stock; add w’ith the oysters and cook an hour at slow heat. Mutton With Vegetables. Rub two pounds or less of the shoulder of mutton with salt and pepper, then dredge with flour and browm in a little Kot fat. Cover with boiling water and a pint of finely shredded carrots and a small onion, cover and simmer for an hour'or two; serve on a plotter surrounded with the carrots. Pork Chops With Potatoes. Arrange a layer of thinly sliced potatoes in a baking dish, cover with a small shredded onion, then lay on pork chops to cover. Add a very little water or soup stock, and bake until the chops are done, in a hot oven. Serve from the dish in which jit is baked. Fowl With Dumpings. Cut a fowl as for fricassee, cover with boiling water,, add one small onion and cook until the chicken is tender, then drop in the dumplings prepared as follows: Dumplings. Take one cupful of buttermilk, add one beaten egg, a cupful of flour sifted w-ith a teaspoonful of baking powder and a half teaspoonful of salt; mix and drop by teaspoonfuls into the boiling hot stew, cover and cook eight minutes. Spanish, Meat Dish., Arrange a layer of thinly sliced potatoes in a baking dish, then one onion shfedded apd a layer of any kind of cold meat with a little gravy; add a cup of tomato and place in the oven to cook an hour or more well covered. Remove cover and sprinkle a spoonful of cooked green peas over the top and serve.