Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1919 — Mother’s Cook Book [ARTICLE]

Mother’s Cook Book

I know not why, but I am sure That tint and place In some great fabric to endure ' Past time and race My threads will have. —Helen Hunt Jackson. Sandwiches. For the picnic basket there is nothing so important as well-made sandwiches with a cup of coffee for the grownups and milk or lemonade for the children. Meat of various kinds chopped and well seasoned, eggs, fish, vegetables and fruit may all be used to make sandwich filling. Sardine Filling. Mash sardines which have been Skinned, add a little prepared mustard and spread on toasted oatmeal crackers or bread. Butter lightly before adding the filling. 4B Tuna Fish. Remove the fish from the can and mix with it enough salad hold It together. Season with salt, paprika and spread on nut bread. Tuna fish has been called the turkey of the sea as the flavor is much like fowl. Lobster, crab or shrimp as well as salmon carefully shredded and mixed with a good salad dressing are good spread on any kind of bread. Honey and Nut Filling. Take six tablespoonfuls of honey and three tab!espoonfuls of chopped nuts. Mix and spread on thin slices of white or brown bread. Spread the bread first with butter. Date and Nut Sandwich. Cook a cupful of dates with a half cupful of water. When thick and smooth, cool and spread on buttered brown bread. For those who like figs they may be substituted for the dates, or better in flavor than either are raisins. Cheese and Jelly. Mix cream cheese with cream to soften, add enough grape or currant jelly to color and flavor and serve between layers of brown and white bread put together layer-cake fashion. "Hcu/c. Tyu-ntirtffi.