Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1910 — Beef Croquettes. [ARTICLE]

Beef Croquettes.

Two pounds of boiled beef, three onions, three eggs, four tablespoonfuls of butter, four tablespoonfuls of flour and salt and pepper to suit the taste. Chop the beef very fine, chop the onions, let them brown in a saucepan with tw’o ta of butter and pour them in a large mixing bowl with the chopped meat, six boiled potatoes, peeled; also three eggs, salt and pepper. Mix all together. Divide into croquettes about four inches long and one and a half inches wide. Roll them in flour and let fry in hot lard. Serve with tomato sauce. This will serve five persons. , ’ Brown Apple Betty. Peel and chop enough apples to make one quart and hav,e ready one pint of fine breadcrumbs.’ Butter a baking dish, cover the bottom with some of the apple, sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg, dot with bits of butter and cover with crumbs. Repeat until the dish is full, pour in half a cupful each of molasses and water, stand the dish in a pan of hot water and bake until the apples are very soft. If the pudding becomes too dry during the baking, add more water and molasses. Serve hot with cream. Pickled P»ach««. Remove the skins from the fruit. Stick a bit of cinnamon and clove into each. To six pounds of fruit weigh three pounds of sugar and add one and one-half pints of vinegar. Make a sirup of the last two and throw in a few pieces of stick cinnamon. When boiling hot drop in peaches enough t« cover the surface and cook till yot can pierce the sides easily with a silver fork. When cold put in glass cans or small earthen crocks. Graham Nut Bread. Sift out and discard the bran from a quantity of graham flour. Then sift together three times three cupfuls oi

graham flour, one-half cupful of white flour, one teaspoonful of salt and three rounding teaspoonfuls of baking pow der. Add one cupful of sugar, one cupful of nut meats chopped fine and two and a half cupfuls of milk, and mix the whole to a dough. Bake about half an hour. Legal blanks for sale at The Democrat office.