Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1918 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]
MAKE EVERY DAY A WHEATLESS DAY IF YOU CAN
Use These Breads CORN MEAL GRIDDLE CAKES. 1 cup milk. 1 egg. 2 teaspoons baking powder. % teaspoon salt. % cup cornmeal. % cup barley flour. % cup white flour. Add beaten egg to milk and add to dry ingredients which have been well mixed. ... BUCKWHEAT GRIDDLE CAKES. 1-3 cup fine bread crumbs. 2 cups scalded milk. % teaspoon salt. 1 tablespoon molasses. 54 yeast cake. % cup lukewarm water. 1 % cups buckwheat flour. Pour milk over crumbs and soak 30 minutes. Add salt, yeast softened in lukewarm water and buckwheat to make batter thin enough to pour. Let rise over night. In the morning stir well, add molasses, one-fourth teaspoon soda dissolved in onefourth cup lukewarm water, and cook on a hot griddle. Save enough batter (one-half cup) to raise another mixing, instead of using another yeast cake.
♦ ♦ ♦ RICE BATTER CAKES. Add to 1 cup cooked rice one beaten egg, % cup milk, 1 teaspoon fat, enough flour to hold mixture together, and % teaspoon baking ' powder. Cook by spoonfuls on an oiled griddle or in a frying pan. Serve with honey or syrup. * • ♦ BARLEY FLOUR MUFFINS. 1 cup sour milk. 1 tablespoon sugar. 2 cups barley flour. 54 cup wheat flout. 2 tablespoons fat. % teaspoon soda. 3 teaspoons baking powder. % teaspoor salt. 1 egg. Mix the milk, egg and melted fat. Add dry ingredients which have been sifted together. Note: The batter should be almost as thick as a drop biscuit ♦ • • SPOON CORN BREAD. 2 tups water. 1 cup cornmeal. 1 egg. 1 teaspoon salt. 1 cup milk. 1 teaspoon melted fat. Bring salted water to boiling point, add cornmeal slowly, and cook until it forms a mush stiff enought to drop heavily from the spoon. Remove from fire, add milk, beaten egg and melted fat. Pour into an oiled baking dish and bake in a moderate oven about 20 to 30 minutes, or until firm.
♦ ♦ * BERKSHIRE MUFFINS. % cup cornmeal. % cup white flour. % cup cooked rice. 1 tablespoon sugar. 3 teaspoon baking powder. % teaspoon salt. 2-3 cup scalded milk. 1 egg. 1 tablespoon fat. Pour scalded milk over meal; let stand five minutes. Add rice and dry ingredients mixed and sifted together. Add the beaten yolk of egg, fat and white of egg beaten until stiff.
WHEAT FOR EUROPE. No corn can be shipped across the Atlantic for two months after the first of April, because that is the germinating season for com and it will not stand shipment. Now, in this period of extreme difficulty in Europe, the time when the morals of the civil population of our Allies is at its lowest ebb, it does not stand for ius to say, “You can wait two months and then you can eat cofn.” It is for us te say, “You shall receive every solitary grain of wheat that our ports can handle.”
