Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 46, DeMotte, Jasper County, 5 October 1939 — Household News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Household News

by Eleanor Howe

For a Special Treat Serve Hot Breads Was there ever a family that didn’t adore hot breads? Biscuits that melt in your mouth, muffins that are feather-light and crusty and full of flavor, or a goL/en corn bread with the tantalizing taste of bacon to make it ever, more delicious -all these are special treats for a hungry - Serve’ h.o'r muffins or flaky biscuits '

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achieve success! with hot breads., if you’ll follow .just a lew basic ru’es. A. tested recipe, good imp ecuonts, accurate measurements, deft handling, and the proper temperature for baking are the factors of success. . It you’\ i : ad dalicuity u;!h q.uvk breads that are coarse textured and full ot the lung holes called “Urn nets” m all probability you’ve been over-conscientious in mixing. Unice s otherwise'■'specified, mix lightly and only enough to blend the ingredients. When you’re making baking powder biscuits, remember that a little kneading goes a dong way toward making biscuits flaky and light. A. simple recipe for baking powder biscuit is the starting point for a variety of tempting breads. Make “Pinwheels” by rolling out biscuit dough to 1 ;-inch thickness, brushing With melted butter, and spreading generously with grated cheese, devilled ham, or thick jam. Roll up the dough as for jelly-roll, cut in slices, and bake in a hot oven (425 degrees). Quick Butterscotch Rolls are made in the same fashion. Ginger Cheese Muffins. 2 cups cake flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 1 teaspoon soda Q teaspoon ginger ! 2 te'aSpoon salt % cup cheese (grated) I egg (beaten) I h cup milk 1 2 cup molasses I I cup butter (melted) Mix and sift all dry ingredients. Add grated cheese. Blend egg, milk, molasses, and melted, butter! Pour this mixture slowly into the dry ingredients and mix lightly. Fill well greased muffin tins approximately - 3 full and bake in a hot oven (425 degrees) for 12 to 15 minutes. Old-fashioned Nut and Raisin liimid. 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons granulated sugar 2 cups bread flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 2 teaspoon salt m cup milk h cup seedless raisins 5 1 cup nutmeats (broken) Cream butter and add sugar Mix and sill all dry ingredients ai 1 add

aIU rnately with the milk. Mi# lightly and fold in the raisins and nuts. Place batter in a' wellgreased loaf pan, let stand 20 min-

utes, and then bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) for approximately one hour. Quick German Coffee Cake. (Makes 1 coffee cake) 4 cup shortening 4 cup sugar 2 eggs (well beaten) [ft cups and 1 tablespoon flour Vz teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking powder 4 cup milk 4 cup brown sugar 4 cup nut meats (chopped) 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 tablespoon butter Cream shortening; add sugar slowly while beating constantly. Add eggs and blend. Mix and sift together 14 cups flour, salt and baking powder and add alternately with

milk. Mix lightly with a fork. Place half of dough in well-greased layer cake pan. Mix together brown sugar, chopped nuts, remaining 1 tablespoon flour, cinnamon and butter. Sprinkle 2 ; ? of this mixture over dough. Top with remaining dough; sprinkle with remaining brown sugar mixture. Bake in moderately hot oven (375 degrees) for approximately. 30 minutes. Serve while, warm. Refrigerator Parkerhouse Rolls. (Makes .3. dozen Parkerhouse rod.-.) 2 cups boiling water 1 3 cup and 1 teaspoon sut r 1 tablespoon salt 3 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons lard 2 ; cakes compressed ye. ml M cup lukewarm wafer "2 eggs 3 cups flour Mix together boiling water. : . cup sugar, salt, butter xml lard. ('• -M slightly. Dissolve yeast and I teaspoon sugar m the lukewarm water and add. Add eggs and one-half of the flour; beat thoroughly-. Then add remaining flour. Mix well. Plage in refrigerator; When ready to i. <• roll dough about ;; »-ihch thiek r ai;d cut in circles. Then cut each ;r----cle almost in two. Turn circle of dough so that cut side is on the outside. Spread inside with melted butter and fold. Let rise until doubled m bulk. Then bake in a hot oven (400 degree - > approximoidy 20 minutes. Skillet Corn Bread. (Makes dhe 9-ineh bread) 1 1 2 cups : general purpose flour 1 1 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon salt I'2 tablespoons baking powder l 1 2 cups, yellow corn meal 3 eggs (beaten) 1 1 2 cups milk Bacon Sift together the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder. Stir m trie corn

meal. Combine the eggs and milk, and blend with the dry ingredients. Pour into a greased, flinch skillet. Arrange bacon slices, latticefashion, over the top. Bake in a

moderateiy hot oven (375 degrees) for 50 to 00 minutes. If neee sary, the bread ..may be placed in the broiler for a few minutes to brown the bacon. Molasses All-Bran Muffins. (Makes 1 dozen muffins) 2 cups bran h cup molasses 1 1 2 cups milk 1 egg (beaten) 1 cup flour ’ 2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon soda Add bran to molasses and milk and allow to soak for 15 minutes. Beat egg. and add to first mixture. Sift flour, salt and soda together and combine with bran mixture. Fill greased muffin pans two-thirds full and bake in moderately hot oven (400 degrees) about 20 minutes.

Is it hard to get children (and grown folk, too) out of bed in. time to breakfast with the rest of the family') Eleanor Howe will give you, in this column next week, suggestions for unusual breakfast dishes which will help you overcome that problem.

This Practical Book. t In her new cook book, “Better Baking,’’ Eleanor Howe gives you her secrets for making delicious hot breads, cakes, cookies and pies. You'll find here over 125 recipe suggestions, too—recipes for “Eunny Cake,’’ “Jelly Tuck-A-Ways,” “Lemon Sunny Silver Pie,” and countless others just as interesting and unusual. Send 10 cents in coin to “Better Baking,’/ care of Eleanor Howe, 919 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, and get your copy of this grand book now. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.)

Crusty, piping hot bran muffins are family favorites. See Recipe Below.