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The New Royal Cook Book

The New Royal Cook Book

The new Royal Cook Book has been prepared to meet the large and ever increasing demand for a guide to wholesome and palatable home cooking. The young housewife will find here complete simple directions for making delicious cakes and other culinary delights. Experienced cooks and those more skilled in the art will find here many of their favorite recipes and in addition helpful suggestions, especially in the matter of saving eggs and other expensive materials. Every recipe has been tested many ti

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SOME SECRETS OF GOOD COOKING

SOME SECRETS OF GOOD COOKING

The addition of one or two teaspoons of Royal Baking Powder to plain pastry will add wonderfully to its qualities, making it very light and tender. Omelets are improved by the addition of a small amount of Royal Baking Powder. Royal Baking Powder may be added with great advantage to bread pudding , poultry dressing , stuffed or deviled crabs and other preparations in which broken bread or bread crumbs are used. Icings and especially Ornamental Icings are improved in texture and flavor by the add

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Royal Baking Powder

Royal Baking Powder

For raising or leavening breads, biscuits, rolls, muffins, griddle cakes, doughnuts, cakes, pastries, puddings and other similar foods. Absolutely Pure and Wholesome The principal active ingredient of Royal Baking Powder is Royal Grape Cream of Tartar, a derivative of rich, ripe grapes. It perfectly aerates and leavens the batter or dough and makes the food finer in appearance, more delicious to the taste, and more healthful. It possesses the greatest practicable leavening strength, never varies

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MEASUREMENTS

MEASUREMENTS

All measurements for all materials called for in the recipes in this book are level. The standard measuring cup holds one-half pint and is divided into fourths and thirds. To make level measurements fill cup or spoon and scrape off excess with back of knife. One-half spoon is measured lengthwise of spoon. Sift flour before measuring....

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BAKING

BAKING

Regulate the oven carefully before mixing the ingredients. Many a cake otherwise perfectly prepared is spoiled because the oven is too hot or not hot enough. Biscuits and pastry require a hot oven; cakes, a moderate oven. When a cake is thoroughly baked it shrinks from the sides of the pan. A light touch with the finger which leaves no mark is another indication that the cake is baked....

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TABLE OF EQUIVALENT WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

TABLE OF EQUIVALENT WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

All measurements are level. Four level teaspoons of baking powder about equal one heaping teaspoon as heretofore used. [Note: The following 6 lines are notes at the top of pages which are repeated throughout the original book.] Royal Baking Powder Contains No Alum Royal Baking Powder Is Absolutely Pure Royal Baking Powder Leaves No Bitter Taste Royal is Made from Cream of Tartar Royal Baking Powder Never Disturbs Digestion Bake it with Royal and be Sure Royal Baking Powder may be used instead of

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Royal Baking Powder Bread

Royal Baking Powder Bread

Sift together flour, salt, sugar and baking powder, rub in potato; add sufficient milk to mix smoothly into stiff batter. Turn at once into greased loaf pan, smooth top with knife dipped in melted butter, and allow to stand in warm place about 30 minutes. Bake in moderate oven about one hour. When done take from pan, moisten top with few drops cold water and allow to cool before putting away in bread box....

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Boston Brown Bread

Boston Brown Bread

Mix thoroughly dry ingredients; add molasses to milk, and add to dry ingredients; beat thoroughly and put into greased moulds 2/3 full. Steam 3-1/2 hours; remove covers and bake until top is dry....

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Spider Corn Bread

Spider Corn Bread

Beat egg and add one cup milk; stir in corn meal, flour, sugar, salt and baking powder which have been sifted together; turn into frying pan in which shortening has been melted; pour on remainder of milk but do not stir. Bake about 25 minutes in hot oven. There should be a line of creamy custard through the bread. Cut into triangles and serve....

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Corn Bread

Corn Bread

Mix and sift dry ingredients; add milk, shortening and beaten egg; beat well and pour into greased shallow pan. Bake in hot oven about 25 minutes....

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Corn and Rice Pone

Corn and Rice Pone

Mix and sift dry ingredients; add milk and shortening to beaten eggs; stir into dry mixture; mix in rice and pour into shallow greased pans. Bake in hot oven about 30 minutes....

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Graham Bread

Graham Bread

Mix flour, graham flour, baking powder and salt together; add beaten egg, shortening and sugar or molasses to liquid; stir into dry mixture and beat well; add more milk if necessary to make a drop batter. Put into greased loaf pan, smooth with knife dipped in cold water. Bake about one hour in moderate oven....

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Nut and Raisin Bread

Nut and Raisin Bread

Sift dry ingredients together. Add nuts and raisins; add milk and mix well, then add molasses and soda which have been mixed together. Bake in two small greased loaf pans in moderate oven about 45 minutes....

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Peanut Butter Bread

Peanut Butter Bread

Sift flour, baking powder, salt and sugar together. Add milk to peanut butter, blend well and add to dry ingredients; beat thoroughly. Bake in greased loaf pan in slow oven 45 to 50 minutes. This is best when a day old. It makes delicious sandwiches cut in thin slices and filled with either cream cheese or lettuce and mayonnaise....

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Prune or Date Bread

Prune or Date Bread

Stone and chop fruit (prunes must be soaked several hours and drained). Mix flour, sugar, salt and baking powder; add milk and beat well; add fruit and shortening. Put into greased bread pan; allow to stand 20 to 25 minutes in warm place. Bake in moderate oven one hour....

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Luncheon or Sandwich Rolls

Luncheon or Sandwich Rolls

Sift together flour, salt and baking powder; rub in shortening; add milk, and mix with spoon to smooth dough easy to handle on floured board. Turn out dough; knead quickly a few times to impart smoothness; divide into small pieces; form each by hand into short, rather thick tapering rolls; place on greased pans and allow to stand in warm place 15 to 20 minutes; brush with milk. Bake in very hot oven. When almost baked brush again with melted butter. Bake 10 minutes longer and serve hot. If a gla

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Rye Rolls

Rye Rolls

Sift together dry ingredients; add milk and melted shortening. Knead on floured board; shape into rolls. Put into greased pans and allow to stand in warm place 20 minutes. Bake in moderate oven 25 to 30 minutes....

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Potato Rolls

Potato Rolls

Sift thoroughly together flour, salt, sugar and baking powder; rub in potatoes or add after putting through ricer; add sufficient liquid to mix smoothly into soft dough. This will require about one and one-half cups. Divide into small pieces; knead each and shape into small rolls; place on greased pan and brush with melted shortening and allow to stand in warm place 15 to 20 minutes. Bake in hot oven and when nearly done, brush again with melted shortening....

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Nut and Raisin Rolls

Nut and Raisin Rolls

Sift flour, baking powder, salt and sugar together. Add melted shortening and beaten egg to milk and add to dry ingredients, mixing well. Turn out on floured board and knead lightly. Roll out very thin. Spread with butter and sprinkle with raisins, chopped nuts and small amount of granulated sugar. Cut into about 4-inch squares. Roll up each as for jelly roll. Press edges together. Brush over with yolk of egg mixed with a little cold water and sprinkle with nuts and sugar, and allow to stand in

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Parker House Rolls

Parker House Rolls

Sift flour, salt and baking powder together. Add melted shortening to milk and add slowly to dry ingredients stirring until smooth. Knead on floured board and roll one-half inch thick. Cut with biscuit cutter. Crease each circle with back of knife one side of center. Butter small section and fold larger part well over small. Place one inch apart in greased pan. Allow to stand 15 minutes in warm place. Brush with melted butter and bake in hot oven 15 to 20 minutes....

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Rusks

Rusks

Sift together flour, salt, sugar, baking powder, nutmeg and cinnamon; add beaten egg and melted shortening to water and add. Mix well and turn out on floured board. Divide into small pieces; with floured hands shape into rolls; place on greased shallow pan close together; allow to stand 10 to 15 minutes before baking; brush with milk and sprinkle with a little maple or brown sugar. Bake in moderate oven 20 to 30 minutes. For hot cross buns, with sharp knife make deep cross cuts; brush with butte

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Royal Cinnamon Buns

Royal Cinnamon Buns

Sift 2 tablespoons of measured sugar with flour, salt and baking powder; rub shortening in lightly; add beaten egg to water and add slowly. Roll out 1/4-inch thick on floured board; brush with melted butter, sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon and raisins. Roll as for jelly roll; cut into 1-1/2-inch pieces; place with cut edges up on greased pan; sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Bake in moderate oven 30 to 35 minutes; remove from pan at once....

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Brown Sugar Buns

Brown Sugar Buns

Sift together flour, baking powder and salt; add shortening and rub in very lightly; add milk slowly to make a soft dough; roll out 1/4-inch thick. Have butter soft and spread over dough; cover with brown sugar. Roll same as jelly roll; cut into 1-1/2-inch pieces and place with cut edges up on well greased pan. Bake in moderate oven about 30 minutes; remove from pan at once....

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Coffee Cake

Coffee Cake

Mix and sift dry ingredients; add melted shortening and enough milk to make very stiff batter. Spread 1/2-inch thick in greased pan; add top mixture. Bake about 30 minutes in moderate oven. TOP MIXTURE Mix dry ingredients; rub in shortening and spread thickly over top of dough before baking....

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Royal Individual Coffee Cakes

Royal Individual Coffee Cakes

Sift dry ingredients together; mix in shortening; add beaten egg to milk and add to dry ingredients to make soft dough; divide dough into six long, narrow pieces; with hands roll out on board each piece very long and thin; spread with butter; cut each in two and beginning in center twist two pieces together and bring ends around to form crescent. Put into greased pan; sprinkle with chopped nuts. Bake in hot oven 15 to 20 minutes. While hot, brush over with thin icing made with 1/2 cup confection

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Raisin Tea Ring

Raisin Tea Ring

Sift dry ingredients together; add raisins; to milk add melted shortening and beaten egg, and add to dry ingredients to make a soft dough; roll out lightly about 1/2-inch thick; divide into two long strips and twist together to form a ring; put into greased pan and sprinkle with sugar and nuts; allow to stand about 20 minutes. Bake in moderate oven 20 to 25 minutes. Of all foods for breakfast, nothing is so appetizing and satisfying, as light, flaky, hot Royal Baking Powder Biscuit, with a crisp

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Biscuits

Biscuits

Sift together flour, baking powder and salt, add shortening and rub in very lightly; add liquid slowly; roll or pat on floured board to about one inch in thickness (handle as little as possible); cut with biscuit cutter. Bake in hot oven 15 to 20 minutes....

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Emergency or Drop Biscuits

Emergency or Drop Biscuits

Same as recipe for biscuits with the addition of more milk to make stiff batter. Drop by spoonfuls on greased pan and bake in hot oven....

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Whole Wheat or Health Biscuits

Whole Wheat or Health Biscuits

Mix well flour, salt and baking powder, or sift through coarse strainer; rub shortening in lightly; add milk; mix to soft dough, add raisins. Drop with tablespoon quite far apart on greased baking tin or in muffin tins. Bake in moderate oven about 25 minutes....

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Bran Biscuits

Bran Biscuits

Mix thoroughly bran, flour, baking powder, salt, sugar; add sufficient water to make soft dough; add shortening; roll on floured board to about 1/4-inch thick; cut with biscuit cutter. Bake in hot oven 12 to 15 minutes....

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Cheese Biscuits

Cheese Biscuits

Sift together flour, baking powder and salt; add shortening and cheese; mix in lightly; add milk slowly, just enough to hold dough together. Roll out on floured board about 1/2-inch thick; cut with biscuit cutter. Bake in hot oven 12 to 15 minutes....

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Tea Biscuits

Tea Biscuits

Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar; add well-beaten egg and melted shortening to water and add to dry ingredients to make soft dough. Roll out on floured board to about 1/2-inch thick; cut with biscuit cutter. Bake in moderate oven about 25 minutes....

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Muffins

Muffins

Sift together flour, baking powder, sugar and salt; add milk, well-beaten eggs and melted shortening; mix well. Half fill greased muffin tins and bake in hot oven 20 to 25 minutes....

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Blueberry or Huckleberry Muffins

Blueberry or Huckleberry Muffins

Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar; add milk slowly, well-beaten eggs and melted shortening; mix well and add berries, which have been carefully picked over and floured. Grease muffin tins; drop one spoonful into each. Bake about 30 minutes in moderate oven....

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Cereal Muffins

Cereal Muffins

Mix together cereal, salt, melted shortening, beaten egg and milk. Add flour and corn meal which have been sifted with baking powder; beat well. Bake in greased muffin tins or shallow pan in hot oven 25 to 30 minutes....

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Corn Meal Muffins

Corn Meal Muffins

Sift together corn meal, flour, baking powder, salt and sugar; add milk, melted shortening and well-beaten egg; mix well. Half fill greased muffin tins and bake about 35 minutes in hot oven....

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Crumb Muffins

Crumb Muffins

Soak bread crumbs in cold milk 10 minutes; add flour, baking powder and salt which have been sifted together; add well-beaten eggs and melted shortening; mix well. Heat muffin tins, grease and drop one tablespoon of batter into each. Bake 20 to 25 minutes in hot oven....

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Rice Muffins

Rice Muffins

Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar; add milk slowly; then well-beaten egg and melted shortening; add rice and mix well. Grease muffin tins; drop one spoonful of mixture into each. Bake 20 to 30 minutes in hot oven....

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Date Muffins

Date Muffins

Cream butter, add beaten egg, flour in which baking powder and salt have been sifted, and milk. Stir in dates which have been pitted and cut into small pieces. Bake about 25 minutes in greased gem pans in hot oven. For sweet muffins sift 1/4 cup sugar with dry ingredients....

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Scones

Scones

Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar; add shortening and mix in very lightly. Beat eggs until light; add milk to eggs and add slowly to mixture. Roll out 1/2-inch thick on floured board; cut into pieces 3 inches square and fold over, making them three-cornered; brush with milk; dust with sugar. Bake about 25 minutes in hot oven....

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Currant Tea Cakes

Currant Tea Cakes

Sift together flour, baking powder, sugar and salt; add beaten egg and melted shortening to milk and add to dry ingredients; add currants which have been washed, dried and floured; mix well. The batter should be stiff. Grease hot muffin tins and fill half full. Bake about 20 minutes in hot oven....

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Popovers

Popovers

Sift together flour and salt. Make a well in flour, break eggs into well, add milk and stir until smooth. Pour into hot greased gem pans and bake 25 to 35 minutes in very hot oven. If taken out of oven too soon they will fall....

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Graham Gems

Graham Gems

Mix together dry ingredients; add milk, beaten egg, molasses and melted shortening. Bake in greased gem pans in hot oven about 25 minutes....

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Green Corn Gems

Green Corn Gems

To the corn add milk and well-beaten eggs; add flour, baking powder, salt and pepper which have been sifted together; mix well. Drop into hot greased gem pans. Bake in hot oven 20 to 25 minutes....

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Fig Envelopes

Fig Envelopes

Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar; add shortening and mix in very lightly; add slowly enough milk to form soft dough. Dust board with flour and roll out dough 1/4-inch thick, cut into squares and on each piece put one tablespoon of fig; brush edges with cold milk; fold like an envelope, and press edges together. Brush tops with egg beaten with one tablespoon milk and one teaspoon sugar. Bake about 20 minutes in hot oven....

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Sally Lunn

Sally Lunn

Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar; add milk, well-beaten eggs and melted shortening; mix well. Bake in greased shallow pan or muffin tins in moderate oven about 25 minutes. Griddle cakes, as made today with Royal Baking Powder have become most popular. Properly made they are delicious, healthful, appetizing and nutritious. The batter must be thin. The cakes should be small and not top thick—about one-eighth inch when baked. An iron frying pan may be used instead of griddle. In a

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Royal Hot Griddle Cakes

Royal Hot Griddle Cakes

Mix and sift dry ingredients; add milk and melted shortening; beat well. Bake on slightly greased hot griddle....

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Griddle Cakes with Eggs

Griddle Cakes with Eggs

Mix and sift dry ingredients; add beaten eggs, milk and melted shortening; mix well. Bake on slightly greased hot griddle turning only once....

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Buckwheat Cakes

Buckwheat Cakes

Sift together flours, baking powder and salt; add molasses and shortening to liquid; beat well. Bake on hot slightly greased griddle turning only once....

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Corn Meal Griddle Cakes

Corn Meal Griddle Cakes

Scald corn meal with boiling water; add shortening, milk and molasses; add flour, salt and baking powder which have been sifted together; mix well. Bake on hot, slightly greased griddle turning once....

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Rice Griddle Cakes

Rice Griddle Cakes

Mix rice, milk, melted shortening, salt and well-beaten egg; stir in flour and baking powder which have been sifted together; mix well. Bake on hot, slightly greased griddle turning only once....

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French Pancakes

French Pancakes

Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Add eggs which have been beaten with the sugar, milk, and cream. Batter should be very thin. Heat small frying pan in which a little butter has been melted. Pour in just sufficient batter to cover bottom of pan. Cook over hot fire. Turn and brown other side. Spread with jam and roll up. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve hot....

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Whole Wheat Hot Cakes

Whole Wheat Hot Cakes

Sift together flour, baking powder and salt; add milk, molasses, and shortening to beaten eggs and add to dry ingredients; mix well. Bake on hot, slightly greased griddle turning only once....

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Waffles

Waffles

Sift flour, baking powder and salt together; add milk and shortening to egg yolks, and add to dry ingredients; mix in beaten egg whites. Bake in well greased hot waffle iron until brown; turn once. Serve hot with butter and maple syrup. Fritters are served for luncheon, dinner or supper, as an entree, a vegetable or a sweet, according to the ingredients used. The foundation batter is much the same for all fritters, and with some additions the first recipe given can be used for many varieties. By

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Plain Fritter Batter

Plain Fritter Batter

Sift dry ingredients together; add beaten egg and milk; beat until smooth....

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Apple Fritters

Apple Fritters

Peel and core apples and cut into slices; add sugar and lemon juice. Dip each slice into plain fritter batter. Fry light brown in deep fat. Drain and sprinkle with powdered sugar....

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Fruit Fritters

Fruit Fritters

Fruits other than apples may be used in fritters by following the directions for apple fritters. Canned whole fruits drained from syrup may also, be used. Chop fruit (not too fine) and stir into plain fritter batter. Drop by spoonfuls into deep hot fat, turning until brown. Drain and sprinkle with powdered sugar....

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Banana Fritters

Banana Fritters

Mix and sift dry ingredients. Add others in order. Force bananas through sieve before adding. Beat thoroughly. Drop by spoonfuls into hot fat. Drain and sprinkle with powdered sugar....

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Corn Fritters

Corn Fritters

Add milk to corn; add flour sifted with salt, pepper and baking powder; add shortening and beaten eggs; beat well. Fry by spoonfuls on hot greased griddle or frying pan. If fried in deep fat make batter stiffer by adding 1/2 cup flour and 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder....

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Clam Fritters

Clam Fritters

Sift together dry ingredients; add liquid, beaten eggs, onion, and shortening; rinse clams, put through meat chopper and add to batter. Take one spoonful batter for each fritter and fry on hot greased griddle or in deep fat. In no department of cookery is Royal Baking Powder of more use and importance than in making fine cake. Where fewer eggs are used, increase the amount of Royal Baking Powder about one teaspoon for each egg omitted. If an unsalted shortening is used take slightly less and add

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Plain Cake

Plain Cake

Cream shortening; add sugar slowly, add well beaten egg and flavoring; sift together flour, baking powder and salt and add to mixture a little at a time, alternately with milk. Bake in greased loaf, layer or patty pans in moderate oven. May also be used hot for cottage pudding....

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Sunshine Cake

Sunshine Cake

Cream shortening; add sugar gradually, and yolks of eggs which have been beaten until thick; add flavoring; sift together flour and baking powder and add alternately, a little at a time, with the milk to first mixture. Bake in greased loaf pan in moderate oven 35 to 45 minutes. Cover with white icing, page 16 ....

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Three-Egg Angel Cake

Three-Egg Angel Cake

METHOD I Mix and sift first five ingredients four times. Add milk very slowly, while still hot, beating continually; add vanilla; mix well and fold in whites of eggs beaten until light. Turn into ungreased angel cake tin and bake in very slow oven about 45 minutes. Remove from oven; invert pan and allow to stand until cold. Cover with white or chocolate icing, page 16 . METHOD II Boil sugar with cold milk until thick and pour very slowly over whites of eggs which have been beaten light with a wi

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Angel Cake

Angel Cake

Whip whites of eggs to firm, stiff froth; add cream of tartar; fold sugar in lightly; fold in flour which has been sifted four times with baking powder and salt; add vanilla. Pour into ungreased pan and bake 45 to 50 minutes in moderate oven. Remove from oven; invert pan and allow to stand until cold. Ice with either chocolate or white icing, page 16 ....

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Spanish Cake

Spanish Cake

Cream shortening; add sugar and yolks of eggs; beat well; sift together flour, baking powder and cinnamon and add alternately with milk; fold in beaten whites of eggs. Bake in greased pan in moderate oven 35 to 40 minutes. Cover with boiled icing, page 16 ....

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Bride's Cake

Bride's Cake

Beat shortening to a cream, adding sugar gradually; add flavoring extract; beat until smooth. Add alternately a little at a time milk and flour which has been sifted three times with baking powder. Beat whites of eggs until dry, and add to batter, folding in very lightly without beating. Bake in greased loaf pan in moderate oven about one hour....

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Eggless, Milkless, Butterless Cake

Eggless, Milkless, Butterless Cake

Boil sugar, water, fruit, shortening, salt and spices together in saucepan 3 minutes; when cool, add flour and baking powder which have been sifted together; mix well. Bake in greased loaf pan in moderate oven about 45 minutes....

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Chocolate Cake

Chocolate Cake

Cook slowly until smooth first three ingredients. Cream shortening; add sugar and beat well. Add yolks of eggs and beat again. Stir in chocolate mixture and then add alternately the milk and flour which has been sifted with the baking powder and salt. Fold in the beaten whites of eggs. Bake in greased loaf pan in moderate oven 50 to 60 minutes. Cover with white or chocolate icing, page 16 ....

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Pound Cake

Pound Cake

Cream butter, add sugar slowly, beating well. Add flavoring and yolks of eggs which have been beaten until pale yellow. Beat three egg whites until light and add alternately a little at a time with the flour which has been sifted with baking powder. Mix well and bake in greased loaf pan in moderate oven about one hour. Cover with ornamental frosting, page 16 , made with the two remaining egg whites....

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Rich Fruit Cake

Rich Fruit Cake

Cream shortening and sugar together; add beaten egg yolks; add raisins and currants, which have been washed, dried, and over which a cup and a half of the flour has been sifted; blanch almonds and put through food chopper with lemon and orange peel and add; slice citron very fine and add; stir in grape juice and half of stiffly beaten whites of eggs; sift together spices, salt, baking powder and flour and add; mix well and fold in remaining whites; pour into two 12-inch pans which have been line

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Coffee Fruit Cake

Coffee Fruit Cake

Cream shortening; add sugar; add egg yolks, coffee and milk; sift together flour and baking powder and add slowly; add fruit, which has been slightly floured, and fold in beaten whites of eggs. Bake in greased loaf pan from 60 to 90 minutes....

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Royal Date Cake

Royal Date Cake

Pour boiling water over dates. Cream sugar and shortening; add chocolate and beaten egg; mix well and add dates and water; sift baking powder, salt and flour together; add gradually with pecan nuts. Bake in greased loaf pan in slow oven one and a half hours....

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Royal Cream Loaf Cake

Royal Cream Loaf Cake

Cream shortening; add sugar slowly; add beaten yolks of eggs and flavoring; add milk a little at a time; sift flour, corn starch and baking powder together and add; fold in beaten whites of eggs. Bake in greased loaf pan in moderate oven 35 to 45 minutes, and cover with frosting, page 16 ....

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Maple Nut Cake

Maple Nut Cake

Cream shortening, add sugar, egg yolks, flavoring and milk, and beat well; add flour, salt and baking powder which have been sifted together, and add chopped nuts; mix in beaten egg whites. Bake in greased loaf pan in moderate oven 35 to 45 minutes. Cover top with maple icing page 17 . While still soft sprinkle with chopped nuts....

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Soft Molasses Cake

Soft Molasses Cake

Cream shortening. Add sugar slowly; beating continually; add beaten egg and molasses; add half of flour, baking powder, salt and spices which have been sifted together; mix and add milk and remainder of dry ingredients. Mix well. Bake in greased shallow pan in moderate oven about 40 minutes. Serve hot....

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Fairmount Cake

Fairmount Cake

Sift flour and baking powder three times; beat shortening and sugar to a cream; add milk and vanilla, then flour, a little at a time; beat until smooth; add eggs one at a time, stirring and beating batter well after each egg is added. Bake in greased loaf pan in moderate oven 1 hour. Cover with boiled icing, page 16 and sprinkle with cocoanut....

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Marble Cake

Marble Cake

WHITE PART Cream shortening; add sugar slowly; add flavoring and milk. Beat well and add flour sifted with baking powder and salt. Mix in beaten egg white. DARK PART Cream shortening; add sugar slowly; add egg yolk and mix well. Mix in milk; add flour, baking powder, salt, spices and cocoa which have been sifted together. Put this batter by spoonfuls and same amount of white batter alternately into greased loaf pan but do not mix. Bake in moderate oven about 45 minutes. Cover with white icing, p

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Marble Cake II

Marble Cake II

Make plain cake page 10 ; save one-third of batter and add to it 1-1/2 squares melted unsweetened chocolate. Drop by spoonfuls into white batter after putting in pan. Bake in moderate oven about 45 minutes....

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Feather Cocoanut Cake

Feather Cocoanut Cake

Sift flour, sugar and baking powder. Add shortening and beaten egg to milk and add to dry ingredients. Mix well, add flavoring and cocoanut and bake in greased loaf pan in moderate oven 35 to 45 minutes. Sprinkle with powdered sugar, or ice with white icing, page 16 with grated cocoanut sprinkled on top....

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Chocolate Layer Cake

Chocolate Layer Cake

Cream shortening; add sugar gradually, beating well; add beaten egg, one-half the milk and mix well; add one-half the flour which has been sifted with salt and baking powder; add remainder of milk, then remainder of flour and flavoring; beat after each addition. Bake in greased layer cake tins in moderate oven 15 to 20 minutes. CHOCOLATE FILLING AND ICING To sugar add boiling water slowly to make a smooth paste; add vanilla, melted chocolate and orange peel. Spread between layers and on top of c

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Orange Layer Cake

Orange Layer Cake

Cream shortening; add sugar and egg yolks; mix well and add half the milk; add half the flour which has been sifted with baking powder; mix in flavoring, milk and remainder of flour. Bake in two greased layer cake tins in moderate oven about 20 minutes. ORANGE FILLING AND ICING Whip eggs to stiff froth; add sugar, a little at a time, until stiff enough to spread. Whip in pulp and rind of orange. Orange coloring may be added if desired....

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White Layer Cake

White Layer Cake

Cream shortening and sugar together until very light; add water slowly, almost drop by drop, and beat constantly; stir in flour and baking powder which have been sifted together twice; add flavoring; mix in egg whites which have been beaten until stiff. Bake in two greased layer cake tins in moderate oven 20 to 25 minutes. Put together with fresh strawberry or maple filling , page 17....

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Devil's Food Cake

Devil's Food Cake

Cream shortening; add sugar, melted chocolate and mashed potatoes; mix well; add egg yolk, milk and flour and baking powder which have been sifted together; beat well; add nuts, vanilla and beaten egg white; mix thoroughly. Bake in greased shallow tin in moderate oven 25 to 35 minutes. MARSHMALLOW ICING Boil sugar and water without stirring until syrup spins a thread; melt marshmallows in syrup; pour slowly over beaten white of egg; add flavoring and spread very thickly over cake. Melt 2 ounces

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Cream Layer Cake

Cream Layer Cake

Cream shortening and sugar together until light; add beaten egg yolks, flavoring and milk slowly; sift flour and salt; add half, then half beaten egg whites; add remainder of flour sifted with baking powder; stir after each addition; fold in remaining egg whites. Bake in greased layer cake tins in moderate oven 15 to 20 minutes. Put together with cream filling and cover top and sides with white icing. CREAM FILLING Scald milk. Mix corn starch, salt and sugar with a little cold milk; add to beate

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Cocoanut Layer Cake

Cocoanut Layer Cake

Cream shortening, add sugar slowly, add flavoring and beaten egg; add milk; mix well; then add flour, salt and baking powder which have been sifted together. Bake in three greased layer cake tins in moderate oven 12 to 15 minutes. COCOANUT FILLING AND ICING Cook sugar and water slowly without stirring until syrup spins a thread; pour slowly over beaten egg whites; beat until thick; add flavoring. Spread between layers and on top of cake. While icing is soft sprinkle thickly with cocoanut....

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Maple Layer Cake

Maple Layer Cake

Cream shortening, and sugar; add egg yolks and flavoring; mix well; add milk slowly, stirring until smooth; sift flour, baking powder and salt together; add half to mixture, then half of beaten egg whites, then remainder of flour (stirring after each addition); mix in balance of whites. Bake in greased layer cake tins in moderate oven 12 to 15 minutes. For middle layer of chocolate, take 1-3 of batter of above recipe and add 1 oz. melted chocolate. Put together with maple icing, page 17 ....

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Fruit Layer Cake

Fruit Layer Cake

Cream shortening well; add sugar; add yolk of egg and vanilla; mix well; add milk, then flour, baking powder and salt which have been sifted together; mix in beaten egg white. Bake in three greased layer tins in hot oven about 15 minutes. Put cake together with fruit filling and cover with white icing, page 16 . FRUIT FILLING Cook jelly with water, fruit and sugar; add corn starch which has been mixed with a little cold water. Cook until thick, remove from fire; add nuts and lemon juice. Cool an

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Lady Baltimore Cake

Lady Baltimore Cake

Cream shortening; add sugar and unbeaten white of one egg; add milk very slowly, beating between each addition; add flavoring; add flour which has been sifted with baking powder; lastly fold in beaten whites of 2 eggs. Bake in square greased layer tins in hot oven about 15 minutes. Use following filling and cover top and sides of cake with white icing, page 16 . FILLING Boil sugar and water without stirring until syrup spins a thread. Pour syrup slowly over beaten eggs. Mix in fruit, nuts and fl

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Sponge Cake

Sponge Cake

Beat egg yolks with wire whip until thick; add gradually sifted sugar, then grated lemon rind, lemon juice and one-half beaten whites; mix well; carefully fold in flour which has been sifted with baking powder and salt; add remainder of whites, mix lightly and bake in ungreased sponge cake tin in moderate oven 35 to 45 minutes. When cake shrinks from pan remove from oven and turn upside down on cake cooler....

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Royal Sponge Cake

Royal Sponge Cake

Boil sugar and water without stirring until syrup spins a thread and add slowly to beaten egg whites, beating until mixture is cold; sift together three times, flour, salt and baking powder; beat egg yolks until thick; add a little at a time, flour mixture and egg yolks, alternately to white of egg mixture; add cold water and flavoring; mix lightly. Bake in ungreased tin in moderate, oven about one hour....

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Milk Sponge Cake

Milk Sponge Cake

Beat egg yolks until thick; add half the sugar, beating continually; add hot milk, remainder of sugar and beaten egg whites; add flavoring; add flour, salt and baking powder which have been sifted together. Bake in ungreased tube pan in moderate oven about 25 minutes....

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Coffee Spice Cake with Mocha Filling

Coffee Spice Cake with Mocha Filling

Cream shortening and sugar until light; add beaten egg yolks; add coffee slowly; add half the flour sifted with baking powder, salt and spices; mix well and add beaten egg whites; add remainder of flour and mix lightly. Bake in greased layer cake tins in moderate oven 45 to 50 minutes. Spread layers and cover top with MOCHA ICING AND FILLING Cream butter and sugar; add cocoa, coffee and salt and stir until smooth. If too dry, add more coffee....

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Boiled Icing

Boiled Icing

Boil sugar and water without stirring until syrup spins a thread; pour very slowly over stiffly beaten egg white and beat until smooth; add flavoring and baking powder; allow to stand few minutes before spreading....

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Frosting

Frosting

Put egg white into shallow dish; add sugar gradually, beating with wire whip until of right consistency to spread; add vanilla and spread on cake....

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Ornamental Frosting

Ornamental Frosting

Boil sugar and water without stirring until syrup spins a thread; add very slowly to beaten egg whites; add flavoring and baking powder and beat until smooth and stiff enough to spread. Put over boiling water, stirring continually until icing grates slightly on bottom of bowl. Spread on cake saving a small portion of icing to ornament the edge of cake. This can be forced through a pastry tube, or, through a cornucopia, made from ordinary white letter paper....

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White or Colored Icing

White or Colored Icing

Add butter to hot milk; add sugar slowly to make right consistency to spread; add vanilla. Spread on cake. For pink icing add one tablespoon strawberry or other fruit juice. For yellow icing add one teaspoon egg yolk and flavor with orange rind and one teaspoon lemon juice....

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Seven Minute Icing

Seven Minute Icing

Place all ingredients in top of double boiler. Place over boiling water and beat with beater for seven minutes. Add 1/2 teaspoon flavoring and spread on cake. For "Chocolate Icing" add to above 1-1/2 ounces melted unsweetened chocolate. For "Coffee Icing" add 3 tablespoons cold boiled coffee in place of water....

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Chocolate Filling and Icing

Chocolate Filling and Icing

Beat whites until stiff; add sugar slowly, beating well; add milk, vanilla and chocolate which has been melted with butter; mix until smooth. Spread on cake....

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Old-Fashioned Chocolate Filling

Old-Fashioned Chocolate Filling

Add melted chocolate and cream to beaten egg; mix in powdered sugar gradually; add corn starch which has been mixed with a little cold water; cook in top of double boiler, stirring constantly until smooth and thick; add salt and vanilla. Spread between layers of cake....

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Soft Icing

Soft Icing

Boil syrup, sugar and water without stirring until syrup spins a thread; pour slowly into stiffly beaten egg whites and beat well. Add corn starch, baking powder and flavoring, and mix until smooth....

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Marshmallow Filling and Icing

Marshmallow Filling and Icing

Mix sugar, salt and water, add marshmallows and boil until syrup spins a thread, then add slowly to beaten egg whites; beat until firm enough to spread....

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Fruit Filling

Fruit Filling

Boil sugar and water without stirring until syrup spins a thread; beat whites until dry; add syrup gradually, beating constantly; when cool add nuts and fruit. Spread between layers of cake....

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Fresh Strawberry Icing

Fresh Strawberry Icing

Crush ten strawberries with a little sugar and few drops lemon juice and let stand until juicy; mix in gradually three cups of confectioner's sugar. Spread between layers and on top of cake....

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Maple Icing. I

Maple Icing. I

Add butter to hot milk; add sugar slowly to make paste of the right consistency to spread; add flavoring and spread on cake....

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Maple Icing. II

Maple Icing. II

Boil syrup without stirring until it spins a thread; add slowly to stiffly beaten egg whites; beat with wire whip, preferably on platter, until stiff enough to spread....

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Orange Icing

Orange Icing

Grate orange rind and allow gratings to soak for some time in lemon juice; stir juice, sugar and egg together and beat thoroughly. Spread on warm cake....

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Jelly Meringue

Jelly Meringue

Put egg white and jelly together into bowl and beat with egg beater or wire whip until stiff. Spread between layers or on top of cake....

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Sea Foam Icing

Sea Foam Icing

Boil sugar and water without stirring until syrup spins a thread. Add hot syrup slowly to beaten egg white, beating continually, preferably on platter with wire whip. Add baking powder. When icing foams, put between layers and on top of cake....

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Cocoa Icing

Cocoa Icing

Add sugar and cocoa slowly to beaten egg white. Then add vanilla, melted butter and cream to make soft enough to spread on cake....

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Brown Sugar Icing and Filling

Brown Sugar Icing and Filling

Cook sugar, milk and butter together until it forms a soft ball when tested in cold water; add vanilla. Beat until thick and spread on cake. Chopped nuts can be added if desired....

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Butter Scotch Icing and Filling (Without Sugar)

Butter Scotch Icing and Filling (Without Sugar)

Boil syrup, butter and milk together until it forms a soft ball when tested in cold water. Cool slightly without stirring and pour while warm on cake. Chopped nuts may be added while icing is still soft....

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Cocoa Drop Cakes

Cocoa Drop Cakes

Cream shortening; add sugar and beaten egg; beat well and add milk slowly; sift flour, baking powder, salt and cocoa into mixture; stir until smooth; add vanilla. Put one tablespoon of batter into each greased muffin tin and bake in moderate oven about 20 minutes. Cover with boiled icing, page 16 . Or bake in shallow pan; cool, and before removing cut across diagonally to make diamond-shaped pieces; cover with icing....

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Raisin Drop Cakes

Raisin Drop Cakes

Cream shortening; add sugar; add beaten egg and milk very slowly; add flour, baking powder and salt which have been sifted together; add raisins which have been washed, drained and floured slightly; add flavoring, mix well. Put a small amount of mixture into each greased individual cake tin and bake in hot oven 15 to 20 minutes. Sprinkle with powdered sugar, or cover with icing....

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Orange Cakes

Orange Cakes

Cream shortening; add sugar slowly beating well; add milk a little at a time; add beaten egg; sift flour, baking powder and salt together and add to mixture; add flavoring and grated orange rind; mix well. Bake in greased shallow tin, or individual cake tins, in hot oven 15 to 20 minutes. When cool cover with orange icing, page 17 ....

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Spice Cakes

Spice Cakes

Cream shortening, add sugar and beaten egg; add flour, baking powder and spices which have been sifted together; add milk and mix well; mix in raisins which have been slightly floured. Bake in small greased tins in moderate oven about 25 minutes....

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Honey Drop Cakes

Honey Drop Cakes

Cream shortening and add sugar slowly; add honey, beaten egg yolk and lemon juice; mix well and add flour and baking powder which have been sifted together; fold in beaten egg white. Put into greased individual tins or drop far apart on greased baking sheet and bake in hot oven 10 to 15 minutes....

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Molasses Cakes

Molasses Cakes

Mix molasses, sugar, shortening and boiling water together; add flour, baking powder, salt, soda and spices which have been sifted together; add bread crumbs; mix well. Drop by spoonfuls on greased baking sheet and bake in moderate oven 10 to 12 minutes....

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Small Fancy Cakes. I

Small Fancy Cakes. I

Cream shortening, add sugar slowly and beat well; add beaten egg yolks; add milk a little at a time and flour which has been sifted with baking powder; divide batter in half and add to one-half, one teaspoon lemon juice and grated rind of half a lemon; to remainder of batter add two ounces unsweetened melted chocolate, one teaspoon vanilla. Bake in shallow greased pan or in small individual tins in hot oven about 15 minutes. If large pan is used, when cool, cut cakes into fancy shapes. Cakes sho

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Small Fancy Cakes. II

Small Fancy Cakes. II

Cream shortening and sugar together until very light; add water very slowly and beat constantly; add flavoring; stir in the flour, salt and baking powder which have been sifted together twice; mix in beaten egg whites. Put about a teaspoonful of batter into small individual cake tins and bake in hot oven 10 to 15 minutes, or bake in shallow pan and cut as in above recipe or diagonally across making small diamond shaped pieces. Spread with any icing desired....

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Cookies

Cookies

Cream shortening and sugar together; add milk to beaten eggs and beat again; add slowly to creamed shortening and sugar; add flavoring; add 2 cups flour sifted with baking powder and nutmeg; add enough more flour to roll easily. Roll out very thin on floured board; cut with cookie cutter; sprinkle with sugar; put a raisin or a piece of walnut in the center of each. Bake about 12 minutes in hot oven....

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Cocoa Cookies

Cocoa Cookies

Cream shortening and sugar together; add milk and beaten egg; mix well. Sift flour, baking powder, cocoa and salt together and add. Roll out 1/4-inch thick on floured board; cut with cookie cutter. Bake in hot oven about 12 minutes....

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Cocoanut Cookies

Cocoanut Cookies

Cream shortening; add sugar, beaten egg and lemon; mix in milk slowly; add flour, baking powder and salt which have been sifted together; add cocoanut. The batter should be quite stiff. Drop by small spoonfuls on greased pan. Do not smooth over, but allow space for spreading. Bake in moderate oven 15 to 20 minutes....

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Filled Cookies

Filled Cookies

Cream shortening; add sugar, beaten egg, milk and vanilla; add flour, salt and baking powder, which have been sifted together. Roll out thin on slightly floured board and cut with cookie cutter. Place one teaspoon of filling on each cookie, cover with another cookie, press edges together. Bake in moderate oven 12 to 15 minutes. FILLING Mix flour and sugar together; add water and fruit. Cook until thick, being very careful not to burn....

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Marshmallow Cookies

Marshmallow Cookies

Follow recipe for cookies. Roll slightly thicker. After removing from oven, cover with marshmallow icing, page 17 ....

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Fudge Squares

Fudge Squares

Melt shortening; add sugar and unbeaten egg; mix well; add chocolate, vanilla and milk; add flour which has been sifted with baking powder and salt; add nut meats, mix well. Spread thinly on greased shallow cake pan, and bake in slow oven 20 to 30 minutes. Cut into 2-inch squares before removing from pan....

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Oatmeal Macaroons

Oatmeal Macaroons

Cream sugar with shortening; add egg yolks, salt and rolled oats; add baking powder, beaten egg whites and vanilla; mix thoroughly. Drop on greased tins about half teaspoon to each macaroon allowing space for spreading. Bake about 10 minutes in moderate oven....

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Hermits

Hermits

Cream shortening; add sugar and beaten egg; mix well; add milk very slowly; sift flour, baking powder, salt and spices together and add slowly; add fruit dredged with flour. Drop from spoon on greased tins and bake in moderate oven 15 minutes....

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Nut Bars

Nut Bars

Cream shortening and sugar together; add beaten yolk of one egg; add beaten whites of two eggs and three tablespoons milk; mix well. Sift together flour, baking powder and salt and add, mixing well. Roll half of dough at a time 1/4-inch thick on floured board; cut into bars 1 by 3 inches. Brush with yolk of remaining egg mixed with one tablespoon milk and sprinkle with chopped nuts. Bake in moderate oven about 15 minutes. Although strawberries are generally used, other fruits such as raspberries

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Old-Fashioned Shortcake

Old-Fashioned Shortcake

Sift dry ingredients; mix in shortening; add milk to make soft dough; smooth out lightly. Bake in greased deep layer cake tin in hot oven 20 to 25 minutes. Split, butter and spread sweetened crushed berries or other fruit between layers....

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Strawberry Shortcake

Strawberry Shortcake

Sift dry ingredients, mix in shortening; add beaten egg to milk and add to dry ingredients to make soft dough. Smooth one half of dough out lightly. Put into greased deep layer tin; spread with butter; cover with other half of dough which has also been smoothed out to fit pan. Bake in hot oven 20 to 25 minutes. Split while hot and spread crushed and sweetened berries and whipped cream between layers; cover top with whipped cream and whole berries. Dust with powdered sugar and serve....

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Royal Strawberry Cake

Royal Strawberry Cake

Cream sugar and shortening together; add beaten egg; add part of flour, baking powder and salt which have been sifted together, then part of milk; mix well and add remainder of flour; mix in remainder of milk and flavoring. Bake in shallow greased pan in moderate oven 20 to 30 minutes. When cold split in half and spread whipped cream and crushed sweetened strawberries between layers. Cover top with whipped cream and whole strawberries. These old-fashioned "fried cakes," as sometimes called, need

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Doughnuts

Doughnuts

Cream shortening; add sugar and beaten egg; stir in milk; add nutmeg, salt, flour and baking powder which have been sifted together and enough additional flour to make dough stiff enough to roll. Roll out on floured board to about 1/4-inch thick; cut out. Fry in deep fat hot enough to brown a piece of bread in 60 seconds. Drain on unglazed paper and sprinkle with powdered sugar....

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Afternoon Tea doughnuts

Afternoon Tea doughnuts

Beat eggs until very light; add sugar, salt, nutmeg, shortening and milk; add flour and baking powder which have been sifted together; mix well. Drop by teaspoonfuls into deep hot fat and fry until brown. Drain well on unglazed paper and sprinkle with powdered sugar....

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Crullers

Crullers

Cream shortening; add gradually sugar and beaten eggs; sift together flour, cinnamon, salt and baking powder; add one-half and mix well; add milk and remainder of dry ingredients to make soft dough. Roll out on floured board to about 1/2 inch thick and cut into strips about 4 inches long and 1/2 inch wide; roll in hands and twist each strip bringing ends together. Fry in deep fat. Drain and roll in powdered sugar....

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Baked Custard

Baked Custard

Beat eggs, sugar, salt and vanilla together; scald milk and add very slowly, stirring constantly. Put into greased baking dish or small molds; place in pan of water in slow oven and bake 30 to 40 minutes. Test with knife which will come out clean when custard is baked. For Caramel Custard add to eggs 4 tablespoons Caramel Sauce, page 26 ....

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Rice Pudding

Rice Pudding

Wash rice with several waters; put into pudding dish; add milk, salt, orange rind and sugar and bake in slow oven about 1-1/2 hours or until thick, stirring several times during baking; add raisins, and bake 20 minutes longer....

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Cottage Pudding

Cottage Pudding

Sift together flour, sugar, salt and baking powder; add milk, beaten egg and shortening; beat well and bake in greased pan in hot oven about 20 minutes. Serve with lemon, chocolate or other sauce....

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Tapioca Pudding

Tapioca Pudding

Soak tapioca in cold water one hour; drain; add milk and butter, and cook in double boiler until tapioca is transparent. Add sugar and salt to beaten eggs and combine by pouring hot mixture slowly on eggs. Return to double boiler and cook until thick. Add flavoring and serve hot or cold with cream....

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Poor Man's Pudding

Poor Man's Pudding

Mix ingredients in order given; beat well. Put into greased mold; place in covered saucepan with boiling water half way up sides of mold. Steam 2 hours. Turn out carefully. Serve with hard or other sauce, page 25 ....

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Apple Cake

Apple Cake

Sift together flour, baking powder and salt; rub in shortening very lightly; add milk and mix. Place dough on floured board and pat out 1/2 inch thick. Put into shallow greased pan. Wash, pare, core and cut apples into sections; press them into dough; sprinkle with sugar and dust with cinnamon. Bake in moderate oven 30 minutes or until apples are tender and brown. Serve warm with milk or cream....

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Apple Dumplings

Apple Dumplings

Sift together flour, baking powder and salt; rub shortening in lightly; add just enough milk to make a dough. Roll out 1/8 inch thick on floured board; divide into four parts; lay on each part an apple which has been washed, pared, cored and sliced; put one teaspoon sugar with 1/4 teaspoon butter on each; wet edges of dough with cold water and fold around apple, pressing tightly together. Place in pan, sprinkle with little cinnamon, remainder of sugar and put 1/4 teaspoon butter on each dumpling

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Apple Roll

Apple Roll

Peel, core and chop apples fine. Cook sugar and water in baking pan over slow fire. While cooking make rich biscuit dough (see strawberry shortcake, page 21 ). Roll out about 1/2-inch thick, spread with apples and roll into a long roll; cut into pieces about 1-1/2 or 2 inches long; place with cut side down in hot syrup; sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar and put small piece of butter on top of each. Bake in hot oven until apples are done and crust golden brown. Turn out on platter. Serve with plai

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Meringues

Meringues

Beat whites of eggs until stiff and dry; add gradually two-thirds of sugar, and continue beating until mixture holds shape; fold in remaining sugar sifted with baking powder; add vanilla. Drop by spoonfuls on unglazed paper and bake in moderate oven 30 minutes. Increase heat and bake 30 minutes longer. Remove any soft part from center of meringues and return to oven to dry out, after turning off heat. Use two meringues for each serving and put together with ice cream or with sweetened whipped cr

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Banana Cake with Jelly Sauce

Banana Cake with Jelly Sauce

Sift together the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt; add milk and beaten egg; mix well. Peel and scrape bananas; cut in halves, lengthwise, then across. Pour batter into greased shallow pan, place bananas on top and sprinkle with sugar. Bake in moderate oven 15 minutes. Serve with JELLY SAUCE Put water into saucepan; bring to a boil; add jelly and sugar; stir until dissolved; add corn starch wet with a little cold water; boil 3 minutes....

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Charlotte Russe

Charlotte Russe

Mix ingredients. Have very cold and whip to stiff froth. Line dish with sponge cake or lady fingers, fill with whipped cream and serve cold....

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Boston Cream Pie

Boston Cream Pie

Add beaten egg yolks to stiffly beaten whites and gradually add flour, baking powder, sugar and salt which have been sifted together three or four times; add hot milk very slowly; add vanilla. Bake in deep layer cake tin in moderate oven about 35 minutes. When cool, split and put between layers the following cream filling. Sprinkle powdered sugar on top of cake. CREAM FILLING Mix sugar, corn starch, salt and beaten eggs; pour on gradually scalded milk; add butter; cook in double boiler until thi

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Blueberry Cake

Blueberry Cake

Cream shortening; add sugar, beaten egg and milk; sift flour and baking powder and add; stir in blueberries. Bake in very shallow greased pan in moderate oven 25 to 30 minutes. Serve hot with or without butter....

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Chocolate Blanc Mange

Chocolate Blanc Mange

Mix corn starch, sugar and salt together with a little of the cold milk. Put remainder of milk on to scald with chocolate, which has been cut into small pieces. As soon as chocolate is dissolved, stir in the corn starch mixture. Cook until thick and smooth, stirring constantly. Set over hot water and cook about 20 minutes longer. Add flavoring; pour into a mold which has been wet in cold water. Chill, and serve cold with sweetened whipped cream....

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Floating Island

Floating Island

Scald milk; beat egg yolks; stir in sugar and salt; add hot milk gradually, mixing well. Cook slowly in saucepan until mixture begins to thicken, stirring continually. Cool, flavor and put into dish. Make meringue of whites whipped until dry, and into which jelly has been beaten, a teaspoon at a time, and heap on top; or drop meringue by spoonfuls on top of custard and put small pieces of jelly in center of each. Chill and serve....

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Huckleberry or Blueberry Float

Huckleberry or Blueberry Float

Pick over and wash berries; put into small saucepan with half cup of water, and bring quickly to boil; add sugar and boil 5 minutes. Sift flour, baking powder and salt; mix in shortening very lightly; add milk slowly. Take a teaspoonful at a time in floured hands and roll into balls. Place on floured pie tin; brush with cold milk and bake about 12 minutes in hot oven. While warm break in half; butter each biscuit; put into dish and pour berries over. Serve hot with hard sauce....

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Christmas Plum Pudding

Christmas Plum Pudding

Mix thoroughly all dry ingredients and add fruit; stir in water and fruit juice and mix thoroughly. Add more water if necessary to make stiff dough. Fill greased molds 2/3 full, and steam five or six hours. This pudding should be prepared and cooked a week or more before used. Before serving steam one hour and serve with hard, lemon or foamy sauce....

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Cream Puffs

Cream Puffs

Heat water and shortening in saucepan until it boils up well; add all at once flour sifted with salt and stir vigorously. Remove from fire as soon as mixed, cool, and mix in unbeaten eggs, one at a time; add baking powder; mix and drop by spoonfuls 1-1/2 inches apart on greased tin; shape into circular form with wet spoon. Bake about 25 minutes in hot oven. Cut with sharp knife near base to admit filling. CREAM FILLING Mix dry ingredients; add slightly beaten egg and stir into this gradually the

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Steamed Fig Pudding

Steamed Fig Pudding

Cream shortening; add sugar slowly and beaten egg; add milk; mix well; add flour, baking powder and salt, which have been sifted together; add flavoring and figs. Pour into greased pudding mold and steam for two hours. Serve with foamy sauce....

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Prune Puff

Prune Puff

Whip egg whites to stiff froth; add sugar slowly, beating continually; add prunes which have been stoned and chopped; whip until very light. Bake in pudding dish in moderate oven about 10 minutes. Serve cold with soft custard made from yolks of eggs (see recipe for Floating Island, page 24 ). Other soft fruits may be used in the same way served hot with sauce or whipped cream....

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Lemon Jelly

Lemon Jelly

Boil sugar and water two or three minutes; add gelatine which has been soaked in two tablespoons cold water, stirring constantly; add lemon juice. Chill in mold which has been dipped in cold water and serve. Fruit may be molded in the jelly by chilling part of mixture, adding fruit, then jelly; chilling and so on until mold is filled....

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Jelly Roll

Jelly Roll

Sift dry ingredients; stir in beaten eggs; add hot water slowly; beat until smooth; pour into large well greased pan. Batter should be spread very thin and not more than 1/4 inch thick when baked. Bake in moderate oven 8 to 10 minutes. Turn out on sheet of brown paper; beat jelly with fork and spread on cake. With sharp knife trim off all crusty edges and roll up while still warm by lifting one side of paper. To keep roll perfectly round, wrap in slightly damp cloth until cool. Sprinkle with pow

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Hard Sauce

Hard Sauce

Cream butter until very light; add sugar very slowly, beating until light and creamy. Add flavoring and beat again....

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Foamy Sauce

Foamy Sauce

Cream butter; add sugar slowly, beating continually; beat egg yolks until thick and add gradually; beat well; add stiffly beaten egg whites, flavoring and water. Before serving, heat over boiling water five minutes, stirring constantly....

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Chocolate Sauce

Chocolate Sauce

Melt chocolate in top of double boiler. Add butter and when mixed pour water on slowly, stirring constantly, then add sugar. Bring to boiling point and boil about fifteen minutes, add vanilla, and serve hot....

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Maple Sauce

Maple Sauce

Heat half the sugar in frying pan; stir continually; when brown add water and boil; add remainder of sugar, corn starch mixed with a little cold water, lemon juice and maple flavoring; boil 3 minutes. Serve hot....

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Lemon or Orange Sauce

Lemon or Orange Sauce

Boil water, sugar and corn starch mixed with little cold water. Boil 5 minutes and add fruit juice and 1 tablespoon caramel if dark color is desired....

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Fruit Sauce

Fruit Sauce

Cream butter; add sugar gradually; add egg beaten until stiff and beat well; add slowly fruit which has been carefully prepared and mashed. Beat until creamy....

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Caramel Sauce

Caramel Sauce

Melt sugar in saucepan and heat, stirring constantly until golden brown; add boiling water. Cook three minutes. A pinch of salt and a little Royal Baking Powder make pastry light, flaky and more digestible. Pastry should rise in baking to double its thickness, and be in light flaky layers. The novice must learn to handle it lightly and as little as possible in rolling and turning. It is important to have all materials and utensils cold. Pastry is better if allowed to stand in the icebox several

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Plain Pastry

Plain Pastry

Sift together flour, salt and baking powder; add shortening and rub in very lightly with tips of fingers. Add cold water very slowly, enough to hold dough together (do not work or knead dough and handle as little as possible). Divide in halves; roll out one part thin on floured board, and use for bottom crust. After pie is filled roll out other part for top. Cover pie; press edges together; trim off pastry and bake....

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Rich Pastry

Rich Pastry

Sift flour, baking powder and salt; add one-half shortening and rub in lightly with fingers; add water slowly until of right consistency to roll out. Divide in halves; roll out one half thin; put on in small pieces half remaining shortening; fold upper and lower edges in to center; fold sides in to center; fold sides to center again; roll out thin and put loosely over pie plate, bringing paste well over edge of plate; trim off edges. Repeat with other half for top crust....

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Apple Pie

Apple Pie

Sift flour, baking powder and salt; add shortening and rub in very lightly; add just enough water to hold dough together. Roll half out on floured board, line bottom of pie plate; fill in apples, which have been washed, pared and cut into thin slices; sprinkle with sugar, and small pieces of butter; flavor with cinnamon or nutmeg; wet edges of crust with cold water; roll out remainder of pastry; cover pie, pressing edges tightly together, trim off extra pastry; prick top, and bake in moderate ov

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Lemon Meringue Pie

Lemon Meringue Pie

Line pie plate loosely with pastry and bake about 10 minutes or until very light brown. Put water on to boil; mix corn starch, flour and sugar with 1/2 cup cold water until smooth; add egg yolks; mix well and add slowly to boiling water. Cook 5 minutes, stirring constantly; add lemon juice, rind and salt. Pour into baked crust. Beat egg whites; add 3 tablespoons sugar and spread thickly over top of pie. Dust with sugar and brown in very slow oven....

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Strawberry Pie

Strawberry Pie

Sift dry ingredients together; rub in shortening very lightly with finger tips; add water slowly to make a stiff dough. Roll out on floured board and use for bottom crust of pie, being careful to fold the paste well over the edge of pie plate. Bake in hot oven 12 to 15 minutes. If glazed crust is desired, brush edges after baking with boiling hot syrup (2 tablespoons syrup and 1 tablespoon water) and return to oven for 1 or 2 minutes until syrup hardens. Fill the baked crust with fresh selected

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Mince Pie

Mince Pie

Mince Pie should always be made with two crusts. Line pie plate with paste, page 26 , fill with mince meat, cover with paste and bake in hot oven 25 minutes....

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Mince Meat

Mince Meat

Mix all ingredients thoroughly. Pack in jars. Store in cold, dry place. Allow to stand 24 hours before using....

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Custard Pie

Custard Pie

Beat eggs; add sugar, salt and scalded milk slowly. Line pie plate with paste, page 26 , pour in custard. Bake in moderate oven 25 to 30 minutes. The custard is baked when a knife put in center comes out dry. Cocoanut Pie is made the same way, adding 1 cup fresh grated cocoanut, and using only 2 eggs. Bake as above....

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Pumpkin Pie

Pumpkin Pie

Mix pumpkin with milk, sugar, beaten eggs, ginger, salt, cinnamon, and beat 2 minutes. Pour into pie tin which has been lined with pastry. Place in hot oven for fifteen minutes, then reduce heat and bake 45 minutes in moderate oven....

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Rhubarb Pie

Rhubarb Pie

Cut off root, stem ends and peel; cut into small pieces; put into deep pie plate which has been lined with paste, page 26 , sprinkle with corn starch, salt and sugar. Cover with paste and bake in hot oven about one-half hour....

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Berry Pies

Berry Pies

Line a pie plate with plain paste, page 26 , fill heaping with berries; dredge with flour, salt and sugar; dot with small pieces of butter; cover with top crust or strips of pastry across top. Bake about 45 minutes in moderate oven. Other fruit pies can be made in the same way....

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Cherry Tarts

Cherry Tarts

Sift dry ingredients together; rub in shortening very lightly with fingertips; add water slowly, just enough to make stiff dough; roll out very thin on floured board and line patty pans, being very careful to have pastry come well over the edges of pans. Bake in hot oven about 12 or 15 minutes. Fill with cherries. Cover with hot syrup made as for strawberry pie, page 27 , using 1/2 cup juice from the cherries instead of strawberries. Other fruit can be used in place of cherries....

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How to Freeze

How to Freeze

Scald can, cover and dasher, adjust can in freezer; put in dasher; pour in the mixture to be frozen and fasten cover (the can should never be more than 3/4 full); adjust crank and turn once or twice. Fill space around can to within an inch of top with ice and salt (three parts crushed ice to one part salt), packing hard. Turn slowly at first, increasing speed when mixture begins to stiffen. Add more ice and salt as required. When mixture is very firm, wipe off cover, open can and remove dasher;

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Philadelphia Ice Cream

Philadelphia Ice Cream

Scald half pint of cream; add sugar and stir until dissolved. Cool and add remainder of cream and vanilla. Freeze as above....

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Strawberry Ice Cream

Strawberry Ice Cream

Add to Philadelphia Ice Cream before freezing one quart of berries which have been washed, hulled, crushed and slightly sweetened....

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Chocolate Ice Cream

Chocolate Ice Cream

Melt 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate with half pint cream and proceed as for Philadelphia Ice Cream....

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French Ice Cream

French Ice Cream

Scald milk and add to beaten egg yolks; add sugar, salt, vanilla and cream which has been whipped. Freeze as above....

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Frozen Pudding

Frozen Pudding

Scald milk in double boiler. Mix corn starch with a little cold milk; add beaten eggs, sugar and a few grains of salt; mix well and add slowly to scalded milk, stirring until it thickens. Cool and add fruit, which has been put through food chopper. The fruit is a matter of taste. It may be 2 tablespoons raisins, 1 tablespoon citron, 1 tablespoon cherries, 1 tablespoon blanched almonds and 1 tablespoon candied pineapple. Freeze, but not too stiff; put into mold and pack in ice and salt until read

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Grape Sherbet

Grape Sherbet

Warm grape juice, and in it dissolve sugar; mix thoroughly with ice cold milk; freeze at once. This makes a lilac colored sherbet....

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Lemon Sherbet

Lemon Sherbet

Mix juice and sugar, stirring constantly while slowly adding very cold milk. If added too rapidly, mixture will curdle. However, this does not affect quality. Freeze and serve....

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Orange Water Ice

Orange Water Ice

Mix all ingredients together; strain and freeze....

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Strawberry Mousse

Strawberry Mousse

Wash and hull berries, sprinkle with sugar and let stand one hour; mash and rub through fine sieve; add gelatine which has been soaked in cold water and dissolved in the boiling water. Set in pan of ice water and stir until it begins to thicken; fold in whipped cream. Put into mold, cover, pack in salt and ice, 1 part salt, 3 parts ice; allow to stand 4 hours. Raspberries or peaches or shredded pineapple may be used instead of strawberries. Soup stock is the liquid in which bones, cooked or unco

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Brown Soup Stock

Brown Soup Stock

Wipe beef and cut lean meat into inch cubes; brown one-third in hot frying pan; put remaining two-thirds with bone and fat into soup kettle; add water and allow to stand 30 minutes. Place on back of range; add browned meat and heat gradually to boiling point. Cover and cook slowly six hours; add vegetables and seasoning one hour before it is finished. Strain and put away to cool. Remove all fat; reheat and serve....

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Bean Soup

Bean Soup

Soak beans in water over night. Drain and put into saucepan with six cups boiling water and boil slowly two hours or until soft; add onion and bacon which have been fried light brown; boil five minutes; add salt, pepper, parsley and thyme. Mash beans with back of spoon and add flour which has been mixed with a little cold water; boil five minutes and serve....

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Cream Soups

Cream Soups

This is the foundation or sauce for many fish and vegetable cream soups. Scald milk and add butter and seasoning; thicken with flour, which has been mixed with little cold water. Thin with boiling water and boil two minutes. For pea soup boil and mash 1 pint green peas and add to sauce. For cream of celery boil 1 pint cut celery until tender; rub through sieve, add to milk, and proceed as above. For potato soup boil and mash 6 large potatoes, stir into milk, proceed as above, and strain. Just be

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Creole Soup

Creole Soup

Wash rice, add 3 cups boiling water and boil 30 minutes. Cook onions in pan with drippings until tender, but not brown; add tomatoes and boil 10 minutes; rub through strainer into boiled rice and water; add seasoning and sprinkle with parsley. Add a little chopped green pepper if desired....

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Cream of Tomato Soup

Cream of Tomato Soup

Stew tomatoes slowly one-half hour. In the meantime, melt butter, stir in flour and cook over low flame, adding milk slowly; add seasoning. Strain tomatoes; add soda; stir into sauce and serve immediately....

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Onion Soup

Onion Soup

Cook onions and butter or drippings in covered saucepan, shaking pan often. When onions are tender add rice water or stock; boil 5 minutes; add seasoning and chopped parsley. When a fish is fresh the flesh is firm and the gills are a bright pink. To clean: Hold fish by the tail and with a sharp knife scrape off scales toward the head; wipe with damp cloth; slit underside; carefully remove entrails; wash with cold water, removing all clots of blood from backbone. Always cook fish thoroughly....

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Broiled Fish

Broiled Fish

Clean, wash, and split, removing backbone and fins along the edge. Very large fish should be cut into slices. Dry with cheesecloth; season with salt and pepper. Cook on well-greased broiler, from 10 to 20 minutes, turning once. Remove to hot platter; add melted butter and sprinkle with chopped parsley; garnish with slices of lemon and serve....

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Baked Fish

Baked Fish

Prepare as for "Broiled fish." Brush pan with drippings; place fish, skin side down; dust with salt, pepper and flour; pour over 2 tablespoons melted butter and 1/2 cup milk. Bake in hot oven 20 to 25 minutes or until brown. Remove to hot platter, sprinkle with chopped parsley and serve....

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Fried Fish

Fried Fish

Clean, removing head and tail, unless fish are small; wash with cold water and dry with cheesecloth; dust with salt, pepper and flour on both sides. Heat one tablespoon bacon drippings or other fat in heavy pan over hot fire. Put in fish; brown quickly on both sides; reduce heat and fry 5 to 10 minutes longer. Serve with chopped parsley and lemon or sauce tartare....

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Planked Fish

Planked Fish

Prepare as for "Broiled fish." Heat plank, brush with drippings and dust with salt and pepper. Place fish, skin side down, doubling thin part so that it will not burn. The oven must be hot before putting in plank; cook 20 minutes; reduce to moderate heat and leave in oven 10 to 20 minutes longer. Melt 1 tablespoon butter, add 1 teaspoon salt, 1/8 teaspoon pepper, and pour over fish. Garnish with potato roses, lemon and parsley and serve on the plank....

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Codfish Balls

Codfish Balls

Pick over, wash and shred fish into small pieces. Put potatoes into deep saucepan; cover with cold water; add fish and boil until potatoes are soft. Take off fire; drain well; beat up with wire whip or fork until light and all lumps are out of potatoes; add seasoning, butter and slightly beaten egg. Drop by spoonfuls into deep fat, hot enough to brown a piece of bread in 40 seconds and fry until golden brown. Drain on brown paper and serve immediately....

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Fish Chowder

Fish Chowder

Cut pork in dice pieces; fry crisp, and turn into chowder kettle. Pare and cut potatoes into pieces. Peel and chop onion fine. Put potatoes into kettle with part of onion. Cut fish into convenient pieces; and lay over potatoes; sprinkle over with rest of onion; add seasoning and enough water to come to top of fish; cover closely and cook until potatoes are soft; add milk and let it scald up again. Pilot bread or crackers, split and soaked, may be added just before last boiling. If milk is not av

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Boiled Lobsters or Crabs

Boiled Lobsters or Crabs

The lobster should be purchased alive and plunged into boiling Water in which a good proportion of salt has been mixed. Continue to boil according to size about 20 minutes. Crabs should be boiled in the same manner, but only a little more than half the time is necessary. To open a boiled lobster, wipe off shell, break off large claws; separate tail from body; take body from shell, leaving "lady" or stomach, on shell. Save green fat and coral; remove small claws; remove woolly gills and discard,

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Creamed Oysters

Creamed Oysters

To each 30 oysters use 1 cup thin Cream Sauce, page 35 . Drain oysters, saving liquor for soup, put into shallow pan over quick fire and cook about one minute or until edges curl, stirring constantly, and add to sauce. Or put on oysters with 1 tablespoon butter; add 1 tablespoon flour which has been mixed with a little cold water; add 1/2 cup milk, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper. Worcestershire sauce may be added if desired. Boil 1 minute and serve on thin squares of toasted bread; ga

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Scalloped Oysters

Scalloped Oysters

Grease dish and cover bottom with bread crumbs, then lay oysters in carefully; season and cover with bread crumbs; pour over milk and cover top with butter. Bake in hot oven 15 to 20 minutes....

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Fried Oysters

Fried Oysters

Wash and drain oysters. Season with salt and pepper, dip in flour, egg and then bread or cracker crumbs. Fry in hot fat until golden brown. Drain well and garnish with lemon and parsley....

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Clam Chowder

Clam Chowder

Chop hard parts of clams. Slice potatoes and onion thin. Put pork into kettle and cook a short time; add potatoes, onion, seasoning and juice of clams. Cook 2-1/2 hours; then add clams. Boil 15 minutes and just before serving add hot milk....

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Shell Fish a la Newburg

Shell Fish a la Newburg

If canned fish is used cover with cold water 20 minutes and drain. Melt butter in saucepan; add flour and stir until smooth; add cold milk slowly; boil until thick. Rub egg yolks through strainer and add, stirring until smooth; add seasoning, and finely chopped egg whites; add fish; put all in top of double boiler over fire for 15 minutes; add sherry and serve immediately....

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Roasting

Roasting

Wipe meat with damp cloth. Trim and tie into shape if necessary. Put some pieces of fat in bottom of pan, and season meat with salt and pepper. Have oven very hot at first and when meat is half done reduce heat. Baste every 10 to 15 minutes. If there is danger of fat in pan being scorched add a little boiling water. Roast from 10 to 15 minutes for each pound of meat, as it is desired rare or well done....

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Broiling

Broiling

The rules for roasting meat apply to broiling, except that instead of cooking it in the oven it is to be quickly browned, first on one side and then on the other, over hot coals or directly under a gas flame, turning every minute until done. Meat an inch and one-half thick will broil in 8 to 15 minutes. Season after it is cooked....

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Pan Broiling or Frying

Pan Broiling or Frying

Put meat to be broiled or fried in very hot frying pan, with very little or no fat. Turn every few minutes until cooked. Season and serve immediately. Steaks and chops may be pan-broiled without any fat in the pan. For thin gravy pour a little boiling water into pan after meat is taken out....

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Boiling and Stewing

Boiling and Stewing

Fresh meat for boiling should be put into boiling water and boiled hard for about 5 minutes; reduce heat and boil gently about 20 minutes for each pound, salt and spices may be added for seasoning. A little vinegar put into the water with tough meat makes it tender. The broth of boiled meat should always be saved for soups, stews or gravies. Salt meats should be put in cold water, which as soon as it boils should be replaced by fresh cold water, repeating if necessary until meat has palatable fl

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Pot Roasting

Pot Roasting

Tough cuts of meat may be first browned in fat, then half covered with boiling water and cooked slowly either in oven or in iron kettle on top of stove. This method requires long, slow cooking....

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Stew with Dumplings

Stew with Dumplings

Wipe meat, cut into small pieces, put in kettle, cover with boiling water and boil slowly 1-1/2 hours; add carrots and onions; boil 15 minutes, then add potatoes, salt, pepper and tomatoes; add boiling water, if needed to cover vegetables; boil 30 minutes. Add dumplings and boil 10 minutes without lifting cover. Put meat and vegetables on platter with dumplings around edge. Add flour which has been mixed with a little cold water; boil 3 minutes; pour over stew and sprinkle with parsley. DUMPLING

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Liver and Bacon

Liver and Bacon

Have liver cut in thin slices; wash, drain, dry and roll in flour. Put bacon thinly sliced into very hot frying pan; turn until brown and transfer to hot platter. Fry liver quickly in the hot bacon drippings, turning often. When done put on platter with bacon. Pour off all but 1 or 2 tablespoons fat, add 1 to 2 tablespoons flour, and stir until brown. Add hot water gradually to make smooth gravy, season and boil 1 minute....

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Roast Lamb

Roast Lamb

Wipe meat with damp cloth. Put one or two thin slices of onion on top; season with salt and pepper. Put into roasting pan in hot oven and roast for about one hour and a quarter. Reduce the heat after lamb has been roasting about 20 minutes. Serve on hot platter with brown gravy or mint sauce....

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Roast Stuffed Shoulder of Lamb with Browned Potatoes

Roast Stuffed Shoulder of Lamb with Browned Potatoes

DRESSING Wipe lamb with damp cloth; fill pocket with dressing and sew up. Put into hot oven for 20 minutes. When well browned, season with salt and pepper, add 1 cup cold water and roast 45 minutes; add 1 quart white potatoes, which have been washed, pared and boiled, and roast until potatoes are brown. Remove to platter. Add water to pan to make 2 cups of gravy. Thicken gravy by adding 1 tablespoon flour mixed with a little cold water, season and cook until smooth....

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Pot Roast of Beef with Browned Potatoes

Pot Roast of Beef with Browned Potatoes

Wipe beef with cloth, put into iron kettle or frying pan and brown well on all sides. Add 2 tablespoons cut onion, 1 tablespoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper and 2 cups boiling water; and boil slowly 1-3/4 hours; add water as it boils away, 1 cup at a time. After adding potatoes, boil 30 minutes. Place meat and potatoes on hot platter. Add 1 tablespoon flour mixed with a little cold water to gravy and boil. Pour over meat and sprinkle with chopped parsley. Carrots cut in small pieces may be added wi

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Baked Veal with Tomato Sauce

Baked Veal with Tomato Sauce

Trim edge of cutlet and spread on board or platter. Fry onion in drippings until tender; add bread crumbs and parsley mixed with enough water to hold them together; spread on cutlet and roll; tie in three or four places. Dust with salt, pepper and flour. Place in pan; add 1/2 cup hot water. Roast in hot oven 35 to 45 minutes, adding water if needed. Remove to hot platter; pour tomato sauce around meat and garnish with parsley....

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Veal Cutlet

Veal Cutlet

Cutlet may be cooked whole or cut into pieces for serving. Dust with salt, pepper and flour; dip in 1 egg beaten with 1 tablespoon milk, then in bread crumbs. Brown on both sides in shallow fat in hot frying pan. Add boiling water to cover; season and cook slowly for 1 hour. Thicken gravy with 1 tablespoon flour mixed with a little cold water....

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Roast Loin of Pork

Roast Loin of Pork

Wipe pork with damp cloth. Put into pan in very hot oven for 20 minutes, or until well browned, then add 1 teaspoon salt, 1/8 teaspoon pepper and 1 cup cold water. Roast slowly 3 to 4 hours. Add water as necessary. To gravy, add 1 tablespoon flour mixed with cold water, season and boil until thick....

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Apple Sauce

Apple Sauce

Wipe, pare and quarter sour apples; remove seeds and core; put into saucepan and add cold water to almost cover. Cook slowly until soft. Add about 1/2 cup sugar for each quart of apples. Cook a few minutes longer; remove from fire; add little lemon peel and serve either hot or cold....

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Baked Ham

Baked Ham

Wash and scrub ham in warm water; soak over night. Whether a whole or half ham, put on to boil with cold water enough to cover; boil slowly 4 to 5 hours or until tender, allowing about 30 minutes to the pound. Cool in water in which it was boiled; remove skin carefully; put in pan; cover with 1 cup brown sugar and 1 teaspoon pepper; add 2 cups cold water; bake in very hot oven 45 to 60 minutes; baste often. When brown add 1 cup cider or 1/2 cup vinegar and thicken with 2 tablespoons flour....

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Creamed Sweetbreads

Creamed Sweetbreads

Lay sweetbreads in cold water with a little salt for 1 hour. Drain, put into saucepan, cover with boiling water and boil very slowly 25 minutes; drain and when cool separate and remove all membrane. Cut into small pieces and reheat in Cream Sauce, page 35 ....

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How to Clean

How to Clean

Singe fowl over free flame. Cut off head just below bill. Untie feet, break bone and loosen sinews just below joint; pull out sinews and cut off feet. Cut out oil sac. Lay breast down, make small slit from backbone toward head; loosen windpipe and crop and pull out. Push back skin from neck and cut off neck close to body. Make slit below end of breastbone, put in fingers, loosen intestines from backbone, take firm grasp of gizzard and draw all out. Cut around vent so that intestines are unbroken

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Roast Poultry

Roast Poultry

After poultry is cleaned and washed inside and out with cold water, fill inside with dressing. Have at least a yard fine twine in trussing needle. Turn wings across back so that pinions touch. Run needle through thick part of wing under bone, through body and wing on other side; return in same way, but passing needle in over bone, tie firmly, leaving several inches of twine. Press legs up against body, run needle through thigh, body and second thigh, return, going round bone in same way; tie fir

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Poultry Dressing

Poultry Dressing

Soak bread in cold water 5 minutes and press out all water. Put drippings and onion into pan and cook slowly, stirring constantly, until onion is tender but not brown. Add bread, parsley and seasoning and mix well together....

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Oyster Dressing

Oyster Dressing

Drain and rinse oysters with cold water. Put butter in saucepan with oysters and bring to boiling point; add bread crumbs, seasoning and parsley; mix carefully, so that oysters will not be broken....

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Giblet Gravy

Giblet Gravy

Boil neck, gizzard and wing tips together until tender. Pour off excess of fat in pan in which poultry has been roasted; add enough stock from the gizzard and neck to make 3 cups of gravy. Chop gizzard, liver and heart and add; then add 1 teaspoon finely cut onion, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/8 teaspoon pepper, 2 tablespoons flour mixed with a little cold water. Boil 3 minutes....

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Fricassee of Chicken

Fricassee of Chicken

Prepare and cut up as for fried chicken. Put into saucepan with just enough boiling water to cover; add a teaspoon salt, a little pepper and, if desired, a teaspoon of onion juice. Boil slowly 2 hours or until tender; add a little water from time to time, as it boils away. Thicken with a tablespoon flour mixed with a little cold water and add a tablespoon of finely chopped parsley. Serve with border of hot boiled rice or dumplings....

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Fried Chicken

Fried Chicken

Singe, wash and clean chicken; cut into pieces as follows: two second joints, two drumsticks, two wings, breast cut into two pieces, backbone cut into four pieces. Wipe with damp cloth; sprinkle with salt and pepper; dredge in flour. Put into frying pan with 2 tablespoons bacon drippings or half drippings and half butter and brown quickly. Add a little water, cover, reduce heat and fry slowly on both sides. Remove chicken; mix 1 tablespoon flour with whatever gravy or fat is in pan; add 1 cup co

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Chicken Pie

Chicken Pie

Singe, draw and clean a 4-lb. chicken as usual. Disjoint, cut the breast into four pieces, cut the thigh and leg apart. Save the neck, wing tips, heart, gizzard and liver for soup. Put on the rest with enough boiling water to cover; cook 2 hours. Add 2 quarts washed, pared and diced white potatoes. Cook 20 minutes, or until the potatoes are tender. Add 1 tablespoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley and 2 tablespoons flour mixed with a little cold water. Boil 3 minutes. Pour

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Roast Goose, Bread and Apple Dressing

Roast Goose, Bread and Apple Dressing

Wipe inside with damp cloth, and season with salt and pepper; put in dressing and sew up. Push back skin and cut off neck. In the skin put 2 apples, which have been pared and quartered; tie the skin. Put in pan breastbone up; dust with salt, pepper and flour. Place in hot oven; when browned baste with 2 cups cold water; turn breast side down and roast 2 hours, basting three or four times with cold water. Ten minutes before serving turn breast side up. Remove fat and make gravy as directed for Ro

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Thin Cream Sauce

Thin Cream Sauce

Melt butter in saucepan, add flour and mix well; add cold milk slowly, stirring until smooth and creamy; add salt and pepper and boil about 3 minutes....

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Thick Cream Sauce

Thick Cream Sauce

Make as directed for Thin Cream Sauce....

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Tomato Sauce

Tomato Sauce

Put bacon into saucepan, add onion and brown slightly. Add flour, tomatoes which have been heated, and stir until thick and smooth. Add seasoning and peppers....

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Bechamel Sauce

Bechamel Sauce

Melt butter in saucepan; stir in flour; reduce heat; add seasoning and liquid, stirring until smooth....

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Egg Sauce (For Fish)

Egg Sauce (For Fish)

Add eggs, parsley and lemon juice to white sauce after removing from fire....

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Brown Sauce or Gravy

Brown Sauce or Gravy

Brown butter in saucepan; add flour and brown; add liquid and stir until smooth and thick. Season to taste and simmer 5 minutes....

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Currant Jelly Sauce

Currant Jelly Sauce

Melt jelly over slow fire. Add sauce; stir well and simmer one minute....

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Hollandaise Sauce

Hollandaise Sauce

Cream butter; add gradually, stirring well, egg yolks, lemon juice, salt and cayenne; add boiling water slowly. Stir over boiling water till thick as boiled custard. Serve immediately....

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Sauce Tartare

Sauce Tartare

Make 1 cup mayonnaise, page 41 . Chop very fine 1 tablespoon each of capers, olives, pickles and parsley. Press in a cloth till quite dry. Blend gradually with the mayonnaise....

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Maitre D'Hotel Butter

Maitre D'Hotel Butter

Cream butter; add gradually lemon juice, seasoning and parsley. Keep cold until served....

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Mint Sauce

Mint Sauce

Cook all ingredients in saucepan over very slow fire for about one-half hour. Do not allow to boil. Serve hot....

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Horse-Radish Sauce

Horse-Radish Sauce

Cream butter; add horse-radish, cream and lemon juice. Keep very cold....

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Cranberry Sauce

Cranberry Sauce

Put all together into saucepan. Cover until it boils. Remove cover and cook about 10 minutes or until berries have all burst. Pour into mold, chill and serve. For Cranberry Jelly strain and put into mold and chill....

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Boiled Eggs

Boiled Eggs

Drop into boiling water and boil 3 to 3-1/2 minutes for soft boiled, 12 to 20 minutes for hard boiled; or place eggs in boiling water, cover, and cook over moderate heat without boiling from 8 to 10 minutes for soft, 20 to 40 minutes for hard cooked....

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Poached Eggs

Poached Eggs

Break eggs and drop carefully one at a time into boiling water in shallow greased frying pan. Cook slowly until eggs are set. Remove each with skimmer and serve on toast garnished with parsley....

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Poached Eggs in Cream

Poached Eggs in Cream

Put half cup of cream sauce into shallow baking dish. Open eggs carefully and place on sauce. Cook over boiling water from 10 to 15 minutes or until eggs are set or as firm as desired. Cover with half cup of cream sauce, sprinkle with chopped parsley and dust with paprika and serve....

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Scrambled Eggs

Scrambled Eggs

Break eggs into bowl, season with salt and pepper and pour into hot frying pan in which butter has been melted. Cook over slow fire and as eggs thicken stir until cooked. If desired eggs may be beaten with milk, cream or water and cooked in same way....

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Scalloped Eggs with Ham

Scalloped Eggs with Ham

Cut eggs into slices; cover bottom of greased baking dish with one-third of bread crumbs; then add in layers eggs, ham, cream sauce, crumbs, being sure to save bread crumbs to cover top. Add milk and bake in moderate oven 20 minutes....

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Plain Omelet

Plain Omelet

Beat 3 eggs with 3 tablespoons milk; add 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper, and mix. Melt 1 teaspoon fat in hot frying pan; pour in eggs; lift edges of omelet, allowing thin portions to run underneath, shaking pan until egg is set; when brown underneath, fold over and serve on hot platter....

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Puffy Omelet

Puffy Omelet

Separate eggs; mix salt, pepper, baking powder, corn starch and milk with yolks of eggs. Beat whites until light though not dry and mix in well with yolks. Put into greased hot frying pan and cook slowly until well puffed up. Dry out in oven, fold over in half and serve immediately on hot platter. If desired serve with tomato sauce, page 35 added before omelet is folded....

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Fancy Omelets

Fancy Omelets

A great variety of omelets can be made by either mixing chopped vegetables, fruits, meats, or shellfish with plain omelet before cooking, or folding them in after cooking....

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Salmon Croquettes

Salmon Croquettes

Make a cream sauce with the butter, flour and milk. Put salmon into bowl and add the sauce, lemon juice and seasoning; mix with fork until salmon is well broken. Set aside and when cold mold into desired shapes; roll in bread crumbs, then in egg beaten with 1 tablespoon cold milk, then in bread crumbs. Fry in deep hot fat....

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Rice Croquettes

Rice Croquettes

Wash rice several times and boil with 2 quarts boiling water 30 minutes. Drain well and put into top of double boiler. Add 1 egg beaten with 2 tablespoons milk, salt, sugar, butter and parsley; cook until egg thickens. Cool and shape into cones, balls or oval cakes. Dip into egg beaten up with 1 tablespoon milk. Roll in bread crumbs and fry in deep hot fat until brown....

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Nut and Potato Croquettes

Nut and Potato Croquettes

Mix all ingredients with fork until light. Shape as for croquettes. Roll in bread crumbs. Dip in egg which has been mixed with a little cold water. Roll in bread crumbs again and fry in deep hot fat until brown. Drain on unglazed paper and serve....

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Chicken Croquettes

Chicken Croquettes

Melt butter in saucepan; add flour and cold milk slowly, stirring until smooth and creamy; add seasoning and parsley. Boil 3 minutes. Add chicken; mix well and pour out on platter to cool. When cool enough to handle take a large spoon of the mixture in floured hands; shape into balls, cones or oval cakes and put into cold place until firm. Roll in bread crumbs, then in eggs beaten with 2 tablespoons cold milk, then in bread crumbs. Fry in deep hot fat, and drain on brown paper....

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Chicken Patties

Chicken Patties

Melt butter in saucepan; stir in flour; add chicken stock; season and bring to a boil; add chicken and cook slowly 5 minutes. Fill patty shells and serve at once. ROYAL PATTY SHELLS Sift flour, baking powder and salt together; add shortening and rub in very lightly with tips of fingers; add very slowly enough water to make stiff dough. Roll out thin; cut into circles and form on the outside of patty or muffin tins. Bake in hot oven, open side down, until light brown; remove carefully from tins f

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Boston Baked Beans

Boston Baked Beans

Wash and soak beans over night. Put half into bean pot; wash salt pork and place in center; add remainder of beans, salt, pepper, mustard, molasses and 4 cups cold water; cover. Put into slow oven and bake 8 hours. Add more water if needed....

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Baked Macaroni with Cheese

Baked Macaroni with Cheese

Boil macaroni in salted water until soft; drain and rinse with cold water. Put into buttered baking dish and cover with sauce. Cover top with grated cheese and bake 20 minutes in hot oven. SAUCE Melt butter in saucepan; add flour, mix well and add cold milk slowly, stirring until smooth; add cheese, salt, pepper and paprika. Boil 2 minutes....

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Cheese in Scallop Shells or Ramekins

Cheese in Scallop Shells or Ramekins

Pour milk over bread crumbs, add seasoning, half the cheese and mix well; fill greased scallop shells or ramekins; sprinkle with remainder of cheese and a few fresh bread crumbs and bake in moderate oven 30 minutes....

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Cheese Straws

Cheese Straws

Mix together cheese, flour, baking powder, cayenne pepper and paprika; add beaten egg; mix well; add milk enough to make a stiff dough. Roll out 1/4 inch thick, on floured board; cut into strips 5 inches long and 1/4 inch wide. Bake in hot oven 15 minutes....

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Kidney Beans with Bacon

Kidney Beans with Bacon

Wash and soak 1 pint kidney beans in cold water over night; drain, cover with boiling water, add 1/4 pound bacon, boil until beans are tender, and drain. Season beans with salt and pepper to taste. Brown thin slices of bacon in frying pan, and serve over beans....

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Tomatoes and Eggs

Tomatoes and Eggs

Grease muffin tins; put one thick slice of unpeeled tomato into each tin; season with salt and pepper; break one egg on top of each slice; again season with salt and pepper and put a small piece of butter on top of each egg. Bake in oven until egg is set but not hard. Serve on rounds of toast and garnish with parsley....

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Corn Pudding

Corn Pudding

Put all ingredients into greased baking dish and bake in moderate oven until firm....

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Scotch Potatoes

Scotch Potatoes

Wash, pare and cut potatoes and onions in half-inch rounds. Put into saucepan with boiling water to cover, adding salt. Boil 25 or 30 minutes, or until tender. Drain, put into dish and cover with Thick Cream Sauce. Bake in hot oven about 25 minutes....

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French Toast

French Toast

Sift together flour, baking powder and salt; add milk and beaten egg; beat well. Into this dip bread, fry in hot fat, drain, and serve hot with powdered sugar....

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Cheese Souffle

Cheese Souffle

Melt butter, add flour, and when well-mixed add milk slowly. Add salt, cayenne, and cheese. Remove from fire, add yolks of eggs beaten until light. Cool mixture and mix in baking powder and beaten egg whites. Bake in greased dish 25 minutes in slow oven. Serve at once. Summer vegetables should be cooked on same day they are gathered. Look them over and wash well, cutting out all decayed parts. Always cook vegetables in freshly boiled water and keep water boiling until done. When cooking green ve

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Asparagus

Asparagus

Wash, scrape, cut off about one inch hard ends, and tie together. Put into saucepan, cover with boiling water, and boil until tender, keeping tips out of water for the first ten minutes; add salt. Remove from water; lay on pieces of toast and serve with melted butter, cream or Hollandaise Sauce....

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Pickled Beets

Pickled Beets

Wash and boil six medium sized beets until tender. Remove skins; slice or cut into quarters; cover with 1/2 cup vinegar, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/8 teaspoon pepper and 1 tablespoon sugar....

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Creamed Carrots

Creamed Carrots

Wash and scrape carrots; cut into thin slices. Cover with boiling water and boil until tender. Drain and mix with cream sauce or melted butter. Sprinkle with chopped parsley....

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Boiled New Cabbage

Boiled New Cabbage

Cut cabbage into quarters, removing hard part of core, and place in cold water 30 minutes. Drain, cover with boiling water and boil, without a cover, 30 minutes or until tender. Drain, put into dish and pour over Cream or Bechamel Sauce....

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Cold Slaw

Cold Slaw

Wash cabbage; cut into quarters, and then slice very thin; allow to stand in cold water 30 minutes; drain well and cover with boiled or French dressing....

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Spinach

Spinach

Pick over carefully and wash thoroughly in severed waters until every bit of sand is removed. Put into large kettle and add very little boiling water, about 1/2 cup. Young spinach does not need any water. Boil until tender or about 25 minutes. Drain thoroughly, chop fine and drain again. Season with salt and pepper and garnish with slices of hard boiled-eggs....

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Cauliflower

Cauliflower

Remove leaves and wash cauliflower; place in uncovered saucepan, stem end down; cover with boiling water; boil 35 minutes or until tender and serve with Cream Sauce....

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French Fried Potatoes

French Fried Potatoes

Pare and cut potatoes into long even pieces. Put into cold water for about an hour. Drain and dry well. Fry in deep fat until brown and cooked through; drain on unglazed paper. Salt just before serving. Sweet potatoes may be prepared in same way....

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Potato Cakes

Potato Cakes

Pare and boil 1 quart potatoes; mash and season with salt, pepper and paprika; add 1 tablespoon melted butter; mix lightly. Take a spoonful into floured hands and roll. Dip in egg beaten with 1 tablespoon cold milk, then in flour. Fry in deep or shallow hot fat....

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Brussels Sprouts

Brussels Sprouts

Wash and cover with cold water for an hour. Drain; put over fire in saucepan of boiling water; boil 20 to 25 minutes without a cover. Drain and cover with cream sauce; or serve with salt, pepper and melted butter....

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Boiled Corn

Boiled Corn

Husk corn, removing all silk. Put corn into fresh boiling water to cover; and boil rapidly for 5 minutes. Remove from water and place on platter on which a napkin has been spread, covering corn with ends of napkin. Serve immediately....

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Lima Beans

Lima Beans

Shell beans just before using. Rinse in cold water. Put into saucepan; cover with boiling water and boil until tender. Drain and add seasoning and melted butter....

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Kohl-Rabi

Kohl-Rabi

Peel turnip-shaped globe; cut into small pieces; boil until tender, 30 to 35 minutes. Add one teaspoon salt to each quart water. Serve plain with melted butter and pepper, or with cream sauce. The leaves may be stemmed and cooked as greens, boiling 40 minutes....

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Candied Sweet Potatoes

Candied Sweet Potatoes

Boil in salted water 1 quart sweet potatoes until tender; drain and scrape off skins; cut into slices and lay in shallow greased baking dish; brush with melted drippings or butter; sprinkle with 1/2 cup brown sugar; add 2 tablespoons butter. Bake in hot oven until well browned....

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Baked Tomatoes

Baked Tomatoes

Wash tomatoes and cut off stem ends; remove pulp from center and fill with bread crumbs seasoned with salt and pepper; sprinkle with bread crumbs, and place small piece of butter on each. Bake in hot oven 30 minutes. The pulp may be seasoned to taste, cooked in the pan and served as a sauce....

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Browned Parsnips

Browned Parsnips

Wash, pare and cut parsnips into 1/2 inch slices. Cover with boiling water and boil until tender, 25 to 30 minutes; drain. Brown on greased griddle or frying pan. Season with salt and pepper....

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Oyster Plant

Oyster Plant

Wash and cover with boiling water. Cook 40 to 60 minutes or until soft. Peel, cut in pieces and serve with Cream Sauce....

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Stuffed Potatoes

Stuffed Potatoes

Bake 4 large potatoes. Cut in half lengthwise and, without breaking-skins, scoop out insides and mash; add 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/8 teaspoon pepper, 1 teaspoon chopped parsley, 1 tablespoon melted butter and mix with fork. Return to shells, put a few drops milk on top; rough with fork; sprinkle with paprika. Place in oven until brown. All salad greens, such as lettuce, chicory, endive, romaine, or watercress, should be fresh, crisp, dry and cold. Wash leaves carefully and put on ice in lettuce dry

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French Dressing

French Dressing

Put 1 tablespoon lemon juice or vinegar, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/8 teaspoon pepper or few grains cayenne pepper into bowl; add 3 tablespoons oil, beating constantly. Serve very cold....

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Mayonnaise I

Mayonnaise I

Utensils and ingredients should be very cold. Put egg yolk into shallow bowl; add seasoning, mix well; add oil slowly, almost drop by drop, beating until thick. Thin with vinegar; continue adding oil and vinegar until all is used....

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Mayonnaise II

Mayonnaise II

Put egg with vinegar or lemon juice and seasoning into bowl, beating with rotary egg beater. Add oil a tablespoonful or more at a time, beating constantly. Well covered, this mayonnaise will keep for three or four weeks....

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Boiled Salad Dressing

Boiled Salad Dressing

Mix dry ingredients in top of double boiler; add vinegar and beaten egg yolks and mix; add milk and butter. Cook over hot water until thick and smooth. Take from fire and add beaten egg whites. Cool and serve....

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Russian Dressing

Russian Dressing

Take 1 cup mayonnaise; add 2 teaspoons chili sauce, 1 can pimentos chopped fine, and if desired a dash of grated cheese....

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Chicken Salad

Chicken Salad

Mix chicken which should be very tender, with celery, seasoning and one egg cut into small pieces; marinate with little French dressing, and let stand in cold place one hour. Serve on lettuce leaves and spread mayonnaise over top. Garnish with olives and remaining egg cut into slices. Dust with paprika....

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Fruit Salad

Fruit Salad

Wash, peel; remove seeds from all fruit; cut grapes into halves, pears in lengthwise pieces, grapefruit and orange into sections; allow to stand on ice. Serve on lettuce leaves with French dressing. Alligator pears, cassaba melon or other fruit may be substituted for above....

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Vegetable Salad

Vegetable Salad

Soak cabbage in cold water 1 hour; drain and add beets, carrots, potatoes and celery. Mix well together, season with salt and pepper and serve on lettuce leaves. On top put strips of pimento and serve with French dressing, to which may be added one teaspoon onion juice....

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Marquise Salad

Marquise Salad

Peel tomatoes and cut in half. Mix onion and parsley, add oil; let stand two hours before using. When ready to serve line salad bowl with lettuce, place tomatoes in it and on each half put 1 tablespoon onion and parsley mixture. Pour on French dressing. Everything should be ice cold....

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Potato Salad

Potato Salad

Cut potatoes into slices or cubes; add onion; mix with salt, parsley and French dressing. Serve on lettuce leaves with boiled dressing....

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Lobster Salad

Lobster Salad

Cut cold boiled lobster into small pieces. Marinate with French dressing; put on lettuce leaves; cover with mayonnaise and garnish with lobster claws, olives, hard-boiled eggs and capers....

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Fish Salad

Fish Salad

Line dish with lettuce; place fish in center; pour over French dressing to which onion juice has been added and cover with celery; put Mayonnaise on top. Sprinkle with chopped parsley....

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How to Make Coffee

How to Make Coffee

The best method of making coffee, as determined by the Better Coffee-Making Committee of the National Association of Coffee Roasters, is as follows: "Fill a kettle with fresh cold water and put it on to boil. Place over an open china teapot, kept just for coffee, a clean, wet, old linen napkin, or a new square of unbleached muslin, letting it sag toward the center. Put into the depression 4 heaping tablespoons (for 4 cups of coffee) of finely pulverized coffee. This fine pulverization is very im

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Boiled Coffee

Boiled Coffee

For 4 cups. Beat half an egg white with 3 tablespoons cold water; add 3/4 cup ground coffee and stir until moistened; put into scalded coffee pot; add 1 quart boiling water and boil 5 minutes. Add 1/4 cup cold water and allow to stand 3 minutes to settle and serve....

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Cocoa

Cocoa

The usual rule is 2 teaspoons cocoa, 1 teaspoon sugar; 1 tablespoon cold water and 3/4 cup milk to each cup. Mix cocoa with sugar and cold water; cook over slow fire until thick; add milk, and boil 1 minute....

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Cocoa Syrup

Cocoa Syrup

Stir water and sugar in saucepan until dissolved; boil 5 minutes; mix cocoa with cold water to make a paste and add to boiling syrup; boil slowly for 10 minutes; add salt. When cold put into bottle or glass jar in refrigerator. Take 2 tablespoons of syrup for each glass or cup of milk. Serve with whipped cream. Served either hot or iced, this is a nourishing and delicious beverage....

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Tea

Tea

Water for tea should be freshly heated and just boiling. Teas are of different strength, but a safe rule is 1 teaspoon dry tea to 1 cup water. Scald teapot; put in dry tea and cover for 1 minute. Add boiling water and cover closely. Allow it to stand 3 to 6 minutes and strain off into a second hot pot....

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Chocolate

Chocolate

Cut into small pieces 1 ounce unsweetened chocolate; add 1 tablespoon sugar and 2 tablespoons hot water. Boil all together till smooth; add gradually 2 cups scalded milk; cook in double boiler 5 minutes. If desired add 1/4 teaspoon vanilla. Serve with whipped cream....

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Cream Candy

Cream Candy

Add a little water to moisten sugar; boil with vinegar and cream of tartar without stirring, until brittle when tried in cold water. Add flavoring; turn out quickly on buttered plates. When cool enough to handle, pull until white, and cut into pieces....

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Butter Scotch

Butter Scotch

Boil without stirring until brittle when tested in cold water. Pour out on buttered plates to cool....

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Butter Taffy

Butter Taffy

Boil sugar, molasses, water and vinegar. When crisp in cold water add butter and cook 3 minutes. Add vanilla and cool on buttered pans and break into pieces....

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Chocolate Caramels

Chocolate Caramels

Put all ingredients into kettle. Boil until it hardens in cold water; add 1 teaspoon vanilla and turn into greased tins. When nearly cold, cut into small squares....

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Creamed Nuts

Creamed Nuts

Mix sugar, unbeaten egg white, vanilla and water into a stiff paste. Shape into little balls, press between halved walnut or other nut meats. Stoned dates and large seeded raisins may be filled with this cream, or it may be mixed with chopped nuts, shaped into bars and cut into squares....

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Peanut Brittle

Peanut Brittle

Put sugar in frying pan. Stir over slow fire. It will lump, then gradually melt. When pale coffee color, and clear, add nuts and pour quickly on greased tin. When cold break into pieces....

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Candied Popcorn

Candied Popcorn

Boil sugar or syrup with butter and water until it spins a long thread; pour this on corn and if desired shape into balls....

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Pulled Molasses Candy

Pulled Molasses Candy

Put molasses, sugar, water and vinegar into saucepan and stir; boil until very brittle when dropped into cold water; add butter and pour on buttered platter. When cool enough to handle, butter hands and pull until light brown. Pull into oblong strips and cut with scissors....

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Fudge

Fudge

Put sugar, milk and cocoa or chocolate into saucepan; stir and boil until it makes soft ball when tested in cold water; take from fire, add butter and vanilla, cool and stir until creamy. Pour on buttered plates and cut into squares....

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Penuche

Penuche

Put sugar, milk and butter into saucepan. Boil with as little stirring as possible until it makes a soft ball when tested in cold water. Take from fire; add nuts and vanilla; beat until thick and pour into greased tins....

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Cocoa Cream Candy

Cocoa Cream Candy

Mix sugar and water until smooth; add cocoa and vanilla; mix until creamy. Dust hands with sugar; take up 1/2 teaspoon of mixture and roll into ball. Dust a plate with sugar, and lay balls on to dry about 2 hours; then roll in finely chopped nuts....

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Stuffed Prunes or Dates

Stuffed Prunes or Dates

Wash, dry and stone fruit; cut almost in half and fill with a half marshmallow or blanched almond, or chopped nuts and raisins and roll in sugar....

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Cocoanut Cream Candy

Cocoanut Cream Candy

Melt butter in saucepan; add milk and sugar; stir until sugar is dissolved, heating slowly; boil 12 to 15 minutes; remove from fire and add cocoanut and vanilla, beating until creamy. Pour into buttered tins and cool. For Chocolate Cocoanut Cream Candy add 3 ounces unsweetened chocolate to other ingredients before boiling....

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Hickory Nut Candy

Hickory Nut Candy

Boil sugar and water, without stirring, until thick enough to spin a thread; place saucepan in cold water; add flavoring and stir quickly until white; stir in nuts; turn into buttered tin; when cold cut into squares....

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Date and Peanut Paste

Date and Peanut Paste

Wash and dry dates; put through food chopper; add peanut butter and salt. Mix and roll into small balls; then cover with sugar. Lay on plate to dry....

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Salted Almonds

Salted Almonds

Blanch almonds by putting into boiling water for a few minutes. Remove skins, dry well and brown in heated olive oil or butter in pan on top of stove stirring continually. Take from fire when very light brown, as they continue to color after removing from pan. Drain well on brown paper and sprinkle with salt. The Fireless Cooker has become an important factor in the home. The principle employed is the preservation of heat by the use of non-conducting materials. The device ordinarily used is a re

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DIRECTIONS

DIRECTIONS

Prepare food for cooking as usual. Place in special vessel, designed to fit into wells of Fireless Cooker, and heat on range or over gas flame until ordinary cooking temperature is reached. Put into cooker with one or more radiators which have been heated for 10 or 15 minutes over hot fire. For roasting, radiator should be hot enough to brown a pinch of flour immediately. Close cover, fasten lightly so that the steam may escape and allow cooking to proceed for time specified in recipes. For baki

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Cereals

Cereals

Prepare cereal for cooking in double boiler as usual. Boil over fire for 5 minutes; place in larger vessel of boiling water in cooker and allow it to remain 4 or 5 hours or longer. If placed in cooker at night it should remain warm enough to serve for breakfast....

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Steaming

Steaming

For recipes see "Boston Brown Bread," "Steamed Fig Pudding," "Poor Man's Pudding," "Christmas Plum Pudding," etc. Prepare and mix ingredients as directed. Put into greased molds and place in shallow pan of boiling water over very hot radiator in cooker. Fasten cover tight and cook for 5 to 6 hours....

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Soups

Soups

Place ingredients in vessel; cover with cold water; bring to boil over free flame and boil 5 minutes. Fasten cover and transfer to cooker, using one hot radiator in bottom of well. Cook 3 or 4 hours and season when ready to serve. For ingredients and special directions for preparing soups, see "Soups."...

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Roast Meats

Roast Meats

Prepare and season meat in usual way. Place in large dry vessel; put very hot radiator in bottom of cooker well; place vessel containing roast on radiator, and place another very hot radiator on top. Close cooker and fasten. Allow it to remain about one-half hour per pound of meat. The roast may be browned in a very hot oven before putting into cooker or just before serving....

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Boiled or Stewed Meats

Boiled or Stewed Meats

Prepare meat for cooking as usual, searing in frying pan if desired brown. Place in large vessel and cover or partly cover with boiling water, boiling with cover fastened tight for 10 or 15 minutes over free flame. Transfer to cooker, using one hot radiator underneath. Cook 2 or 3 hours, season and serve....

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Vegetables

Vegetables

Prepare vegetables as usual. Place in vessel with small quantity of boiling water. As there is little evaporation in fireless cookers, allowance does not have to be made for loss by evaporation. Boil over free flame for 5 to 10 minutes. Transfer to cooker, using one radiator in bottom of well. Cook 3 or 4 hours, remove from cooker, season and serve. Always prepare food for the sick in the most careful and attractive manner. In sickness the senses are unusually acute and far more susceptible to c

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Barley Water

Barley Water

Wash barley, soak several hours in cold water and boil gently in same water for 2 hours; or put into double boiler and cook for 4 hours or until reduced one-half. Lemon juice and sugar or salt to taste may be added if desired....

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Pineapple Juice

Pineapple Juice

Peel a very ripe pineapple, cut into small pieces and put through fruit press or potato ricer to extract all juice. Strain and serve with cracked ice....

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Albuminized Orange

Albuminized Orange

Add orange juice sweetened to taste to egg white and beat well. Chill on ice and serve cold....

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Beef Tea

Beef Tea

Cut beef up into small pieces or put through meat chopper. Put into fruit jar; add water and allow to stand 15 to 20 minutes to draw out the juice. Place on trivet or rack in pan of cold water; heat very slowly for about 2 hours. The water must not boil. Season, strain, cool and remove fat. Beef tea may be served hot or cold....

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Scraped Beef

Scraped Beef

Scrape meat with sharp knife from lean beef cut from round until nothing but connective tissue is left. Form into small balls and broil slowly for about 2 minutes. Season and serve. For sandwiches do not cook but spread between thin slices of bread and season....

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Spanish Cream

Spanish Cream

Pour scalded milk very slowly over egg yolks and sugar which have been mixed together. Cook slowly in double boiler until thick and smooth. Pour over gelatine which has been soaking in 1/4 cup of water. Chill, add vanilla and beat with egg whip until thick. Add the cream which has been whipped and chill in molds....

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Gluten Muffins

Gluten Muffins

Sift together flour and baking powder; add beaten egg and melted butter to milk and add, Mix well and bake in greased muffin tins in moderate oven about 35 minutes. In addition to the foregoing, many of the soups, broths, jellies, ices and plain drop cakes found in the preceding pages are suitable for invalids and convalescents. (Material adapted from U. S. Food Administration and N. Y. State Department of Agriculture.)...

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General Directions

General Directions

Test all jars for leakage before using. To do this, fill with water, put on rubber and cover, seal and invert. Sterilize all utensils, jars, covers, etc., by covering with cold water, and boil for 10 minutes. Use only new rubbers and dip in boiling water just before using. Use a wide-mouthed funnel when filling jars to avoid loss of material and keep jar rim clean. Invert all jars after filling and sealing. Fruit should be sound, firm and not overripe. All fruit should be carefully prepared. Cle

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Canning

Canning

Canning is the operation of preparing sterilized food so that it will keep indefinitely. The custom of canning fruit in syrup is based on the improvement in flavor and texture which sugar gives to fruit. Sugar is not necessary for its preservation. Success depends upon thorough sterilization—that is, killing the organisms which cause food to spoil, and then sealing carefully to prevent their entrance. Fruit may be canned in water, in fruit juice and in syrup....

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Preserving

Preserving

The only difference between preserving and canning fruit is that sugar is always used in preserving, while in canning it is used in smaller quantity or not at all. In preserving the old rule of equal weights of sugar and fruit may be followed....

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Directions for Canning by Open-Kettle Method

Directions for Canning by Open-Kettle Method

By this method which is generally used, for preserves, jams and marmalades, food is completely cooked and poured boiling hot into sterilized jars. Prepare fruit, which may or may not be peeled, and cut into pieces depending on the variety. Blanch or scald peaches and similar fruits to loosen skin and chill by plunging into cold water. Cook slowly in as little water as possible or in fruit juice or fruit syrup until done. Fill the sterilized jars, seal and invert....

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Directions for Canning by Can-Cooked Method

Directions for Canning by Can-Cooked Method

By this method uncooked or partly cooked food is packed in can or jar, covered with liquid and both jar and contents sterilized. Pare fruit if desired or blanch or scald in boiling water a small quantity of the fruit at a time. (See time table.) Do not blanch cherries, sour cherries excepted, berries or plums. Chill outside of the blanched fruit by immersing it for a few minutes in a vessel of cold water. Remove skin from such fruits as peaches. Pack firmly in clean, tested jars to within one-ha

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Use of Sugar in Canning Fruit

Use of Sugar in Canning Fruit

Sugar is used in canning fruit for the purpose of improving flavor and is not necessary for preservation. Thin syrup—1 part sugar to 2 parts water for sweet fruits. Medium Syrup—1 part sugar to 1 part water for berries and medium sweet fruits. Thick Syrup—2 parts sugar to 1 part water for sour fruits. To make syrup add sugar to boiling water. Stir until all sugar is dissolved, then boil 2 or 3 minutes....

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Canned Peaches

Canned Peaches

Scald sound, firm freestone peaches, a small number at a time, in boiling water just long enough to loosen skins; dip them quickly into cold water and slip off skins. Cut peaches in halves, and remove stones. Have ready a syrup made by boiling sugar and water together until sugar has dissolved, using 1/2 to 3/4 cup sugar to each cup water. Allow about 1 cup syrup for each quart jar of peaches. Put in 1 cracked peach pit for every quart of syrup. Can-cooked Method.—Pack peaches in overlapping lay

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Canned Cherries

Canned Cherries

Wash. Cherries should be pitted before being canned in order to conserve space. Can sweet cherries as berries. Blanch sour cherries 1/2 minute, in boiling water. Dip in cold water; drain and pack closely into hot sterilized jars. Cover with boiling water or boiling medium syrup. Loosely seal. Sterilize 16 minutes in boiling water bath. Remove jars at once, tighten covers, invert to test seal and cool....

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Canned Pears

Canned Pears

Wash and peel fruit and follow directions for canned peaches....

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Canned Berries

Canned Berries

Blackberries, blueberries, huckleberries, raspberries, loganberries, gooseberries and strawberries should be canned as soon as possible after picking. Hull or stem; place in strainer and wash by lifting up and down in pan of cold water. Pack into hot sterilized glass jars, using care not to crush fruit. To insure a close pack, put a 2 or 3 inch layer of berries on the bottom of jar and press down gently with spoon. Continue in this manner until jar is filled. Boiling water or boiling thin or med

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Asparagus

Asparagus

Asparagus for canning must be fresh and tender. Select tips of uniform size and maturity and wash. Cut into lengths according to containers to be used. Scrape off scales, tough outer skins and hard ends and tie in bundles large enough for one jar. Immerse the lower ends in boiling water and leave them immersed for 5 minutes, then the entire stalks, leaving them in 1 to 3 minutes longer. Cold dip, drain, pack neatly, tips up, in hot sterilized jars. Add salt and cover with boiling water. Loosely

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Beans

Beans

Green String Beans and Wax Beans.—The beans should be tender and fresh, and graded according to size and washed. Leave whole or break in uniform pieces. Blanch 5 to 10 minutes until the pod will bend without breaking. Cold dip, drain well and pack into hot jars. Add salt and cover with boiling water. Loosely seal and sterilize two hours in boiling water. Remove when time is up, tighten covers, and invert to test seal....

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Corn

Corn

Make careful selection of tender, juicy sweet corn, at best stage for table use. Can as soon as possible after gathering. Remove husks and silk; blanch tender ears 5 minutes, older ears 10 minutes. Cold dip and cut from cob but not too close. Pack at once into hot sterilized jars. As corn swells during sterilization, leave space of 1 inch at top. Add salt and cover with boiling water. Be sure that water penetrates through corn to the bottom of jar. Loosely seal and sterilize three hours in boili

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Jams

Jams

Jams are usually made with small fruits or with chopped large fruits. Cook slowly with an equal weight of sugar until thick; put into sterilized tumblers or jars and seal....

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Raspberry Jam

Raspberry Jam

Pick over berries. Mash a few in bottom of preserving kettle; continue until fruit is used. Heat slowly to boiling point and add equal quantity of heated sugar. Cook slowly 45 minutes. Put into sterilized jars. Blackberry, gooseberry or other berry jam may be made in this way....

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Plum Conserve

Plum Conserve

Wash plums; remove stones; add raisins and oranges which have been sliced very fine. Measure and add 3/4 cup sugar to each cup fruit and juice. Put into kettle, cook slowly about 45 minutes or until thick like jam, stirring to keep from burning. Add lemon juice and chopped nuts. Pour into sterilized jars....

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Spiced Currants

Spiced Currants

Boil currants one hour, then add sugar, spices and one-half pint vinegar, boil one-half hour longer. Pour into jars and store....

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Jellies

Jellies

Heat and mash fruit until juice runs readily. If fruit is not entirely broken up rub through coarse sieve. Pour into sterilized jelly bags of unbleached muslin or doubled cheesecloth and drain thoroughly but do not squeeze. Take 7/8 cup sugar for each cup of juice. Boil juice 8 to 20 minutes (berries and currants less than other fruits); add sugar which has been heated in oven; stir until sugar is dissolved and boil about 5 minutes. Pour into hot sterilized tumblers. Hard fruits like apples and

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Pickles Pickled Peaches

Pickles Pickled Peaches

Boil sugar, vinegar and spices 20 minutes. Dip peaches quickly in hot water; then rub off the fuzz with a cloth. Place a few peaches at a time in syrup and cook until tender. Pack into sterilized jars. Adjust sterilized rubbers, and fill each jar to overflowing with hot strained syrup. Put on sterilized covers and seal jars immediately....

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Chow Chow

Chow Chow

Peel onions and add cucumbers, cauliflower cut into small pieces, and sliced peppers. Soak over night in brine (1 cup salt to 1 quart water). Drain and cook in fresh brine until vegetables are tender, and drain again. Boil vinegar in kettle and add paste made with mustard, flour, sugar, turmeric and a little cold vinegar, stirring until mixture thickens; add vegetables and cook slowly 10 minutes. Seal in sterilized jars....

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Sweet Tomato Pickles

Sweet Tomato Pickles

Chop tomatoes, onions and peppers; cover with salt and allow to stand over night. Drain, and add to vinegar, spices and sugar which have been heated to boiling. Cook 15 minutes and seal in sterilized jars....

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Chili Sauce

Chili Sauce

Peel and slice tomatoes; add chopped pepper and onion; put into kettle with remaining ingredients. Cook slowly for 2-1/2 hours. Seal in sterilized jars....

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Tomato Catsup

Tomato Catsup

Put all together in kettle and boil down one-half. Pour into sterilized jars....

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Keep the Home Baking Safeguarded

Keep the Home Baking Safeguarded

Housekeepers who have always used Royal Baking Powder with utmost satisfaction are sometimes misled into experimenting with baking powders containing questionable ingredients. No real economy is thus accomplished—in fact, the use of an unwholesome, undependable baking powder often produces a bitter taste in the food which makes it unappetizing and sometimes inedible, to say nothing of the injurious effect produced upon the digestive system. Royal Baking Powder is most economical. Its well-known

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BAKE IT WITH ROYAL AND BE SURE

BAKE IT WITH ROYAL AND BE SURE

has been the motto for fifty years in millions of homes where good food is recognized as the first essential of good health and where pride is taken in good baking. One of the distinctive qualities of food baked with Royal Baking Powder is wholesomeness . This is health insurance of such vital importance that millions of women bake at home just to be sure that Royal Baking Powder is used. Remember the adage — "Bake it with Royal and be sure."...

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