Recipes for the Housewife Graham Cookies and Sweet Potatoes with Bacon
Simple recipes for Graham cookies using graham flour sugar shortening milk soda and an egg with butter, plus a method for sweet potatoes baked with bacon slices. Potatoes are boiled then baked with bacon and bacon fat basted during cooking.
Creamed Chicken Ramekins In Toast Cups
Three cupfuls of cooked chicken diced one cupful of stock one cupful of milk three tablespoons of flour two tablespoons of butter salt and pepper to taste. Rub butter and flour to a paste add milk then blend into hot stock and thicken. Stir in chicken heat through and serve in ramekins or toast cups.
Recipe for steamed carrot pudding with hot sauce
A historic recipe lists ingredients: one cup grated carrot one cup Tan potato one cup sugar one cup chopped suet one cup chopped raisins one cup tante currants one and a half cups flour one teaspoon soda dissolved in water. Steam three hours and serve with hot sauce.
Chicken soup variation with forcemeat balls
Small forcemeat balls made from chopped cold chicken breadcrumbs and herbs bound with egg yolk are cooked in chicken broth. Finish by thickening the soup with cream or milk beaten with lemon juice nutmeg and pepper, then return balls and serve with toast sippets.
Build Three to Five Slice Log Cabin Sandwiches
Select square loaves of rye or graham and white bread cut to the same size. Layer three to five slices with a soft filling to make them adhere. When the required alternation is achieved, cut into narrow strips and arrange on platters in a herringbone stack.
Bread Recipe for Two Loaves with Nuts optional
One quart raised bread batter and one quart graham and white flour mixed. Add one-third cup sugar and one tablespoon cot tolene, plus half cup chopped nut meats. Knead with flour, form two loaves, let rise until night, bake one hour in a moderate oven. Nuts may be omitted. great for teas or picnics.
Custard Cups with Vanilla and Whipped Cream
Heat milk to scalding and pour over three stirred whites with sugar. Flavor with vanilla, bake custards in a water bath until set. Cool and unmold onto a flat dish. Top with whipped cream and grated maple sugar and serve.
Recipe for Molasses Ginger Cookies or Cakes
The instructions outline mixing molasses soda and heat, then stir in sour milk ginger salt and flour until stiff. Add melted shortening, chill, then roll to a quarter inch and cut rounds to bake about 19 minutes on a buttered sheet.
Baked Eggs in Potato Cases
Potatoes are baked and mashed the night before. Shape into small cakes, press hollows, brush with milk then bake briefly. Add an egg to each potato case in the morning with pepper and butter, bake until eggs set. A pretty breakfast dish.
Classic Onion Beef Stew from Frugal Home Cooking
Slice six or seven large onions and fry in lard until soft not brown. Add one pound ground round and cook. Stir in one can tomatoes one can kidney beans cayenne and chili powder to taste. Add two quarts water and simmer then thicken with flour if desired. Combine all and cook until thick.
Care of Poultry Flock Through Winter
An article outlines four essentials for winter poultry success: warm dry quarters, vermin control, a busy hen, and good stock. It compares open front and enclosed houses, stresses proper ventilation, dry litter, and cleanliness to prevent mites and lice, and highlights scratching pens and exercise as key to maintaining egg production.
Invention Prompting Natural Flesh Tints
The excerpt argues that natural flesh colors best convey beauty and realism in art. It notes that as art approximates nature in coloring, its convincing power grows, implying that true beauty lies in natural depiction. The text indicates this principle guided a particular invention.
Pears Soap Promises Pure Skin Since 1900s
Pears Soap is described as a pure emollient and detergent soap that preserves and enhances the natural pink and white of the complexion. The ad claims it never spoils skin tones and keeps skin soft, fine and pure from infancy to old age, aligning with nature.
Call of the Bell Biscuits Heat and Serve
Ready cooked whole wheat biscuits are described as complete for study or play meals. The product requires only reheating briefly and adding hot milk with cream and salt or sugar to taste. Marketed as a muscle building brain boosting food for children and adults, including athletes and workers.
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