The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-11-19
rRIeO RECIPES
Cream Soup

Five cups rice water, tablespoon
finely cut onions, 1 tablespoon finely
chopped parsley, teaspoon salt, "
teaspoon paprika, tablespoon butter,
1 tablespoon -four. or whatever left.
over vegetables on hand, save every
tablespoonful. Put the rice water and
onion on to boil and add any raw or
leftover vegetables, celery, carrots, to.
matoes, string beans; boil until every.
thine is l. rder. Then rub the butter
.nd -four together, add, stir until II
thickens, sprinkle with parsley
Eseslloped Potatoes
Wash and pare one quart potatoes,
cut into halfinch slices, boil 20 min
utes. Drain, dust with one teaspoon
salt, cover and shake the potatoes. Put
into bake dish, which has been brush.
ed with one teaspoon, butter, cover
with one cup cream sauce, cover with
half cup coarse bread crumbs; place
in moderate oven and bake Is minutes.
Irish Stew
One and one-half pounds stewing
beef or lamb, ! quart potatoes, 2 cups
cut carrots, 1 cup cut onion, table
spoon chopped parsley, teaspoon salt,
half teaspoon white pepper, dash pap
rika.
Wipe the meat, cup into twoinch
squares. Put into boiler with one
/ quart boiling water and boil slowly one
hour, then add the onion and carrot
and boil 20 minutes; add the potatoes
which have been washed, pared and
cut, salt and pepper; boil 25 minutes.
Add the -four mixed with little cold
water; boil three minutes; pour on hot
plate and sprinkle with the chopped
parsley ey.-Philadelphia North Ameri-
can.
Fruit Cookies
| This recipe has been used In one
family many years: Mix well one half
pint of brown sugar, one pint of lard,
one half pint of molasses, one cupful
OF sour milk, in which one heaping
tablespoonful of soda has been dis.
solved, two tablespoonfuls of ground
cinnamon, one level tablespoonful of
ground cloves and allspice and -four
enough to make a rather stiff dough.
Gradually work in one pint of cur.
rants, one pint of chopped raisins and
one pint of nut meats. Mix well, roll
out and bake. These will keep a long
time and improve with the keeping.
suet Biscuits
| Sift about one quart of flour in a
pan. Add one teaspoonfu of salt and
two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking
powder Mix we'll and instead of us.
ing lard add two thirds of a cupful OF
fresh beef suet, chopped fine. Add one
cupful of buttermilk, into which has
been added just a pinch of soda to
sweeten it, Work into a soft dough-
! roll thin and cut into medium.sized
/ biscuits. Bake in a quick oven and
serve hot. These are especially nice
in very cold weather.
craekneI Corn Bread
Sift one quart or " quart of corn
meal into a pan. Add one Teaspoons
full OF salt, three fourths of cupful
of the fine pieces of cracknels, which
have been freshly rendered from lard
and mix well. Add one half pint OF
sour milk and one half pint Of warm
water, to which tiny pinch of soda
has been added, until the mixture is
just stiff enough to mold into dodg
ers; then shape and bake in a hot
oven until we'll done.
Bean Custard Pie
Make q lght short pie-crust and line
the pie-pan with 1t. Have ready one
cupful of Lima beans, which have
been cooked in little water until
tender. Mash them through sieve
and add the well-beaten yolks of two
eggs, one half cupful of sugar, one
tablespoonful of vinegar, and season
, with nutmeg. Mix well and pour into
the bottom crust. Place in the oven
and bake until firm, then cover with
meringue, made by beating the
whites of the two eggs and adding
two teaspoonfuls of powdered sugar
Replace In the oven and brown slight
ly.
! Real Ginger Snaps
! Mix well one cupful of lard or but
ter, add one unbeaten egg, one cupfu
Of molasses, one cupful Of sugar, ont
half cupful OF boiling water, in which
one level tablespoonful of soda hai
been dissolved and one tablespoonful
OF ground ginger. Add -four enough
to make the dough mold very soft
then roll thin and cut out. Bake In
quick own. The secret OF success
lies In the boiling water.
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