The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-03-04
ssAsoNABLs RECIPES
Some Easily Made Dishes for
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Peanut Sandwiches
Chop mash or grind fresh peanuts,
after removing the grown skin, to
-four. moisten with sweet cream, and
season to taste with salt and white
pepper, spread between thin slices
of buttered bread, trim off the edges
and cut in squares or triangles.
Chocolate cace Cake
Beat TO, q cream a generous half cup
Of butter and gradually beat into this
enc yeEp OF sugar Add ons OUNCE Of
chocolate. melted; also two unbeeton
eggs. Beat vigorously for i've min
utes, then stir in half cup Of milk,
and lastly one cup and half OF -four
with which has been mixed one gen.
erous ,teaspoonful OF baking powder.
Flavor with one teaspoon Of vanilla.
Pour into a buttered shallow cakepan,
and bake for half an hour in a moder-
ate oven. When cool spread with
glace frosting.
Glace Frostlns
Put half a cup of sugar and three
tablespoons of water in small
saucepan. Stir over the fire until the
sugar is nearly melted. Take the
spoon from the pan before the sugar
really begins to boil, because 1t would
spoil the icing if the syrup were stir
red after it begins to boil. After
boiling gently for four minutes, add
half teaspoon of vanilla extract, but
do not stir; then set away to cool.
When the syrup is about blood warm
beat it with wooden spoon until
thick and white. Now put the sauce
pan in another with boiling water and
stir until the icing is thin enough to
pour. Spread quickly on the cake.
Croutons
Croutons for serving with soup are
made by cutting one or more slices of
bread in dces and frying in hot
grease until brown.
EseaIIoped Salmon
First, one can salmon broken fine
with the liquor, second butter your
dish well; third, layer OF salmon;
fourth, white sauce; fifth, buttered
bread crumbs. Repeat this until dish
is filled having buttered crumbs for
the top layer. Bake about half an
hour. White Sauce Two table
spoons butter, as it melts add three
tablespoons flour, when smooth add
one and one-half cup milk gradually,
little salt and pepper.
JeIlled Chicken
Boil a good sized chicken until very
tender, season with salt and pepper
while boiling; let the liquor cool and
skim off the oil; heat it again and
stir in one tablespoon gelatine which
has been soaked one hour in two
tablespoons water. Slice two hard
boiled eggs very thin placing around
the sides and on the bottom OF dish.
Cut the chicken quite fine with
knife, leaving out the skin, and place
it lightly In the dish with sliced eggs.
Pour the liquor over 1t, having only
| enough to cover 1t nicely. Set away
to cool, and when hardened. turn out
on a platter garnished with celery
tops or parsley.
celery and Nut salad
| This salad has foundation OF un-
sweetened lemon jelly into which is
stirred twice as much cut celery as
coarsely chopped nuts; mold In small
cups or forms and serve each on a
lettuce leaf garnished with thick may
onnaise. Mold the pot cheese in
small balls and place three on each
plate OF salad.
Chicken and Celery Sandwiches
Put through the finest knife OF the
meat chopper one cup of cold chick
en-. Add TO It one cup Of celery cut
very fine and four tablespoons of may
onnaise. Butter rounds OF white
bread and spread.
Prune Conserve
Take four pounds fresh prunes, re.
move the pits, mix with the fruit four
pounds sugar, the Juice OF four oran.
ges, and thin strips of yellow rind
which has been separated from the
pithy part, one pound raisins and the
meats of pound OF walnuts broken
into small pieces. Boil together un.
I'll thick Put into Jelly glasses and
cover with parafine.
Nut Bread
Two cups milk, one-half cup sugar,
four cups -four, one cup broken nut
meats, one-fourth teaspoon salt, four
teaspoons baking powder, two beaten
eggs. Put into creased pans and set
aside for twenty minutes, then bake
for thirty minutes In a moderate oven.
Oatmeal Cookies
Two cups oatmeal, one cup sugar,
two eggs beaten. two tablespoons but
ter creamed, one tablespoon baking
powder, one.fourth teaspoon salt,
flavor with vanilla. To oatmeal add
sugar, baking powder eggs. butter,
vanilla and salt. Place In small drops
on baking pan turned bottom side up
Bake in moderate oven.
Banbury Tarts
one-half cup currants. onehalf cup
sugar, and finely chopped peel OF one