The Alaska citizen., 1914-11-23

| JOHNNY CAKE.
 One quart meal, 1 pint warm wa ter and l teaspoonful salt. Sift meal in pan and add water and salt. Stir it until it is light, then place on a new clean board and place nearly upright before the fire. When brown cut in squares. butter nicely. and serve hot.
 HANOVER ROLLS.
 Sift twice quarts of flour. Add 4 tablespoonfuls yeast. l tablespoon full lard or butter. 1 tablespoonful sugar 1 desserts spoonful salt, and a pinch of soda. Use enough luke warm water to make the mass soft enough to knead well. and put where it will rise. When light grease the hands and make into rolls. Let them rise again and bake in hot oven.
 WHEAT MUFFINS.
 Two cups flour. teaspoonfuls tablespoonfuls melted butter, 2 table spoonfuls sugar, l cup milk. l we'll beaten egg. Bake in muffin tins and serve hot.
 FAIRBANKS TEA CAKE.
 One pound butter. 1 pound sugar, 3 eggs and 1A pounds flour Rub butter and sugar together. and add by degrees the wellbeaten eggs and the flour. Flavor to taste. Drop with a spoon on well-greased tins and bake.
 RUSk, OR SWEET BREAD.
 One pint of flour. 1 pint of white sugar. 1 teacupful of melted lard. 1h pints of water. and kitchen spoonfuls of yeast. Make into a batter at night and set in a warm place to rise. The next morning work into this sponge ? beaten eggs and pints of flour. Set in warm place to rise again. When light make into pretty shapes, let it rise again. and when light bake in quick oven. Spread on the rolls when warm the white of an egg and sift- ed cinnamon. The dough should be as soft as you can make 1t to work well.
 POPoVERS.
 One egg. cup flour, one teaspoon full salt, cup sweet milk. Beat we'll and cook 20 minutes in hot oven Should be cooked in gem pans MOLASSES CAKE.
 Stir 1 cup molasses stiff with flour. tablespoonful lard, 1a tea spoonful cinnamon and pinch of salt.
 Place l teaspoonful baking soda in a cup and pour over it boiling water until cup Is filled. Stir all ingredients together and bake in a shallow pan 20 minutes.
 cOcoANUT BREAD PUDDING.
 Cut a small sttale bakers loaf in Is inch slices. Spread with butter and cut in halves crosswise. Pack in buttered dish, sprinkling each layer with shredded cocoanut, using 2-3 cup in all. Beat 3 eggs slightly, F cup sugar, A teaspoon salt and quart of milk. Strain over bread and cocoanut. Cover and let stand hour. Bake in slow oven nearly an hour, keeping covered just 20 minutes of cooking. Serve hot with creamy sauce. CREAMY SAUCE.
 Work h cup butter until creamy and add l cup of powdered sugar gradually while stirring and heating constantly, then add tablespoonfuls of top milk, drop by drp until of very creamy consistency Flavor with 23 teaspoonful of vanilla and 1-3 teaspoonful of lemon extract. FIG PUDDING.
 Melt 1-3 of a cupful of flour, A of level teaspoon of soda, A of a level teaspoon of nutmeg, l level teaspoon of cinnamon and mix with 25 cents worth of figs, finely cut, and h a cupful of chopped nut meats, then add to the buttered crumbs. Beat the yolks of 2 eggs, add cupful of milk and 1 cupful of molasses, and combine with the dry ingredients. Turn into well-bu1- tered molds coated with bread crumbs and steam from 1h to 5 hours according to size of molds HARD SAUCE.
 Cream 1a a cupful of butter, grad ually beaten in l cupful of powdered sugar and then the whites of eggs beaten stiff. Flavor with vanilla, turn into mold and chill
 TALLYWARTEN CAKE. | Three-fourths cup of butter two cups of sugar, one cup of sweet milk. three eggs. two teaspoonfuls of baking powder in two and a half cups of flour. Put half of the mix ture in two square tins. To the rest of the batter add one cup of entrants, one teaspoon allspice and one teaspoon cinnamon. For filling use currant jelly.
 LITTLE HELPS.
 Dry cut glass with soft tissue pa per if you want it to be brilliant. Scala new brooms in hot suds. This will toughen the fibre
 A good, sweet sandwich filling is made of dates stoned and powdered sugar.
 A little sugar added to lemon juice is better than vinegar for making up vegetable and fish salads, especially for children.
 If the baby is too little to hold playthings fasten them by a string suspended above him in such a po- sition that they will not get out of his reach.
 To improve gasoline as a cleaner, add common table salt when remov- ing spots. A little experience will