Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-20
Bread Without Wheat.

We hear much nowadays Of the high
| price of wheat: and wheat. even at a
| high price, we are told, may be very
| scarce before the summer is past This
| sounds disconcerting, for it conveys
| the idea of famine-we are so accus-
| toned to refer to bread as the staff
| of life" As matter of fact, how
| ever. a shortage of wheat, If there be
shortage. Is not very serious mat
ter to the average person. The poor
of this country are not SO dependent
upon bread as are the poor of the
older nations. and in the average
household wheat shortage would
merely cause the housewife a little
extra trouble in selecting non-wheat
breads for her family.
A large part of the south, for ex-
ample, exists very comfortably on
cornbread of various kinds, and corn
bread would be welcome as change
in many households. Here is a simple
recipe:
One cup of fine cornmeal, sifted;
one cup and half of milk: one table,
spoon of melted butter. one teaspoon
of baking powder, one teaspoon of
sugar, two eggs.
Scald the milk and pour it on the
sifted meal Cool, then add the melted
and yolks of the eggs. Stir quickly
and thoroughly. and fold in the beat
pan in a hot oven for thirty minutes.
Hominy cake is another hot bread
that adds variety to the table. Stir
into one cup of boiled hominy. while
it is hot. teaspoon of butter. one salt
spoon of salt, and the yolks of two
eggs well beaten; add slowly cup of
milk. then a half cup of fine cornmeal;
fold in the whipped whites of the two
eggs Bake in fiat tin in a hot oven
for twenty or thirty minutes.
Boston Brown Bread.-Two cups of
white cornmeal, two cups of yellow
cornmeal, two cups of ryemeal, one
cup of molasses, two cups of milk
one of these sour. if convenient; two
cups of boiling water. one teaspoon
of salt. one teaspoon of soda.
Mix together the -four. meal and
salt and add the boiling water. Mix
the sweet milk and molasses together
and add these to the scalded meal.
Dissolve the soda in the sour milk and
add this. Turn the mixture into
covered mold and steam it for three
hours: then uncover and bake for
half an hour.
This bread is excellent as luncheon
dish toasted, buttered and covered with
cream.
Scotch Dat Cake.-Mix oatmeal.
ground fine. with a little salt and
enough water to make a stiff dough.
1toil Oh HOuTeQ DOaFQ until II Is one
eighth of an inch thick and bake in
one sheet in slow oven without
| browning until dry and hard. 1t should
be dull gray in color. When done
break into pieces.
Scrap Books.
Many times you have seen in a
magazine or newspaper an article or
| suggestion that you determined to
save-and then either lost the maya
zine or clipping or threw it away dur
ing some cleaning-up period. Why not
reformo
One woman of methodical habits
keeps a series of scrap books for just
such articles. and finds this a very
neat and effective way of preserving
| ideas for future use.
One book is marked Garden" In
| this book she has pasted every Illus
tration or item of information on the
subject that has interested her. There
| golas. water gardens, benches or
bordered paths. which she hopes to
be able some time to add to her own
garden: suggestions about flower or
vegetable culture; advertisements she
| wishes to keep for reference: garden
plans from various garden magazines,
etc.
The other half of this book is de-
voted to notes on her own garden
dates on which she has planted, her
success with various plants and
seeds. the garden expense account,
and any point that she may wish to
recall at any time.
| Another book is marked House"
In this she keeps articles and sug-