Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-12-20
IR COOKING DEMON
sTRATION SATURDAY
Recipes from the Work of
pennington at the Court
House Saturday Afternoon .
FAIR CROWD PRESENT
Weather Interfered With
INV From Country Attending
interesting Session

I war COOhtAy
House Saturday afternoon by
pennington. Because Of the in
ant weather only a few from the
ntry attended. =,
n. Christmas tide, while most Of
n,,rld is in sorrow and many are
,rt even a trace Of Christmas
A. or other Christmas cheer, we
osked to forsake the finer candies
rather, learn to like the simple
fashioned kinds of "yee long ago."
r,roots we must have, but can we
do u part in this great move TO
Drlor living, conserving not only
sugar supply, but what is of even
eater Importance, conserving the
Nh of our children at the same
Ne?
rocb woman can use her own in
rritv in the substitution of sugar,
Rendering that anything mother
IT, will taste especially good on
4 wonderful day of Goodwill to
Nen."
Inst a few old-time favorits are
4yen.
II Pop Corn Balls
u Cook / tablespoon butter and 1 cup
..rpbum or corn syrup to a hard ball,
I'm nut in cold water. Pour over
.IceIy popped corn and when cool
kough to handle, form into balls.
N Fruit Squares
Grind in food chopper equal parts of
h.. dates, raisins, nuts or cocoanut.
iloisten with orange juice, press in
IN layer, IL inch thick and cut into
seuares. Place a nut meat on each
6uare. May be dipped into melted
thocolate.
Stuffed Dates
Chop equal parts raisins, nuts, figs,
I'M the dates with this mixture, and
LII in powdered sugar If desired.
"a Popcorn Cookies
To %cup finely chopped popped
.orp add 1 tablespoon soft butter.
brat white of one egg very stiff, add
IN IA cup Of 0 syrup, 4 teaspoon
salt. y teaspoon vanilla. Combine
hcsc mixtures. Drop from tip OF
boon one inch apart on a well butter
or oiled sheet. t1attcn and bake
slow oven until slightly brown.
Corn Syrup or Sorghum Taffy
8 cups Of sorghum, 1 tablespoon but
cr. Cook syrup until it forms a me-
hum hard ball when dropped into cold
Mater. Add one tablespoon vinegar
kor fIavoring; pour on cold buttercd
bates. When cool enough may be
bulIed until white, when it may be
bit into bits with shears.
Wartime Christmas Cake
lib raisins, IL cups water, u cur
Edasscs, 2 or c%itron, u cup bcei
bHppngs or fat, IL cups brown su.
lar, grated rind of orange, grated rint
b lemon.
Nix ugar molasses, drippings
water, raisins, %citron, orange an'
lemon rind in pan and let boil for ter
ninutes. When cold add the follow
ing.
4 cups Of flour, / teaspoon nutmeg
teaspoon salt, i teaspoon cinnamon
/ teaspoon cloves, 1 cup cold coffee,
teaspoon soda dissolved in very it'll
hot water.
Sift the flour, salt and spices to
4 gethcr, then put in the coffett and tn
4 dissolved soda add all this g tn
4 boiled ingred tents. Bake in leave
4 Tor one hour in moderate oven. In
CaFe will keep indefinitely.
Rice Bread
l cup cold, cooked rice.
tablespoon sugar.
| teaspoon salt.
Warm slightly, stir in the IL yeas
cake, soaked in a very little water.
Add IA cup white flour. Bea
thoroughly, let rise until very light
add the rest Of the flour, making
stiff dough. Let rise, mold into los
and bake.
Potato Bread
IA cups mashed potatoes, l tel
spoon salt, add u yeast cake soakt
in 3 tablespoons water, with l taol
spoon sugar, IA cup flour. Be-
well, let rise until very light. At
enough white flour for stiff dough, !
rise again and bake.
The following proportions are f
an ordinary size loaf Of bread;
| cup liquid, l tablespoon lard,
desired, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 tablespo'
sugar, IA to cake compressed yeas
soaked in IA cup water, 3 to A Gu
flour.
Bran, shorts, buckwheat, rye, ba
ley, cottonseed, meal graham, mi
all be used with white flour in equ
proportion.
Corn Meal Yeast Bread
cup corn meal, III cups water, l
teaspoons salt. Cook together in dc
Bile boiler 20 minutes, or until I
mush is thoroughly cooked. Add
this mush, when cool, 1-2 yeast ca
which has been soaked in 3 tab
spoons warm water, with l level
blespoon sugar. Beat into all t
Ia cup white flour. Let rise III
very light, perhaps two hours. Ma
into stiff dough, using enough flt
to make a smooth dough, which Y
require from 2 to 8 cups Of VIII
flour.
Let rise again until very light, M
into loaf, let rise until nearly treb
in size. Bake in moderate oven ID
60 minutes.
Dat Meal Bread
Y cup rolled oats, with 1h C
boiling water poured over. Let c
Add l-2 yeast cake soaked in 3 tai
spoons water, 1 level tablespoon