Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-05
The Table.


Pot Roast with Creole Sauce-Get
three and one-half pounds English cut
Of beef Scar on both sides well.
Place on rack in pan, add one cup hot
water, one carrot and one onion cut
in cubes. Cover and let simmer for
three hours. Add a little water as it
needs it from time to time. Three
quarter of an hour before done add
following: Three carrots and three
| onions, cut in cubes; one pint can to-
, matoes and a little water Add three
sour pickles cut in one-Quarter inch
| slices, about nine canned peppers,
stuffed olives cut in three pieces, about
| ten minutes before done. The meat
should be taken out when pickles and
olives are added Thicker the sauce
very little and serve very hot over
meat at table. Mashed potatoes with
this completes good dinner with
light dessert and coffee.
| Lemon Crackers-Two and one-half
cups sugar (soft white), one pint lard,
whites Of two eggs well beaten, one
pint new milk, five cents worth bak-
ing ammonia (pulverize and let stand
in milk over night, five cents worth
lemon extract, grated rind of one
lemon, flour to mix stiff.
| Beat the dough, cut in squares and
, bake quickly.
This recipe will make three gallons
of crackers, and the longer they stand
the better they get One can use half
the recipe if desired.
Nut Cookies-One cup ground nut
meats, one cup ground bread crumbs,
one cup sugar, two eggs.
Mix well and drop on we'll creased
tin. A very good wartime recipe
i MarshmallOw Caramel Cake-Cream
one-quarter cup butter with one cup
sugar and stir in one-half cup milk
and four level tablespoons thick cara
mel syrup. made by stirring granu-
lated sugar in skillet over the fire
until entirely dissolved and of a rich
brown color, then adding carefully
as it will bubble iolently-enough
water to make a very thick syrup
when dissolved) Remove from fire
and cool. Ut is well to keep this on
hand) After adding syrup to cake
mixture stir in one-half teaspoon soda,
one and one-half teaspoons cream of
tartar sifted with one-half cup corn
starch and one and one-half cups pas
try -four and the we'll beaten whites
Of six eggs. Bake in moderate oven
in two layers. Use the following for
filling and frosting:
MarshmallOw FrOsting-BOil one Gun
sugar with one-third cup water until
syrup will thread from fork Have 90
marshmallows heated (but not brown
ed in oven or warmed over steam
Pour syrup slowly into the we'll beat
en- white of one egg, heating constant
ly, and heat while adding the marsh
mallows Flavor with vanilla
Good Meat Dinner Mt Small Cost.
Purchase six veal kidneys covered
with suet. Remove the suet and save
a cupful for pudding; mix balance
with lard or meat drippings. Feed
scraps to the chickens.
4 A delicious stew made of the kid
neys: Parboil; remove membranes
from kidneys; cut in slices, roll in
-four and fry in their own fat until
brown, adding large onion sliced
When nicely Drowned. add enough
water to cover and two or three
potatoes and carrots diced. Wher
kidneys are tender. thicken with a
little -four and water. Other vege.
tables may be added if liked. This
serves six people generously
For the pudding use one cup sue,
run through food chopper. one cur
water and milk mixed. two cups
seeded raisins. one cup molasses, two
cups graham -four. one teaspoon each
OF soda. cloves, cinnamon and nut.
meg. Steam two hours. Serve with
the following sauce: two cups water
one cup sugar, when boiling stir In
one tablespoon cornssarch wet with
cold water and one teaspoon Of hut
ter. Flavor with vanilla or any other
favor preferred