Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-14

teaspoon baking soda; when cool add
one cup rice -four. one cup buttermilk
and one-half teaspoon salt. Bake on
hot griddle.
The Table.
Almost Meatless Dish-Four slices
o. bacon cut small and fried crisp in
a deep iron spider, then add one large
onion cut fine and fry light brown,
four large carrots cut In small pieces,
piece of cabbage about the size of a
cup, cut fine, one pint tomatoes, salt
and pepper to taste; cover and let
simmer till vegetables are soft When
nearly done add few peas and cup
of rice (boiledl. Macaroni or spa
ghetti can be used in place OF rice.
Any kind Of vegetables can be used
or omitted. This is a cheap dish and
serves five big eaters.
Tongue or Beef Heart Stew-Take
a beef tongue or heart and cut in
dice; cook in a quart OF water; keep
tightly covered: salt and pepper to
taste; add chopped suet, two medium
sized onions chopped fine; let boil till
tender. Add boiling water to make a
full quart, as it boils away; add one
half cup rice which has been washed
in several waters. One tongue or one
heart made into stew of this kind
will serve a family Of five.
Graham Custard Pie-In these war
times try the following crustless pie:
Beat two eggs light in quart bowl;
stir into these one-half cup each OF
graham flour and sugar; mix well;
fill bowl with milk; salt and season
to taste (good without seasoning.
Pour mixture into well creased pie
plate and. bake same as any custard
pie. The graham forms the crust.
Try pumpkin pie the same way by
adding one cup Of pumpkin to above
mixture, with ginger and seasoning
to taste. Use only one egg.
Wartime Cookies-Two and one-half
cups corn syrup, one cup lard or sub
stitute, two cups buttermilk or sour
milk, nutmeg flavor, two teaspoons
soda; flour to make medium stiff
dough.
Roll one-quarter inch or less in
thickness; bake in moderate oven.
Makes so cookies.
Ginger Squares-One cup brown SUI
gar. one-half cup drippings, one and
one-quarter cups milk (sour If you
have it,, two eggs, one teaspoon bak-
ing soda, pinch salt, two and one-half
cups -four, one teaspoon vanilla.
Graham Pudding-Make a graham
mush by stirring into boiling sailed
water enough graham -four to make
thick enough mush; add figs and
nuts; turn into one large or individual
molds. Cool and serve with whipped
cream or sweet sauce.
For change prunes can be used
in pudding and the Juice for sauce
Make frosting Of white confec-
tionery sugar and spread on squares
while hot. Makes II to IA squares.
Veal Loaf-Two pounds chopped
veal, one-half pound chopped pork
(rather fat); add one-half dozen
crackers rolled fine. two level tea
spoons salt, one-half cup sweet milk
Ito keep moist. Mix thoroughly,
mold into loaf and put into bake
pan with butter and pepper on top and
water around it. Bake one hour or
less, basting often.
Family Cake-Two cups strip, one
cup sugar, one cup fryings or lard,
one cup raisins, two cups canned
milk, one-quarter cup vinegar, one
large teaspoon baking soda, one tea
spoon cinnamon, one teaspoon ground
cloves, one teaspoon cocoa, one-half
teaspoon salt, flour to make batter. Melt
lard, warm milk (as soda makes much
nicer cakes if ingredients are warm
Bake in show oven in sheet pan.
| Conservation Pudding - One-half
cup brown sugar, one-half cup short
ening, one-half cup molasses, one
scant teaspoon soda dissolved in one
half cupt sour milk, one cup bread
crumbs, one cup graham -four, three
quarter cup nut meats, one-half cup
raisins.
Steam two and one-half hours.
Will serve eight people.
Buckwheat Cakes = Start them
with compressed yeast Zone cake),
three pints water, tablespoon sugar,
teaspoon salt Soak stale graham
bread or corn bread, press all the
water out and stir into the batter.
Mix in enough buckwheat flour for
medium stiff batter. In the morning
add one-half teaspoon soda and one
teaspoon baking powder Use little
cold water to thin batter and stir
gently, or dip spoon up and down
through it.
Bake ON hot griddle. Serve with
margarine and corn strip. Makes
breakfast fit for king.
Simple Home Remedies,
For Boils-Try q pound Of good big
raisins. Eat them gradually. By the
time raisins are gone boils will also
be leaving. Abstain from eating much
molasses or sugar.
Cereal Waffles.
Almost any Of the cooked cereals
may be utilized In this recipe. cream
Of wheat. rice and hominy being par
ticularly good. Mix together about
two cupfuls of -four. one teaspoonful
OF baking powder and half a tea
spoonful OF salt. Place in q mixing
bowl three tablespoonfuls OF the
cooked cereal. freed from lumps, and
add one large cupful OF milk, one
tablespoonful Of melted shortening
and the yolks Of two eggs. Beat the
batter hard. fold in the stiffly
whipped egg whites and bake in
CREASED waffle irons.
Have the irons very clean and let