Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-20
Household Hints

weigh about three pounds. Make
bread dressing. as for chicken.
Place four or five pieces of twfne
on the table and lay piece OF
flank on the Irvine. spread the
dressing over the meat and place
the other pieces on top, then tie
each piece of Irvine around the
whole TO keep them together and
hold in shape. Put In the roasting
pan, salt and dredge with corn
flour. Bake two %hours. This
makes a very pretty and delicious
roast, large enough for six people,
and also excellent cold.
Desserts.
Economy Pudding-One-half pint
molasses, one-half pint water, two
teaspoons soda, one teaspoon salt,
raisins (about one-half cups thick
en- with rye or barley -four until
about as thick as a cup cake. This
will rise about double. Steam three
hours.
Sauce: Mix two teaspoons brown
sugar with butter size Of butter
nut, a little salt and one teaspoon
-four mixed with butter and sugar.
When free from Jumps pour boil
ing water over, stirring all the
time Let boil up once or twice to
make it the desired thickness.
Butterscotch Pie-One tablespoon
butter, one pint boiling water, three
cups brown sugar, yolk of three
eggs white for tops), five table
spoons flour.
Buttermilk Pie-Yolk of one egg,
three-quarters cup sugar, three
quarters cup buttermilk, one table
spoon -four, one teaspoon vanilla
and one of butter. Beat yolk, sugar,
-four and butter until smooth; add
buttermilk and vanilla; stir thor
oughly. Baked with one crust in
moderate oven. Beat white Of egg
and spread on top; return to oven
and brown.
Buttermilk Cake To cups
brown sugar, one cup buttermilk,
one-half cup shortening, two eggs,
one tablespoon cocoa (heaped), two
and one-half teaspoons baking pow
der, one teaspoon soda.
Orange Cake-Three tablespoons
of lard and one cup Of sugar;
cream; add two-thirds cup milk,
add slowly, one egg beaten good and
two cups flour (miX wheat and rice
four and four teaspoons baking
powder sifted with -four and one
eighth teaspoon Of salt mixed with
-four. Add one teaspoon of orange
flavor and grated rind of one or
ange. Beat well for eight minutes.
Grease cake tins. Bake about 20
minutes, then take out and sprinkle
powdered sugar or cinnamon on
top.
Spice Cake = One-quarter cup
vegetable oil or fat, three-quarters
cup sugar, two-thirds cup sour
milk, one-third teaspoon soda,
three-quarters cup rice flour, three
quarters cup corn flour, one-half
teaspoon cinnamon, one-quarter
teaspoon nutmeg, one-quarter tea
spoon allspice, one-half cup rails
| ms.
Cream the fat and sugar. Add
alternately the milk and the Hour
which has been sifted with the soda
ana spices. FlOur the IdlslnS anu
add them to the above mixture.
Bake in a moderate oven.
Sweet milk may be used instead
of sour milk, using two and one
half teaspoons baking powder in
stead of the soda.
Peanut Butter Bread-One-fourt
cup sugar, one-half cup molasses.
two tablespoons butter substitute,
one-half teaspoon soda, one-half
teaspoon salt, -four, one and one
half cups of yellow cornmeal, three
ane one-half cups boiling water,
one yeast cake, one small jar of
peanut butter. Scald and let boil
up once cornmeal with boiling wa
ter. Add the salt, molasses, sugar,
butter substitute. Dissolve the yeast
cake in a little lukewarm water.
Dissolve soda and peanut butter in
very hot water. Cool. Add with the
yeast cake and -four to the corn
meal mixture Add just enough
-four to make a stiff sponge; let rise
over night. In the morning knead
into loaves; let rise and bake.