The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-10-03
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Home and
Household.


Wiring out hot flannels for application
in time of sickness by using as tools
fork and potato ricer Keep a pan of
water over fame, drop the hannels in
it, lift with fork into the ricer, press
and remove. -McCalls Magazine,
Sugarless Recipes.
Gingerbread tablespoons corn syrup,
VI teaspoons soda, 2 tablespoons short
ening, teaspoon salt, w teaspoons gin
ger, 1g teaspoon cinnamon, | " teaspoons
mace, | egg, " teaspoon allspices, u cup
molasses, | cup buttermilk, 21a cups bar
ley flour. Cream syrup and shortening
Add soda, salt, spices Beat in egg. Add
molasses and buttermilk. Mix thor
oughly, add flour, mix lightly and bake
Pineapple Sherbetl cup corn syrup, 2
cups boiling water, white Of egg, / cup
grated pineapple, juice of lemon. Com
bine the ingredients with the exception of
the egg white. Cool the mixture and
freeze it. Add the beaten egg white lust
before the freezing is completed
Date Pudding3 tablespoons corn
starch, 2 cups milk, " cup corn or maple
syrup, IL seeded dates cut up small u
teaspoon salt, ! teaspoon vanilla. Mix
the cornstarch with Y cup milk Heat
the remaining milk Add the cornstarch
and boil, then add syrup, dates and salt,
vanilla, and pour into dish to cool.
Serves five people. Prunes are good in
stead of dates
Frozen Custard-l pint milk, w tea
spoons eornstarch, lh teaspoons cold milk
or water, cup corn syrup or sufficient
maple syrup or honey for desired sweet
ening, lls teaspoons vanilla, " teaspoon
salt, | egg Scald the milk and add the
cornstarch mixed with the cold milk or
water, and boil, Add the eggs, slightly
beaten and cook the mixture for min
utes in double boiler. Add the corn
syrup and the salt, and stir the mixture
well, strain it and cook IT, Add the va
nilla and freeze the custard in the same
way as any ice cream.
Rolled Oats Pudding-A cup rolled
oats, cups boiling water, q cup mo-
lasses, 1a teaspoon cinnamon, Ls teaspoon
nutmeg, u teaspoon ginger, teaspoon
salt, " teaspoon vanilla, ] cup raisins,
/ " cups hot milk. Cook the rolled oats
in the water for 80 minutes. Add the re-
naming ingredients, turn the mixture
into creased baking dish and bake in a
slow oven for lh hours to 2 hours.
Serve the pudding with or without cream.
Maple Mousse pint whipping cream,
"a teaspoon salt, lh cups syrup. Beat
the cream until it is very thick. Then
beat in the syrup and add the salt. Pour
the mixture into mold, pack it in equal
parts of ice and salt and allow it to
stand for about three hours to freeze
Spice Cake with Part of the Sugar
Replaced by Corn Syrup-h cup fat, %
cup sugar, 3 eggs, ! cup syrup, q cup
milk, teaspoon vanilla, 334 cups barley
-four, "a teaspoon ginger, teaspoons
baking powder, u teaspoon salt, tea
spoon cinnamon, Y teaspoon cloves,
teaspoon cloves, teaspoon allspice,
cup raisins. Cream the fat, sugar and
egg yolks Add the syrup, milk and va
nilla and mix we'll Add alternately the
liquid and the dry ingredients sifted to-
gether Add the 1avoring and fold in
the we'll. beaten egg whites. Lastly add
the raisins, bake for one hour in mod
crate oven.
Rice Plum Pudding2 tablespoons rice,
quart milk, u teaspoon salt, | cup
seeded plums, u cup sugar, Il cup
chopped nuts, egg, Boil rice and sailed
milk slowly for half an hour, add sweet
ened plums and bake an hour, stirring
frequently. Stir in last the nuts, cover
with well beaten egg and brown slightly.
Serve hot or cold with whipped cream