Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-12
Household Hints

Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST.
Barley Crystals Top Milk
Corn Mullins
Coffee
LUNCHEON.
Baked Beans Tomato Sauce
Raisin Brown Bread
Lettuce Salad
DINNER.
Corned Beef with Carrots and
Potatoes
Celery Lettuce Salad
Pumpkin Pie Coffee
The Table.
Tuna en- Casserole-One-half pound
can tuna fish. one-half onion cut fine.
Make white sauce by using one table
spoon butter Tor substitute), two ia
blespoons -four, two cups milk. Let
butter melt until it bubbles. add flour
making smooth paste-then milk
gradually. Cook until smooth. Pour
the white sauce over tuna and onion.
season to taste, sprinkle with bread
crumbs and dot butter over top in
small pieces. Brown slightly in oven
by baking slowly 20 minutes or one
half hour. Bake in casserole). Sal
mon can be prepared as above.
Salmon Loaf-One large can sal
mon (pink is best), two large hard
bread or one cup cracker crumbs.
one egg, one-half cup water. Beat
all together. Bake slowly one-half
hour. This will serve five or six peo-
pie.
Salmon Celery Salad-Two punches
celery (smalD, one can salmon tsmall
CAM. six sweet pickles. After cut
ting up fine. add any salad dressing
and YOU will find this very nice for
meatless Tuesday.
Fathers Coffee Cake-Cook together
five minutes one cup sugar, one cup
cold coffee, two tablespoons cocoa.
While this is cooling cream one and
one-half cups butter, add one cup su-
gar, two eggs, then add two cups flour,
one teaspoon baking powder, one tea
spoon soda and add to other ingre-
dents. Stir in the cool cooked mix
ture and bake in loaf The batter
| will not be very thick, but do not
add more -four. Cover with white
icing.
Ginger Cookies (no shortening used
One cup N. o. molasses, one cup
| sugar, two eggs, two tablespoons vine
gar, one tablespoon salt, one table,
spoon soda, one teaspoon cinnamon,
one tablespoon ginger. Put molasses
on stove, when hot add other things
as soon as possible. Mix with -four
enough to handle easily Roll thin.
/ Oatmeal Cookies-One cup shorten
ing, one egg, one tablespoon sweet
milk, one cup brown sugar, two cups
flour, two and One-half cups dry oat
meal. one-half cup nuts and One-half
cup raisins chopped fine, one teaspoon
soda dissolved in two tablespoons hot
water, a teaspoon each cinnamon, all
spice and nutmeg. Drop on creased
tin with spoon. Do not spread.
Hot Water Pie Crust-One cup lard
and one-half cup boiling water on
lard Beat with eggbeater to cream
Three cups flour, one-half teaspoon
baking powder, one-half teaspoon salt
Add flour mixture, using spoon, to
above. Crust enough for two or three
pies: also used for tarts. If part is
kept in refrigerator, when you are
ready to use it let it get warmed up
a little by taking it out an hour or SC
before trying to roll out.
Rabbit Pie missouri style) Clean
and disjoint two young rabbits. Cover
with boiling water, add an onion, a
slice of bacon, a bay leaf, three tea
spoons salt. one fourth teaspoon pep
per. Cover tightly and simmer until
tender. Remove meat to large baker
or casserole, thicken stock with -four
add kitchen bouquet and strain over
the meat. Take one quart flour, two
heaping teaspoons baking powder, one
teaspoon salt, lard size of egg, two
cups water, yolk Of one egg we'll beat
en-. Cut in biscuit shape and place
on top of rabbit. Bake 20 minutes
Will serve six people.
Mock Meat Cakes-Soak half CUP
dried peas in water over night. Cook
until thick. Boil and mash five me.
dunn sized potatoes. Mix with peas
and one-half cup grated cheese. one
half cup bread crumbs and one table
spoon melted bacon fat Season and
when cold make into cakes, dip In
corn meal and fry. Will serve six.
Pumpkin Pie Without Milk and
Eggs-To each cup stewed pumpkin
add one teaspoon cornstarch, pinch