The diamond drill., 1918-01-26

wheat Bread a loayes.)

/ at. lukewarm milk, water, or
mixture OF the tw cakes compress
ed yeast, or 3 C lukewarm milk, wa
ter, or a mixture OF the two; ! G liq-
uid yeast or yeast cake; 11-2 I
salt; Ia c sugar; Fat, IL used, Ia c
pr less; 3 qts sifted -four.
Original bulk OF dough. 2 quarts;
~ when ready to be made into
ioayes, FIVE or six quarts. Boil the
water or scald the milk. Put the
sugar and salt land fat If used) into
a mixing bowl Pour the hot liquid
4 over IL and allow II to become luke
warm, mix the yeast with q little OF
the lukewarm liquid. II convenient,
set this aside In a warm place, not
over SO degrees Fahrenheit, for one
hour. IL not convenient TO set IL
aside, add the -four at once. putting
in a little at time and kneading un-
III the dough is OF such consistency
that Il sticks neither to the bowl nor
10 the hands. This requires about 10
minutes. Cover, let rise / "a hours
at a temperature OF sc degrees Fab
renheit. il may be better TO set 1t at
a lower temperature. but the lower
the temperature the longer the time
required for the rising. Cut down the
dough from the sides of the bowl
Knead a little and set aside to rise
again for one hour. With good
bread -four, the dough would treble Its
bulk in each rising; with soft wheat
flour, Il would not rise beyond twice
its volume. Divide into portions,
mold, and place in creased pans Of
standard size. Allow =. rise until a
light touch will make slight dent.
With good bread -four this happens
when the dough reaches the top of
she pans. Bake so inutes.
Sweet Potato Croquettes.
Six medium-sized sweet potatoes;
egg; T butter. r milk / salt
Scrub the potatoes. If they are
scraped or peeled, drop at once into
cold water to prevent discoloration.
Boil, drain and put through coland-
er. Add the butter, milk, and salt.
Beat the egg and stir into the mix
,ture. Form into croquettes. Dip in
to dried bread crumbs. then into the
\ beaten egg, to which no been addel
two tablespoons OF milk or water.
then back into the bread cyumbs.
Bake IN buttered pan until nicely
Drowned Serve with White Sauce or
Cream Sauce, Nuts may be added 10
these croquettes. almonds preferred.
Sweet Potatoes and Apples.
Boil sweet potatoes as directed; /;
slice the long way of the potato. Make
alternate layers OF sliced apples and
sweet potatoes, sprinkling 2 T OF
brown sugar and / butter cut In
small pieces on each layer Pour over
this when the pan Is filled, IA c wa
ter, and bake until apples are done,
Atnu the top u htllNaNt
Potato and Pea Salad.
8 medium-slzed potatoes; 11-2 G
canned peas.
Make potato balls from potatoes
with a vegetable cutter. Boil until
tender, drain. and cool. Cover peas
and potato balls with salad dressing.
Arrange on lettuce leaves and add
mayonnaIse or boiled salad dressing.
Potato Sayory.
pt. sliced potatoes, IL small on
ion: T butter; / G water; liz I
salt.
Peel and slice the onion in the bot
tom of buttered pan, add the pota-
toes sprinkle with sale, and pour tho
hot water over ALL Bake in a slow
oven iva hors or more,
Potato Stufiing for Fowl.
2 c hot mashed potatoes; ia G
bread crumbs; 1-3 C butter or oleo;
1.egg; { salt; ] sage; finely chop
ped onion.
Add to tho potatoes the other I'm
gredients in order in which they arc
given.
tNOTE-In all OF these recipes all
measures are level and T equals ta-
hlespoon. equals teaspoon. eauala
cup. Z r. equals few grains. Z. d
equals few drops)
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