Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-04-24
Kitchen Hints
Tempting Menus

Quick breads are always nice to
serve with afternoon tea. All wo-
men like them and they are much
nicer to offer to guests than elabor-
ate filled sandwiches or sweet rich
cakes.
Graham -four or bran makes a
bread that will be welcomed by the
woman who would "eat and grow
thin" She may enjoy her cup of
tea with lemon and q brown bread
sandwich at 4 in the afternoon and
not worry over added ounces.
Bran Bread
One cup whole wheat -four, 2
cups bran. 1 cup sour milk, 1-2 cup
molasses, 1-2 cup nuts. 1-2 cup of
chopped prunes, 1-2 teaspoon soda,
1-2 teaspoon salt.
Soak prunes two hours in cold wa
ter. Drain and remove stones. Cut
In small pieces. Mix flour. add no.
lasses. salt, nuts and prunes. Dis
solve soda in milk and stir into
first mixture.
Turn into a buttered and Toured
bread pan and bake an hour In a
slow wen. If wanted for sand
wiches bake the day before needed.
Nut Bread
Four cups flour. 1-2 cup sugar. s
teaspoons baking powder, 1 IL tea
spoons salt, 1 cup nuts, 1 2-3 cups
sweet milk. 1 egg, IA cup finely
shredded crystallized ginger.
Mix dry ingredients. Add nuts
broken in small pieces and shredded
ginger. Add milk and egg well
beaten. Bake In a buttered and
Toured bread pan. Let the dough
rise for 20 minutes before putting
It In the e
Bake half an hour in a hot oven.
English walnuts, hickory nuts or
pecans should be used.
Brown Bread
Two eggs, 1 teaspoon salt. 1-2 cup
granulated sugar. IL cup molasses.
8 cups graham -four, 1 IL cups Of
white flour, 2 cups buttermilk or
sour milk, 2 teaspoons soda, / cup
seeded raisins.
Beat eggs we'll. Add salt, sugar
and molasses and mix thoroughly.
Stir in white -four. Add one cup
sour milk and half the graham -four
Dissolve soda in remaining milk and
add to mixture. Add the rest OF the
-four.
Mix thoroughly and scrape mix
ture from mixing spoon. Be sue
the mixture is perfectly blended.
Stir in raisins. Turn into a but
tered and Toured bread pan and
bake an hour in a hot oven. This
bread should be baked at least six
hours before attempting to make
into sandwiches.
Pound baking powder cans make
very good round tins for sandwich
bread. Don't fill the cans more
than half full of the dough.
Date Bread
One and one-half cups cornmeal,
1 1-2 cups graham -four. 5 teaspoons
baking powder. Ia teaspoon soda, 1
teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons brown
sugar, 3 tablespoons molasses. 1 IL
cups milk. 3-4 cup chopped dates.
Mix dry ingredients. Add molasses.
milk and dates. Mix thoroughly
and turn into buttered and Toured
bread pans. Bake an hour in q hot
oven.
Copyright, 1922. N. E. A.
respective homes.
The songs. yells and the huge
gathering at the Central Railroad
station yesterday afternoon, proved
to be nothing more than the going
away of Thomas and Joseph Meach-
am and John Vail. who have been
spending the Easter vacation at the
home of their parents in this city
The news that the boys were to
leave for Holy Cross College. Wor-
cester, Mass. brought out a large
number of their friends and for
mer classmates, who celebrated the
occasion in an unusual manner.
Daniel X. Salmon. Thomas Nc
Cabe and Clarence Wortley motored
to the home Of friends at Old Bridge
yesterday.
Francis Kuhn motored to the
home of friends at Railway yester-
day.
The Ladies' Auxiliary Of Luke A.
Lovely Post. No. 62. American Le-
gion, will meet tonight in the Legion
rooms on Da yid street.