San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-20
Recipes for the Housewife

roll out to one-quarter of an inch
thickness. Dip a cookie cutter in
flour and cut the cookies. Bake on
Il buttered sheet or tin.
MAIDS OF HONOR.
IA Pound blanched almonds, chop
ped fine, IL cupful sugar, 2 table
spoonfuls shortening, egg, raspberry
jam.
Pastry. 81
Cut into one and one-half cupfuls
flour, one teaspoonful salt, onc-half
cup shortening. Mix with ice water
to hold. Roll, line shallow muffin
rings, place in the center of each a
teaspoonful of jam. Cream shorten
ing and sugar. Add almonds, egg well
beaten. Put teaspoonful Of mixture
over jam. Pit two narrow strips OF
pastry across top. Bake in hot oyea
fifteen minutes.
BAKED HAM
1 12-pound ham.
l teaspoon mustard.
l cup vinegar.
! cup brown sugar.
Whole cloves.
Plunge ham into boiling water for
ten minutes. Reduce the heat and
simmer for two hours. Then take
the ham from the water and remove
skin. Place in a rooster with the fat
side up and bake slowly one hour,
basting frequently with one cup OF
vinegar and one cup Of hot water in
which one level teaspoon Of dry must
ard has been dissolved. Rub the fat
surface with brown sugar and dot
over with whole cloves set about one
inch apart. Return ham to the oven
and without more basting bake until
tender.
VEAL LOAF.
One and one-half pounds chopped
veal, one ounce salt pork, one cup
riced potato, two teaspoons poultry
herbs, two teaspoons chopped parsley,
four ounces raw ham, two eggs, one
quarter cup cream, three teaspoons
salt, one-quarter teaspoon pepper. But
ter a bread tin. and have ready for
loaf. Chop the meats all together, add
the beaten eggs and then the potato
which has been mixed with the cream
and spices. Shape the mixture into
loaf and brush with melted butter
and sprinkle the top with bread
crumbs. Place in the pan and haste
with little brown stock. Bake
about three hours.
PRESSED CHICKEN
1 tablesoon graduated gelatin in
] tablespoon cold water
3-4 cup chicken broth
2 cups chicken chopped
IL cup evaporated milk
IL cup cream
Salt
Pepper
Soak gelatin in cold water and dis
solve in hot chicken broth: then add
the chopped chicken. Stir occasionally
until mixture begins to set and add
the evaporated milk and cream which
have been combined and whipped.
Press into a mold and set in a cold
place. Serve sliced in sandwiches or
as a luncheon or supper meat dish.
SWEETBREADS.
Place three tablespoons of trippings
in a frying pan. Have the sweet
breads parboiled and skinned. When
the fat is hot, add the sweetbreads and
brown. Then place in baking dish
and arrange sliced boiled carrots.
small onions, sliced green peppers, can
OF peas, and one cup OF diced potatoes
around the sweetbreads. Lay strips
of bacon on the vegetables. Add one
cup of liquid. cover and bake until
the vegetables are tender.
MAPLE NUT CAKE.
1-3 cup shortening.
cup light brown sugar.
2 eggs.
/ teaspoon vanilla extract.
IL cup milk.
11-2 cups flour.
Ia teaspoon salt.
2 teaspoons Royal Baking Pow
der.
1 cup chopped unexpectedly
pecans.
Cream shortening. add sugar, egg
yolks, flavoring and milk, and beat
well; add dry ingredients which have
been sifted together, and add chopped
nuts; mix in beaten egg whites. Bake
in CREASED loaf pan in moderate oven
30 to AZ minutes. Cover top with
maple icing. While still soft sprinkle
with chopped nuts.