Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-27
Real Southern TASTES"
To Please Any Family

These are true southern MANN!
recipes with standard measurement.
given in place of Aunt Flo's pinct
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be found economical. as they call fol
inexpensive ingredients.
Mrs. Mildred A. Rees, from whose
collection of famous recipes, these
are selected, picked these up during
her travels in the south this last
winter. She is demonstrating cleo.
trio cookery this week at Contra
Maine Power Company Electric
Shop, and would be pleased to Learn
what success any local person has
trying these southern recipes, while
she is here.
Beaten Biscuits
2 cups -four, 1-3 cup of lard, 3D.
cup of sweet milk, l teaspoon salt
Make a stiff dough, beat with rolling
pin for half an hour, folding dough
over every few minutes. Roll out
thin. cut into biscuits, stick with
fork and bake in quick oven.
Candied Sweet Taters
2 Boil potatoes until tender, slice
and spread in a shallow pan, sprin-
kle with sugar, dots of butter and
marshmallows. Lemon juice may be
sprinkled on top for variety of flaw
or.
Golden Gems
IL cups of cornmeal. 1 cup of
flour, teaspoons baking powder, l
tablespoon lard, 1 well beaten egg,
cup Of sweet milk. Drop into each
section of gem pan a teaspoon of
any kind of jelly before putting in
the batter. Fill the gem tin one
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twenty minutes.
Stuffed Cabbage
/ medium sized cabbage, parboiled,
1 cup leftover ground meat, 1 cup
bread crumbs, moistened, 1 medium
sized onion, tablespoons chopped
parsley, / teaspoon thyme, IL tea
spoon salt, Is teaspoon pepper, /
tablespoon butter, melted. Select
round head of cabbage. Remove the
outer layers and steam or boil in
sailed water Gone pint water, one
half teaspoon SALTY for thirty min
utes. At this time the cabbage is
parboiled but not done. Invert and
drain. Then fold back the leaves
and fill between the leaves with the
other ingredients finely chopped and
blended. Tie the leaves back with
shoestring strips of bacon. Return
to steamer or saucepan and cook
until tender (about one hour. Serve
hot.
Fried Pies
Soak over night and stew until
tender dried apples, peaches or april
cots. Drain off all the juice, mash
well and sweeten. Roll pie crust Is
inch thick and cut circles three inch
es In diameter. On one of the circles
place a spoonful of the filling, hav-
ing a clear margin of the piecrust.
Moisten this edge all around, place
another circle on top and press the
edges firmly together. Fry in deep
lat like doughnuts,
Sweet 'tater puddin
Three well beaten eggs, u cup of
butter, u cup of sugar, u cup of
Jour. quarts of raw sweet potatoes
hat have been grated or put through
the meat grinder. Enough sweet
milk to make very moist batter.
FLAVOR with lemon, vanilla or nut
neg. Bake slowly in pudding dish
or two hours. Raisins may be add
"a and a meringue Drowned on top
after pudding is baked.
French Rice Pudding
u cups cooked rice. 2 cups milk,
eggs, l teaspoon f1avoring, "a cup
'aisins. Bake slowly for about As
minutes when set, and brown. Spread
aspberry jam over the top, and then
meringue. and brown.
Southern Meat Loaf
In lbs. hamburger, cups bread |
rumbs, Ia cups canned tomatoes.
Q cup canned pimentoes (chopped). |
medium sized onion (chopped). /
gg, salt and pepper to taste. Pour |
omatoes, pimentoes and beaten egg
yer bread crumbs, let stand while
mixing together hamburger, chopped |
MON and seasoning. Beat first mix |
ure with silver fork, add to ham,
urger and bake in creased loaf pan
bout one hour at 375 degrees.
Handy Biscuits
at. milk scalded and cooled. add
cup mashed potato, l cup sugar.
cup lard, cake compressed yeast.
lssoived In " cup warm water. 3
Gaping teaspoons baking powder.
nough flour to make soft batter
ct In warm place until light then
40 teaspoons salt and flour as
ng as can be stirred I'M with mix-
g spoon, set in warm place to rise
hen light put flour on bread board
ID work enough into above mix
re 10 make soft dough as for bak-
powder biscuits. Grease large
ocK' place dough in it, turning so
70 grease all over and not form
ust. Place in refrigerator and
nen you want biscuit, cut off piece.
II out II inch thick. cut with bis
pc cutter. place in creased pan