Evening star., 1932-07-25
There Are Ways and Then Ways of
Simplifying Summer Menus
BY EDITH nj. BARBER.

in the refrigerator to chill. Then mix
the cookie dough, and by the time the
cake Is out Of the oven, the first pan
full of cookies will be ready to put in
to bake. These recipes are:
Sp1ced Cookies - Three tablespoons
fat. quarters cup brown sugar, one
egg, one-quarter cup sour milk, one cup
flour. one-third teaspoon salt, one-half
teaspoon cinnamon, one-quarter tea
spoon nutmeg, one-quarter teaspoon
soda, one cup raisins, one cup oatmeal
or nuts, one-half teaspoon cloves.
Cream the fat, add the sugar gradually
and the eggs well beaten. Mix and sift
the dry ingredients and mix these with
the chopped raisins and nuts or oat-
meal, and add to the first ingredients
alternately with the milk. Drop by
spoonful onto creased baking sheet
and bake in moderate oven (375 de-
grees Fahrenheib 10 to IS minutes.
Applesauce Cake-One and three
quarter cups sifted cake flour. one-half
cup butter or other shortening, one CUP
sugar, one teaspoon cinnamon. one cup
currantS or nuts, cut fine, Toured; one
quarter teaspoon salt one teaspoon
soda, one egg well beaten, one cup rais-
ins, cut fine, foured; one-half teaspoon
cloves, one cup hot, thick applesauce
strained. Sift flour once, measure, add
soda, salt, cinnamon and cloves. and
Sift together three times. Cream Short
ening thoroughly, add sugar gradually
and cream together until light and
fluffy. Add egg, raisins, currants or
nuts to creamed mixture. Then add
flour mixture alternately with apple
sauce, small amount at a time. Beat
after addition until smooth. Bake in
creased loaf or tube pan in moderate
oven $3.50 degrees Fahrenheit) one
hour. May be served frosted or un-
frosted
While the cookies are baking, mix
the devils food cake batter and put it
IN the refrigerator to stay until the
next morning, when it can be baked
and will be fresh for dinner. This cake
like the appleSauce cake, keeps we'll. so
that if any is left over it can be used
early in the week, but there is nothing
like fresh chocolate cake to serve as
dessert The applesauce cake. which
is not to be frosted. really improves by
keeping.
After the cookies are baked. the
pastry for the tarts should be rolled and
baked. Fresh raspberries and whipped
cream are used to fill them at dinner
time There will be enough pastry for
another dessert later in the week.
In the interval of getting a simple
lunch the vegetables for dinner should
be prepared and two kinds of salad
dressing, special and French, may be
mixed.
Nothing more need be done until an
hour before dinner, when the ham will
be spread with brown sugar and baked
for an hour. The potatoes will bake at
the same time, the squash will cook in
IS minutes on top Of the stove, ana the
salad can be prepared in few minutes.
On Saturday morning there will be
vegetables for dinner, jellied salad for
Sundays lunch to prepare, the broilers
to get ready and the devils food to
bake. For lunch, crab salad from
canned or fresh crab meat will be
quickly made. For dinner a meat which
may be cooked quickly should be
chosen, unless you prefer to serve the
cold ham. The potatoes which were
baked the day before can be diced and
stewed with milk while the steak is
cooking The beans will cook in half
an hour. The cake, frosted with I'M
cooked fudge frosting, will be the des-
! sert.
Sunday, with the meal planned. will
take comparatively little time with the
preparation previously made, and the
ice cream ordered. Friday afternoon
Saturday afternoon and most of Sun
day can be fairly free for the house
keeper who, however, If she likes to give
the family homemade foods, must de-
vote some hours to it, no matter how
eficiently she plans.
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