The Aunts' Cook Book

1 tablespoonful melted butter enough rolled oats to form y^ cup sugar stiff batter. Beat egg, add sugar, butter, salt and oats. Drop from teaspoon far apart on greased pan and bake till brown. Oven about 375^ to 400^ Cinnamon Toast Butter hot toast rather thickly and spread with light brown sugar mixed with powdered cinnamon. Pop in the oven a moment and serve very hot. Orange Toast Make very thin crisp toast, butter and spread thinly with orange marmalade or orange jelly. 138 Tfa TabU Things Little Pasties Pastry 1 ^ cupsful lard 3 cupsful sifted pastry flour 1 ^ cupsful butter 1 teaspoonful salt 1^ cupsful water Put lard and flour into bowl (leaving out enough flour for rolling). Rub lightly together, add water with salt dissolved in it. Double and roll on board till a smooth paste is formed. Roll away from you into narrow, oblong piece. Cut J^ of the butter (it should be hard and cold) in tiny bits. Dot pastry with these, roll up and then roll out again into an oblong. Add butter again and then do the same a third time. Cut from end of roll and then roll out very thin. Roll two thin sheets of the pastry lightly together, cut into fancy shapes and bake in hot oven. When done, split apart and fill with jam, pate de fois gras or with caviar. All these tea things should be small. Use smallest gem-pans and cutters. Aunt Robbie's Sponge Cake Drops Whites of 3 eggs J^ cup flour J^ cup powdered sugar )/^ teaspoon salt Yolks of 2 eggs ^ teaspoon vanilla Beat whites of eggs until stiff and dry. Add sugar gradually and continue beating. Then add yolks of eggs beaten until thick and lemon-colored, and flavoring. Cut and fold in flour mixed and sifted with salt. Drop from tip of spoon on greased pan. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and bake 8 minutes in a moderate oven. Soften marsh-mallows in double boiler. Use for filling between two sponge-cake drops. Tea Table Things 139 Aunt Gertrude's Nut Cookies for Afternoon Tea 1 J^ cups of brown sugar 2 tablespoonsful flour 2 tablespoonsful butter 1 cup of chopped nuts legg Mix sugar and butter. Add egg, flour and nuts. Drop in teaspoonfuls on buttered pan. This spreads into flat cakes. Bake until done. Cool slightly before removing from pan. Aunt Gertrude's Mushroom Sandwiches Fry mushrooms in butter. Make a thick gravy after they are removed from pan by adding butter and flour and a cupful of white stock. Cut pieces of bread with round cutter the size of the mushrooms for each sandwich if they are convenient size. Spread bread slices with the sauce and put mushrooms between. Toast on both sides under broiler. Serve at once. Aunt Virginia's Tea Rusk 1 cup of sugar 1 cup butter 3 cups of milk 1 cup of yeast 2 egg, Warm butter and milk together. 140 Tea TabU Things Aunt Robbie's Egg Sandwiches Boil several eggs hard. Slice. Mix butter with salt, pepper and chopped parsley. Spread mixture on thin slices of bread and make sandwiches of the slices of egg. "I have sipped with drooping lashet, Dreamy draughts of Verzeney; I have flourished brandy mashes In the wildest sort of wav; I have joked with Tom and Jerry Till 'wee hours anent the twal* — But Fve found my tea the very Safest tipple of them all. James Whitcomh Riley **^ Xady Glenmire at last grew quite impatient, but it was a pretty kind of impatience after all; and she rang the bell rather sharply. MuUiner appeared in dignified surprise. *'0h!" said Mrs. Jamieson, "Lady Glenmire rang the bell; I believe it was for tea."