Foods that will win the war

4 cup bacon fat or drippings 3 teaspoons baking powder teaspoon salt eggs slices bread cup cold water Ne OO DD 1 cup milk Scald cornmeal with boiling water. Soak bread in cold water and milk. Separate yolks and whites of eggs. Beat each until light. Mix ingredients in order given, folding in whites of eggs last. Bake in buttered dish in hot oven 50 minutes. SPOON BREAD 2 cups water 4 cup Sweet pepper 1 cup milk 1 tablespoon fat 1 cup cornmeal 2 eggs 2 teaspoons salt ~ Mix water and cornmeal and bring to the boiling point and cook 5 minutes. Beat eggs well and add with other materials to the mush. Beat well and bake in a well-greased pan for 25 minutes in a hot oven. Serve from the same dish with a spoon. Serve with milk or syrup. CORNMEAL RAGGED ROBINS 14 cups cornmeal 14 eups milk 1 cup bread flour 24 teaspoons cream of tartar 14 teaspoons salt 4 tablespoons fat 14 teaspoons soda Sift dry ingredients. Cut in the fat. Add liquid and drop by spoonfuls on greased baking sheet. Bake in hot oven 12 to 15 minutes. These may be rolled and cut same as baking powder biscuits. INDIAN PUDDING 4 cups milk 1 teaspoon salt 4 cup cornmeal 1 teaspoon ginger 4 cup molasses 1 teaspoon allspice Cook milk and meal in a double boiler 20 minutes; add molasses, salt and ginger. Pour into greased pudding dish and bake two hours in a slow oven, or use fireless cooker. Serve with milk. This makes a good and nourishing dessert. Serves six. TAMALE PIE 2 cups cornmeal 1 onion 5 cups water (boiling) 2 cups tomatoes 2 tablespoons fat 2 cups cooked or raw meat cut 1 teaspoon salt in small pieces + cup green peppers To the cornmeal and 1 teaspoon salt, add boiling water. Cook onehalf hour. Brown onion in fat, add meat. Add salt, 4 teaspoon cayenne, the tomatoes and green peppers. Grease baking dish, put in layer of cornmeal mush, add seasoned meat, and cover with mush. Bake onehalf hour. EGGLESS CORN BREAD 1 cup cornmeal 1 cup milk 4 cup bread flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 3 tablespoons molasses 2 teaspoons salt 2 tablespoons fat Beat thoroughly. Bake in greased muffin pans 20 minutes. SWEET MILK CORN BREAD 2 cups cornmeal 2 tablespoons corn syrup 2 cups sweet milk (whole or 2 tablespoons fat skim ) 1 teaspoon salt 4 teaspoons baking powder 1 egg Mix dry ingredients. Add milk, well-beaten egg, and melted fat. Beat well. Bake in shallow pan for about 30 minutes. SOUR MILK CORN BREAD 2 cups cornmeal 2 tablespoons corn syrup or 2 cups sour milk molasses 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons fat 1 egg Mix dry ingredients. Add milk, egg and fat. Beat well. Bake in greased pan 20 minutes. THE USE OF OATS COOKED OATMEAL BREAD 3 cups thick cooked oatmeal 3 tablespoons molasses 2 tablespoons fat 14 cakes yeast 14 tablespoons salt 3 cup lukewarm water About 5 cups flour To oatmeal add the sugar, salt and fat. Mix the yeast cake with the lukewarm water, add it to the other materials and stir in the flour until the dough will not stick to the sides of the bowl. Knead until elastic, ten to fifteen minutes, moisten the top of the dough with a little water to prevent a hard crust forming, and set. to rise in a warm place. When double its bulk, knead again for a few minutes. Shape into loaves and put into greased pans. Let rise double in bulk and bake in a moderate oven for about 50 minutes. OATMEAL BREAD 2 cups rolled oats # cup lukewarm water 2 cups boiling water 1 tablespoon salt 4 cup molasses 2 tablespoons fat (melted) 1 yeast cake About 6 cups bread flour