Cooking with wholegrains

Cream shortening, add sugar, mix and beat until smooth. Add applesauce and mix thoroughly. Sift wheat flour, measure, add soda and spices and sift into batter. Pour raisins on top of meal, mix all together and beat for 2 minutes. Bake in greased and wheat floured loaf cake pan for 35 to 40 minutes at 350°. This recipe may also be baked as cupcakes. Old English Drop Cookies I CUP BROWN SUGAR 6 TEASPOON SODA 4 CUP SHORTENING 34 TEASPOON BAKING POWDER I EGG 34 TEASPOON SALT V4 CUP COLD COFFEE I CUP WHEAT FLOUR V4 TEASPOON CINNAMON I CUP RAISINS 4 TEASPOON NUTMEG 14 CUP NUTS IF DESIRED . Mix in order given, beating egg into shortening and sugar mixture. Sift the wheat meal after measuring. Beat all together for one minute. Drop by spoonfuls on greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375° for 10 to 15 minutes. Green Mountain Hermits 2 CUPS CORN MEAL 14 TEASPOON SODA Y{CuUP BUTTER 34 TEASPOON SALT Y{ cup LARD I TEASPOON CINNAMON 1144 CUPS BROWN SUGAR Vf TEASPOON CLOVES 2 EGGS lg CUP CHOPPED NUTS Cream butter and lard together; add brown sugar in small amounts at a time. Then add the beaten eggs and beat well. Conbine dry ingredients with the chopped nuts and add to first mixture, beating well. Drop by teaspoonfuls on greased pan. Bake at 375° until done. Cookies like these can’t hurt the kids, even if they raid the cookie jar and eat their fill. Oatmeal Cookies VY CUP HOT MILK I EGG, WELL BEATEN I CUP SCOTCH OATMEAL I CUP WHEAT FLOUR 4 CUP MELTED SHORTENING 114 TEASPOONS BAKING POWDER 34 CUP BROWN SUGAR 14 TEASPOON SALT 14 TEASPOON CINNAMON Pour hot milk over the oatmeal and add the hot shortening. Mis well and add the sugar, then the beaten egg. Sift the wheat flour, measure, add baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Sift into the batter, mix thoroughly and drop by spoonful: on a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375° for 10 to 15 minutes. One half cup of nuts and 4 cup of seedless raisins may be added if de sired or used for decoration. Apple Crunch 2 CUPS SLICED RAW APPLES 14 CUP SUGAR 4 CUP RAISINS OR DATES 14 TEASPOON SALT 14 CUP BUTTER OR OTHER SHORTEN- I CUP WHEAT FLOUR ING NUTMEG OR CINNAMON Put apples and other fruit in buttered casserole. Mix togethe butter, flour, salt and sugar. Spread on top of fruit and sprinkle with nutmeg or cinnamon. Bake 3o minutes at 400° and serve witl hard sauce or cream. Corn Meal Gingerbread I CUP CORN MEAL I CUP SOUR MILK OR BUTTERMILK 14 CUP WHEAT FLOUR 14 CUP MOLASSES Y TEASPOON SALT 4 TABLESPOONS SHORTENING I TEASPOON SODA I EGG I TEASPOON GINGER Heat the molasses; stir in the corn meal, shortening, salt and ginger; cool. Add the milk. Sift the wheat flour, measure, add soda and sift into batter. Add well beaten egg, then mix and beat thoroughly. Pour into a shallow baking pan and bake 25 to 30 minutes in a moderately hot oven. Serve with whipped cream. Corn Meal Mush Today (our grandmother used an iron kettle), we put three cups of cold water in the upper part of a double-boiler, add a scant teaspoon of salt and one cup of corn meal and stir together. Set the mush over the boiling water in the double boiler and let it cook for an hour or two. If you have one of those heavy waterless aluminum or copper cookers, they work very well for making mush. Let it simmer over the lowest possible heat and the mush will cook in twenty minutes or a half hour. Of course any leftover mush may be sliced and browned in butter in the frying pan and then eaten with butter and maple syrup or honey.