The Institute cook book

Wheat cereals, like oatmeal, are best cooked by following the directions on the package. Most of them are greatly improved by the addition of a little milk or by a few chopped dates or whole sultana raisins. CORN-MEAL MUSH 1 cup com meal 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup cold water 1 pint boiling water Mis together the corn meal and salt and add the cold water gradually, stirring until smooth. Pour this mixture into the boiling water and cook in a double boiler from three to five hours. Serve hot with cream and sugar. FRIED MUSH Pour hot corn meal into a square dish that has been rinsed in cold water. When the mush is cold cut it into slices one half inch thick ; dust with flour and fry a delicate brown. Serve with syrup. Planned for a f^VDl? A T Q Fainilv of Four K/EjtSJlfJtMj^ Family of Four BOILED RICE 1/2 cup rice 2 quarts water 1 tablespoon salt Put the rice in a strainer; place the strainer over a bowl nearly full of cold water; rub the rice; lift the strainer from the bowl and change the water. Repeat the process until the water in the bowl is clear. Have the two quarts of water boiling briskly; add the rice and salt gradually so as not to check the ebullition; boil twenty minutes or until soft; drain through a colander and place the colander over boiling water for ten minutes to steam. Every grain will be distinct and tender. If desired, the rice may be brought to a boil in a little milk instead of being steamed, though in this case the grains may not remain separate. Serve as a vegetable with butter and salt, or as a cereal with cream and sugar. RICE IN MILK IV2 cups hot milk 1/2 cup rice Vi teaspoon salt Clean the rice as for boiling in water; and cook with the milk and salt, adding a few seeded or sultana raisins if desired. Serve hot like boiled rice or press into small cups, cool and serve with cream and sugar. FARINA 3 tablespoons farina 1 pint boiling water 1/2 teaspoon salt Cook the mixture in a double boiler for about one hour. HOMINY 1 cup hominy 2 tablespoons butter 2 quarts water 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons cream Get the unbroken hominy and after careful washing soak it twenty-four hours in the water. Cook slowly in the same water in a covered vessel for eight hours or until all the water has been absorbed by the hominy; add the butter, salt and cream and serve as a vegetable or as a cereal with sugar and cream. f~'T7"r)Tr A T O Planned lor a Ui:.KX!/AJLa FamUy of Four CANDY may or may not be "good for one," but every girl and woman likes to make it, and the home-made candies are usually more wholesome than those that are bought. FONDANT 2 cups granulated sugar 1 cup water 1/2 saltspoon cream of tartar