Delta Gamma cook book

Sift together, one and one-fourth cups white flour, three-fourths cup corn meal, two teaspoons baking powder, one-half teaspoon salt, one tablespoon sugar. Cut in two tablespoons butter as in pastry. Add one beaten egg to one-half cup milk and turn into the dry ingredients, making a soft dough that can be handled. Add more milk if necessary. Turn on to a floured board, toss lightly and roll out, cut one-half inch thick with biscuit cutter. Put bits of butter in center of each and fold opposite edges to meet in center. Brush top with milk and bake in quick oven fifteen minutes. Helen Berkman Judd (Lambda). Penny Rolls Pour two cups boiling water over 2 tablespoons lard 1 teaspoon salt Yi cup sugar When cool add one compressed yeast cake and one egg, well beaten. Make as stiff with flour as you can stir with a spoon. When twice its bulk, make into small balls and raise in muffin pans. When very light bake seven minutes in hot oven. This can be kept in cold place in winter or in ice chest in summer and made into rolls and raised and baked as desired. Elsie Irvine Sovereign (Sigma). Potato Rolls 1 cup flour 1 cup milk 1 cup mashed potatoes Yi cup sugar ^ cup lard 2 well beaten eggs pinch of salt 1 cake compressed yeast, dissolved in Y cup lukewarm water Mix flour, lard, potatoes, sugar, salt. Add eggs, then milk and, lastly, yeast. Let it rise for two hours. Make into soft dough by adding about one quart of flour and set to rise again. Roll thin, spread with softened butter. Cut with small cutter. Place two rounds together, one on top of the other. Bake in quick oven. Martha Dever Moulton (Lambda). Tea Rolls 2 quarts sifted flour 1 cake compressed yeast, dissolved in lukewarm milk 1 heaping teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons powdered sugar % cup butter lukewarm milk enough to make a moderately stiff dough Set to rise about two p. m. When well risen, make into rolls and set them to rise. Bake in quick oven from twenty minutes to one-half hour. If wanted for breakfast, set over night with one-half cake yeast. Leonora Mann (Lambda). Zweiback In the evening cook two good sized potatoes to make one pint of potato water, using potato and all. When cool add two heaping tablespoons of sugar and a cake of Fleischman's yeast (dissolved). Let stand over night in a warm place. Next morning add: 1 cup milk Yi teaspoon soda (dissolved in water) Yi pound butter 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon salt 2 well beaten eggs Add flour to make a soft dough, let rise until double its size, knead into loaves and let rise again until double its size. Bake in hot oven one hour. When baked and cool, cut into slices and bake to a golden brown. Pearl McDonnell (Beta). Biscuits Baking Powder Biscuits 2 teacups flour 2 rounding tablespoons lard, rubbed into flour Y2 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking powder sweet milk, to make a soft dough Mix with a spoon. Bake quickly. Helen LesHe (Omega). Cheese Biscuit 2 cups flour 4 level teaspoons baking powder }/i teaspoon salt paprika to suit 2 tablespoons butter 1 cup milk 1 cup grated New York cheese Bake about twenty-five minutes. These are nice with salads or for Sunday night lunch. Julia B. Gould (Lambda Nu). Egg Biscuits