The Germantown D. A. R. cook book

Pare, slice and weigh your cantaloupes, pack close in porcelain dish, and cover with vinegar. Allow them to stand over night. Remove fruit and add to the vinegar one-half pound of sugar for each pound of fruit. Put vinegar and sugar to boil and when it boils add the fruit cut in sections and a small quantity of stick cinnamon, a few whole cloves and a little mace. Allow to boil until you can run a broom straw through the fruit. " At first they ate the white puddings And syne they ate the black," — Childs Ballads STEAMED APPLE PUDDING— Annie True Two cups of flour, one-half cup suet chopped fine, one teaspoonful heaping baking powder, one-half teaspoonful salt, one tablespoonful sugar. Mix with milk or cold water to right consistency. Add four good sized apples, pared and sliced. Put in greased steamer and steam two hours. ' 'To make a faultless johnny-cake you must be black, you must be fat, you must be a pampered slave and a doting despot, and even so your secret shall be buried with you. You can never teach the world how to make a johnny-cake, because you never learned; you were born so." Palmer — "After his kind.''* JOHNNY-CAKE Two cups corn meal, one cup flour, two cups milk, one egg, two tablespoonsful baking powder, a little ginger and salt. Contributed by Mrs. Edward P. McCormick MUSTER DAY GINGER BREAD One and one-half cups of molasses, one-half cup sweet milk, six tablespoonsful of shortening, one teaspoonful saleratus, one ginger, pinch of salt, flour enough to roll out. Brush over with white of egg when baked. Used at all " Training Days." TOGUS SPRING BROWN BREAD One cup molasses, one teaspoonful soda dissolved in hot water, two cups thick sour milk, one cup sweet milk, two cups of Indian meal, one cup of flour, one teaspoonful of salt. Steam three hours. Bake one-half hour. Much better than the traditional Boston loaf. " This the best crop from thy land, a heritage it seems to me." — Lowell BOSTON BAKED BEANS (Unsweetened) One pint small white pea beans, parboil until the skin splits when blown upon. Put a teaspoonful of soda in the beans, rinse all the water off carefully. Place in a crock or bean pot, three-quarter pound of salt pork. Cover with beans, fill up with water and bake all day in a slow oven. << A cake that seemed mosaic work in spices." — Aldrich "RIZ" CAKE Three-quarters cup of butter creamed, two and one-half cups of sugar, three eggs, one cup thick sour milk, one-half cup sweet milk, one-half teaspoonful soda dissolved in hot water, three cups of flour, one pound raisins, one-quarter pound citron, one-half nutmeg, one large teaspoonful cinnamon. Let it stand in bread pans one hour in warm place. Bake in bread oven. An improvement on fruit cake because you can eat all you want. I've often formed a resolution to break the ice and rattle away at any rate. — Goldsmith I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon. — Goldsmith LEMON ICE CREAM