The international cook book

% cup milk 4 teaspoons baking powder 4 tablespoons shortening >^ cup broken nut meats Mix and sift dr\' ingredients. Cut in shortening. Add the Tnilk gradually to form soft dough. RoU thin, spread with one- third cup creamed butter and three-fourths cup brown sugar. Cover v^nth nut meats. RoU like a jelly roll. Cut into pieces one inch thick and put in greased muffin pans cut side up and bake fifteen minutes in hot oven (400° F.). Cheese Biscuits 2 cups flour 4 teaspoons baking powder I teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons shortening ^ cup milk y^ poiind American Cheese (grated) Sift flour, salt, and baking powder together. Add cheese. Cut in shortening, add milk to make a soft dough. Turn onto floured moulding board, roll out to one inch thickness. Cut with biscuit cutter. Bake on greased baking sheet in hot oven (400° F.) fifteen to twenty minutes. I04 THE INTERNATIONAL COOK BOOK Cinnamon Pin Wheels 2 cups flour 3 tablespoons shortening 1 teaspoon salt 4 teaspoons baking powder 2 tablespoons sugar ^ cup millc Mix the dry ingredients. Cut in the shortening. Add milk and mix thoroughly. Turn out onto floured moulding board. Roll dough to one-eighth inch thickness. Brush with melted butter. Sprinkle with sugar which has been mixed with cinna- mon. Roll like a jelly roll. Cut into one-inch pieces. Place cut side on greased baking sheet. Bake in hot oven (400° F.) for fifteen to twenty minutes. Baking-Powder Coffee Cake 2 cups flour y2 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons sugar 4 teaspoons baking powder 4 tablespoons shortening ^ cup milk I egg (weU beaten) i teaspoon vanilla Mix and sift the dry ingredients. Cut in shortening and add the vanilla, egg, and the milk to make a soft dough. Place in a well-greased pan. Sprinkle with mixed sugar and cirmamon and dot with butter. Bake twenty-five minutes in moderate oven (375° F.). Tea Biscuit Filled with Lobster 2 cups flour I teaspoon salt 4 teaspoons baking powder 3 tablespoons shortening y^ cup rmlk Mix and sift flour, baking powder, and salt. Cut in shorten- ing. Add liquid. Mix thoroughly and tium onto floured mould- ing board. Pat to one-half inch thickness. Bake on greased baking sheet fifteen minutes in hot oven (400° F.). When done, while hot, cut center from top of biscuit. Fill center with lobster salad. Return crust to biscuit and serve at once- cJonieiliing ^1 lew jor Cy^Jreakjasi Odds ill Cytjacon I Icsis RECIPES 105 Tea Dainties, No. 1 2 cups flour }4 cup walnuts (chopped) 2 tablespoons sugar 4 tablesf>oons shortening 1 teaspoon salt ^ cup milk 4 teaspoons baking powder 20 marshmallows K cup stoned dates Sift the flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder together. Cut in the shortening. Add the milk gradually, forming soft dough. Place a teaspoon of dough in small greased muffin tins, then a marshmallow; then a stoned date, and lastly a few walnut meats. Cover with another spoonftil of dough and bake in a hot oven (400° F.) for fifteen minutes. While hot, ice with confectioners' sugar icing. Tea Dainties, No. 2 2 cups flour }i cup walnuts (chopped) 2 tablespoons sugar 4 tablespoons shortening I teaspoon salt ^ cup milk 4 teaspoons baking powder 10 apricots