FoodNet

The junior cook book

1920

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Presented as published in 1920. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Put all together in a salad bowl. If vegetables have been properly seasoned in cooking no salt will be needed. If in doubt add 1/2 teaspoonful salt as cold vegetables need to be well seasoned. Measure out 3 tablespoonsful vinegar, 3 tablespoonsful vegetable oilString Bean and Carrot Salad and Pour both over the vegetables. With a fork, toss together till everj^ piece is shiny with oil. Cover tightly (the onion will make careful covering necessary) and set in a cold place till mealtime. There should be more than an hour for chilling. At mealtime, toss salad together again, gar- nish with a bit of lettuce around the edge of the bowd and serve very cold. 143 SLICED APPLE SALAD Wash 1 head of lettuce. Pick the leaves apart and wash again. Drain and wrap up in a cloth. Put in the ice box or in a cool place till needed. Scrub 2 bright red apples. Crack and pick over 6 English walnuts. (Hickory nuts or wild walnuts may be used if you have some.) Put 1 tablespoonful of lemon juice or the same amount of mild vinegar, 2 tablespoonsful of vegetable oil, y^ teaspoonful salt, 14 teaspoonful of paprikaSliced Apple Salad into a small bowl and mix well ; set in a cool place till ready for serving. Just before the meal is ready, core the apples with a corer and slice them into thin slices. Be sure that the red rind stays on each piece. Arrange the lettuce neatly on salad plates. Lay three slices of apple on each plate on top of the lettuce. Put 2 halves of nut on top of apple on each plate. 145 SLICED APPLE SALAD With a spoon mix the dressing well. Dip 2 teaspoonsful of dressing over each plateful of salad, being sure that it is well spread over, so that every bit of apple is sea- soned. Serve at once with crisp wafers. This amount will serve 6 people. 147 DESSERTS PLAIN CAKE WITH ICINa Put into a mixing bowl 1 egg (white and yellow both), 1 cupful sugar, 1 teaspoonful vanilla flavoring, l^ cupful butter substitute. Beat till it looks like smooth cream. The success of any cake largely depends on the care and thoroness of this beating. When smooth and creamy add 1 cupful milk. Sift together 2 cupsful flour and 4 level tea- spoonsful baking powder. Sift these two ingre- dients twice so they may be well mixed. Add flour and baking powder to the contents of the bowl. Beat till all lumps are goiie. Pour into cake pans that have been made ready. (This cake makes two layers or may be made into one large, thick cake as desired. To prepare cake pans, grease the pans carefully. Line bottoms with paper cut to fit and grease again. (See directions under brown bread.) Bake 25 minutes if made in 2 layers; 30 minutes if baked in 1 layer. Before taking 151 PLAIN CAKE WITH ICING from the oven, tap the top of the cake with the finger. If the cake is done, the crust will spring right back into place without leaving any finger prints. If a finger print is left, the cake needs to bake longer. Take from the oven, run a small spatula around the edge of the pan; turn upside down over a wire cake rack, and the cake will drop out of the pan. When cool, ice with a white icing made by creaming together 11/2 cupsful confectioner's sugar, 3 tablespoonsful butter, 1 teaspoonful vanilla or almond flavoring, 2 teaspoonsful cream. If chocolate icing is desired, add 1 square of melted chocolate to the above. With chocolate use vanilla flavoring. Plain Cake with Icing