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The Memorial Hall cook book

1919

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Presented as published in 1919. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
One-quarter cup butter, beaten to a cream; V2 cup sugar, grad- ually beaten into butter; 2 eggs beaten, add another % cup sugar. Beat eggs into the butter mixture. Add the grated rind and juice of % an orange, then % cup of milk and 1% cups of sifted flour, sifted again with 3 level tsps. of Rumford baking powder✪ Orange Cake. (2 layers.) — Mrs. L. F. Pearson. Doughnuts One cup granulated sugar, 2 tblsps. melted lard, 2 eggs, % tsp. salt, 1 cup milk, 2 tsps. Rumford baking powder, 2 tsps. vanilla, about three cups flour✪ Doughnuts. Drop from spoon into very hot lard and turn often to thoroughly cook. Roll in granulated sugar mixed with cinnamon. This is a rather stiff dough.— Mrs. E. S. Roberts. Cheese Fingers Roll pastry V& inch thick; cut into strips 4 inches long and 1 inch wide. Bake in hot oven, spread with soft cheese✪ Cheese Fingers and put together in pairs.— Mrs. John R. Howarth. 121 UNCLASSIFIED RECIPES Canned String Beans Two qts. beans, 1 qt. water, V± cup vinegar, 1 tspn. salt✪ Canned String Beans. Boil 20 minutes and seal while hot. — Mrs. John F. W. To Cook Rice In cooking rice do not put it into double boiler and cook slowly into a pasty mass, but after cleansing it throw it into rapidly boiling water, salted, and keep it boiling furiously for thirty minutes. Drain in a colander and place in the oven a few minutes. — Mrs. H. R. Johnson. Cocoa Syrup Dissolve 2 cups of sugar in 2 cups of water and boil 5 minutes. Mix 1 cup of cocoa with hot water to make a paste and add to the boiling water and sugar. Boil slowly 10 minutes and add % teaspoon salt✪ Cocoa Syrup. Cool, bottle and keep in the refrigerator or cool place. One teaspoon of this syrup to a cup of hot milk or boiling water will make a rich cup of cocoa instantly or added to iced milk or water will make a delicious summer drink. — Mrs. George W. Hellings. "Luncheon Special" Sandwich One slice of bread, buttered, 2 slices of tomato, 2 slices of bacon. Cover this with grated cheese✪ Luncheon Special Sandwich and bake in a hot oven until bread is toasted, tomato cooked and cheese melted. Serve hot. — Mabel Hal- deman. Marguerites Boil together 1 cup sugar, and % cup water. Remove from fire when thick enough to form a ball in cold water. Stir into the beaten white of an egg, and, still stirring, add about 1 cupful of rolled or chopped peanuts✪ Marguerites, and beat until creamy enough to spread on small sweet crackers. If filling gets hard too quickly, set dish in hot water. — Bertha Haldeman. Tea Punch Pour 1 qt. boiling water over 4 teaspoonfuls good tea. Cover, and leave 5 minutes, then strain and cool. Half fill a bowl with cracked ice, add 1 cup sugar, and juice of 4 lemons. Pour tea over this, add V2 pt. water and a little mint✪ Tea Punch. — Mrs. A. B. Stevenson. Orange Frost Grated rind of one orange, % tsp. lemon juice, 1 tblsp. orange juice, let stand 15 minutes, strain; beat 1 egg yolk, add fruit juice and confectioners' sugar✪ Orange Frost, then sugar to spread. — 'Mrs. L. F. Pearson. Pudding Two eggs, 1 cup milk, % tsp. salt, 1 tblsp. butter, \xk cups flour, 1 tsp. Rumford baking powder, pinch of salt✪ Pudding. Mix in order given, turn into shallow pan, put fruit over top, press in and sprinkle with tblsp. of sugar. Bake thirty minutes in moderate oven. Serve hot with sugar and cream. — Mrs. Raymond Slight. 122 J. DYRE MOVER, York Road, Willow Grove All kinds of Lumber, Building Material, Coal and Feed — Bell Phone, 1 03 Suabian Dumplings ✪ Suabian Dumplings