Sand Tarts
2 lbs. light brown sugar 3/4 lb. b.u.t.ter 2 lbs. flour 3 eggs
Milk enough to make a stiff dough. Roll very thin, cut out and brush over with beaten egg and milk mixed together. Put two or three blanched almonds on each tart and dust with cinnamon and sugar.
Bake in moderate oven.
Cheap Cake
2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon b.u.t.ter 4 cups flour 3 eggs 1 cup water 2 teaspoons baking powder Flavor to taste
THE STATE OF WYOMING EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT CHEYENNE.
Dec. 22, 1914.
Editress Suffrage Cook Book:
After observing the operation of the women suffrage laws and full political rights in the state and territory of Wyoming for many years, I have no hesitation in saying that everything claimed by the advocates of such laws have been made good in the state. I am unqualifiedly and without reservation in favor of woman suffrage and equal political rights for women for all the states of the American union.
Very truly yours, JOSEPH M. CAREY.
Governor.
[Ill.u.s.tration]
Hermits
1 1/2 cups sugar 3/4 cup b.u.t.ter 3 tablespoons milk--sweet or sour 3 eggs--whites and yolks beaten separately 1 teaspoon soda 1 heaping teaspoon cinnamon 1 heaping teaspoon ginger 1 level teaspoon cloves 1 cup chopped seeded raisins 1 cup chopped nuts Even cup of flour
Drop on greased pan and bake.
Hermits
1 1/2 cups sugar 3 eggs 1 cup chopped walnuts or hickory nuts 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup b.u.t.ter 1 cup chopped raisins 1-3 cup sliced citron 1 teaspoon cloves 1/2 teaspoon soda
Dissolve soda in tablespoon hot water. Flour enough to make a stiff batter, drop in small cakes with teaspoon and bake in slow oven.
Cocoanut Cookies
1 cup b.u.t.ter 4 eggs 1 lemon--juice and rind 4 cups sugar 4 teaspoons baking powder 1 pound package grated cocoanut
Cream sugar with b.u.t.ter. Add the yolks of the 4 eggs and beat well. Add juice and rind of lemon. Then flour, into which has been sifted the baking powder. Sift flour and baking powder twice before adding to mixture. Use enough flour to make a very stiff batter, add cocoanut, and last, fold in the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth.
Drop on b.u.t.tered tins and bake in moderate oven.
PASTRIES, PIES, ETC.
Grape Fruit Pie
First bake a sh.e.l.l as for lemon pie, then make a filling as follows: Mix one tablespoon of cornstarch in a little cold water, and over this pour one cupful of boiling water. To this add the juice of two grapefruits, the grated rind and juice of one orange, the beaten yolks of two eggs, and the white of one, and a small piece of b.u.t.ter. Put all in the double boiler and cook until thick, stirring all the time. When done, put in the sh.e.l.l. Now beat up the white of the second egg with one-half a cupful of sugar until thick, and spread with a knife over the pie. Put in the oven and let brown lightly. Serve cold. This makes a delicious pie.
Spice Pie
The yolks of three eggs, one and one-half cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of cream, two tablespoons of flour, two-thirds of a cupful of b.u.t.ter, one teaspoon of spice, cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg.
Mix the flour and sugar together, then cream with the b.u.t.ter. Add the yolks of the eggs, beating thoroughly. Next add cream and spices. Use the whites for the frosting.
Cream Pie
1 1/2 cups milk 2 egg yolks 2 tablespoons sugar a little salt 1 tablespoon b.u.t.ter Vanilla to taste
Scald milk; beat eggs; add sugar; pour into milk, beating constantly, 1 tablespoon of cornstarch and 1 tablespoon flour (rounded).
Bake crust; beat whites; add 1 teaspoon sugar, cover with cocoanut browned lightly; now cover with whipped cream and cream nuts.
Pie Crust
One level cup of flour, one-half cup of lard, one-half teaspoon salt, one-fourth cup ice cold water, one teaspoon baking powder. Mix salt, baking powder and flour thoroughly, chop in the lard, add water. Use as little flour as possible when rolling out. This makes a light, crisp, flaky and delicious pie crust.
Pie for a Suffragist"s Doubting Husband
1 qt. milk human kindness 8 reasons: War White Slavery Child Labor 8,000,000 Working Women Bad Roads Poisonous Water Impure Food
Mix the crust with tact and velvet gloves, using no sarcasm, especially with the upper crust. Upper crusts must be handled with extreme care for they quickly sour if manipulated roughly.
Sigmund Spaeth, in his "Operatic Cook Book, in Life," gives this recipe for the making of the opera "Pagliacci."
Beat a large ba.s.s drum with the white of one clown. Then mix with a prologue and roll very thin. Fill with a circus just coming to town. One leer, one scowl and one tragical grin. Bake in a sob of Carusian size.
Result: the most toothsome of Italy"s pies.
Where is the man that can live without dining?
--Lytton.