COMPILED BY 3auijlfti>rs of tl|e tKtttg gtujlta Aoetutr (Ehrisliati (Chwrrh THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES tn To al! who have so kindly contributed to the success of this little book, by their patronage, financial aid, and recipes, we extend thanks. Magnolia (Hook look Compiled by b,f Saunters of tfje King >. of the IHagnolta Au^nup CljriBttan Ollass Cor. 25th St. and Magnolia Ave. , QIaltfnrnta THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Table of Weights and Measures One pint of liquid Two cups granulated sugar Two and one-half cups powered sugar - Four cups of flour one quart Two heaped cups of butter One table-spoon butter Two table-spoons flour - Butter size of an egg Four table-spoons Two wineglasses Four gills Two pints Four'quarts one pound one pound one pound or one pound one pound one ounce one ounce two ounces one wineglass one gill one pint one quart one gallon "What shall I have for dinner? What shall I have for tea? An omelet, a chop or two, Or a savory fricasee? Dear! How I wish that Nature When she made her mighty plan, Hadn't given the task to woman To care for hungry man." THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Time Table for Cooking BAKING BREAD, CAKES AND PUDDINGS. Loaf bread 40 to 60 m. Rolls, Biscuit 10 to 20 m. Graham gems 20 m. Gingerbread 20 to 30 m. Sponge-cake 45 to 60 m. Plain cake 30 to 40 m. Fruit cake 2 to 3 hrs. Cookies 10 to 15 m. Bread pudding 1 hr. Rice and Tapioca 1 hr. Indian pudding 2 to 3 hrs. Plum pudding 2 to 3 hrs. Custards 15 to 20 m. Steamed brown-bread.. 3 hrs. Steamed puddings I to 3 hrs. Pie-crust about 30 m. Potatoes 30 to 45 m. Baked beans 6 to 8 hrs. Braised meat 3 to 4 hrs. Scalloped dishes 15 to 20 m. BAKING MEATS. Beef, sirloin, rare, per Ib 8 to 10 m. Beef, sirloin, well done per Ib 12 to 15 m. Beef, rolled rib or rump, per Ib 12 to 15 m. Beef, long or short fillet 20 to 30 m. Mutton, rare, per Ib.... 10m. Mutton, well done, per Ib 15 m. Lamb, well done, per Ib. 15 m. Veal, well done, per Ib. 20 m. Pork, well done, per Ib. . 30 m. Turkey, 10 Ibs. wt 3 hrs. Chickens, 3 to 4 Ibs. wt.l to 1% hrs. Goose, 8 Ibs 2 hrs. Tame duck 40 to 60 m. Game duck 30 to 40 m. Grouse, Pigeons 30 m. Small birds 15 to 20 m. Venison, per Ib 15 m. Fish, 6 to 8 Ibs.; long, thin fish 1 hr. Fish, 4 to 6 Ibs.; thick Halibut 1 hr. Fish, small 20 to 30 m. BOILING. Oatmeal, rolled 30 m. coarse, steamed 3 hrs. Rice, steamed 45 to 60 m. Rice, boiled 15 to 20 m. Wheat Granules 20 to 30 m. Eggs, soft boiled 3 to 6m. Eggs, hard boiled 15 to 20 m. Fish, long, whole, per Ib 6 to 10 m. Fish, cubical, per Ib. 15m. Clams, Oysters 3 to 5m. Beef, corned and a la mode 3 to 5 hrs. Veal. Mutton 2 to 3 hrs. Tongue 3 to 4 hrs. Ham 5 hrs. .20 lo 30 in. Sweetbreads .... Asparagus, Tomatoes, Peas 15 to 20 m. Macaroni, Potatoes, Spinach, Squash, Celery, Cauliflower, Greens 20 to 30 m. Cabbage, Eeets. young. 30 to 45 m. Parsnips, Turnips 30 to 45 m. Carrots, Onions, Sal- sify 30 to 60 m. Beans, String and Shelled 1 to 2 hrs. Puddings, 1 qt., stmd. . 3 hrs. Puddings, small 1 hr. BROILING. Steak, Steak, inch Small, s one inch thick. . one and a half thick thin fish 5 to 4 m. G m. 8 m. Thick fish 12 to 15 m. ^hono tiroil?d in paper. 8 to 10 m. Chickens 20 m. Liver, Tripe, Bacon.... 3 to 8m. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK JINGLES FOR THE COOK. "Mind the clock and we shall feel Quite refreshed from every meal. But if meats are late and hurried Every one feels cross and' worried. Cooking is an art they say, But for some it is but play. So we'll sing a merry rhyme And get our cooking done on time. On bread the staff of life we feed; To make it light we have to knead. Lobster sauce just fits your salmon; And mint sauce goes your roast lamb on; Few make it right, how few, alas, But, oh! 'tis good egg sauce with bass. Your oysters roll in cracker dust, And fry till brown this cracker crust. But when the stew or soup you make Be sure you milk, not water, take. Just shut your eyes to put in butter; The size might make your conscience flutter. Roast turkey few we'd have to tell How good it is with cranberry jell. Veal cutlets fry till crisp frogs legs, If you a luscious dish would make. Put honey on your buckwheat cakes. When beans are taken from the pot Let brown bread follow, piping hot. When beef you roast, have one spot rare; 'Tis easy done if watched with care. At ev'ry meal in ev'ry place Let kindest smile be on your face. The humblest dish we'll find is nice If love is freely used for spice." THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK "Give us this day our daily bread." Hygienic Bread. Mix together the flour of love, made from the whole kernel (giving the all-inclusive flavor and quality), the leaven of spirit, the salt of common sense, the water of life appreciated. Let this rise in the encouraging at- mosphere of patience. Knead and mold in the silence. Butter with cheerfulness and serve to the entire family. Compressed Yeast Bread. Use for 2 loaves of bread. 3 quarts of sifted flour, nearly a quart of warm water, a level lablespoon of salt, and an ounce of compressed yeast. Dissolve the yeast in a pint of lukewarm water, then stir into if enough flour to make a thick batter. Cover the bowl containing the batter, or sponge, and set in a warm place to rise. Now stir into this sponge the salt dis- solved in a little warm water, add the rest of the flour and sufficient warm water to make the dough stiff enough to knead; knead it from 5 to 10 minutes, and let raise again. When light divide into loaves, knead 8 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK into shape and put into greased baking tins; cover with a doubled thick cloth, set in a warm place again and when twice their height put in oven and bake. The dough should rise and begin to brown after about 15 minutes, but only slightly. Bake from 50 to 60 minutes and have it brown all over when well baked. Baking Powder Bread. Good for invalids. Three cups whole wheat flour, 1 cup white flour, 4 rounding teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon sugar, 2 l / cups sweet milk. Have batter thick enough to spoon, put in greased pans, cover and let raise 1/2 hour. Bake 1 or more hours in slow oven. Mrs. S. J. Chapman. Steamed Brown Bread. Two cups corn meal, 1 cup graham flour, I cup white flour, 1 cup molasses, 3 cups warm water, 3 level tea- spoonfuls soda, 1 level teaspoonful salt. Mixture very thin ; pour into 3 1-lb. cans and steam 1 hour. Mrs. W. J. Jeter. Brown Bread. Two cups graham flour, 2 cups corn meal, y z cup molasses, 2 cups sour milk, 1 teaspoonful soda, 1 tea- spoonful salt. Steam 2y 2 hours. Mrs. O. Stewart. Brown Bread. Three coups of graham flour, 1 cup sour milk. 1 tea- spoonful soda. 1 cup sorghum and a little salt. Steam 3 hours, then bake fifteen minutes. Excellent and eco- nomical. Try it. Mrs. Fielding. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Sweetened Brown Bread. One egg, l /2 cup sugar, y 2 cup melted shortening, 11/0 cups sour milk, y 2 teaspoonful salt, 1 level tea- spoonful soda, dissolved in hot water, iy 2 cups graham flour, % cup white flour, 1 heaping teaspoonful baking powder. Bake in loaf in slow oven 1 hour. Mrs. W. J. Jeter. Corn Bread. One and a half cups corn meal, 2 level teaspoonfuls baking powder, y 2 cup sugar, 1 cup milk, % cup white flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 egg, 1 heaping tablespoon lard. Beat egg and sugar together, sift meal, flour and salt, mix in lard, then add milk and bake. Mrs. Burford. Boston Brown Bread. One cup sour milk, 1 cup molasses, l 1 /^ cups graham flour, 1 egg, 1 heaping teaspoon soda dissolved in hot water, 1 cup sweet milk, 1 cup corn meal, 2-3 cup white flour, 1 small teaspoon salt. Mix milk, eggs and molasses, add salt and soda. Mix flour, corn meal and graham together in another dish and add to first mix- ture slowly, stirring thoroughly. Steam 2 hours and bake y 2 or % hour. Use large cup. Mrs. J. I. Countryman. Nut Bread. Four cups of flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 cup milk, 1 cup sugar, 6 teaspoons baking powder, 1 cup of English walnut meats, 2 eggs. Chop nut meats into small pieces and mix with dry ingredients. Add milk and well beaten eggs; put in 2 buttered bread pans and let stand 20 minutes; then bake as any raised bread. This recipe THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK makes 2 loaves. A part of the dough baked in gem pans is very desirable. This recipe will make 1 loaf and fill 9 or 10 gem pans. Either white or entire wheat flour can be used and found very nourishing. Mrs. M. V. Stickney. Nut Bread. One egg, 1 cup milk, 1 cup sugar, 2-3 cup nuts ..(be- fore chopping), a cupful flour, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder. Beat egg very light, add nut meats, sugar, flour and baking powder together. Let all stand in a greased pan 20 minutes. Then bake in moderate oven % to 1 hour. Covering the pan the first fifteen minutes, makes the bread shiny. Mrs. Gilmer. Nut Bread. Two cups milk, 1 egg well beaten, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup chopped English walnuts, 4 cups sifted flour, 4 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt. Mix well in order given, putting baking powder and salt into flour. This makes two loaves. Bake % hour. Mrs. G. A. Retter. Graham Nut Bread. Two cups graham flour, 2 cups white flour. 2-3 cup molasses, 1% cups sour milk, y teaspoon salt, 1 round- ing teaspoon soda, 1 cup walnuts. Bake 45 minutes in slow oven. Mrs. Morton Tyrrell. Nut Loaf. Two cups sour milk, y 2 cup sugar, y 2 cup molasses, 2 small teaspoons melted lard, 4 cups graham flour. 1 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK II cup English walnuts, chopped. Bake forty minutes in slow oven. This makes one large and one small loaf. Mrs. F. H. Jenness. Sandwich Bread. Three-quarters cup sugar, 2 cups sweet milk, 4 cups flour, 1 cup ground, walnuts, 2 eggs, l /2 teaspoon salt, 4 tablespoons baking powder. Mix well. Raise 20 minutes. Bake 1 hour. This is good with butter or peanut butter. Mrs. C. F. W. Palmer. Coffee Bread. One coffee cup bread yeast, 1 cup sugar, pinch of salt, 1 small pint sweet milk heated- a little, %. cup butter. Flour for soft dough. Set this at night. In the morning put in the pans to raise. Put melted but- ter, sugar and cinnamon on each cake. Bake about 20 minutes. Sprinkle with sugar after baked. Will make about four good sized cakes. Mrs. Countryman. Egg Corn Bread. One cup corn meal, 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder, sifted together, and add 1 cup sour milk and 1 egg. Beat thoroughly and bake in a buttered and floured pan. Mrs. McKnight. Corn Cake. Half cup corn meal, 1 cup milk ; scald milk and pour on corn meal. When cool add i/2 teaspoon salt, 1 tea- spoon sugar, 1 tablespoon melted butter and yolks of 2 eggs, lastly the whites beaten stiff. Bake 1/2 hour in slow oven. Mrs. S. J. Chapman. 12 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Bran Bread. Two cups bran, 1 cup whole wheat, 1% cups sweet milk, 1 tablespoon New Orleans molasses, 1 teaspoon baking powder, % teaspoon soda, % teaspoon salt. Bake % of an hour. Dr. Mary J. Green. Hot Breads Parker House Rolls. Three pints flour. 1 large tablespoon lard. Rub into flour with teaspoon salt. Then scald generous pint of milk with a small ^ cup of sugar, 2-3 cake of com- pressed yeast dissolved in % cup water. Add to milk when it is luke warm. Make a hole in flour and pour into it this mixture. Do this early in even in er and let stand till bedtime, stir down and let rise till morning. Then stir down again and let rise once more ; then put on board and roll about half an inch thick. Cut with biscuit cutter, spread with melted butter, fold over. Let rise till light, then bake. N. French Rolls. Two eggs beaten lightly; mix with them !/2 pint water, with 1 yeast cake, 1 desert spoon of sugar, 1 tablespoon salt, enough flour to make consistency of waffles. Make early in the morning, let stand until light, when light stir in enough flour to make dough and one tablespoon lard. Let rise again, when light roll and cut with biscuit cutter, lap over and put butter between. Let rise and then bake. Mrs. Carrie Smyer. Spanish Buns. ^rearo toother a /4 cup butter, 1 cup C sugar and yolks of 3 eggs. Then add % cup cold water, 1 cup flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon allspice, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, y 2 cup raisins. Cora U. Colt. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 13 Spanish Bun. Two cups granulated sugar, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 4 eggs, 2 teaspoons cloves, 5 teaspoons cinnamon, 1 cup milk, % cup butter. Cream butter, add sugar and beat till light (sift flour, baking powder and spices together), add eggs well beaten, then milk, lastly the flour. Icing : AVhites of 3 eggs, beaten very light, then add 1% cup granulated sugar, spread on cake while hot and return to oven to brown. Miss Hanvey. Fruit Rolls. Sift together 1 pint of flour, 2 slightly rounding tea- spoonfuls of baking powder, ^2 teaspoonful of salt. and 2 rounding tablespoonfuls of sugar. Add to these 2 rounding tablespoonfuls of butter, rub together un- til thoroughly mixed. Beat 1 egg. add to it V 2 cup of milk, mix with dry materials, knead lightly until a smooth dough, no longer. Roll out about 1-3 of an inch thick. Spreak butter carefully over the dough. Sprinkle sugar and a dusting of cinnamon over this and lastly ^ cup of raisins, chopped, a little finely chopped citron and % cup chopped walnuts. Roll from you into a compact roll, cut into slices half an inch thick. Place close together in pan. brush over with melted butter and bake in moderate oven 15 minutes. Mrs. W. J. Jeter. Cottonseed Flour Biscuit. One cup cottonseed flour, 1 cup wheat flour, 1 level teaspoon soda. 2 level teaspoons baking powder, 1 tablespoon sugar, 2 tablespoons lard, % cup butter- milk. Sift dry ingredients together. Cut in lard with a knife. Add milk slowly. Turn out on a floured board. Knead slightly. Roll out % inch thick. Cut with floured cutter. Note If it is not convenient to use sour milk, sweet milk may be used by using 4 teaspoons baking powder instead of both soda and baking powder. Cottonseed 14 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK flour is six times as nutritious as wheat flour and is good for all gastric troubles. Ola Thompson. Corn Meal Biscuits. One and a quarter cups flour, % cup corn meal. 4 teaspoons baking powder, l / 2 teaspoon salt, 1 table- spoon sugar, 1/2 tablespoon butter, 2 eggs, 3 /4 cup milk. Mix like biscuits. Mrs. Hege. Cream Date Biscuits. Two cups flour, 1 cup sweet cream, i/o teaspoonful salt (scant'). 1 rounding teaspoonful baking powder. Mix well, roll out thin and cut with biscuit cutter: now place a seeded date on half the biscuit, then fold over the other half and place a date on top : brush over the tops with cream and bake in quick oven. Mrs. W. J. Jeter. Bran Gems. Two cups bran, small teaspoon soda, small teaspoon baking powder, small teaspoon salt. 1 cup white flour, % cup molasses, y cup milk or water. Mix thorough- ly and bake in slow oven for 1 hour. Mrs. N. O. Anderson. Bran Gems. Two cups wheat bran, 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoonful soda, li/2 cups sour milk, *4 CU P shortening. 3 table- spoonfuls molasses. Ida B. Davison. Muffins. Two cups sifted flour. 2 slightly rounding teaspoon- fuls baking powder. i/> teaspoonful of salt. 2 rounding tablespoonfuls butter. 2 rounding tablespoonfuls sugar, 2 eggs, % cup sweet milk. Sift flour, salt, baking powder and sugar together, rub butter into them, then THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 15 add the milk ; add the eggs unbeaten, stir just long enough to mix. Bake in gem pans 15 minutes in quick oven. Mrs. W. J. Jeter. Muffins. Two cups flour. 4 teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 tea- spoon salt, 2 tablespoons of sugar, 1 cup milk, 2 table- spoons of melted butter, 1 egg. Sift flour, baking pow- der, salt and sugar together. Beat egg, add milk, then dry ingredients, adding melted butter last. Bake from 20 to 25 minutes. Muffins. One-fourth cup butter, 1/4 cup sugar, 1 egg, pinch of salt, % cup milk, 2% cups flour, 3 heaping teaspoons baking powder. Cream butter and sugar. Mix in yolk of egg, add milk, next sifted flour and baking powder. Fold in beaten white. This makes a stiff batter. Mrs. S. B. Snydef. Muffins. Two cups of flour. 1 cup sweet milk. 1 tablespoonf nl sugar, 1 tablespoonful butter, 1 tablespoonful lard. 2 eg^s, 2 teaspoonfuls- baking powder. Mrs. Hanvey. Muffins. Two cups of flour, 1 cup of sweet milk, 1/4 cup sugar. 1/2 teaspoon salt. 2 teaspoons baking powder. 1 egg. 1 tablespoon melted butter or cottolene. Bake in mod- erate oven. Mrs. O. P. Lockhart. Muffins. One tablespoonful of butter, 1 tablespoonful of sugar. 1 egg, 1 teaspoonful of baking powder, 1 cup of flour, 1/2 cup of sweet milk. Cream together butter and sugar, beat whole egg well and add. Stir in dash of 16 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK salt, the milk, and then the sifted flour, into which the baking powder has been mixed. Beat well, bake quickly. Mrs. J. M. Woodruff. ..Rice Muffins. Two and a quarter cups flour, % cup cooked rice, 3 teaspoons baking powder, y 2 teaspoon salt, 2 table- spoons sugar, 1 cup milk, 1 egg, 2 tablespoons melted butter. Mix flour, salt, baking powder and sngar. beat egg well and add y 2 CU P of milk, mixing remainder of milk with rice, and add slowly to flour, etc. ; beat well and add butter. Bake in gem pans 10 or 12 minutes. Miss Bartlett. Buttermilk Waffles. One pint flour, */> teaspoon baking powder, 1-3 tea- spoon salt. 1 egg well beaten, 1% cups buttermilk into which 1/2 teaspoon of soda has been stirred, y 2 table- spoon melted butter. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together. Beat the yolk and white of egg separately, add the yolk, buttermilk and melted but- ter, lastly the white beaten stiff. Ida B. Davison. Quick Waffles. One pint sweet milk, y 2 CU P butter melted, sifted flour to make a soft batter; add the beaten yolks of three eggs, then the beaten whites, and lastly (just before baking), two teaspoons baking powder, beating very hard and fast for a few minutes. Mrs. J. M. Woodruff. Wafflles. Sift together thoroughly 2 cups of flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder and 1 teaspoon of salt. Add 1 pint of milk or enough to make a good batter. Add 1 table- spoon melted butter and the yolks of 2 eggs. Add the well beaten whites of the 2 eggs last. Mrs. White. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 17 18 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK HOURS 1 TO 5 PHONES: F-7371 WEST 2939 DR. W. J. JETER OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN 516 O.T. JOHNSON BLDG. Los ANGELES SANTO VACUUM CLEANER Rented at $2 per PAUL L Phone 71798 day Call or phone . 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One pint of sweet milk. 1 pint tomatoes strained, but- ter, salt and pepper to taste. Heat tomatoes with y teaspoon soda, heat milk and butter. Pour boiling to- matoes into the hot milk and serve at once. Can be thickened with cornstarch if desired. Mrs. McKelvey. Tomato Bisque. Melt 1 tablespoon of butter in saucepan and stir in all the flour it will absorb, strain tomatoes through a soup strainer, add a pinch of soda and heat. Add milk to butter and flour, cook and stir till lumps are out. Use y milk and % tomato stock, add milk until like a sauce, then add hot stock, season with red pepper and salt. Mrs. C. W. Cord. Tomato Puree. Two cups cooked tomato, 2 cups soup stock, 1 teaspoon 20 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK salt, 2 tablespoons butter, % teaspoon pepper, 1 table- spoon flour. Strain soup stock and rub tomatoes through seive, let boil and bind with butter and flour, season and serve. Cream Cauliflower Soup. One small head cauliflower, 2 tablespoons butter, 1 tablespoon flour, 2 cups milk, 1 stalk celery, salt and pepper. ( 'ook cauliflower in salted water until tender, force through coarse sieve. Melt butter, add flour, then milk slowly, add celery finely cut, and salt and pepper and cauliflower. Do not let the milk boil. Cream Lima Bean Soup. One cup dried lima beans, iy 2 pints cold water. 1 slice onion, 2 slices carrots, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 cup milk. 2 tablespoons butter, 2 tablespoons flour, y$ teaspoon pepper. Soak beans over night, cook until tender, force through sieve. Cook vegetables, which have been chopped very fine, in hot butter for 5 minutss, remove and add flour, milk and beans, season and serve. Amsterdam Soup. Clean 1 quart oysters, chop and then parboil, drain and to liquor add enough water to make 1 quart liquid. Brown 3 tablespoons butter wi+h 3 tablespoons flour, then add oyster liquid and simmer i/^ hour. Season with salt, paprika and celery salt and just before serv- ing add 1 cup cream. T. W. C. A. Cooking: School. Swiss Soup. Two small potatoes, 1 small turnip. 1 pint sr-alded milk. !/2 small onion. 1 tablespoon butter, 1 teaspoon salt. 2 tablespoons flour, % teaspoon pepper. Boil potatoes, turnip and onion until soft, rub through sieve. add 1 iX-cups boiling water, also scalded milk. Bind with butter and flour, season and serve. Miss Bartlett. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Spinach Soup. Two quarts spinach. 6 cups cold water, bit of bay leaf, 1 teaspoon salt, 3 tablespoons butter, 3 table- spoons flour, 2 cups milk. 1 clove of garlic or 2 table- spoons chopped onion, cayenne pepper and celery salt. y 2 cup cream. Cook spinach in water 30 minutes. Press through a sieve, scald milk with onion and bay leaf, add butter and flour cooked together, strain, add seasonings and spinach mixture; cook 5 minutes and serve. Garnish with beaten cream. Mrs. S. B. Snyder. Baked Bean Soup. Two cups cold baked beans, 2 pints cold water, 2 slices of onion, 1 cup stewed tomatoes ; let simmer for 30 minutes, then press through a sieve. Place on stove and add 2 tablespoons butter, 2 tablespoons flour, salt and pepper. Miss Vera DeForest. Cream of Carrot Soup. Cook 2 cups of grated carrot and a small onion sliced in a pint of water. Press through a strainer into a pint of hot milk, season with salt and pepper, add a level tablespoon of flour mixed smooth with a little milk, and after this has cooked a tablespoon of butter. Serve with croutons. Mrs. O. P. Lockhart. Egg Balls. Boil 4 eggs, put into cold water, mash yolks with yolk of 1 raw egg. and 1 teapsoon of flour, pepper, salt and parsley; make into balls and boil 2 minutes. Mrs. J. M. Woodruff. Egg Balls. Four hard cooked eggs, 1 raw egg, salt and cayenne pepper, flour or sifted cracker crumbs. Mash yolks of eggs, add seasonings and enough yolk of raw egg to 22 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK form a paste. Shape into balls the size of a walnut, dip into slightly beaten white of egg. roll in flour or cracker crumbs and fry in deep fat. Drain and serve with soup. Rice Balls. One cup cold cooked rice, 2 tablespoons flour, 1 egg. salt, cayenne, nutmeg, 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind, 1 teaspoon chopped parsley. Press rice through sieve. add flour, egg and seasonings. Roll in balls allowing a teaspoonful for each ball. Cook in boiling salted water until they harden on the outside. Serve hot with soup. Noodles, Dutch Style. Two eggs, 2 tablespoons milk. y 2 teaspoon salt and as much flour as the egg and milk will take up. Now lay on board and work as much flour in as possible. Roll almost as thin as paper, cut as narrow as possible, drop into boiling salted water, cook until tender. When done pour off water, then cover wi^h 2 slices of bread cut into tiny squares browned in plenty of butter. Mrs. W. J. Jeter. Browned Crackers. Spread crackers with butter, sprinkle with salt and cayenne and brown in oven. Serve with soup. Cheese Crackers. Spread crackers thinly with butter, sprinkle with salt and cayenne and cover with grated cheese. Heat in oven until cheese is melted. Serve with soups. Croutons. Cut bread a /4 inch in thickness removing crust, cut slices in strips and strips in cubes. Dip in melted but- ter and brown in oven or fry in deep fat. Mrs. S. B. Snyder. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 23 "Mingle, mingle, mingle, You that mingle may." . Fruit Salad Dressings. When the fruit salad is served with game, use either a mayonnaise or French dressing; the sweet dressing is served with the salad served as a last course at a luncheon or for a dessert salad at dinner. For the breakfast salad any dressing may be used, according to what is to be served with the salad. If the salad takes the place of fruit and cereals it may be served with sweet dressing. If it takes the place of a meat dish, mayonnaise may be served with it, and also whipped cream, but if eaten with meat serve only with fruit juices or French dressing. Salad Dressing. Butter size of a walnut. 1 teaspoon salt, dash of cayenne pepper, 1 small teaspoon mustard, 1 tablespoon flour, 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons sugar, % cup vinegar. Dilute the vinegar if very strong. Cream the butter and flour together and then add the other ingredients. Cook in double boiler until thick and let cool. When ready for use thin to proper consistency with either sweet or sour cream. Mrs. M. R. Matthews. Mayonnaise Cream Dressing. Beat up 2 eggs with 2 tablespoonfuls of sugar, add a piece of butter the size of half an egg, a little pepper and lastly a cup half filled with vinegar and finished with water. Mix well and cook until it creams like a soft custard. Mm. McKnight. Salad Dressing. One teaspoon each of salt, mustard and cornstarch, 2 tablespoons of sugar, butter size of an egg, 1 egg, V 2 cup vinegar, % cup milk. Mix ingredients, in order given, smoothly and boil until it thickens. If too thick, add cream or milk when serving to make the right consistency. Mrs. Charles E. Hammond. Salad Dressing. Two cups vinegar, 1-3 cup olive oil or butter, 2-3 cup sweet cream or milk, yolks of 6 eggs, 3 tablespoons sugar, y^ teaspoon red pepper, 2 tablespoons Colman's mustard dry, 1 small teaspoon salt. Mix all ingredients but vinegar. Stir to a cream, add vinegar. Cook in double boiler until consistency of cream. Makes 1 quart. Excellent. Mrs. S. J. Chapman. Salad Dressing That Will Keep. Three eggs, 1 cup vinegar (diluted %), % teaspoon mustard, 1 teaspoon cornstarch, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 table- spoon sugar, 1 tablespoon butter, sprinkle with paprika or cayenne. Beat the eggs, add a spoonful cold water, heat the vinegar, mix the mustard and cornstarch, stir into the vinegar, till it thickens, add sugar and salt, remove from the fire, beat in the eggs and butter and pepper, whip to a cream, thin with Carnation milk or olive oil when ready to use. Mrs. Cornell. Salad Dressing. Four tablespoonfuls vinegar, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoonfui sugar, y 2 teaspoonfui mustard, 1 teaspoonfui salt, 1/2 teaspoonfui cornstarch, a pinch of cayenne. Cook in a double boiler. When cool beat in 1 pint of cream which has been whipped, not too thick. Mrs. W. T. Hook. Cream Salad Dressing. One cup cider vinegar, 2 eggs, 2 teaspoons mixed mustard, 1 teaspoon salt, 14 teaspoon white pepper. Beat the eggs, then add ^negar, salt, pepper and mus- tard. Heat in double boiler; take from fire when mix- ture thickens, and add 1 tablespoon butter and % cup sugar. This bottled, keeps well. Mrs. E. G. Shryack. Prepared Mustard. Three teaspoons of Colman's ground mustard, 2 tea- spoons flour, 1/2 teaspoon of sugar and a little salt. Mix with water into a smooth thick paste, then thin with vinegar. Mrs. E. G. Shryack. Fruit Salad. One cup each of white grapes (seeds removed), banana, apples, nuts, pineapple. Dressing for Fruit Salad Two whole eggs well beaten, add a lump of butter size of walnut, 1 heaping tablespoon of sugar, a little salt, juice of 1 lemon. Cook in double boiler until thick. Add to this a half pint of whipping cream well whipped. Do not mix the fruit and dressing till ready to serve. Mrs. C. P. Modie. Tomato Salad. One can tomatoes run through colander, soak 1/2 box gelatine in 1/2 up of the tomato liquid. Boil rest of liquid, add salt, pepper and sugar to taste. Pour on soaked gelatine, stir until dissolved, then pour into mold, ohill and eerve with dressing. Salad Dressing Two yolks, l / 2 cup sugar, !/2 cup milk, butter size of walnut, 2 teaspoons mustard, salt and pepper, 1 teaspoon cornstarch, ^ cup vinegar. Boil vinegar, add butter, then the rest of the ingredi- ents that have been mixed together. Cook until creamy. Cora U. Colt. 26 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Fruit Salad. Take 3 oranges, 3 bananas, 1 pineapple, and 1 quart of strawberries. Put a layer of pineapple cut up in smal bits, sprinkle with sugar, then layer of bananas, then orange and lastly strawberries, taking care to sprinkle sugar over each layer. Mrs. James M. Davison. Carrot Salad. Pare and grate 3 medium sized carrots, chop 1 tart apple and teacupful of English walnuts, salt, mix well. Serve on lettuce leaf with mayonnaise dressing. Mrs. James M. Davison. Fruit Salad. Six oranges, 3 apples; peel and sugar, let stand half hour; 1 cup celery, 1 cup English walnuts, chopped. Drain syrup off fruit, add celery and nuts, arrange on crisp lettuce leaves and serve with French salad dress- ing. Mrs. Lane. White Salad. Three grape fruit, y 2 can pineapple, 1 cup blanched almonds chopped. Serve on lettuce leaves with mayon- naise. Mrs. T. L. Lane. Pineapple Salad. c ut the sliced pineapple of 1 can into cubes, cut 1 cup of blanched almonds fine, cut celery to fill 1 cup, fine, then take 4 tablespoonfuls of mayonnaise cream dressing and half pint of whipped cream. Mix all to- gether and serve on lettuce leaves. Mrs. McKnight. Cherry Salad. Royal Ann cherries with filbert filling served on let- tuce leaves with French dressing. Mrs. J. M. Woodruff. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 2? Cheese Salad. Two cakes Neufchatel cheese, 1 ten cent bottle stuffed olives chopped, ^4 pound pecans, chopped. Mix to- gether and form into small balls. Place 2 or ^ on a lettuce leaf and serve with mayonnaise dressing. Mrs. H. H. Bay, Crystal Lake, HI. Salad. Chop 4 hard boiled eggs, 4 sweet pickles, add nuts and lettuce cut fine, season and thin with salad dressing. Mrs. O. Stewart. Salad. To equal parts of apples and celery cut fine, add nuts and salad dressing. Sprinkle lemon juice over apples when fixing to keep them from turning dark. Mrs. O. Stewart. Flower Salad. Peel, wipe and chill 4 small ripe tomatoes. When ready to serve, cut in eighths, not severing the sections, and open like the petals of a flower on a crisp lettuce leaf. Fill the center with chopped apples and celery. or with small onions and serve with mayonnaise dress- ing. Mrs. J. M. Woodruff. Tomato Salad. Choose ripe tomatoes of uniform size, cut off tops and scoop out contents. Cut in small dice and season highly cucumbers enough to fill tomatoes, first mix- ing with salad dressing, (over \\ith dressing, then chopped parsley chopped very fine. Use cream dress- ing and arrange on lettuce leaves. Marjorie Taylor. Dressing for Slaw. One egg, % cup vinegar diluted with y 2 cup water, ^2 teaspoon dry mustard and salt to taste, 1-3 cup sugar, teaspoon butter. Beat egg well, adding vinegar. 28 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK water, mustard, salt, sugar and butter. Cook in double boiler till thick. Mrs. S. J. Chapman. Banana Salad. Cut the banana in half the long way, then across, making 4 pieces. Put each on a lettuce leaf and cover with chopped celery and nuts and cover lightly with salad dressing. Mrs. Brace. Combination Salad. One head lettuce picked to pieces, 1 green sweet pepper, 1 medium sized cucumber, and % cup walnut meats chopped, pinch of salt. Serve in shell made of large tomato or cucumber. Drop a teaspoon of salad dressing on top. Mrs. Countryman. Combination Salad. One head lettuce, 1 cucumber, 1 onion, chopped; add any green vegetable desired, preferably tomato. Make dressing of % teaspoon salt, 14 teaspoon paprika, 1 teaspoon olive oil and % cup vinegar. Pour over vege- tables just before serving. Mrs. C. E. Hammond. Salad Dressing. One-half cup boiling vinegar, yolk of 1 egg. Vii tea- spoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon pepper, y 2 teaspoon mustard, 2 tablespoons of sugar. 1 tablespoon of flour. Dissolve mustard in hot vinegar. Stir hot vinegar in other in- gredients after all are well beaten together. Cook until it thickens. Mrs. R. H. Craig. Shrimp Salad. Take 2 pounds of shrimp, cut up about one-third as much lettuce or celery, take the yolks of 4 hard boiled THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 29 eggs and mash smooth with 2 teaspoonfuls of olive oil or 1 teacupful of cream, add 1 teacupful of vinegar, 1 tablespoonful of sugar, 2 teaspoonfuls of fine mustard, 1 teaspoonful each of salt and pepper. Mix thoroughly and then toss lightly over the shrimp. Garnish with leaves of lettuce, celery, or curled parsley, and the whites of the eggs cut in rings. Apple Salad. Scoop out the center of 8 red apples with a vegetable scoop. Mix with equal parts of finely chopped celery and boiled dressing. Fill apple shells and serve on bed of curled celery. Mrs. E. L. Foster. Salmon Salad. Beat thoroughly together 1 egg, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon ground mustard, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 table- spoon melted butter, 1 cup vinegar, a little green pep- per; put in dish and set in pan of boiling water, stir constantly until the mixture becomes creamy and thick. When cold pour over one can of salmon well drained, mixed with one head of celery and one-half head cab- bage chopped fine. Mrs. Carrie Smyser. Fruit Salad. One and a half cups sugar, */ cup cold water, l 1 /^ cups boiling water, y 2 box of Knox's gelatine, 3 ba- nanas, 3 oranges, 1 can pineapple. Soak gelatine in juice drained from pineapple and the cold water until dissolved, dissolve sugar in the boiling water, then pour over the gelatine; when a little cool add the fruit, a few cherries add to the flavor. Mold in sherbet glasses. This can be used for a salad served on a lettuce leaf with mayonnaise dressing, or as a desert served with whipped cream. Amount will serve 15 guests. Mrs. J. P. McKnight. 30 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Mock Pineapple Salad. Peel three large, rather sweet apples; cut -into thin slices and with a small round cutter remove the core. Cover the slices of the applies with cold water to keep them from discoloring. Peel four medium-sized, tart oranges, trim off the white pulp and slice the oranges across thegrain the same thickness as the apples. Put slices of apple and oranges together; arrange these in pyramid form on a glass dish. Reduce some thick mayonnaise with the juices that drain from the slices of orange and pour over the fruit and serve at once, very cold. Let the fruit chill before the mayonnaise is added. Apple and Grape Fruit Salad. Remove the pulp from one large grape fruit in small pieces; pare, core and chop two large, rather sweet apples fine. Put fruit tokether and mix with French dressing. c hill on ice. Serve in lettuce cups and gar- nish with white grapes, skinned and seeds removed, and chopped nuts. Pineapple and Celery Salad. Peel a small, ripe pineapple, cut out the eyes and shred ; set on ice until thoroughly chilled. Then mixe with a cup of finely chopped, crisp white celery, and a sweet, red pepper cut into dice. Sprinkle over this a little French dressing and let stand a few minutes. Then mix with mayonnaise and whipped cream and serve with garnish of lettuce leaves and nut meats. Strawberry Salad No. 1. To those who can not use cream with strawberries, the berries served in the form of salad are very accept- able. There are various ways of -serving them in this form ; one way is to select fine ripe fruit, stem and wash carefully if they are gritty; then drain and chill; ar- range in small cups made of lettuce leaves, filling par- THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 31 tially full ; sprinkle lightly with lemon juice and cover with cream mayonnaise ; place on top of each salad a large unhulled berry. Strawberry Salad No. 2. Arrange on a glass dish thin slices of orange, select- ing the sweet thin-skinned ones, and no not peel them. On top of the orange slices pile the fruit, hulled and washed and wiped dry. Dust with powdered sugar and a little nutmeg. MEATS AND PROPER SAUCES. Roast Beef Grated hor?e-radish, tomato or cranberry sauce. Mutton Caper sauce, a tart jelly. Roast Pork Apple sauce. Roast Lamb Mint sauce. Roast Goose Apple sauce, cranberries. Roast Turkey -Cranberry sauce. Venison or Wild Duck Currant jelly. Boiled Ham Mustard, currant jelly. . Boiled Tongue Sliced lemon, horse-radish. Fresh Mackerel Gooseberry sauce. Garnish for Fowls or Birds. Two inch square cranberry jelly on a slice of orange. Mrs. J. M. Woodruff. A Dainty Dish for Luncheon. Here is a delicious dish for luncheon or tea : Flake fresh or canned salmon fine and mix wi^h it 4 table- spoonfuls of melted butter ; beat two eggs and mix with them) half a cupful of bread crumbs, salt, pepper, and a little minced parsley ; mix in the salmon ; place in a buttered mold and steam for an hour; when cold send to the table on a bed of parsley. This is fine. Mrs. S. B. Snyder. 32 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Salmon Loaf. One can salmon minced fine, 1 cup rolled crackers, butter size of walnut, salt and pepper to taste, % cup milk. Bake in buttered dish ^ hour. Mrs. O. Stewart. Salmon Loaf. One can of salmon from which all particles of skin and bone have been removed, 2 eggs beaten light, 2 tablespoons melted butter, % cup of fine cracker crumbs, salt and pepper to taste. Rub to a smooth paste, put into a buttered mold and steam 11/2 hours. When done turn on to a platter and surround with fresh peas which have been boiled in salt water. Sauce for Salmon Loaf. Over all pour a sauce made as follows : Heat 2 cups of milk, into this stir 1 heaping teaspoon of corn starch rubbed smooth in a little milk, 1 teaspoon of butter, pepper and salt, cook until smooth and creamy. Mrs. Webb. Baked Fish (delicious). Fish weighing three or four pounds. Place in a bak- ing pan with a stick across each end to keep head and tail out of water, and parboil until nearly done. Then take the meat from the bone without breaking the bone or head. Pick the meat up, removing all small bones and skin. To this add one can of oysters and one can of shrimps, and chop, not too fine. Use about % cup bread crumbs to hold the mixture together; over this sprinkle salt and cayenne pepper. Then take 1 cup but- ter, set on fire to melt, add 1 onion and a little parsley chopped fine and fry slowly until nearly done, then mix with the above ingredients. Deftly mold the mix- ture on the bone of the fish, shaping as nearly like the original as possible. Sprinkle with cracker crumbs and place in oven, baste with melted butter until nicely THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 33 browned. Garnish with parsley, lettuce leaves and sliced lemon. Mrs. H. M. Clayton. Salmon Loaf. One can salmon (pour off juice and oil), 1 cup sweet milk, 2 eggs well beaten, juice of 1 lemon, 1 cup bread crumbs, salt and pepper to taste. Mix well, steam 1 hour. Dressing for Salmon Loaf. To the juice and oil add 1 cup of milk, salt and pep- per, juice of 2 tomatoes, lump of butter, boil and Ihicken with flour. Serve on the loaf. Baking powder cans are good to steam loaf in. This served with mashed potatoes makes a nice dish for luncheon. Mrs. C. P. Modle. Fish Turbot. Four pounds whitefish, steam and pick to pieces; 1 pint milk. 1 scant !/2 cup of flour, 1 teaspoon grated onion. 2 or 3 eggs. Cook the milk over water, add gradually the flour, stirring constantly; add the well beaten eggs, then the onion. Salt and pepper to taste. Cook to consistency of very thick cream. Place in the shells a layer of fish and alternate with dressing till all is used. Cover over with cracker crumbs and bits of butter. Bake a rich brown. Garnish with bits of parsley and slices of lemon. Florence Clayton. Salmon Soufle. Separate 1 can (l^/o cups) salmon into flakes, season highly with salt, paprika and lemon juice. Cook l 1 /^ cups soft bread crumbs in y 2 cup milk, add to salmon with well beaten yolks of 3 eggs ; fold in stiffly beaten 34 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK whites of 3 eggs and bake in mold until firm. Serve with Spanish Sauce. Melt 3 tablespoons butter, add 3 tablespoons flour, 1 cup milk, ! /2 cup cream, 1 teaspoon salt, y$ teaspoon pepper, and y> cup pimientoes rubbed through a sieve. Y. W. C. A. Cooking School. Oyster Cocktails. For 60 oysters mix together 2 tablespoonfus each of tomato catsup and vinegar, six tablespoonfuls of lemon juice, 1 teaspoonful each of finely grated horseradish and salt, */ teaspoonful of Tobasco sauce. Allow 5 or 6 oysters for each person. Mrs. Gllmer. Fried Chicken. Salt, then dredge with flour, place in frying pan of hot lard and butter and let it brown. Then add a little cold water to create a steam and keep lid on. Fry slowly until tender. Mrs. C. P. Modie. Chicken Croquettes. One pint chicken, ground fine. Put 3 tablespoonfuls of butter and 3 tablespoonfuls of flour on the fire to melt, stir in 1 cup of cream and 1 cup of stock, boil until the 'consistency of thick cream, mix this with the chicken, then add 1 small onion grated and a little fresh celery chopped. Set in a cool place to harden, over night, if possible; mold, dip in beaten egg, then roll in bread crumbs and fry a nice brown. This quan- tity makes 18 croquettes. Mrs. H. M. Clayton. Creamed Chicken. Four chickens, 4 sweetbreads, 3 cans mushrooms. Boil chicken till tender and cut as for salad, removing THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 35 all skin. Boil and chop the sweetbreads. Mix chicken, sweetbreads and mushrooms. Bake in alternate layers with bread crumbs, seasoned with pieces of butter and cream dressing. Mrs. H. M. Clayton. Cream Dressing (to above). One and a half pints of cream, 3 tablespoonfuls of flour, 1 grated onion, 4 tablespoonfuls of butter. Heat the cream, rub the flour into melted butter and put in the cream. c ook over hot water until it thickens. Re- move and stir in the onion. Put layer of chicken mixture in a baking pan and season with cayenne pepper and salt. Then a layer of cream dressing until all is used, over with a layer of bread crumbs and bake until a rich brown. This will serve 20 people and is delicious. Mrs. H. M. Clayton. Chicken Croquettes. Two tablespoons butter, melted, 2 tablespoons flour, add 1 cup stock, % cup cream, pepper and salt, boil 2 minutes. Cook until it thickens, add 2 cups of minced chicken and mold, roll in beaten egg and crumbs and fry. Mrs. Harvey. Baked Chops. Skin and remove fat from loin chops. Have enough bread crumbs that you think will cover chops. Rub into the crumbs some finely chopped onion, little sage, salt, pepper and teaspoon of butter. Spread over the chops and bake for % hour. See that the bottom of pan is kept covered with water, which serves as gravy. Mrs. Brace. Lemon Potpie. Slice 1 lemon in 1% pints boiling water, add 1 heap- ing cup sugar, 1 tablespoon butter, boil 10 minutes. 36 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Dumplings Beat 1 egg, add 1 tablespoon cream, a very little salt, 2 teaspoons baking powder, flour enough to make very stiff batter, stir in 1/2 cup of raisins, flavor with vanilla, drop into the boilng syrup by spoonful. Mrs. W. W. Gilliland. Spanish Stew. In the bottom of an iron or porcelain lined kettle lay 2 or 3 slices of salt pork and on them 2 or 3 large onions, sliced and fried a little brown, then a flank steak and on that % can of tomatoes; then add a lot of water, I think nearly 2 quarts and a pint, cover and let boil 3 hours, then add macaroni or spaghetti ; boil half an hour longer and serve good and hot. Sea- son to taste. Mrs. Hammond. Meat Pie. Take 3 pounds of veal or pork, cover with water and boil until tender; add 2 large potatoes or 1/2 dozen very small ones just before the meat is done; add plenty of butter, salt and pepper to taste; put your meat and part of liquid in the pan and cover with a rich biscuit dough; bake till crust is done. Mrs. S. B. Snyder. Beef Croquettes. Cold roast beef, bread crumbs, a little milk. 1 beaten egg, powdered crackers, pepper and salt, parsley. Chop the beef fine and add to it 1-3 as much bread crumbs as meat; moisten with a little milk, season and form into balls. Dip these into the beaten eggs, roll in cracker and fry in butter. Garnish with parsley. Mrs. J. M. Woodruff. Veal Croquettes. Two cups cold cooked veal, y 2 teaspoonful salt, y 8 teaspoonful pepper, few grains cayenne, 1 teaspoonful onion juice, yolk 1 egg, 1 cup thick white sauce, mix- THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 37 ing ingredients in order given, cool and shape. Fry in deep hot fat. Sauce for Croquettes. Two and a half tablespoonfuls butter, ^4 CU P corn starch or 1-3 cup flour, 1 cup milk. ^ teaspoonful salt, few grains pepper. Put butter in sauce pan, stir until melted and bubbling, add flour mixed with seasonings and stir thoroughly, pour on gradually the milk, add- ing 1-3 at a time, stirring until well mixed, then beating until smooth and glossy. Miss Hanvey, Hollywood, Cal. Mexican Meat Balls. Thirty-five cent round steak. 15c lean pork, ground together, or if not liked so rich all steak may be used. 8 crackers crumbed. % a good sized onion cut fine. 2 level teaspoons salt, a little black pepper, red pepper, and sage if liked, 1 egg. Mix thoroughly and make into balls slightly larger than walnuts, drop into fho boiling sauce and cook slowly li/o hours. Sauce. One quart tomatoes, 1 pint water, 1/2 onion sliced, pepper, red pepper, 1 level teaspoon salt, 1 bay leaf. This burns easily, so cook if possible in an aluminum kettle set on an asbestos plate. Stir quite often and fifteen minutes before done dip in spoonfuls over the top the following dumpling batter: Dumplings. One and a half cups flour sifted three times with 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder and !/4 heaping tea- spoon salt, sufficient sweet milk for a very soft dough. Keep covered until done. Mrs. Wm. Gregory. Casserole of Rice and Meat. Line a mold, slightly greased, with boiled rice, fill 38 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK the center with 2 cups finely chopped cooked mutton, seasoned with salt and pepper, cayenne, onion juice and lemon juice, 1 tablespoon each, 1 egg slightly beaten, and enough hot stock or water to moisten, cover meat with rice. Cover with buttered paper to keep out moisture while steaming, and steam 45 minutes. Serve on platter surrounded with tomato sauce. Veal or beef may be used instead of mutton and gravy instead of water to moisten. Miss Hanvey, Hollywood, Cal. Veal Loaf. Chop 3 pounds of veal and % pound of salt pork, add 3 eggs, and 6 crackers crushed. 1 tablespoon salt and pepper, butter the size of a walnut. If not moist enough add sweet milk. Do not bake too fast and baste often with water and butter. Mrs. C. W. Cord. Veal Loaf. Three pounds veal, % cup butter, 2 eggs, 15 small Crackers or 7 large sodas rolled fine, cup of milk, salt and pepper to taste. Make into a roll, put into the pan a pint of water to baste while baking. Bake l 1 /^ hours in good hot oven. Mrs. A. H. Stover. Veal Loaf. Chop fine 3 pounds of leg or loin of veal, and % pound salt pork, together. Roll 1 dozen crackers, put !/2 of them in the veal with 2 eggs, sea- son with pepper and a little salt if needed. Mix to- gether and make into a solid form, then take the crack- ers that are left and spread smoothly over the outside. Bake 1 hour and eat cold. Mrs. M. E. Bads. Nut Loaf, with Crumbs. Two cups walnuts. 2 cups bread crumbs ground. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 39 Melt 2 tablespoons butter in 1 cup rich milk and add when cool 1o the nut and crumb mixture. Add 1 tea- spoon salt and 1 heaping teaspoon powdered mixed herbs, say marjoram, summer savory and thyme, a dash of cayenne; then add 1 well beaten egg and work with the hands into firm, oval loaf. Bake in moderate oven, basting often with butter and water. Serve hot with tomato sauce. Sauce. Cook 1 tablespoon of chopped onion in 1 tablespoon of butter, add 1 tablespoon flour and when well blended add 1/2 can tomatoes. Salt and pepper to taste. This loaf may be used cold served with mayonnaise. Miss Alice Claypool Creamed Corned Beef au Gratin. Two cups beef, 2 slices onion, 1 cup celery, pour over white sauce made as follows: Two cups milk, i/4 cup flour, paprika, 14 cup butter brown, % cup cracker crumbs in 2 tablespoons butter. Sprinkle over top of mixture and bake in oven. Miss Vera De Forest. Cannelon of Beef. One pound of uncooked beef chopped fine, yolk of 1 egg, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, 1 tablespoon of butter, 2 tablespoons of breadcrumbs. 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, 3 dashes of black pepper. % teaspoon of onion juice. Mix all the ingredients to- gether, then form into a roll about 6 inches long, place in a baking pan and bake in quick oven about 30 min- utes. Baste often with y cup of butter melted in a cup of boiling water. Serve with tomatoe sauce poured around it. 40 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Tomato Sauce. Cook 1 rounded tablespoon minced onion in 1 table- spoon of butter till only slightly colored, add if liked the same amount of minced sweet pepper, celery or parsley, slir in 1 rounded tablespoon flour and a /4 level teaspoon salt, add gradually from 1 to 1% cups hot strained tomatoes. Mrs. Jeter. Peanut Dressing for Domestic Duck. Three-quarter cup cracker crumbs, % cup shelled peanuts finely chopped, !/> cup rich cream, 2 table- spoons butter, few drops onion juice, salt and cayenne pepper, mixed in order named. Y. W. C. A. Cooking School. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 41 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK T. J. LOCKHART O. P. LOCHART. NOTARY PUBLIC RES.TCL. WEST 4359 RES. TEL, WEST SO65 LOCKHART & SON REAL ESTATE, LOANS AND INSURANCE SUNSET MAIN 141O HOME A 7552 6O1-6O2 H. W. HELLMAN BLDG. 4TH a SPRING STS. Los ANGELES, CAL. Main 1975 Home A -4786 DR. CHARLES E. RICE iimttHt 218 Bradbury Bldg., 3rd and Broadway Los Angeles, Cal. THE BOY'S CLOTHIERS Every wanted Item for Boys Wear is here at its best. BROADWAY SIXTH "THE QUALITY STORE" THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 43 Potatoes in seven ways, or for dinner each day of the week. Sunday Mashed Potatoes Monday Baked in their jackets. Tuesday Peel and brown with roast. Wednesday Escalloped potatoes. Thursday Peel, steam and serve whole. Friday. Peel, cut in thick slices and fry. Saturday Boil in jackets Portuguese Rice. Wash 1/2 CU P f r i ce through 2 or 3 waters, then soak for 1/2 hour in water. Boil in double boiler in 1 quart of milk till done, but not soft enough to mash up, stir in 2 well beaten eggs, sweeten to taste. Put on a flat dish and sprinkle over it powdered cinnamon. Serve cold with cream. Mrs. M. R. Matthews. Stuffed Tomatoes. Six good firm tomatoes, 1 cucumber, 2 green onions, 1 green pepper, few pieces celery, % teaspoon salt, few dashes pepper. Skin the tomatoes, take out pulp and put in a bowl. To the pulp add the sliced cucum- ber, chopped celery, chopped onions, chopped pepper and salt. Place two large lettuce leaves on plate and a tomato; fill the tomatoes from bowl and cover with dressing. Mrs. H. E. Brace. Stuffed Tomatoes. Six good sized solid tomatoes, a /2 pint of cold boiled rice, 1 onion chopped fine, small piece green bell pep- per, 1 tablespoon melted butter, y 2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon of sugar. Cut a slice off the top and remove seeds with a spoon. Fill the tomatoes even with the 44 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK top. Stand them in a baking pan and bake in a quick oven. Mrs. Frank Tyrrell. Stuffed Tomatoes. Scoop out 4 large or 6 small tomatoes and turn upside down to drain. Fill with the following mixture : Three shredded wheat biscuits and 4 crackers rolled, 1 table- spoon butter and 1-3 cup hot water, 1 onion chopped fine, salt, pepper and sage to taste, enough tomato pulp to make rather soft mixture. Fill tomato shells and bake 15 or 20 minutes. Nuts may be added or not as desired. Eula Eads Hahn. Stuffed Peppers and Tomatoes. Green peppers, take off top and remove all the seeds, put in salted water and boil 20 minutes. Tomatoes, cut out small place in top, put salt in and turn upside down for some time. Make milk sauce, add 2 tablespoons of chopped veal, 2 tablespoons of chopped onions, after browning onions in butter, and 2 tablespoons of cracker dust. Put in the centers and cover tops with buttered cracker crumbs. Bake 20 minutes. Miss Vera DeForest. Stuffed Peppers (Bell Peppers). Cut a slice from stem end of each pepper, remove seeds and parboil 15 minutes. Fill with equal parts of finely chopped chicken, veal or beef and softened bread crumbs, seasoned with onion- juice, salt and pepper; cover top with crumbs and small piece of butter, and place in pan in which there is a little water, and bake 10 minutes in a moderate oven. Miss Hanvey. Stuffed Peppers. Cut a piece from stem end of peppers to make them THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 45 of equal height and remove the seeds and partitions; cover with scalding water and let stand ten minutes; drain and fill with the following mixture and bake 45 minutes in a moderate oven in a cupful of hot water or stock : Stir l /2 cup of veal finely chopped, ^ cup fine bread crumbs, ^ teaspoon onion juice, 1 tablespoon butter melted, and yolk of 1 egg into ^ cup of white sauce, season to taste with salt and pepper. Miss Anna Ingram. Baked Tomatoes. Take large, smooth tomatoes, cut a slice off the top and remove most of the pulp. Cut tender corn off the cob, mix with the tomato pulp and season to taste with salt, pepper, and sugar if liked. Fill the tomatoes with mixture, sprinkle with bread crumbs on top. place a piece of butter on each and bake 30 minutes. Mrs. Gilmer. Tomato Sauce. Half can tomatoes, a large slice of onion, 3 table- spoons butter, 2 l /2 tablespoons flour. y teaspoon sail. % teaspoon pepper. c ook onion with pepper and to- matoes, rub through a sieve. Add to butter and flour cooked together. Miss Hanvey. Spiced Beets. Half cup sugar. 1 tablespoon corn starch, i/4 cup vinegar, li/o cups boiling water. % teaspoon salt, i/4 teaspoon cinnamon. y teaspoon cloves, 1 piece of but- ter. Mix sugar teaspoon of soda; boil about 30 minutes. (When done the skin of a bean will crack if taken out and blown upon.) Drain and put in an earthen pot with salt and 2 or 3 tablespoons of molasses (brown sugar will do). When the beans are in the pot, put in the center % or 94 of a pound of salt pork with the rind scored in slices, or squares and uppermost. Season with pepper and salt if needed; cover all with hot water and bake 6 hours or longer in a moderate oven, adding more water as needed ; they can not be baked too long. Keep covered so they will not burn on the top, but remove cover an hour or so before serving to brown the top and crisp the pork. Mrs. John T. Stivers. Bean Croquettes. C<*ld baked beans, either canned or home made. Mash the beans through a coarse sieve, removing all the skins. Season to taste with salt, pepper, and 48 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Worcestershire sauce unless the beans already have tomato sauce or catsup added. A little vinegar and mixed mustard may be added for a change. If the mix- ture is too dry, soften with a little cream or white sauce. Form the croquettes, dip into beaten egg, and cover with bread crumbs. Fry in deep, hot fat until nicely brown. Serve with tomato sauce. Mrs. John T. Stivers. Mexican Beans. One cup little red Mexican beans soaked in water over night ; parboil with pinch of soda, then put on to cook in hot water and cook slowly all day with small piece of bacon and salt to taste. Next morning put 2 heaping tablespoons of butter in frying pan, add finely chopped round steak (25c steak), 1 pint of tomatoes, 1 small onion, piece of bay leaf, salt to taste, and cook about 20 minutes, then add to beans. The longer it is cooked the belter. Before serving, add 1 tablespoon chili powder. Mrs. M. Gale. Rice Balls. Two tablespoons cold boiled riee, 1 tablespoon cooked meat chopped fine, 1^4 cups tomatoes, bay leaf, sprig of parsley, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 tablespoon flour, y 2 teaspoon salt. Spread the rice on a square of cheese cloth, place the meat in the center and fold up the corners of the cloth and tie. Drop the balls into a sauce pan and boil 10 minutes. Tomato Sauce. Melt the butter, add the flour and stir until well mixed, then add the tomato, salt, bay leaf, and parsley. Stir until it thickens. To serve, place the balls on a dish and pour sauce around them. Cora U. Colt. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 49 "Cheerful looks make every dish a feast." Cheese Straws. One cup finely grated stale cheese, 1 cup sifted flour, 1 tablespoon melted butter, a dash of cayenne pepper, % teaspoon salt, and enough milk to mix into a dough. Roll out, cut into narrow strips and bake in a mod- erate oven until a delicate brown. Serve with salad. Mrs. J. M. Woodruff. c heese Straws. One cupful flour, 2 tablespoons lard, 1 teaspoonful salt, 1 tablespoon grated cheese, enough water to mois- ten. Mix the same as for pie dough. Roll out rather thin, cut into strips perhaps 4 or 5 inches long and bake in moderate oven. Mrs. H. E. Brace. Cheese Balls. One and a half cups grated cheese, y teaspoonful salt. Vj. teaspoonful paprika, whiles of 3 eggs, cracker crumbs. Beat whites of eggs stiff, add cheese and sea- sonings, then roll in cracker crumbs the shape of little balls. Fry in deep fat. Miss Vera DeForest. Cheese Balls. To 1 cup of grated stale chees add 1-3 teaspoon salt, a dash of cayenne pepper and a pinch of celery salt. Mix this with the whites of 2 stiffly beaten eggs and mold into balls the size of walnuts. Drop 2 at a time into kettle of boiling "Cottosuet. " With a silver fork keep the balls constantly in motion ; if allowed to rest on bottom of kettle they will pull apart and stick. A 5 o THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK moment is sufficient to brown them. Place on wrapping paper for an instant and serve piping hot with salad and coffee. These are delicious. Miss Florence Clayton. Cheese Wafers. Spread Long Branch salted wafers well with butter and plenty of thin slices of cheese. Place in a very hot oven until cheese is melted Serve with salad. Mrs. J. M. Woodruff. Cheese Scallops. Soak in milk % of a pound of fine white bread crumbs, add 2 well beaten eggs, 1 tablespoon butter and 4 tablespoons grated cheese. Mix all together well, adding salt and pepper. Divide into buttered scallop shells, sprinkle over with fine bread crumbs, grated cheese and melted butter. Bake a light brown color and serve hot. Mrs. Claude E. Quivey. Chese Souffle. Two tablespoons butter. 3 tablespoons flour, y 2 cup scalded milk, 1/2 teaspoon salt, dash of cayenne pep- per, 14 cup grated cheese, 3 eggs. Melt butter, add flour, and when mixed add gradually scalded milk, then salt, cayenne and cheese. Remove from fire, add yolks of eggs beaten lightly, fold in whites which have'been beaten stiff and dry, pour into buttered baking dish and bake 20 minutes in slow oven. Serve immediately. Miss Hanvey. Cheese Fondu. One cup bread crumbs, 1 cup sweet milk. 1 cup grated cheese, 2 well beaten eggs. Soak bread crumbs in milk until soft, add cheese and eggs, season to taste. Bake 20 minutes. Mrs. T. L. Lane. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 51 Cheese Fondant. Two cups milk, 1 cup bread crumbs, y pound grated cheese, 1 tablespoon butter, 3 eggs, salt and pepper to taste. Put in double boiler the milk, cheese, bread crumbs, butter and seasoning. Let come to boiling point and add yolks of eggs. When it has thickened remove from the stove and fold in whites of eggs which have been beaten very stiff. Bake in pudding dish or ramakins for half an hour and serve immediately. Mary Ballar, Crystal Lake, 111. Cheese Custard. Butter 3 thin slices of white bread, let them soak for l /2 hour in a custard made with 1 pint of milk, 3 eggs, and a dash of cayenne pepper; lay slices in a buttered pudding pan. Put layers of thin slices of cheese be- tween each, pour on the custard and sprinkle grated cheese on the top. Set dish in a pan of hot water and bake in a moderate oven. The water must not boil or custard will be full of holes and whey. Serve hot. Mrs. Jeter. Cheese Custard for One Person. Two tablespoons bread crumbs, 3 tablespoons milk, 1 tablespoon cheese, 1 egg, sprinkle of salt. Soak crumbs in milk 10 minutes, melt butter in double boiler, add cheese chopped fine, and stir until cheese melts, add milk and crumbs, then egg, and serve on cracker. Paulyne McKInney. Italian Macaroni. Cook a cupful of macaroni in salted water until tender. Drain off the water and put the macaroni into a colander. Have ready in a saucepan a large table- spoonful of butter, heated. Put into this a sliced onion and cook tender. Turn into the saucepan a can of tomatoes and one chili pepper (or in quantity accord- ing to its "hotness"). Salt and cook fifteen minutes. 52 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Arrange thq macaroni alternately in layers with the tomatoes in a bakedish, finishing, of course, with the tomatoes. Cover with grated cheese and bake fifteen or twenty minutes. If not moist enough, do not add all the macaroni, as it must be juicy. Mrs. F. C. Webber. Macaroni and Cheese. One-quarter pound macaroni broken into 1 inch lengths and cooked in 3 pints boiling salted water 20 minutes. Turn into a colander and pour over it cold water, drain. Make a sauce of 1 tablespoonful of butter rubber into 1% cup hot milk, salt. Put a layer of grated cheese in bottom of baking dish, then a layer of macaroni and 1 of sauce, then cheese, macaroni and sauce, and cover the top with fine bread crumbs and bits of butter and a little grated cheese. Bake until brown. Macaroni Croquettes. Break 6 ounces of macaroni in pieces, boil until tender, drain in a colander. Rub 1 teaspoon of butter and 2 ounces of flour together until smooth, then stir into 1 cup of warm cream until it thickens (stir to pre- vent burning), add 2 teaspoons of grated cheese, then macaroni, salt and pepper to taste and yolks of 2 eggs. Cook for a minute, then turn out to cool. Form into croquettes, roll in egg, then cracker crumbs, and fry in hot lard. Mrs. C. W. Cord. Macaroni and Eggs. Break 2 cupfuls of macaroni, boil until tender in salted water and drain. Have 1 tablespoon each of butter and lard piping hot in frying pan, turn in cooked macaroni and fry a few moments, then beat lightly 4 eggs and turn over macaroni and cook only a moment longer. Take up while eggs are still soft, Mrs. C. E. Hammond. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 53 "Life gives us the key to the larder, We choose for our feasts what we will." Never Fail Omelet. Beat the yolks of 6 eggs very light and stir in 1 tablespoon of flour and y teaspoon of salt. Add but- ter size of a walnut, melted, .then a small teacup of sweet milk. Lastly, whip in the stiffly beaten whites. Turn into a well buttered baking dish and bake in a quick oven until a golden brown. About 15 minutes is sufficient to bake well. Serve immediately. Miss Florence Clayton. French Omelet. Three eggs, 3 tablespoons milk, 1 teaspoon flour, pinch of salt. Bept the yolks; of egge well, add milk, flour and salt, and stir half the well beaten whites with half the mixture and turn into a frying pan in which a little butter has become smoking hot. As it browns, roll and place on a hot platter. Stir in remainder of whites and proceed as before. Miss Ida B. Davisqn. Stuffed Eggs. Six hard boiled eggs, 1 teaspoonful onion juice, 4 chopped olives, % teaspoon butter, pinch salt and dash of pepper. Boil eggs 20 minutes. Cut in half, remove yolks into mixing bowl, add all the other ingredients and mix well. Put the white on lettuce leaf and fill with the mixture. Cover with salad dressing. Mrs. H. E. Brace. Baked Eggs. Break as many egsrs a A s you wish to serve into an iron 54 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK frying pan or small individual baking dishes. Pour milk (cream is still better) over eggs until yolks only are seen, sprinkle with salt, pepper, bits of butter, and place in medium hot oven. Let bake until milk has simmered a few minutes. Garnish dishes and serve. Mrs. Claude E. Quivey. Eggs in Scallop Shells. Cook fresh eggs about 20 minutes, then peel. Place 1 egg in a scallop shell over mashed potatoes which have been seasoned and whipped to extreme lightness. If potato has been put through a piping tube it will be much more attractive looking. Garnish shells daintily. Grace M. Quivey. Eggs a la Goldenrod. Have prepared 6 slices of buttered toast and 6 hard boiled eggs. Make a gravy of 1 pint of milk, season- ing to taste and add the chopped whites of the eggs. Place the toast on a platter and pour the gravy over, crumb the yokes over this in the form of goldenrod. Mrs. C. A. Barhydt. Eggs Au Gratin. Half cup white sauce, 2 eggs, salt and pepper. Drop eggs in sauce and poach, then put cheese on top and bake in oven. Miss Vera DeForest. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 55 "With weights and measures just and true, Oven of even heat, Well buttered tins and quiet nerves, Success will be complete." Soft Ginger Bread. One and a half cups sifted flour, y 2 cup sour milk, ^ cup brown sugar, y 2 CU P molasses, 1-3 cup butter, 1 egg, % teaspoon soda. Add ginger and spice to taste. Bake in shallow pan about 20 minutes. Mrs. Gllmer. Ginger Bread. Half cup white sugar, i/o cup molasses, y 2 cup butter. y> cup milk, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon each of cinnamon, nut- meg, ginger and cloves, 1 small teaspoon soda, flour to Ihinken as for ordinary cake. Very nice. Mrs. Offenbach. Ginger Bread. Half cup sugar and 1-3 cup butter creamed. 1 egg, y 2 teaspoon soda in y 2 cup hot water, f/2 cup molasses, 1 teaspoon ginger, 2 cups flour, pinch of salt. .Mrs. Countryman. Ginger Bread. Half cup sugar, y 2 cup molasses, 1 egg, shortening the size of an egg, 1 level teaspoon soda dissolved in hot water, 1 teaspoon ginger, 2-3 cup cold water. 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, y 2 teaspoon salt. Mix in order given. Mrs. Jeter. Good Soft Girger Bread. One cup molasses, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup sour milk, y 2 56 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK cup butter, 2 eggs, teaspoonful soda, ginger and spices to taste. Mrs. M. R. Matthews. Soft Ginger Cake. Mix together 1 cupful of brown sugar and % of a cupful of butter and lard mixed. Add 1 egg, well beaten, and 1 cupful of molasses, also 1 teaspoon each of cinnamon and ginger. Into 1 cupful of boiling water stir 2 even teaspoonfuls of powdered soda. Fold in 3 cupfuls of flour. Bake with a slow fire for % hour. Mrs. John T. Stivers. Spice Cake. One and a half cups sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup sour milk, 1 teaspoon soda, 2y 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon cinna- mon and cloves, and x /2 teaspoon ginger. One cup raisins or currants is an improvement. Mrs. L. G. Hoyt. Spice Cake. One and a half cups sugar, 1 cup sour milk. % cup butter, 1 teaspoon soda, spice, 2^ cups, flour, 1 cup chopped raisins, or 1 cup chopped walnuts may be added. For spice 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Half teaspoon each of cloves and ginger is good. Mrs. Charles S. McKelvey. Molasses or Spice Cake. This cake is fine when eggs are high ; try it : !/2 cup molasses, !/2 cup brown sugar, y 2 cup butter or lard, % cup water, 2 cups flour, 1 egg, % teaspoon soda, 1 tea- spoonful each cinnamon, ginger, cloves and nutmeg. Molasses Cake. One and a half cups molasses, % cup sugar, 3 cups flour, 1 level teaspoonful soda, l 1 /^ tablespoonful of but- ter, 1 egg, 1 cup boiling water, added the last thing. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 57 Mix molasses, sugar and butter together, and heat just a little. Then add egg, soda and flour. The flour should be sifted before measured. Marble Cake. Three cups granulated sugar, 1 cup butter, 1 cup milk, 8 whites of eggs beaten stiff, 5 cups flour, 3 tea- spoons baking powder. For the colored part 1 tea- spoon ground cloves. 2 teaspoons cinnamon, ^ tea- spoon nutmeg. Mrs. Hege. Wedding Cake. One pound flour, 1 pound sugar, l 1 /^ pound butter, l /2 pound citron, 4 pounds currants, 4 pounds raisins, 9 eggs, 1 tablespoon each of cloves, cinnamon, mace, nutmeg and 3 gills of coffee. Steam 4 hours, then bake until dry or about half an hour. Mrs. F. E. Harvey. Angel Food. Whites of 1 dozen eggs, l 1 /^ cups sifted powdered sugar, 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon cream tartar, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat the whites very stiff, beat in sugar slowly, mix the r'ream of tartar slowly with the flour, and sift slowly into the eggs, stirring all the time, add the flavoring. Place in a fake pan that has never been greased. Bake in a moderate over % of hour. Mrs. J. M. Woodruff. White Loaf. Eight whites of eggs, 2 cups powdered sugar or 1V 2 cups granulated sugar, 1/2 cup butter, % cup milk, 3 cups flour, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder. Pearl Cake. Two cups of sugar, 1 cup butter; stir this to a cream. Add 1 cup cornstarch. 1 cup sweet milk; beat in the whites of 5 eggs, beat it to a froth, 2 cups flour, 2 tea- spoonfuls baking powder, mix in the flour. Mrs. C. A. Yelsley. 5 8 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK One Egg Cake. One cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1 egg or whites of 2, or yolks of 2 or 3 eggs, 1 cup sweet milk, 2 cups flour, 21/2 teaspoons baking powder. Flavor to taste. Mrs. McKnight. Devil's Food Cake. Three-fourths cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 1 cup milk, 2y 2 cups flour, 1/2 cup cocoa, 4 eggs, 2 teaspoons baking nowder, vanilla. Mrs. Burford. Chocolate Cake. Two squares Baker's Chocolate, yolk of 1 egg, 1/2 cup sweet milk. Put together in dish on stove over hot water until thick like custard. Add to that 1 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup milk (sweet or sour), butter size of egg, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon baking powder, pinch of salt, l 1 /^ cups flour, flavoring, 1 cup chopped nuts. Icing 1 square chocolate, 1 cup powdered sugar, moisten with milk. Miss Hanvey. Chocolate Nut Cake. Two cups of sugar, 1 cup of bu f ter. 1 cup mashed potatoes. 4 eggs beaten separately. 1 cup of milk, cin- namon and cloves to taste, 1 cup of English walnuts, allspice, 2 tablespoons grated chocolate, "2 cups of flour, 4 level teaspoons of baking powder, nutmeg. Bake in a slow oven about 45 minutes. Mrs. Frank Tyrrell. Nut Cake. Half cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 3 cups flour, i/ 2 cup sweet milk, 2 cups chopped nuts, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 4 eggs beaten separately. Mrs. Burson. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 59 Raisin Cake. A good luncheon or tea-cake may be made as fol- lows: Mix a teaspoon of baking powder and a pinch of salt with 2 cups of flour, rub into this 2 tablespoon- fuls of butter. Then add */2 cup of sugar, 1/2 cup of raisins and citron mixed, ^ cup of walnuts; then beat 1 egg with 1/2 cupful of sweet milk and add to dry in- gredients. Bake in loaf 1 hour. Mrs. W. J. Jeter. Apple Sauce Cake. 1 cup sugar, butter size of egg, cream together. Add 1 l /2 cups warm apple sauce (sweetened), 2% cups flour (sifted), 1 teaspoon cinnamon, */ teaspoon cloves, 1 cup chopped raisins, 2 scant teaspoons soda dissolved in about 1 tablespoon boiling water and add last. Put batter in pan and let stand 10 minutes before baking. Bake as loaf cake about 1 hour in moderate oven. Mrs. S. J. Chapman. Apple Sauce Cake. One and a half cups sugar, 2 level tablespoons but- ter, 1 cup raisins chopped (not too fine), 2 cups flour. 1 teaspoon cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cloves and salt, 1 level teaspoonful soda dissolved in y? cup cold water. Then stir in 1 cup hot apple sance and whip till frothy, put with cake batter and beat till mixed., Bake in papered pan in moderate oven for nearly 1 hour. Mrs. Caroline Dickinson, Portland, Oregon. Potato Cake. Two-thirds cup of butter, and 2 cups of sugar creamed, 4 eggs, yolks and whites beaten separately. 1 cup mashed potatoes, 1 cup chopped walnuts, ^2 cup of milk, i/o cup grated chocolate, 2 cups of flour, 1 tea- spoon each of cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice, beaten whites of eggs and stir into cake batter last. Mrs. M. Gale. 60 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Potato Caramel Cake. Two-thirds cup of butter. 2 cups of sugar, 2 cups of flour, 1 cup mashed potato (hot), % cup of sweet milk, 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Stir in walnuts in 1 cup of grated chocolate. 1 cup chopped walnuts, 4 eggs, 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder, 1 teaspoonful of vanilla, 1 teaspoonful each of cloves, cinnamon and spoon ground cloves. 2 teaspoons cinnamon, % tea nutmeg. Cream butter and sugar and yolks of the eggs, add the milk, the mashed potato (hot), spice and chocolate; sift the baking powder into the flour and beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, stir the flour into the batter, and lastly beat in the whites of the eggs ; the nuts are added the last thing before put- ting into the oven. This makes a large cake, enough for a small loaf and a layer cake, or one big loaf cake. Good. Alice Claypool. Sour Milk Cake. Half cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 4 cups flour, 1 cup sour milk, 4 eggs, 1 even teaspoon soda. Add spice and fruit if wanted. Rind and juice of 1 lemon. Bake in loaf. Half of receipt makes a nice loaf. Gold Loaf. Eight yolks of eggs. 1 cup granulated sugar, i/o cup butter, 1/2 cup milk, iy 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoonfuls bak- ing powder. Cream butter and sugar. Beat yolks to stiff froth and stir thoroughly, put in milk then flour, stir hard. Mrs. Hege. Blackberry Cake. Scant 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 3 egg yolks. 3 table- spoons sour milk, 11/2 cups flour, i/o teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1/1 teaspoon cloves, % teaspoon nutmeg, 1 teaspoon soda (measured after sifting), % cup black- THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 61 berry jam, well beaten whites of 2 eggs. Cream the butter, add the sugar, then beat in the yolks of the eggs ; add the sour milk, the sifted dry ingredients and the jam. Beat well and the very last thing fold in the whites of the eggs. Bake in a moderate oven in 3 small, well greased layer cake pans for about ten minutes. Put the layers together with cooked icing made as follows : Boil 1 cup sugar with 14 cup water until it threads; then gradually pour the syrup upon the remaining white of the eggs, well beaten ; while adding the syrup to the egg beat constantly. Flavor. This cake may be baked in a sheet and served as a pudding with a sauce. Mrs. E. D. Draper. Delicious Jelly Roll. Three eggs, 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon va- nilla, 1 teaspoon baking powder. Bake in large shal- low pan, spread with jelly, roll. . Mrs. F. S. Williams. Sponge Cake. Seven eggs, l 1 /^ cups granulated sugar, l 1 /^ cups flour, % teaspoon cream tartar. Beat yolks thor- oughly ; beat whites about half, add % teaspoon cream tartar and beat very stiff. Stir yolks, sugar, flour, add whites last. Sift sugar and flour 5 times. Sponge Cake. Beat whites of 4 eggs in cake bowl, beat yolks in another bowl. Beat 1 cup granulated sugar with yolks, add to beaten whites and beat again. Add another small cup sugar, beat well; add to this 2 cups sifted flour, level teaspoon baking powder, % cup boiling water, good pinch of salt, flavor to taste. Bake in medium oven in flat pan. Mrs. S. J. Chapman. 62 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Sponge Cake. Two cups granulated sugar, 2 cups flour, ^ cup water, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, 4 eggs, juice of 1 orange. Beat yolks and whites separaiely. Mix sugar and beaten yolks together, sift flour and bak- ing powder together several times. Add water and orange juice to eggs and sugar, then the whites and lastly flour, which must be folded in, not beaten. Mrs. W. T. Hook. White Sponge. One cup pulverized sugar, Y> cup butter, l /2 cup milk, 3 whites of eggs beaten stiff, 1% cups of flour, 2 tea- spoons baking powder. Cup Cake. Two cups of granulated sugar, % cup of butter, 3 eggs, 1 cup milk, 1 cup eornstarch, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder. Mrs. Hege. Cream Cake. One and a half cups sugar, y 2 cup butter, 1 cup sweet milk, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 4 whites of eggs, flavoring; makes 3 layers. FILLING One cup sweet milk, 1 beaten egg, ^ cup sugar, teaspoon butter, 1 tablespoon cornstarch. Stir egg, sugar and cornstarch together, turn into boiling milk and cook till thick. Flavor when cool. Very good. Mrs. S. J. Chapman. Orange Cake. One cup sugar, 1 cup flour, 4 tablespoons butter, 7 tablespoons milk, 3 eggs (save iy 2 whites for filling), 1 teaspoon baking powder, peel of orange to suit taste. FILLING One cup sugar boiled until it will string, whites of eggs beaten stiff, add to sugar. Grate orange peel and add juice of 1 orange. Cora U. Colt. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 63 Raisin Cake. One quarter cup butter or lard, 1 cup sugar, % cup milk, 2!/2 teaspoons of baking powder, 2 eggs, % tea- spoon vanilla, 1% cups of flour. I 1 /! cups of chopped raisins. Cream butter, add sugar gradually, add beaten eggs and milk, add flour sifted with baking powder, vanilla and raisins. Bake in layer tins about 20 to 30 minutes. FILLING Whip 1% cups of heavy cream until stiff, add 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, 2t ablespoons powdered sugar. 314 cups finely chopped raisins. Grace Lohman. Good Plain Cake. Two cups sugar. % cup butter, 3 eggs, 1 cup milk, 3 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder. The white of 1 egg may be saved out for icing. Bake either in lay- ers or as a loaf cake. CARAMEL ICING Three cups light brown sugar, l /2 cup sweet milk, butter the size of a small egg. Boil slowly until it will form a ball when dropped into cold water. Add 1 tablespoon vanilla when removed from the fire and beat until it begins to cream. Mrs. M. R. Matthews. Sour Cream Layer Cake. Two eggs. 1 cup sugar. 1 cup sour cream. 2 cups sifted flour. 1 teaspoon soda. MOCHA FILLING Two cups powdered sugar, y 2 cup butter. 1 teaspoon ground cocoa, 1 teaspoon flavor- ing i/t cup strong coffee. Cream butter, sugar and oocoa together, then add flavoring and coffee enough to make thin enough to spread. Do not put filling on cake until the cake is perfectly cold, as a warm cake would melt the butter in the filling. Mrs. Jennie Howell. A Practical Three-Layer Cake. One cup sugar, 1-3 cup butter, 2 eggs, 1 cup sweet 64 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK milk, 2y 2 cups flour, 2V 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, 1 teaspoonful vanilla. Mix in order given, adding the beaten whites last. Mrs. W. J. Jeter. Delicate Cake. Half cup butter, 2 cups sugar, % cup sweet milk. 3 cups flour sifted twice, 3 small teaspoonfuls baking powder, whites of 6 eggs, 1 teaspoonful flavoring. Mix in the order given. Bake in shallow pans about 20 minutes. Mrs. W. J. Jeter. McDonald Cake. One cup butter, l 1 /^ cups sugar creamed together, 4 yolks eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla, y> cup milk, ^2 C11 P Gornstarch, % cup pastry flour, 1 teaspoon cream tar- tar, 1/2 teaspoon soda, whites, 4 eggs. Mix in order given. Bake in shallow tins in moderate oven. Alyce S. Newton. Chocolate Cake. Two ounces chocolate (4 large tablespoons), 2 egg yolks, !/2 cup milk; cook in double boiler till thick; 1 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons butter, i/o teaspoon soda in a little warm water and add to l /o cup of sweet milk, l 1 /^ cups flour. Add creamed butter and sugar to paste and beat well, then soda and milk with flour alternately. FROSTING One cupful sugar, i/2 cup water, 1 egg white. Boil sugar and water till it threads from fork. Pour into well beaten egg. Mrs. S. B. Snyder. Sour Cream Cake. One cup sugar. 2 eggs, 1 cup sour cream, 2 cups flour, 11/2 teaspoons baking powder, % teaspoon soda dissolved in boiling water, flavor to taste. Mix sugar and eggs well, without beating whites separately, then add cream and dry materials. Bake in 3 layers. Mrs. Jeter. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 65 Prune Cake. One cup sugar, y 2 cup butter, yolks of 3 eggs, 3 table- spoons sour milk, 1 cup stewed prunes, 1% cups flour, 1 level teaspoon baking powder, ^ teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon each cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg and' vanilla. Bake in 3 layers using whites of. eggs for frosting. Mrs. B. W. Kelly. White Cake. Two cups sugar, 1 cup milk, 3 cups flour, not too full, 2-3 cup butter, 2 teaspons baking powder, 1 tea- spoon vanilla, whites of 4 eggs beaten stiff. Add a small pinch of cream of tartar to whites of eggs. Mrs. J. H. Cord. White Cake. One and a half cups sugar, i/o cup butter, % cup milk, I 1 /? cup flour, !/2 cup cornstarch, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon vanilla, whites of 6 eggs. Bake in 2 layers with frosting. Mrs. T. L. Lane. White Cake. One cup sugar, !/2 scant cup butter, y 2 cup milk or water, 2 cups flour, whites 4 eggs, 2 teaspoons baking ( powder, extract. Mrs. Stewart. Delicate Cake. Half cup butter, 2 cups ugar, 1 cup sweet milk, 2% cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, and the whites of 4 eggs, flavor to taste. ICING Two cups sugar, 8 tablespoons milk, butter the size of a walnut. Boil till it forms a soft ball in cold water, pour into platter. When cool, beat until white and spread on cake. Add flavoring as desired. Mrs. McKelvey. 66 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Economical Layer Cake. One cup fine granulated sugar, i/4 cup "Cottosuet," 2-3 cup sweet milk, 2 eggs, 2 even cups unsifted flour, 2 rounding teaspoons baking powder, *4 teaspoon salt. Stir sugar, "Cottosuet" and salt to a smooth cream, break eggs into side of dish and beat until light, grad- ually working in the sugar. Sift flour and baking pow- der together three times. Ad milk and flour in small portions alternating till all is used. Flavor to taste. This makes 2 large or 3 small layers. Mrs. William Gregory. Fig Cake. Two cups sugar, 1 small cup butter, 2 cups jam, 6 eggs, 1 cup sour milk, 1 teaspoon soda, 4 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, nutmeg and cinnamon to taste. Half of entire recipe makes 3 layers. Mrs. Hege. Devil's Food Cake. I. Three-quarters cup grated chocolate, % cup sweet milk, % cup dark brown sugar. II. Half cup butter, 1 cup dark brown sugar, y 2 cup sweet milk, 2 cups flour, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Cook part I till thick. Cool and stir slowly into part II. Bake in 3 layers or in loaf. Be careful in mixing. Mrs. Charles B. Hammond. Orange Layer Cake. Half cup butter melted, 1 egg, 1 cupful sugar, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoon fuls baking powder, 2-3 cup milk. Beat egg lightly, add sugar, then butter, mix well. Sift flour and baking powder alternately with the milk. Flavor with lemon extract. This will make 3 layers. FILLING One tablespoon butter, 1 cup XX confec- tioner's sugar, yolk 1 egg, juice 1 orange. Work the butter until very soft, sift into it the sugar and mix will until half is used and add the egg, then work in THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 67 remainder of sugar and orange juice. Use your own judgment as to how much juice is needed to spread. ICING Mix pulverized sugar with the white of the egg for the top of the cake. Mrs. H. B. Brace. Chocolate Cake. Two cups brown sugar, 2 squares of chocolate melted over the teakettle, then stir it in the sugar, % cup of butter, 2 eggs (save white of one for frosting), 1 cup sweet milk, 1 small teaspoon of soda sifted 4 times with 2 even cups of flour, 1 teaspoon of vanilla. Miss Vera DeForest. Maud 8. Cake. Make a custard of S tablespoonfuls of grated choco- late, 5 tablespoonfuls of granulated sugar and % cup of milk, boil until a little thick and let cool. CAKE Half cup of butter, 1% cups of brown sugar, stir well and add 3 eggs, dropping 1 at a time, beat well, take % cup flour with 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder, then pour in custard, stir well and add to^all 1% cups of flour and % cup of milk, flavor with va- nilla. Bake in 3 layers. FILLING One cup of granulated sugar, % cup milk. Let boil until it drops from spoon in strings. Pour into bowl and add 1 teaspoon of flour. Beat a few minutes and let stand until cool and thick enough +o spread on cake without running. Or plain boiled icing will answer. Alice Claypool. One, Two, Three, Four Cake. One cup of butter, 2 cups sugar. 3 cups flour, 4 eggs. 1 cup of milk. 2 teaspoons baking powder, i/o teaspoon each of vanilla and lemon extract. Good for solid or any layer cake. Mrs. S. B. Snyder. 68 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Prune Cake. One teacup prunes stewed thoroughly, remove pits and run through grinder ; 1 cup sugar and % cup but- ter creamed together. Break 2 eggs into this and beat until light, add 1 heaping teaspoon nutmeg, cinnamon. % teaspoon allspice, cloves, 4 heaping teaspoons coeoa. add chopped prunes, 1 teacup sour cream in which is dissolved 1 teaspoon soda, 1% cups flour, 2 heaping teaspoons baking powder, vanilla. Bake in three lay- ers, in moderate oven twelve minutes. Add 1 cupp cur- rants or raisins, as desired, making icing of powdered sugar and orange juice. Mrs. Carrie Stone Freeman. Layer Cake. One and a half cups flour, 1 cup sugar. 4 'ablespoons of melted butter, yolks of 2 eggs, white of 1 egg. milk. 2 teaspoons of baking powder, flavoring. Sift the flonr, sugar and baking powder together 4 or 5 times. Beat the eggs, add the melted butter to eggs, put in cup and fill cup with milk. Mix wet ingredients into dry ingredients and add sufficient milk to make a rather thin batter, add flavoring and bake about twenty minutes. ICING To 1 cup of sugar add four tablespoons of water, boil slowly until it hairs, beat into the well beaten white of one egg, add a few drops of flavoring and beat until cold before putting on cake. Miss Mabel Harris. Golden Cream Cake. Half cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 1 cup sweet milk, 3 cups flour, 4 level teaspoons baking powder, whites of 4 eggs, 1 teaspoon of vanilla. Measure on the level. Cream butter and sugar, add milk, sift flour and bak- ing powder 3 times, add alternately with the well beaten whites of eggs, add vanilla, bake in 3 layers. ICING One cup of sweet milk and 1 tablespoon of THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 69 butter, put in the double boiler; blend 2 level table- spoons of cornstarch with 1 cup sugar, add the well beaten yolks of the 4 eggs, stir into the boilng milk until it thickens ; take from the fire and add the grated yellow rind and the juice of 1 lemon. When cold spread between the layers. Ice the top and sides with plain icing. Mrs. John A. Cottle. Sunshine Cake. White part, 1 layer Whites of 5 eggs, % cup sugar, l /2 cup flour sifted twice, small teaspoon cream tartar, 1 teaspoohful vanilla, a little salt. Yellow part, 2 layers Yolks of 5 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 1-3 cups flour, a /2 cup sweet milk, 1 teaspoonful cream, 1 teaspoonful vanilla, ^ teaspoonful soda, little salt. Put together with icing; if bread flour is used, a little scant. ICING One and a half cups sugar, 5 tablespoons milk, a little hot water. Boil until it will wax in water, set in a pan of water until cool, then stir until white and creamy, when ready to put on cake add a little water. Mrs. F. E. Harvey. Marshmallows on Cake. Heat marshmallows in oven. When puffed, arrange on top of cake and pour boiled frosting over them. Mrs. Gilmer. 70 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Los Angeles, Cal. Dear Friend :- In regard to your question as to which is the more important and healthful, a GOOD COOK or a GOOD AUTOMOBILE, I must say this is rather a delicate question to decide. We all know that a poor cook means ruined stomachs, bad tempers and a broken home ; a poor automobile racks the nerves, tries the temper and the result is often a break down, with perhaps permanent injury or death. On the other hand, a good cook means, good health, pleasant dis- positions and a happy home ; a good automobile relieves nerve tension, invigorates the whole system and is a joy forever. Now the question arises, where can such cooks and such an automobile be found? In reading this book you find the cooks. The automobile, well, there is only one that I could recom- mend: that one is the Moline. Wm. Gregory sells it at 602 N. Main St. Los Angeles. You will find this machine perfection itself. You can't make a mistake in buy- ing one. Very truly yours 72 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK REAL ESTATE 315 DOUGLAS BLDG. LOS ANGELES, CAL. Phones West 360 Home 72716 H. E. SMITH'S GROCERY A Store well filled with the best the marKet affords.... 2311 S. VERMONT AVE. LOS ANGELES -PHONE WEST 5144 HOME 72858- Just remember when you want anything from the drug store in a hurry to telephone us. Goods will be selected carefully and delivered "RUSH" at no extra cost to you. This service is for you use it. WILBUR W. KEIM PRESCRIPTION PHARMACIST 189O W. WASHINGTON ST. LOS ANGELES. CAL. F. C. KINGSTON 758 S. HILL ST. LOS ANGELES Southern California Sales Agency Duntley Pneumatic Cleaners THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 73 Centennial Cookies. One and a half cups sugar. 2-3 cup butter, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in 4 tablespoonfuls of sweet milk, 1 teacup raisins (seeded and chopped fine), spice with ground cinnamon and cloves, 1 heaping teaspoon- ful baking powder in flour; flavor with lemon to taste. Flour enough to roll easily. Mrs. McKnight. Scottish Fancies. One egg, ^ cup sugar, 2-3 tablespoon melted butter, 2-3 cup rolled oats. % cup cocoanut, 1-3 teaspoon salt, l /4 teaspoon vanilla. Add all together and put in a pan, 1 teaspoonful in a place, bake until brown. Take out of pan onto flat surface to cool. Miss Vera DeForest. Nut Cookies. Four eggs, 2 cups sugar, 1 cup raisins, 1 cup wal- nuts, 2-3 cup butter, flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder. Honey Cookies. One and a half cups butter, 2 cups brown sugar, 2 cups honey, 4 eggs, spice, nuts, % teaspoon of soda, flour to make it stiff. Sour Cream Cookies. Two cups sugar, 1 cup sour cream, 2 eggs, nutmeg and lemon extract if desired, 1 ; teaspoon soda, flour enough to mix. Mrs. Hegre. 74 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Hard Cookies. Two cups sugar, 1 cup butter, 1 cup sour milk, 1 level teaspoon soda, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon lemon flavoring. Cream butter and sugar, add the egg, then sour milk and soda with enough flour to make a dough as soft as can be handled. Roll very thin and bake in floured pan. Cookies. Three eggs, l 1 /^ cups sugar. 1 cup butter and lard. salt, 11/2 teaspoon baking powder, flour enough to make soft dough. Melt butter, stir in sugar, then eggs, flour, baking powder and essence. Cora U. Colt. Hermits. Three eggs, 1 cup butter, 1% cups sugar, 1 cup chopped seeded raisins, very little chopped citron, 1 teaspoon each of cloves, allspice and cinnamon, flour enough to roll. Cut in rounds. Cora U. Colt Fingers. One-quarter pint sugar and three eggs beat until very stiff. Mix in quickly, without beating, ^ pint flour. Put into funnel of paper, squeeze out into lady fingers on paper, sprinkle with powdered sugar. Bake in quick oven, dampen back of paper, pull off, put to- gether two and two. Ginger Wafers. One cup brown sugar, 1 cup molasses. 1 cup but- ter or lard, % cup made coffee. 2 teaspoonfuls soda, 1 tablespoonful ginger. Roll very thin. Excellent. Rolled Oat Cookies. One cup lard, 1 cup brown sugar, 2 eggs, 2 table- spoons milk, 1/4 teaspoon soda dissolved in little warm water, 1 cup flour, 3 cups rolled oats, 1 teaspoonful THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 75 each of nutmeg, cinnamon and vanilla, 1 cup of wal- nuts sliced with knife. Mix well and let stand 1 hour before baking. Drop on ungreased pan with teaspoon. Mrs. M. Gale. Oatmeal Cookies. One cup sugar, % cup butter creamed, 2 eggs, 1 tea- spoon vanilla, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, scant ^ teaspoon salt ; (no liquid) ; 2^ cups dry oatmeal, 2 cups flour. % teaspoon soda sifted in flour, 1 cup chopped raisins. Place a teaspoonful of mixture on unbuttered tins, like macaroons; moderate oven. Mrs. Gilmer. Oatmeal Cookies. One tablespoon butter, % cup sugar, 1 cup rolled oats, 1 egg. Drop on buttered pan and bake. Mrs. O. Stewart. Oatmeal Cookies. . One and a half cups sugar. 3 packed cups oatmeal. 2-3 cup shortening, 1 cup sweet milk. 1 level teaspoon soda dissolved in milk. 1 teaspoon vanilla, enough flour to roll. Roll thin and bake in a quick oven. Mrs. John T. Stivers. Soft Hermits. One cup sugar, 1 cup ' ' Cottosuet, " 1 egg, 1 cup mo- lasses, 1 cup sour milk. 1 cup chopped raisins, 1 tea- spoon soda, 1 teaspoon cloves, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, pinch salt, 4 cups sifted flour. Mix well and drop from teaspoon into buttered pan and make in not too hot an oven. Mrs. F. 8. Williams Kringles. One cup butter, 1 cup sweet cream, 1 teaspoon bak- ing powder sifted into a quart of flour, mix flour and cream, and softened butter; roll very thin and spread 76 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK butter on top, fold together and roll; repeat 3 or 4 times, lastly roll about l / inch in thickness, cut into strips % inch wide and form into the figure 8, dip in sugar, bake brown in quick oven. Mrs. W. J. Jeter. Eggless Cookies. Three cups sugar, 1 cup shortening creamed together, pint sweet milk, % ounce carbamonia dissolved in the milk, 1 tablespoon baking powder mixed in 5 of flour. Beat well. Flavor to suit taste, knead in enough flour to make stiff dough, roll thin and bake in quick oven. Will make 3 gallons cookies. Improve with age. Mrs. James M. Davison. Marguerites. One cupful granulated sugar, 1-3 cupful water. Boil together until stiff, not brittle, when tried in cold water. Beat the white of an egg to a stiff froth. Turn on the boiling syrup, beating hard until it creams. Mix 1 large cup of walnut meats into the cream and spread on Saratoga wafers. Especially nice for luncheon. Mrs. John T. Stivers Boston Cookies. One cup butter, 1% cups sugar, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon soda, li/2 tablespoon hot water, 3*4 cups flour, ^2 tea- spoon salt, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 cup nut meats, !/2 cup currants, 1-3 cup raisons, seeded and chopped. Cream butter, add sugar slowly and eggs well beaten, and soda dissolved in the hot water. Add % the flour mixed and sifted with salt and cinnamon. Then add the remaining flour with nuts and fruit. Drop by spoonful on a greased pan and bake. Cocoanut Cookies. Two eggs, 1 cup sugar, % cup butter, 1 cup shredded THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 77 cocoanut, ^ teaspoon soda, 2 tablespoonfuls sour milk, flour to roll. Mrs. F. E. Harvey. Scotch Cake. One pound of brown sugar, 1 pound of flour. y 2 pound of butter, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Roll very thin and bake in quick oven. Mrs. Burson Chocolate Squares. Half cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, % cup flour, 1 cup English walnuts (chopped), 2 squares chocolate (add last thing). Spread thin on buttered tins, bake about 15 minutes and cut in squares while hot. A Friend Rocks. One cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 3 cups flour (sifted), 3 eggs, 1 Ib. seeded raisins (chopped), 1 Ib. walnuts (chopped), 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon vanilla. !/2 teaspoon baking powder. Mix sugar and butter to- gether, break in eggs one at a time, add flour and bak- ing powder, cinnamon and flavoring, nuts and raisins. Drop on butter tins about size of walnuts and bake in a moderate oven. cTWrs. D. E. Ferguson Doughnuts. Three eggs beaten very light, 1% cups fine granu- lated sugar. 1 cup sour cream (heavy), 2 cups sour milk, 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder, 1 even tea- spoon soda. 1 even teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, V-i teaspoon cloves, l /o teaspoon nutmeg, flour to roll soft. Fry in hot fat. " c/Wrs. Sylvia Grossman Raised Doughnuts. One tepcpp milk, 1% teacups hot water, y 2 - teacup lard, 1 teaspoon salt; 2-3 cup soft yeast; thicken with 78 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK' Hour. Let this get very light, then add I cup sugar, 2 eggs, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, */ teaspoon soda. Mix stiff and let s and over night. Roll in morning, and when light cut and fry in hot "Silver Leaf Lard." Be- fore serving, roll in pulverized sugar. Mrs. C. E. Hammond. Fine Crullers. One cup sour cream, 1 level teaspoon soda, 1% cups powdered sugar, 5 eggs, beaten separately, flour enough to roll, cut thin and fry in deep fat. oTVfrs. Burson Crullers. One cup sugar, 1 cup sour cream, butter size of wal- nut, 3 eggs, 1 even teaspoon soda, little cinnamon and nutmeg, flour as thick as for jumbles. Stir butter and sugar together ; when creamed add eggs, then flour and sour milk. Roll out, cut in rings and boil in lard until nicely browned. While still hot, roll in powdered sugar. A Friend Potato Crullers. Half cup mashed potatoes mixed well with same amount of sweet milk, pinch of salt, 2 teaspoons bak- ing powder, flour to roll ; fry in strips in deep fat. Serve with maple syrup. Mrs. S. B. Snyder. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 79 ''Who'll dare deny the truth. There's Poetry in pie?" Pastry for One Pie. One cup sifted flour, 1 heaping tablespoon "Suet- ene," a little salt. Rub the shortening in the flour, use cold water enough to form into a dough, then roll out the under crust and put on the pie tin. Roll out the upper crust and put bits of butter on , it not sparingly dust it with flour, fold and roll repeat. If you wish it very nice, repeat third time, folding in opposite ways each time. Mrs. Gilmer. Pastry Enough for One Pie. One pint flour, 2 tablespoons of ''Silver Leaf Lard." 3 tablespoons of water, pinch of salt. Mrs. T. L. Lane. Cream Pie. One cup sugar, yolks of 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon flour, 1 tablespoon water, 1 cup sweet milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Cook until it thickens; then put into baked crust ; use whites of eggs beaten with a little sugar on the top. Mrs. McKnight. Lemon Cream Pie. Three eggs. 5 tablespoonfuls of sugar, 1 tablespoon- ful of butter, 1 cup of sweet milk, 2 tablespoons of flour, 1 lemon (grated yellow rind and juice). Blend thoroughly the sugar, flour and grated lemon rind. Add the well beaten yolks of eggs, beat until very light. 8o THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Put milk and butter in a double boiler, and when boil- ing hot add the well beaten mixtures; stir until it thickens; pour into a rich crust that has been previ- ously baked; spread the well beaten whites (with 3 teaspoonfuls of sugar and a little lemon juice) on top of the pie and brown lightly in the oven. This is delicious. Mrs. John A. Cottle Lemon Pie. One len^on (juice and grated rind), 4 eggs, 1 cup sugar. Cook in double boiler, yolks of eggs and 34 cup sugar. When thick remove from fire and add beaten whites of 2 eggs. Use remaining l / cup sugar and 2 egg whites for meringue. Mrs. S. B. Snyder. Lemon Pie. (For 2 Pies.) Four eggs (save 1 white for top of pie), 2 cups of sugar, 2 tablespoonsfuls flour (large), 2 cups of hot water. y 2 glass lemon juice, grated rind of 2 lemons, piece of butter twice size of walnut. Bake crust be- fore putting in custard. Beat the white of eggs with 2 1 ablespoonf uls of sugar, and put on top. Bake a light brown. s. Kinney Lemon Pie. One cup boiling water. 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, l 1 /^ tablespoons cornstarch, 1 lemon, biitter size of a wal- nut: put water, sugar and butter on stove, and when boiling add cornstarch previously dissolved in a little warm water. Next add the yolks of eggs and then the grated rind and juice of lemon. Line the pie pan with a rich pastry and bake first, then fill with the custard and put on the whites of the eggs and brown. Cora U. Colt THE. MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 81 Lemon Pie. Half cup fine bread crumbs, just enough milk to swell them, 2 eggs, 3 tablespoonfuls of sugar, 2 of butter, juice of 1 lemon, grated rind of two. Beat sugar and butter to a cream, add beaten eggs and lemon juice, and last, the bread and milk. Partially bake the crust. Keep out the whites of the eggs for meringue, if pre- ferred. Mrs. Gilmer. Raisin Pie. Cream, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 scant cup of sugar, yolks of 2 eggs! cover cup of raisins with water and boil until soft; then mix and flavor; use whites with sugar for top. Mrs. McKnight. Southern Pie. Chop 1 cup cranberries. 1 cup seeded raisins, and 1 cup mixed nuts and figs together. Then stir in 1 cup granulated sugar, 1 tablespoon of flour, a saltspoon of salt, % of a cup of water, and 1 teaspoon of Vanilla. Scatter chopped nuts over the top and bake in upper and lower crust. Mrs. Gilmer. Raisin Pie. One coffee cup chopped raisins, 1 cup cream, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 tablespoon ^ornstarch. 1 egg, flavor with vanilla. Cook the raisins in the cream until tender. Add other ingredients and bake in double crust. Mrs. M. R. Matthews. < Mock Cherry Pie. One cupful cranberries cut in halves or chopped, % cup seeded raisins chopped fine, 1 tablespoon flour 82 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK mixed with 1 cup sugar ; pour on y 2 cup boiling water, add teaspoon vanilla. Bake in double crust. Mrs. F. E. Harvey. Banana Pie. Mix together !/2 cup sugar and 2 tablespoons flour, add 2 cups of sweet milk and yolks of 2 eggs, flavoring. Cook in double boiler until thick. Bake an open crust. Cut a banana in fine pieces and put thickly over bottom of crust. Add the cooked filling and the beaten whites of the egges placed on the top. * Bake in a hot oven until the whites are brown. Mrs. White. Caramel Pie (two pies). One cup dark brown sugar, 1 cup granulated sugar, 4 heaping tablespoons flour, yolks of 2 eggs. Mix all together and add gradually one quart of water, 1/2 tablespoon butter and vanilla to taste. Cook until it thickens. FROSTING Whites of two eggs beaten stiff, add 2 ^ablespoons brown sugar. Bake with one crust. Mrs. C. E. Rice Cream Pie. One cup sugar, butter size of small walnut, yolks of two eggs, pinch of salt, 2 small tablespoons flour, V 2 teaspoon lemon extract, 2 cups hot water. Cook in double boiler. Fill a previously baked crust and cover with meringue made with whites of 2 eggs and 2 table- spoons sugar, pinch of salt, and !/4 teaspoon vanilla. Mrs. Furgeson THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 83 "Man shall not live by bread alone." Marshn: allow Cream Pudding. One tablespoonful granulated gelatine dissolved in 1/2 cup of cold water; put it over the fire and bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Take it oft 6 and stir in 1 cupful of cold water; let it stand while you beat the whites of 4 eggs to a standing froth; add to this 1 cupful of sugar and the gelatine. Beat steadily until it begins to thicken. Stir into it 2 teaspoonfuls of vanilla, and 1 cupful of chopped English walnuts. \Yhen very thick form into molds ami set upon ice. Serve with whipped cream and candied cherries. This recipe makes enough for ten people. Mrs. Jeter. Chocolate Cream Pudding. Two ounces (4 tablespoons or 1 square) of chocolate, 3 level teaspoons corn starch mixed with 6 tablespoons cold water, 1 pint boiling water, whites of 3 eggs, % cup of sugar. Pour boiling water on to cornstarch and cook a little. Add chocolate, then sugar, and cook until chocolate becomes dissolved in mixture. Pour onto beaten whites of eggs and mold in dish. SAUCE Mix together 1 tablespoon cornstarch and 2 tablespoons cold water, then 1 pint scalded milk, add 1 cup sugar. 2 ounces chocolate and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Miss Vera DeForest. Fig Pudding. Two pounds figs washed, dried and minced; 3 cups fine bread crumbs, 4 eggs, 2-3 cup powdered suet. 2 cups milk, 2-3 cup white sugar, a pinch of soda dis- 84 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK solved in hot water and stirred in the milk, a little salt. Soak the crumbs in the milk, stir in the eggs, well beaten; beat all ingredients three minutes. Put in bag and steam 3 hours. Eat hot with brandy sauce. Mrs. Gilmer Fruit Pudding. Beat the whites of 6 eggs very s'iff; add 6 table- spoons granulated sugar, 1 cup blanched almonds, l /z cup candied cherries, juice of 1 orange. 1 teaspoon vanilla. Cut the pineapple from 1 can in little cubes and add 1 "ablespoon Fnox's granulated gelatine, soaked in enough pineapple juice to soak, then add a very little hot water, just enough to dissolve gelatine. Then add to the rest and put in mold. Serve with \\hipped cream with cherries dotted around. Mrs. W. H. DeForest Prune Whip. One-third pound of prunes, ^ cup sugar, whites of 5 eggs, % tablespoon lemon juice. Cook prunes till soft, chop fine, add sugar and cook 5 minutes. Beat whites of eggs till very stiff, add prune mixture grad- ually when cold. Pile lightly in buttered pudding mold ;m:l bake 20 minutes in slow oven. Miss Hanvey, Hollywood, Cal. Pudding. One tablespoon butter, 2 tablespoons sugar, % cup 1 i 1 !'. 1 r up raisins, 1 teaspoon baking powder. Thicken 'nth flour and steam. Apricot Pudding. Butter dish and fill with apricots (either canned or fresh) to depth of 2 inches, season with butter, sugar and cinnamon. Cover with rich biscuit dough and bake till brown. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 85 Apple Fool. Stew 6 large apples and rub through the colander. ^Yhile hot, stir into them a tablespoonful oi melted butter, a cupful, of sugar, and the yolks of 2 eggs, well beaten. Whip all together until light. Put in fruit dish and spread on the top the beaten whites mixed with 3 teaspoonfuls of sugar. Any tart fruit is nice made in this manner. Mrs. L. G. Hoyt. Apple Dumplings (special). Mix 1 cup of sugar and 1 tablespoon flour with cold water t-o the consistency of cream. Then add 1 pint boiling water. Boil and add 1 tablespoon butter and flavor. Peal, core and chop six large apples. Make rich biscuit dough and roll in sheet. Spread apples on dough, sugar and add cinnamon. Eoll and cut into slices. Place in pan, cover with half the sauce and bake and serve hot with remainder of sauce. Mrs. E, G. Taylor Rhubard Pudding. Chop rhubarb pretty fine, put in a pudding dish and sprinkle sugar over it ; make a batter of 1 cupful of sour milk, 2 eggs, a piece of butter the size of an egg, half a teaspoonful of soda, and enough flour to make a batter about as thick as for cake. Spread over the rhubarb and bake. When done, turn out on the platter upside down. Serve with sugar and cream. Mrs. L. G. Hoyt Suet Pudding. One cup of suet, 1 cup of raisins. 1 cup of molasses, 1 cup sweet milk, 1 teaspoon soda, % teaspoon cinna- mon, % teaspoon nutmeg, pinch of salt, flour enough to make like cake dough. Steam three hours. Mrs. Carrie Smyser 86 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Steamed Suet Pudding. One cup molasses, 1 cup finely chopped suet, 1 cup milk, 3 cups flour, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspo'on each of cinnamon, cloves and nutmegs, 1 cup stoned raisins, currants, nuts and citron if wished. Steam 3 or 4 hours. SAUCE Eight tablespoons sugar, 1 tablespoon flour, 2 tablespoons butter, vanilla. Pour on boiling water. and thicken. Mrs. E. W. Kelly. Brown Pudding. Yolks of 2 eggs. % cup cold water, 1 cup molasses (light New Orleans), T-/O teaspoon each of spices, cin- namon and cloves, 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon soda, 1/2 cup hot water. Dissolve soda in hot water. Add molasses, then flour and spices alternately with cold water, and eggs last. Steam 1 hour. SAUCE Whites 2 eggs well beaten, % cup sugar, % cup butter. Melt butter and sugar together and add whites. Flavor to taste. Mrs. S. B. Snyder. Apple Pudding. Pare and chop 6 tart apples, butter a pudding dish, put in a layer of fine bread crumbs, add bits of butter, then a layer of apples with sugar and nutmeg; re- peat until the dish is full, finishing with bread crumbs. Pour over the whole a teacup of hot water, bake half an hour and serve with any preferred sauce. Mrs. C. W. Cord. Steam Pudding. One and a half cups raisins, 1 cup beef suet, 1 cup sour milk, 1 egg, 1 cup syrup. 1 level teaspoon soda, 1 cup nuts, flour for stiff batter. Steam 2 hours. SAUCE Three cups boiling water, 1 tablespoon cornstarch, butter size of walnut, 1 cup sugar, salt and flavoring. Mrs. Stewart. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 87 Eggless Plum Pudding. One heaping cup bread crumbs, 2 cups flour, 1 cup of suet chopped fine, 1 cup of raisins, 1 cup of molasses. 1 cup of sweet milk, 1 teaspoon each of soda, salt, cloves and cinnamon. Fill baking powder cans a little more than, half full, set in kettle of hot water and boil steadily for 2% hours. Mrs. C. W. Cord. Mrs. J. H. Cord. English Steam Pudding. One cup half filled with molasses and finished with brown sugar, 1 cup half filled with butter and finished with chopped suet ; 1 cup raisins. 1 cup sweet milk, 3 cups flour. 1 teaspoon soda, i. egg, pinch of salt. Put this into a well greased pudding pan, and place in a steamer; do not remove cover while pudding is steaming. Steam 3 hours. Mrs. McKnight. Foam Sauce (for above). One and a quarter cups of sugar. 14 cnp butter, yolk of 1 egg. Beat well together, then add the white of the egg beaten very stiff, flavor to taste, then pour 1 cup of boiling water over it just before serving.' Mrs. J. P. McKnight. English Plum Pudding. Half pound of stale bread crumbs, 1 cup scalded milk, 14 lb. granulated sugar, 4 eggs, y 2 Ib. raisins cut in pieces and floured, VA lb. currants. 2 oz. finely cut citron, 14 lb. finely chopped figs, % U>- suet chopped fine, !/4 cup wine, l /i cup brandy. % grated nutmeg, l /2 lb- almonds blanched and chopped fine, 94 teaspoon cinnamon, 1-3 teaspoon cloves, 1-3 teaspoon mace, 1^ teaspoons salt. Soak bread crumbs in milk, let -stand until cool, add sugar, beaten yolk of 3 eggs, raisins, currants, figs, citron, almonds, chopped suet and cream 88 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK by using the hand. Combine mixtures, add wine, brandy and spices and whites of eggs beaten stiff. Turn in buttered mold and steam six hours. Serve with brandy sauce, or hard sauce. Mrs. Hanvey, Hollywood Hard Sauce. One-third cup butter, 1 cup powdered sugar, 1-3 tea- spoon lemon juice or extract, 2-3 teaspoon vanilla. Cream the butter, add sugar gradually and flavoring. Mrs. Hanvey. Hollywood Snow Pudding. To 1 quart of milk add whites of 3 eggs well beaten, 2 tablespoons of cornstarch (dissolved in a little wa- ter), !/2 cup sugar, pi^ch salt. Put all in double boiler and cook until thick. Flavor with vanilla. SAUCE To 1 pint of milk add the yolks of 3 eggs, Mi cup of sugar. Cook in double boiler and flavor with vanilla. Cook until a nice smooth custard. Mrs. C. P. Modie. Date Pudding. Half pound dates washed and chopped, 2 cups wheat flakes, 3 eggs, % cup brown sugar, */2 cup chopped suet, flour enough to dredge fruit and suet. Part II Two tablespoons molasses, ^ teaspoon soda, juice of 1 lemon. Mix the two parts and steam 3 hours. Hard sauce or whipped cream. Mrs. F. E. Harvey. Dandy Pudding. One quart milk, 4 eggs, 2 tablespoons cornstarch, ^ cup sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Put the milk on to boil. Moisten the cornstarch with a little cold milk and add to the boiling milk. Stir constantly and boil 5 minutes. Beat the yolks of eggs and sugar together until light, then add to boiling milk. Take from the fire, add flavoring and pour into a baking dish. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, add 2 table- THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 89 spoons powdered sugar and heap on top of the pud- ding, set in oven until light brown. Serve ice cold. Mrs. John T. Stivers. Steamed Pudding. One cup of black molasses, 1 cup sour milk, 1 cup finely chopped suet, 1 cup seeded raisins, 1 cup coarsely chopped nuts, % cup citron cut small, % cup currants, 1 finely grated carrot, 1 level teaspoon each of soda, cinnamon and salt, % teaspoon each of nutmeg and cloves, heaping teaspoon vanilla, about 3 cups of sifted flour. Steam 3 hours and serve with liquid or hard sauce. Miss Florence Clayton. Apple Fritters. Make a batter with 1 cup sweet milk, 1 teaspoon sugar, 2 eggs, 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder. Cover chopped apples with batter and fry in deep fat. Baked Apple Dumplings. Make a rich pie paste. Pare and core the apples, filling the cavities with sugar, and if preferred a flav- oring of cinnamon or nutmeg. Enclose the apples sep- arately in the pieces of paste, put into a deep pan and pour over the following sauce : SAUCE Three cups water, % cup sugar, butter the size of an egg. Thicken this with 2 level teaspoons of flour. Bake in moderate oven until apples are tender. Mrs. W. J. Jeter. 90 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK "Dainty things for dainty people." Fruit Relish. Eight oranges, 3 lemons, 4 bananas, 3 grape fruit, 1 small can grated pineapple. Sweeten to taste. Mrs. F. C. Webber Breakfast Dish. Wash, core and chop nice apples, fill the dishes, sprinkle with chopped nuts and sugar, and serve with cream. Mrs. Gilmer. Grape Juice Sponge. One pint juice, 2 tablespoons tapioca, cold water, 1 cup sugar, lemon juice, whites of 2 eggs. Heat grape juice, soak tapioca, then add to juice with % teaspoon of lemon juice. Cook until tapioca becomes transpar- ent. When partly cold add whites of eggs beaten stiff. Serve with cream and sugar. Miss Vera DePorest. Lemon Soufle. Yolks of 4 eggs, grated rind and juice of 1 lemon, 1 cup sugar, whites of 4 eggs. Beat whites and yolks separate, add sugar and rind to yolks, then add lemon. Cut whites into mixture after having beaten them stiff. Put in baking dish and place dish in pan of cold water. Do not let water boil. Bake for twenty-five minutes and serve in baking dish. Do not let a draught touch it. Miss Vera De Forest. Banana Snow. Take 6 good ripe bananas, not dark. Cut and slice, THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 91 then mash as fine as possible. Add juice of 1 lemon, the white of 1 egg (whipped). Whip bananas, lemon juice and egg togeiher. The longer you whip the more banana snow you will have. When nearly done add 2 spoonfuls of sugar and whip until sugar is dissolved. When ready to serve add chopped walnuts on top. Mrs. Gilmer Bavarian Cream. One pint cream, 1 cup milk, ^ cup sugar, 1 box gel- atine, 1 square chocolate. Soak gelatine in % cup milk. Whip cream stiff. Melt chocolate, add 2 tablespoons of sugar to it, put in pan with 1 tablespoon of boiling water, stir over fire till smooth. Have the remaining ~y-2 cup milk hot. Stir chocolate into it and add gelatine and rest of sugar. Beat the mixture till it begins to thicken, add whipped cream, mix and put in cold place. Serve with whipped cream. Mrs. Gilmer Spanish Cream. Half box Knox gelatine, 1 quart milk, 4 eggs, 8 table- spoons sugar. Soak gelatine in milk. Put over fire and stir until dissolved. Add yolks of eggs and 4 table- spoons of sugar thoroughly beaten. Stir until it comes to boiling point. Remove from stove and have whites of eggs well beaten with 4 tablespoons of sugar. Add whites, stirring briskly until thoroughly mixed. Flavor with vanilla and pour into molds. Serve with whipped cream. Mrs. O. P. Lockhart. Strawberry Charlotte. Make boiled custard of 1 pint of milk, yolks of 3 eggs, yo cup sugar, 1 tablespoon of cornstarch, flavor- ing to taste. Line a glass dish with lady fingers dipped in sweet cream ; lay upon these ripe strawberries sweet- ened with powdered sugar ; then layer cake and straw- 92 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK berries as before. Just before serving pour over whole the cold custard. Beat whites of eggs to a stiff froth with 3 tablespoons of powdered sugar and spread over top. Decorate with large berries. Mrs. J. M. Woodruft. Date Forte. One cup sugar, 3 eggs, 1 cup chopped dates, 1 cup walnuts, 2y 2 tablespoons flour. 1 teaspoon baking pow- der. Flour the nuts and dates. Beat sugar and eggs very lightly, add flour, then dates and nuts alternately. Bake in moderate oven, serve with whipped cream. Mrs. W. J. Jeter. Shortcake. Three scant cups flour, 1 cup sugar, pinch salt, 3 level teaspoons baking powder, 1-3 cup butter, milk to form soft dough. Mrs. E. W. Kelly Delicious Dessert. Pare the peaches carefully, halve them and remove stones. Chop fine an equal quantity of almonds and English walnuts. Fill the openings from which the stones were taken with the chopped nuts. Fasten the halves together with tiny skewers or wooden tooth- picks, sprinkle 4 or 5 tablespoons sugar over them and set in a saucepan with just enough water to keep from burning. Steam 10 minutes, then set away to cool. Chill thoroughly and serve cold with sugar and cream. Mrs. Harvey. Spanish Cream. Half box Knox's gelatine soaked in 1 cup milk. Put another cup milk on the stove and when hot stir in 5 tablespoons of sugar, the soaked gelatine, and the beaten yolks of 2 eggs. As soon as it begins to thicken take from the fire and stir in the whites beaten to a THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 93 stiff froth, flavor with vanilla, pour into a mold to cool. Serve with cream and sugar. Mrs. M. R. Matthews. Baked Apples. Select large even sized apples, core with thin knife so as not to break them, y 2 cup chopped walnuts, y 2 cup cracker crumbs, y 2 CU P sugar. Soften filling with melted butter, fill apples and bake in oven. SAUCE One-quarter cup water, l / 2 cup butter, iy 2 cups brown sugar, y 2 nutmeg grated. Let boil 2 min- utes, then beat whites of 2 eggs to a stiff froth and slowly stir into syrup. Use while hot. Mrs. Burson. Angel Charlotte Russe. One tablespoon Knox's gelatine, 14 cup cold water, y cup boiling water, 1 cup sugar, 1 pint heavy cream, y 2 dozen or more rolled stale macaroons, 1 dozen or more marshmallows cut in small pieces, 2 tablespoons or more chopped candied cherries, vanilla, 14 pound blanched and chopped almonds. Soak gelatine in cold water, dissolve in boiling water and add sugar. When mixture is cold add cream beaten stiff, almonds, maca- roons, marshmallows and candied cherries. Flavor with vanilla. Turn into a mold first dipped in cold water and chill. A Friend Charlotte Russe. Whip 1 quart of rich cream to stiff froth and drain well on a nice sieve. To 1 scant pint of milk add 6 eggs beaten very light, make very sweet, flavor high with vanilla. Cook over hot water till it is a thick custard. Soak 1 ounce Cox's gelatine in a very little water, and warm over hot water. When the custard is very cold beat in lightly the gelatine and whipped cream. Line bottom of mold with buttered paper, sides 94 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK with sponge cake or lady fingers fastened together with white of egg. Fill with the cream, put on ice. To turn out, dip the mold for a moment in hot water. In draining the whipped cream, all that drips through can be rewhipped. Fine. Mrs. L. M. Anderson Tapioca Cream Custard. Soak 4 heaping tablespoons of tapioca in 2 teacups water over night. Place over the fire a quart of milk, let come to a boil, then stir in the tapioca, a good pinch of salt ; stir until it thickens a little, then add a cupful of sugar and the beaten yolks of 3 eggs. Stir it quickly, pour into a dish and stir gently into the mix- ture the whites beaten stiff, the flavoring, and set to eooi. Fruit Cream. Half box gelatine dissolved in milk for 5 minutes, 2-3 cup sugar, % quart of milk. Heat to boiling point. When cool and just velvety (not set), stirr in 1 quart of whipped cream. Set on ice. Serve with fruit and sugar and cream. Delicious with bananas. Caramel Pudding. One and a half cups sugar, 1 quart of boiling water, 3 tablespoons cornstarch, % pound blanched almonds. Put the sugar in a saucepan and brown to a rich coffee color, pour in the boiling water and thicken with the cornstarch. Put the almonds in molds, pour over them the caramel and set to cool. Serve with whipped cream. Mrs. Anderson. Pineapple Cream. Two cups of milk, 3 tablespoons cornstarch, 3 table- spoons sugar, speck salt, whites 2 eggs, 4 tablespoons THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 95 grated pineapple. Cook as for cornstarch pudding. Remove from fire and fold in lightly the whites of the eggs beaten stiff and the grated pineapple. Serve cold with cream. Escalloped Strawberries. One quart of strawberries and 1 pint of cream are. required. Whip the cream until dry; place a layer of fruit in a deep glass dish, add a sprinkling of sugar and cover with whipped cream ; continue this until all are used, heaping cream on top. Set in a cool place until thoroughly chilled. Mrs. W. J. Jeter. Cranberry Frappe. Boil 1 quart cranberries and 2 cups water for 5 minutes. Strain through cheese cloth, add 2 cups sugar, juice 1 lemon. When cold freeze to a soft mush, serve with or after the turkey course. Y. W. C. A. Cooking School. Strawberry Shortcake. Three tablespoons white sugar, 4 tablespoons butter, 1 quart flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder. Make this into a soft dough with sweet milk. Roll out and bake in jelly cake pans. Mrs. E. Rice 96 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Ices Apricot Ice. One can apricots put through fruit press, 1 bowl sugar, juice of 3 lemons. Add water to make % gal- lon. Add 3 unbeaten whites of eggs last thing. Freeze as you would ice cream. Bavarian Cream. One pint cream, 1 cup milk, l /2 cup sugar, 1 square chocolate, % box gelatine in y% cup milk. Whip cream stiff. Melt chocolate, add a tablespoon of sugar to it, put in pan with 1 tablespoon of boiling water; stir over fire till smooth. Have the remaining % cup milk hot, stir chocolate into it and add gelatine and rest of sugar. Beat the mixture till it begins to thicken, add whipped cream, mix and put in cold place. Serve with whipped cream. Mrs. C. C. Wuddard Chocolate Ice Cream. Beat 2 eggs very light and cream them with 2 cups of sugar. Scald a pint of milk and turn on by degrees, mixing well with the sugar and eggs; stir in this % a cup of grated chocolate; return to the fire and heat until it thickens, stirring briskly. Take from fire and cool. When thoroughly cold freeze. Mrs. John T. Stivers. Five Threes. Three oranges, 3 lemons, 3 bannas, 3 cups of sugar, 3 pints of water. Put sugar and water together, boil for a few minutes. Pour- it over the juice and pulp of the lemons and oranges and bananas mashed fine. When cold freeze stiff. Mrs. J. H. Cord THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 97 Lemon-Orange Sherbet. Juice of 8 oranges, 4 lemons, 2% cups of sugar, 2 cupse water. When ready to put in freezer add 1 pint rich cream and freeze. Mrs. Hammond. Lemon Sherbet. Four lemons, 16 tablespoons of sugar, 1 quart of rich sweet milk, whites of 4 eggs. Dissolve the sugar in the lemon juice thoroughly, add the well beaten whites of eggs and beat until a creamy mass is the result; then very slowly add the sweet milk, beating constantly until all the milk is added. Turn into the freezer and freeze the same as ice cream; pack in ice one hour or longer. This is delicious. Mrs. John A. Cottle Walnut Bisque. Two cups scalded milk, % teaspoon vanilla, few grains salt, yolks 3 eggs, 1-3 cup sugar. Make into boiled custard, cool, add 1 cup cream and beat stiff with bisque made of caramalizing 2-3 cup sugar and 2-3 cup walnut meats, cooled and ground in meat grinder. Freeze. Y. W. C. A. Cooking School Mousse. Two quarts cream to whip, 1 can pineapple, 1 bottle Mareschino cherries, 1 box marshmallows, 1 pound English walnuts. Flavor and sweeten to taste. Whip cream stiff, add fruit cut in small discs and nuts. Do not use juice of pineapple. Pack in freezer as for freezing with ice and salt but do not turn freezer. Mrs. Wudard Vanilla Ice Cream. Scald one pint of fresh cream in a double boiler, add half a pound of granulated sugar and stir constantly THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK until the sugar is dissolved; take from the fire, add another pint of milk and when cold add a tablespoon of vanilla. Turn the mixture into the freezer and freeze. Mrs. John Stivers Raspberry Ice. Boil together 1 quart of water and 1 pound sugar for 5 minutes. Skim and cool. When cold add 1 juart of raspberries and juice of 2 lemons. Put mixture in freezer and turn slowly until frozen. Mrs. Claude E. Quivey. Ice Cream. One and a half pints milk, 2 cups granulated sugar, scant !/4 cup of flour, 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons of gelatine (Cox's), 1 quart of good rich cream. Let the milk come to a boil; beat the eggs and stir in the flour, then add 1 cup of sugar. Add this to the boiling milk and cook 20 minutes. Stir constantly (this insures smooth, velvety cream). Remove from fire and pour in the gelatine dissolved in the usual way. Beat hard for a moment, then set aside to cool. When cool beat in the second cup of sugar and the cream and flavoring. Freeze until partially frozen, then if desired, add a large cupful of any mashed fruit. Cover and finish freezin. Miss Florence Clayton. Pineapple Ice. Two cans of pineapple. Separate fruit and juice. Make a syrup of 3 pounds sugar and 2 pints of water and while hot pour over the fruit and let cool. Then add 4 pints of cold water, juice of pineapple, and 1 teaspoon of tartaric acid. When half frozen, beat in the stiffly beaten whites of 3 eggs. One-half this quan- tity for a gallon freezer, will serve 12 people. Florence Clayton. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 99 Sweet Piccalillj^ . One peck green tomatoes, 12 chili peppers, 6 medium onions. Chop tomatoes, pour over them 1 cup salt and let stand over night ; then drain off, add chopped onions and peppers, I 1 /** cups sugar, 1 cup white mus- tard seed, 1 teaspoon allspice, cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg. Cover with vinegar, not too strong, and boil till tender. Mrs. M. Gale. Ripe Tomato Relish. Eighteen tomatoes, 2 onions, 3 or 4 peppers, 2 1 /2 cups vinegar, iy 2 cups sugar, 1 teaspoon of all kind spices. 2 teaspoons salt. Cook 1 hour. Mrs. F. H. Jenness. Chili Sauce. Three stalks of celery chopped, 24 large ripe toma- toes, 6 green peppers without seeds, 4 large onions, 3 tablespoons of salt, 8 tablespoons golden brown sugar, 6 teacups of vinegar. Chop onions and peppers fine, peel the tomatoes and cut small, put all into a kettle and boil an hour. Mrs Hammond. Fig Pickles (Sweet). Secure white Pacific figs. Do not peel, simply wash. One quart vinegar (cider), 4 pounds granulated sugar, 2 teaspoons cloves, 2 teaspoons cinnamon. Boil above together for 15 minutes, then add figs to this syrup and boil till you can pick with fork. Can hot with syrup in air tight jars. Mrs. S. J. Chapman. . too THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Spanish Pickles. One large head of cabbage, chopped fine; sprinkle with salt, put in straining bag over night. Three dozen small white onions, 4 green peppers soaked in salt water over night, 1% dozen small cucumbers sliced 1/2 inch thick, 1 quart green beans, scalded. Spices: l /2 ounze tumeric, % ounce celery seed, 14 pound good mustard. Place a layer of vegetables then spices alter- nately, cover with vinegar in which has been lissolved % pound brown sugar. Boil until it begins to thicken. Mrs. Gllmer. Tomato Soy. One box (or % bushel) ripe tomatoes peeled, cut in dice ; 1 dozen large onions, 3 dozen red peppers (put onions and peppers through meat chopper), 1 gallon best vinegar, 3% pounds brown sugar, l 1 /^ teaspoons Tabasco .sauce, 15 teaspoons salt, 20 teaspoons ginger, 20 teaspoons cloves, 20 teaspoons cinnamon (spices all ground, rounding spoonfuls). Boil 3% hours, stir al- most constantly after it begins to settle. Seal or put in self sealing bottles. Mrs. Gllmer. Chili Sauce. Twelve ripe tomatoes sliced, 2 large peppers, 1 large onion chopped fine, I 1 /*) cups cider vinegar, 1 cup brown sugar, 2 tablespoons salt, 1 level teaspoon cloves, 1 level teaspoon allspice, 1 level teaspoon nutmeg, 1 level teaspoon ginger, pinch mustard. Mix cold and boil until thick. Mrs. Carrie Smyser. Mustard Pickles. Two quarts sliced cucumbers, 2 quarts sliced cauli- flower, 2 quarts sliced onions, 2 large green peppers. Soak over night in weak brine, set on stove, let come to boil, drain off brine. Add 3 cups vinegar, cook 20 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 101 minutes, let stand until cold, then add dressing as fol- lows: Two pints of vinegar, let come to a boil. Add to this 10 tablespoons mustard, l /2 cup flour, 2 cups sugar, !/2 ounce tumeric, mix to smooth paste and stir into hot vinegar. Cook to consistency of thin starch. Mrs. Offenbach Mixed Pickles. One quart small onions, 1 quart small green tomatoes. 1 head cabbage, 1 teaspoon celery seed, 2 cups sugar, 2 quarts cider vinegar, 1 quart small cucumbers, 1 large cauliflower, 4 tablespoons mixed spices, 4 tablespoons ground mustard, !/2 up flour. Scald each vegetable in salt water. Wet mustard, flour and sugar together, stir into vinegar while boiling. Mix all together and pour over vegetables. Mrs. Countryman. Chow Chow. Two heads of cabbage, 40 cucumbers, 1 quart of little white onions, 15 onions, 20 very small cucumbers, 1 quart of string beans. Cut cabbage, large onions and large cucumbers in pieces. Mix with beans, small onions and cucumbers. Do not cut the latter. Salt down over night. In the morning drain and put to soak in equal parts of vinegar and water for a day or two. Drain again and mix in 1/2 pound sliced horse- radish, i/2 teacup ground pepper. Boil 5 quarts of vinegar and 1 pound of brown sugar; pour over while hot. Repeat this for three mornings. The third morn- ing add % pound ground mustard in almost 1 pint of salad oil well mixed. Stir through the pickle. Also mix in */ 2 pound mustard seed, 1 ounce celery seed, 1 ounce tumeric. This can be divided if desired. Mrs. Matthews. Chow Chow. One and a half qts. green tomatoes, 2 onions, 1% qts. ripe tomatoes, 3 red peppers. Chop fine and add */2 102 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK cup salt. Let stand over night, drain and add 1 quart vinegar, 1 pint sugar, % teaspoon each of cloves and cinnamon, y 2 cup of mustard seed. Cook 1/2 hour. Alyce S. Newton. Peach Pickles. Seven pounds cling stone peaches peeled, 3 pounds granulated (cane) sugar, 1 pint strong vinegar, 1 ounce each of cinnamon, cloves and mace. Boil vine- gar and sugar together three consecutive days and pour over fruit. The fourth day cook all together until peaches are tender. Enclose spices in thin tar- latan bags. Miss Clayton. Tomato Catsup. Half bushel tomatoes peeled, % ounce (or 1 rounded tablespoon) of whole cloves, 2 dozen small bird peppers, 4 tablespoons whole mustard, a little pounded ginger root, 8 small garlic cloves, 2 ounces allspice, 8 bay leaves. 8 inches stick cinnamon, 8 medium sized onions, 1 cup brown sugar. Boil % hours and strain through wire sieve. Return to the fire and boil until thick. Then add 1 quart vinegar, boil 15 minutes and add 4 level tablespoons salt and 2 teaspoons white pepper. Bottle and seal while hot. Mrs. H. M. Clayton. Raw Tomato Catsup. One peck ripe tomatoes pared and mashed fine, 2 roots horseradish grated, 1 teacup brown sugar, 2 ounces celery seed, 4 ounces brown mustard seed, 1 ounce grated cloves, 2 ounces ground cinnamon, 1 tea- cup onions minced fine, i/2 teacup salt, 4 ounces yellow mustard, % ounce each of black and red pepper, 1 ounce of ground mace, 1 quart of vinegar. Mix well, bottle and cork tight. Mrs. Burson. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 103 Chili Sauce. One quart ripe tomatoes, scant ^2 cup vinegar, 1 tea- spoon salt, y 2 teaspoon cloves, 1 tablespoon sugar, 2 onions chopped fine, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, y% teaspoon pepper, l /o teaspoon mustard. Cook slowly 3 hours. Mrs. Gilliland Chili Sauce. One dozen large ripe tomatoes, 2 large onions, 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon, 2 teacups vinegar, 3 chili peppers, 2 tablespoon salt, l /2 teacup sugar. Chop to- matoes and chili peppers, season with other ingredients and cook slowly for l 1 /^ hours. Mrs. C. H. Griffen Chopped Pickle. Two gallons small green tomatoes, 1 dozen large onions, or l /o gallon little pickling onions, 1 dozen green peppers, 2 boxes seedless raisins, 2 pounds brown sugar, 1 box mixed spices ? 2 bunches celery, 2 quarts cucumbers or dill pickles. 1 pint green natsurtium seed, vinegar enough to cover well. Slice the tomatoes thin and salt over night, then drain and scald a few at a time in 1 pint of vinegar and 1 pint of water, then put in a bag and hang up to drain all day or all night. Slice the onions (if the large ones are used) and salt a little while the tomatoes are draining. Cut up the peppers, leaving out the seed pad. Cut the celery into small pieces, and slice the cucumbers. Mix all together thor- oughly, put into a large pan, pour the vinegar over until covered, and simmer gently for twenty minutes, or half an hour. "Will keep a long time. This quantity makes between 2 and 3 gallons. Mrs. H. M. Clayton. Chutney. Six green tomatoes (8 if small) from which seeds are taken, 12 sour apples, 4 large sliced onions, 1 cup 104 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK seeded raisins. Chop each fine, peeling apples and to- matoes. Into a quart of vinegar stir 2 cups sugar, 2 teaspoons salt and 2 teaspoons dry mustard. Put on fire, cook 5 minutes after it begins to boil, then add other ingredients and boil over slow fire for an hour. Add more sugar if too sharp. Also some currants. This makes 4 pints. Chili Sauce. Twelve large ripe tomatoes, 4 ripe or 3 green chili peppers, 2 onions, 2 tablespoons salt, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 tablespoon cinnamon. 3 cups vinegar. Peel tomatoes and onions, chop separately very fine, add the peppers chopped, with the olher ingredients, and boil al 1 together 1% hours. Bottle and it will keep a long time. This chili sauce is excellent and more healthful than catsup. Mustard Pickles. Cut up small cucumbers, green tomatoes, onions, cel- ery (more than of others),, cauliflower, soak in brine over night, drain. Put in kettle vinegar enough to cover vegetables and sugar to taste; when hot put in vegetables and cook tender. Then add y% cup flour, 3 tablespoons mustard and a pinch of red pepper for each 2 quarts of pickles. Cook a short time longer and put in crock. Mrs. Charles S. McKelvey. Tomato Jelly. Peel and cut up firm, ripe tomatoes and to each pound add the grated peel of a lemon. Boil until to- matoes are soft, then mash and strain through a cloth. To each pint of juice add the jui'^e of one lemon and a pound of heated loaf sugar. Let the sugar melt, put where it will boil gently until it jellies when dropped on a plate about thirty minutes. Seal like any other jelly, and serve with meat or fowl. A spiced jelly can be made by adding some bags of whole spic after straining the juice, and letting them boil together. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 105 Orange Marmalade. Four large oranges, 2 lemons. Slice or shred all in fine pieces, add as much water as fruit and juice. Cook l /2 hour or until tender. Add as much sugar as fruit and water. Cook fast about % hour. Put in jelly glasses. Mrs. S. J. Chapman. Orange Marmalade. Six navel oranges sliced crosswise (do not peel), the juice of 2 lemons. To each pound of fruit add 1 quart of water and 1 extra quart to the whole. Boil % hour, skim well, let cool. To each cup of fruit add 1 cup of cane sugar, boil until it jellies. Mrs. E. W. Parker Orange Marmalade. Twelve oranges, 4 lemons of medium size, sliced very thin. Cover in a large granite kettle with 7 pints of water, let stand over night. The second day cook with- out stirring until the rinds are tender, usually about Vo or % of an hour. Stand away again over night. The third day weigh, deduct the weight of kettle, add IVt pounds of best granulated sugar to each pound of pulp, cook until the syrup will jelly when cooled, and place in jars and glasses while hot. cTWrs. Young Grape and Nut Marmalade. Six pounds of muscat grapes seeded, 3 pounds of sugar, y 2 pound nuts, 1 tablespoon vinegar. Weigh, wash and seed the grapes. Then weigh again. Heat slowly to boiling and let boil 10 to 15 minutes. Add io6 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK sugar gradually and boil 45 minutes from the first. Ten minutes before finished add nuts and vinegar. Mrs. C. H. Griffon Lemon Butter. One and a half cups sugar, 2 eggs, 2 lemons, 2 table- spoons butter. Cook in a double boiler and stir until clear and thick like honey. Mrs. L G. Hoyt Lemon Butter. Grated rind and juice of 3 lemons, 3 eggs well beaten, 2% cups sugar, % cup water, butter size of walnut. Let come to a boil stirring all the time. Mrs. Burson Preserved Muscat Grapes. Seven pounds Muscat grapes seeded, 3 cups sugar, 2 pounds chopped walnuts. Boil grapes until skins are tender, then put in chopped nuts and boil 15 minutes. Mrs. Gllmer. Preserved or Spiced Concord Grapes. Separate pulps from skins, boil skins (in just enough water to cover) till tender. Cook pulps until soft enough to pass through sieve. Put the skins and strained pulp together allowing 1/2 pound sugar to each pound of fruit. If you want it spiced add 1 tablespoon of doves and a tablespoon of cinnamon to each pound of fruit, and enough vinegar to dissolve sugar. Mrs. Gllmer. i Dried Figs. It is best to use figs that are not dead ripe. Boil figs until the green disappears, drain, make a thick syrup of 2-3 sugar to 1-3 water and boil figs until transparent. Let stand over night. Bring to boil next morning, let stand another 24 hours and then drain. Put on board and dry in sun, turning' daily. When dried thoroughly, dip in sugar and put away. A. s. N. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 107 "If the kettle boiling be, Seven minutes makes the tea." General Rules. 1. Keep tea and coffee in closely covered jars or cans. 2. Do not use tea pots or coffee pots made of tin. 3. Scald tea and coffee pots before using. 4. Use freshly boiled water in making the coffee. 5. As a rule 1 teaspoon tea to 1 cup water and 2 tea- spoons coffee to 1 cup water. Tea. One teaspoon tea, 1 cup boiling water. Put the tea in a scalded tea pot and pour the boiling water over it. Steep 5 minutes in a warm place. Strain and serve either hot or iced. Boiled Coffee. One-third cup cold water, 1-3 egg or 1 egg shell, 1-3 cup ground coffee, 2 cups boiling water. Beat egg slightly or crush the shell and add to coffee and x /2 the cold water. Place in scalded coffee pot, add the boiling water and boil 3 minutes. Stir down the grounds, pour out a little coffee to clear the spout, add the remaining cold water and set the coffee pot on the back of the stove for ten minutes. Filtered Coffee. One cup powdered coffee. 7 cups boiling water. Use a coffee pot with an inside strainer. Place the pow- dered coffee in the strainer and add the water grad- ually. Keep the coffee pot covered while the water is filtering. Serve at once without cooking. io8 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK German Cocoa. Two tablespoons of cocoa, 1 square of Baker's choco- late, sugar to taste, 1 cup of cold water. Let boil 10 minutes over fire slowly, then add 1 quart of milk and put in double boiler and steam l l / 2 hours. When it is hot in boiler put 1 level teaspoon of cornstarch dis- solved in milk. When ready to serve add vanilla to taste and serve with whipped cream. Fine. Sadie Webber Lemon Syrup. Squeeze the juice from 1 dozen lemons and strain out the seeds. Remove the pulp from the skins, boil it five minutes in 2 cupfuls of water. Strain, add the juice and measure. Allow l 1 ^ cupfuls of sugar for every cupful of the liquid. Put over the fire, stir until dissolved, boil 5 minutes, skim and seal hot. Fine for drink in traveling added to water. Mrs. L. G. Hoyt Orange Syrup. Grated yellow rind of 1 dozen oranges, 4 ounces of citric acid, 7 pounds of granulated sugar, 3 quarts boiling water. Grate oranges, put in a crock with sugar, acid and boiling water and stir occasionally till quite cold and dissolved. Let stand about 24 hours and bottle. Do not add juice of oranges. Use 1 or 2 tablespoons to a glass of water. Miss Hanvey. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 109 "How could a hostess manage or society survive, Without the favored sandwich at luncheon, teas at five? What daring combinations achieves the housewife bold, In efforts to improve upon the many sorts grown old; There's Dutch and Tutti Frutti, Sardine and Bostonese, There's Harlequin, and Butterfly and Nut and Devilled Cheese. There's Ham and Egg, and Salad-Mushroon and \\atercress, And endless other kinds, all devilled more or less. 'Tis not a passing fancy, nor fashion of a day, The sandwich is a household friend and is surely here to stay." Sardine and Ham Sandwiches. Mince sardines fine and mix with % the quantiy of cold boiled minced ham and spread over thinly cut and slightly buttered bread. Mrs. John T. Stivers Ham Sandwiches. Ten cents worth boiled ham, 5c worth roasted pea- nuts. Chop finely and moisten with salad dressing. Spread between buttered bread. Mrs. R. H. Craig. Cheese Sandwiches. Two hard boiled eggs, 14 pound grated cheese, x /2 teaspoon each salt and pepper and mustard, 1 table spoon melted butter or olive oil, and 1 tablespoon vine- gar. Mash the yolks of the eggs and mix smooth with the melted butter, add salt, pepper, mustard and cheese, mixing well, add vinegar and finely chopped whites of eggs. Spread between thin slices of white bread. cTVIiss Ida B. Davison Cheese Sandwiches. One teaspoon of butter and 2 of flour, warm on the stove until smooth, add % cup sweet milk and 1/2 cup of cheese cut in small bits, a little salt and cayenne or chili powder. Stir till all is dissolved and cook a little, no THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK then cool. Cut bread as for sandwiches and spread with cheese mixture quite thickly. Butter the top and put in oven to toast. To be eaten while hot. Mrs. M. Gale Cheese Sandwiches. One hard boiled egg, l /o pound grated cheese, ^ teaspoon each salt, pepper, mustard, 1 tablespoon each of melted butter and vinegar. Crumble yolk of egg in bowl, add butter, mix smoothly, add salt, pepper, mustard and cheese, mix well and add vinegar. Spread on buttered bread. Nut Sandwiches. Chop English walnuts with an equal amount of either celery or -hard boiled eggs. Mix with any preferred salad dressing and spread on buttered bread. Mrs. R. H. Craie Fruit Cheese for Sandwiches. One pound raisins, 1 pound figs, 1 pound dates, 1 pound almonds, 1 pound English walnuts, 1 pound Bra- zilian nuts, 1 pound pecans, 1 pound filberts. Grind together and mix, put in roll and slice as wanted. Roll in waxed paper; will last for a long time. Can be served as fruit cake or for sandwiches. cTWrs. Carrie Smyser Date Sandwiches. One cup each finely chopped dates and either pecans or English walnuts. Mix well and if not moist enough to spread easily, thin a very little with hot water., Spread between very thin slices of buttered bread. Mrs. J. W. Alabaster Eoast Beef Sandwiches. Chop rare roast beef very fine, taking care to use only the lean portions of the meat. Sprinkle with salt, THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK in pepper and a saltspoonful of horseradish. Mix and make into sandwiches with thinly sliced graham bread. Peanut Sandwiches. Shell and skin freshly roasted peanuts and roll them to fine crumbs on a pastry board. Add salt to taste and mix the powdered nuts with enough fresh cream cheese to make a paste that can be easily spread on unbuttered bread. Keep in a cold, damp place until wanted. Ham and Olive Sandwiches. Chop lean ham fine and beat into each cupful of the minced meat a tablespoonful of salad oil, a teaspoonful of vinegar, a saltspoonful of French mustard, six olives chopped fine and a teaspoonful of minced parsley. Work all to a paste and spread on thin slices of white bread. Bean Sandwiches. Press baked beans through a sieve and add 14 their amount of ham or other meat which has been cooked with them and subsequently put through a meat grinder. Moisten with tomato catsup, adding a few drops of Worcestershire sauce, spread between wafer- thin rounds of Boston brown bread, and cut into small triangles. Chicken Sandwiches. Put equal proportions of the white meat of cold chicken and blanched almonds through a meat grinder. Add % the quantity of finely chopped celery and form into a paste with highly seasoned salad dressing. Spread between thin slices of cream bread well but- tered, and trimming off all crusts, cut in fancy shapes. Tongue Sandwiches. Press hard boiled eggs through a sieve, adding a like THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK quantity of cold tongue, minced to a paste. Season highly with French mustard and bits of parsley. Spread between thin, buttered slices of whole wheat bread, and trimming off all crusts, cut into shapes. Fruit Sandwiches. Chop equal proportions of dates, figs, candied pine- apple and English walnuts, very fine. Sprinkle slightly with bar sugar, moisten with orange juice, and spread between lightly buttered rounds of cream bread, which have been cut from thin slices with a small biscut cutter. Gingerbread Sandwiches. Cut day-old gingerbread into slices */4 of an inch thick, butter and spread with the following filling: Put equal proportions of seeded raisins and English walnuts through a meat grinder. To each cupful of this mixture add two tablespoonfuls of honey and one of orange juice. Sweetbread Sandwiches. Chop very fine, two parts of cold boiled sweetbreads to one of stoned olives. Add half its bulk in shredded lettuce, season with salt, pepper, French mustard and lemon juice, and spread between wafer-thin, buttered slices of gluten bread, cutting into dainty shapes. Canapes. These are small slices of bread covered with simple or compound mixtures of fish, meat, eggs, cheese, etc., seasoned highly and served as a first course, to tempt the appetite. Cut either white, graham, rye, or brown bread in 14 inch slices, and then in oblongs, triangles, rings, crescents, or diamond shape; butter and brown in the oven. Cover with any of the following combina- tions and arrange on individual plates. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 113 No. 1. Equal portions of mashed sardines and hard boiled eggs, season with lemon juice; pile it in center of bread with minced whites around it and lay slices of pickles across diagonally. No. 2. Creamed butter, minced watercress, lemon juice, and minced lobster or crab or a layer of caviar, or anchovy paste. No. 3. Spread with French mustard, grated cheese, and a border of chopped green sweet peppers. No. 4. Minced ham or tongue made into paste with creamed butter and mustard, and garnished with minced olives or pickles, or a slice of fresh cucumber. Mrs. W. J. Jeter. 114 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Weaver Dry Goods Co. H. R. WEAVER, Prop. For Five Years The Vermont Ave. Dry Goods Store Phone West 2001 Special attention given to Ladies wants, infants and children's. Big Fancy Work Department. New Address 24O9 Vermont Ave. (Eafrirria 344 SO. HILL ST. Puritan daf>i?na 613 SO. SPRING ST. FURNITURE CARPETS-DRAPERIES li CASfiT-BROADWAVAT 7IS- CRED/T\ THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 115 Candy "Sweets to the sweet." Panoche. Two and a half cups brown sugar, % cup of white sugar, 1 cup milk or cream, lump butter size of walnut. Boil until it forms a soft ball in water. Then take off fire and add cup chopped walnuts and a teaspoonful vanilla and beat until it creams. Pour out on a but- tered platter. Mrs. E. W. Kelly Panoche. Two cups light brown sugar, or half white and half brown, 1 cup milk, ^ saltspoon of cream of tartar, 1 tablespoon of butter, 1 cup sliced nuts, 1 teaspoonful vanilla. Mix sugar, milk, etc. After cooking a little while add the butter. Let boil for 15 minutes or until it forms a soft ball. Remove from stove, add nuts and flavoring. Beat to a cream, pour into a greased dish and cut in squares. Mrs. W. E. White. Divinity Candy. Three cups sugar, ^ cup corn syrup, % cup water, butter size of walnut, % teaspoon salt. Boil till a little will harden in cold water, but do not stir while boiling. Pour very slowly over the stiffly beaten whites of 2 eggs. Beat constantly and long, adding 1 teaspoon vanilla during the process, and when partly cold and beginning to turn white, add 1 pint broken walnut meats. Spread on buttered plates and cut. Two per- sons are almost necessary to make this successfully, as rapid beating is required. Mrs. Sylvia Grossman Ii6 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Divinity Candy. Two cups granulated sugar, % cup corn syrup, a /2 cup sweet milk, 1 cup chopped nuts. Boil until a soft ball is formed when tested in cold water; then beat until creamy, add the nuts and pour into buttered pans. Divinity Candy. Three cups granulated sugar, % cup Karo Corn Syrup and 2-3 cup water. Boil until a soft ball is formed when tested in cold water. Beat the whites of 2 eggs to a stiff froth, with */ teaspoon of salt. Pour the syrup into the whites gradually, beating all the time, then add 1 cup of chopped walnuts. Pour candy into buttered pans. Maple Fudge. One and a half cups light brown sugar, 1 cup maple syrup, % cup sweet milk, 1 level teaspoon butter. Boil slowly until it forms soft ball when tested, then let it stand until cool. Then beat with fork until creamy. Pour into buttered pans. Mrs. E. G Shryack Fudge. Two cups sugar, 1 cup milk, 2 squares Baker's choc- olate, butter size of an egg. Boil until it will form soft ball when in cold water. Remove from fire, add vanilla and stir until it grains. Mrs Hammond. Nugget. Two cups white sugar, % cup warm water, % cup corn syrup, small piece of butter. Boil until it gets hard in water. Beat into the stiffly beaten whites of 2 eggs. Add nuts. Pour into greased pan. Success depends on the thorough beating. Mrs. W. E. White. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 117 Marshmallows. Two tablespoons gelatine, cover with 8 tablespoons water, 2 cups sugar, 8 tablespoons water, pinch of salt, % teaspoon vanilla. Boil sugar and water until it forms soft ball in cold water. Pour over soaked gela- tine, add salt and flavoring and beat until stiff from 20 to 30 minutes. Pour in floured pan, let stand until it is firm, then cut in squares and roll well in sifted flour. Mrs. F. S. Williams. Butter Taffy. One cup of sugar, ^ cup of cold water, 1 tablespoon- ful of molasses, 1% tablespoonfuls of vinegar, butter size of an egg. Boil 20 minutes. Vinegar Candy. Two cups of white sugar, % cup water, y 2 cup of vinegar. Boil until it becomes hard in cold water. Cut in squares or pull until white. French Creams. Break into a bowl the white of 1 or more eggs as the quantity you wish to make will require. Add to it an equal quantity of cold water, then stir in XXX pow- dered, or confectioner's sugar until you have it stiff enough to mold into shape with the fingers. Flavor to taste. Set aside to dry. This is the foundation for all French cream candies. Mrs. Harvey. Candy Peppermint Drops. Two cups of sugar, 1 cup of water, 2 tablespoons gluecose. Boil, then whip till creamy, then melt again in double boiler. Drop from a teaspoon on a greased paper. Mrs. A. H. Stover. ii8 THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Fudge. Two cups of sugar, % to 1 cup milk, 1 to l 1 /^ squares unsweetened chocolate or 4 tablespons of cocoa, 2 tablespoons butter, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Heat milk and sugar and when sugar is dissolved add the chocolate. 1 Boil until it reaches the soft ball stage, stirring un- til chocolate is melted. 2 Remove from fire, add the butter and vanilla and beat till creamy and thickened. Pour quickly into a greased tin. AVhen firm cut in squares. Mary Anderson Panoche. Three cups brown sugar, 1 cup milk, 1 cup chopped nuts, 2 tablespoons butter, 1 teaspoon vanilla. 1 Boil sugar and milk slowly to the soft ball stage, then re- move from fire and add the rest of the ingredients. 2. Beat until creamy and thickened, pour quickly into a greased pan, and when firm cut into squares. Josephine Anderson Nut Brittle. One cup sugar, % to 1 cup nuts shelled and broken in pieces. 1 Put sugar in sauce pan to heat and when it begins to melt on the bottom of the saucepan stir it until it becomes a thin, light brown syrup with no lumps. (Keep the sugar stirred down from the sides of the pan.) 2. Add the nuts immediately and pour quickly on a buttered plate or platter and mark in squares as soon as the knife does not stick to the candy. (A tin plate need not be buttered.) When cold, break in pieces. Faye Harvey THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK 119 Baking Powder. One pound pure cream of tartar, y 2 pound soda and mix with an even pint of flour. Sift four or five times. Keep in covered cans in a dry place. Use three tea- spoonfuls to a quart of flour. Mrs. Charles S. McKelvey. How to Wash Blankets. To each pair of blankets l /o bar soap. (Do this the day before washing blankets.) Two bucketfuls of warm water, two large tablespoonfuls of pulverized borax and two of liquid ammonia. Place the blankets in a tub to soak for one hour. Do not rub or wring. Lift into another tub in which you have two buckets of warm water, two large tablespoonfuls of borax and two of ammonia and let soak one-half hour. Do not rub nor wring. Hang on line to dry. Select a clear, warm day. Mrs. Gilmer. Cream for the Hands. Three ounces glycerine, 3 ounces alcohol, 1 drachm frangacanth, 3 ounces rosewater, 14 ounces soft water. Cream Marquis. Refined white wax y ounce, Spermaceti 2 ounces, oil of sweet almonds 2^/2 ounces, rosewater 2 ounces. Heat the first 3 ingredients until wax is melted. Do not let them boil. Remove from fire and add rosewater, stirring briskly until foamy and white. Perfume if you wish. Mrs. C. A. Gaud Vinegar. Five gallons rain water. 5 pounds very dark brown sugar, 1 cake compressed yeast. Mix these well. Toast 5 or 6 slices of bread (one inch thick) a very dark brown, and place on top of earthen jar that contains these ingredients, tie cheese cloth tightly over the jar. Let stand six weeks in the sun. Then strain. Mrs. Gilmer. THE MAGNOLIA COOK BOOK Table of Contents Page Bread 7 Hot Bread 12 Soups 1 9 Salads and Dressings 23 Meats and Fish 31 Vegetables ; 43 Cheese 49 Eggs 53 Cakes 55 Cookies and Doughnuts 73 Pies 79 Puddings and Sauces 83 Desserts 90 Ices 96 Pickles and Catsup 99 Marmalades 105 Beverages 1 07 Sandwiches 109 Candy 115 Miscellaneous ... .... 119