DORCAS

DISHES
A LITTLE BOOK OF
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The old Congregational Church

at Buxton Lower Corner which

the Dorcas Society has painted,

decorated, shingled, carpeted,

cushioned, kept in repair, and pro-

vided with new hymn and ser-

vice books.
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A BOOK OF
DORCAS DISHES
FAMILY RECIPES
Contributed by the Dorcas Society
of Mollis and Buxton

EDITED BY
KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN

*'
This woman. . .called Dorcas. .

was full of good works and

alms deeds which she did,"

PRIVATELY PRINTED
1911
COPYRIGHT, 191 1, BY KATE DOUGLAS RIGGS

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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 CONTENTS

I. Breads of Various Kinds . 13

11. Meat Dishes .... . 22

III. Fish . 28

IV. Vegetables .... . 34

V. Salads and Dressings . 39

VI. Pies . 45

VII. Puddings . 49

VIII. Company Desserts . 55

IX. Cake . 60

X. Doughnuts and Cookies . 73

XI. Pickles, etc . 79

XII. Miscellaneous . . . , . 83

XIII. Country Table Decoration . . 91

 THE PRAISE AND PROPERTIES
OF A GOOD WIFE

''She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her

food from afar."

''She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat

to her household."

"She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit

of her hands she planteth a vineyard."

"She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she

reacheth forth her hands to the needy."

"She looketh well to the ways of her household, and

eateth not the bread of idleness."

"Her children arise up,and call her blessed; her hus-

band also, and he praiseth her."

"Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou

excellest them all."

Proverbs xxxi.
 INTRODUCTION
DO not suppose we
Dorcases '* fancy that
^*

the world is waiting for another cookery

book, nor that we believe we are supplying a
long-felt want with this little pamphlet. One
could have no illusions on that subject when the
monthly and weekly magazines, and even the
daily papers, have pages in every issue devoted
to recipes, together with columns upon columns
of suggestive bills of fare. Everybody reads
these regularly, remarking to the person sitting
near: '' That sounds good! '' *^ I must paste
that in my book.'^ '*
Let's try that some time.'*
My private opinion is that we need cooks much
more than books, and that one housekeeper who
will experiment on appetizing novelties is worth
a dozen of those who buy books, cut out, pin up,
paste in, and hoard recipes, but continue to
serve their families with the same dishes they
used when they began housekeeping.
This modest volume does not aim to be a com-
plete compendium of scientific cookery nor
a practical guide to the young housekeeper;
neither can we claim for it any startling origi-
nality. It has been compiled because we have
many enterprises in hand for which we need
money, and we believe the book may be one of
the ways in which we can fill our treasury. But
although we disclaim all intention of surprising
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and instructing the culinary world, and avow
our hope of financial profit, we take honest
pride in our little book, as we do in all our en-
deavors, large or small. Every dish in it has
been made hundreds of times by the particular
Dorcas whose name is attached to it; but I
sometimes think Dorcas should accompany her
own recipe and stand over it until it is cooked
and eaten, for the cake labelled *^ Delicious '*
sometimes turns out a sorry failure in your
opposite neighbor's kitchen. There is a hard
hand and a light one in cooking as well as on
a horse's rein, and it almost seems as if butter
and eggs knew their mistress and instinctively
obeyed her orders, feeling themselves in the
grasp of a superior power.
^^
Oven-judgment '' never comes to some
women in the course of their lives (and we cer-
tainly hope that they will feel no need of it in
another world!) nor does the faculty of deftly
combining the necessary ingredients. The terms
''
stiff,'' '' thin," '' hard," '' soft " are very

flexible and depend on the cook's point of view,

while the art of perfect seasoning and flavor-
ing is all too seldom attained.
Women are largely in the majority in New
England, and because that is so it follows
necessarily and naturally that they should take
a considerable share of civic as well as do-
mestic responsibility.
In church, school, garden, and farm work
we women are as much needed as in the home,
and we shall never be able to make our vil-
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lages pleasant and prosperous places to live in,
nor provide the proper environment for the
younger generation unless we apply ourselves
earnestly and intelligently to the task.
The cooking in small hotels and boarding
houses along our countryside does not com-
pare with that in England or on the Continent,
and we are constantly criticised for the small
amount of nourishment and large amount of
dyspepsia with which we furnish our farming
and laboring classes.
The devising of a good liberal diet, simple
but varied, is one of the most important ends
to which the mistress of a household can de-
vote her energies. Is Dorcas doing all she might
in this matter? How can we inspire and help
our brothers, husbands, fathers to bring back
the old garden to its once noble estate ? Where
are the rows of currant and raspberry bushes
we used to see at the side or back of the house 1
We need not raise small fruits for the market
ifwe lack time or strength, land or labor, but
how about raising things for the family and
the growing children?
When I was a girl there were always a few
black and red currant bushes in the garden,
with blackberries, raspberries, or strawberries.
There was a single pear, or crab apple, quince,
or plumtree in the orchard, and a Concord
grape-vine over a porch. Citron melons were
grown then, and there was a barberry bush
planted by the kitchen door; and what deli-
cious preserves for the long winter came from
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those quince and apple trees, those citrons and
damsons and pomegranates! Green and ripe
tomatoes helped to swell the list, and mother
had only to buy lemons and sugar and ginger
to fill the goody-cupboard to bursting. Home-
made jellies and jams mean a few days in a hot
kitchen, but what comparison is there between
these, with their pure, wholesome fruit juices,
and the gelatine-laden products of the shops?
How shall we make the table more attractive,
the food at once more appetizing and nourish-
ing! How, especially, can it be done when the
mistress of the house is a mother of children,
having, with a little help, or with none at all, to
take care of washing, ironing, sewing, mending,
as well as cooking? Only a woman of good
health, rare common sense, great patience, and
fine spirit can compass this daily round of
duties successfully; but it is a very beautiful,
even a splendid thing when it is compassed!
A palatable meal, a well-set table, a family
with keen and appreciative appetite, good diges-
tion, hearty, healthy children with pleasant
table manners, and a general feeling that
mother is the very best cook in the universe!
These read like humble things, but their sum
total is probably one of the greatest factors in
useful and happy living.
Any one who has a general helper or a servant
can easily manage spotless table linen, changes
of plates, service in courses, flowers, and all the
accessories that go to make up a dainty meal;
but how shall the tired woman who has been on
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her feet all day keep strength and ambition
enough to preserve the niceties of life when she
is completely worn out with its necessities? It
cannot always be done, — that might as well be
confessed at the outset. There are days of con-
stant interruption, of illness, of discourage-
ment, of exhaustion, when things are dropped
wearily on the table, and the children are al-
lowed to eat in confusion and hurry and dis-
order. But this is only occasional, and any
woman who loves and seeks after beauty —
beauty of cleanliness, freshness, order, refine-
ment, harmony, punctuality — will manage to
attain it at least a fair portion of the time.
Every home in which this sort of modest unos-
tentatious beauty is present is a lighthouse to
the surrounding country. Every housekeeper
who can be clean without being ^^ p'ison neat,''
energetic without being a ^' bustler,'' a good
cook without being too extravagant, hospitable,
yet keeping strength for her own family, —
such
a woman is as much an inspiration to the com-
munity as she is to her own household.
Our Dorcas Society has held many unspoken
ideals these last busy years. It has not only
held them but it has worked for them. We want
our little group of villages on the brink of the
river to hold up their heads and wax strong.
We want our district schools to improve from
year to year; our buildings to renew their
paint and shingles; our farms to thrive; our
Village Improvement societies to prosper; our
churches to grow; our roads to be bettered;
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our new Library to be an influence in its
modest way.
We are helping to build a new Parish, or
Community House where boys' and girls* clubs
can meet; where gatherings of many sorts can
be held, and such lectures and entertainments
as are appropriate to a small audience room;
where also the social hospitalities of the church
can be dispensed with comfort and dignity.
Many of our young people will go away in
search of larger opportunities and gains, but
we shall always have them during the forma-
tive years of life, and we want to send them out
into the world so equipped that they will be a
credit to the place of their birth.
This Dorcas Fair of August, 1911, is one of
our annual attempts to earn money for worthy
causes. The Book of Dorcas Dishes will be
a souvenir of our hopes, our ambitions, our
courage, and our faith. It will voice our belief
in the value of good housekeeping and good
cookery, which indeed are real civic virtues.
When you try one of our simple recipes
remember that you have added your mite to a
fund that will be used for all sorts of fine pur-
poses, broad and unsectarian ones.
We have purposely included very simple
dishes; just the plain, daily diet of a band of
country Dorcases, with a few pretty things we
cook when an old friend graces the supper
table, or company comes from Boston, or John
brings home his bride. Let us sum it all up.
Good cooking needs skill, judgment, and imag-
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ination, therefore it tests the qualities of the
cleverest woman. Nobody pretends that dish-
washing is attractive,and nothing but Chris-
tian grace makes us endure the pots and pans,
but cookery high art; let us think of it as
is
such, and we shall be properly proud of such
triumphs as we achieve. Who would not
rather make a delicious strawberry short-cake
than play The Maiden *s Prayer on the piano?
Where is the painted table-scarf that can com-
pare with an honest loaf of milk-white bread?
Is a bunch of wax or paper flowers any more
artistic than a ball of perfect butter stamped
with a garland of daisies? No; there is genius
in a wonderfully seasoned dish of meat or
fish, in a toothsome sauce, or in a clever ar-

rangement of *^ left overs." There is real

poetry in a shining country kitchen poetry in
;

bread and cake as light as a feather. Would

that a little of it, felt by some Dorcas as she
stirred and kneaded and measured, would —
that a little of it might be imprisoned in this
text, and find its way into another woman's
heart in some other country kitchen.
Kate Douglas Wiggin.
Quillcote, August, 1911.

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BREADS OF VARIOUS SORTS

Raised Bread
To be made in the morning.
CMrs. Perley A. Berry)

2 cakes compressed yeast.

1 pt. sweet milk.
1 qt. warm water.
2 tablespoons sugar.
1 tablespoon salt.
Piece of lard size of a large Qgg.

DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING

Put yeast in 1 pt. warm water early in the
morning.
Let stand %
hour in a warm place stir into ;

this mixture 1% pts. flour; let stand about %

of an hour or until full of bubbles.
Add to the above, 1 pt. warm water, 1 pt.
scalded milk, sugar and salt.

Beat together, raise-bread

stir in all the **

flour
'
' it turn out on bread board and
will take ;

cut and knead, working in the lard until smooth.

Let rise until light or about 6 hours, mould-
ing in loaves with the hands, not kneading on
board. Set to rise. When tin is full brush %
over with melted lard; set in a hot oven, with
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door open for 10 minutes close door and bake
;

% of an hour; take out and brush over with

melted butter, break apart and cool.

Sour Milk Brown Bread

(Mrs. Guy L. Ball)

1 cup cornmeal.
1 cup rye flour.
1 cup graham flour.
1 cup of raisins.
1 teaspoon salt.
1 heaping teaspoon soda.
% cup of molasses.
1 pt. sour milk.
Mix in order given. Steam 3 hours, then
remove cover from mould and put in oven to
form crust.

Parsonage Oatmeal Bread

(Mrs. Robert G. Earbutt)
1 qt. of boiling water turned on 1 pt. of
rolled oats. Let stand until cool. Then add %
yeast cake dissolved in a little water, cup of %
molasses, 1 qt. entire wheat flour, 1 qt. sifted
flour, and salt to taste.
Eise over night, stir down, rise again, stir
down, drop in bread tins, rise again, and bake
about 40 minutes.

Bishop's Bread
(Mrs. H. A. Owen)
3 eggs.
1 cup sugar.
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 1 cup raisins.
1 cup split, unblanched almonds.
2 cups flour.
1 teaspoon soda.
2 teaspoons cream tartar.
Pinch of salt, and flavor with lemon or vanilla.
Beat the eggs and sugar until very light.
Then add flour and raising, and lastly the nuts
and raisins. Spread in thin sheet on buttered
tin, and cut in small oblongs or squares before
it is cold.

Walnut Brown Bread

(Mrs. Margaret Lord)
2 cups graham flour.

1% cups white flour.

% cup brown sugar.

% cup molasses.
2 cups sweet milk.
1 teaspoon salt.
1 large teaspoon soda.
1 cup chopped walnuts, fine.
Beat light. Bake in one loaf 1 hour.

Blueberry Bread
(Mrs. Charles Nichols)
1 qt. flour sifted with 1 heaping teaspoonful
soda.
% cup sugar and a little salt.

mixed dry with flour.

1 qt. berries
% cup sour cream and enough sour milk to
make rather a soft dough. Bake hour % in
moderately hot oven.
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 Bran Meal Gems
(Mrs. E. F. Smith)

1 cup Educator Bran Meal.

% cup milk.
% teaspoon salt.
2 tablespoons sugar.
1 ^gg-
1 teaspoon baking powder.
Have gem pans very hot, and bake in very
hot oven.

Brown Bread Brewis

(Mrs. Willis GraffamJ
Bits of crusts and bits of brown bread, nicely
broken and browned in oven. A rich milk and
butter sauce, as for milk-dipped toast. Put the
hot bread pieces into the dip while it is still
boiling. Stir and simmer a good while.

Twin Elms Tea-Cake

(Mrs. Jane C, ATcersJ
1 egg well beaten.
Piece of butter size of an egg,
y^^ cup sugar.

1 cup sweet milk.

Salt.
2 cups flour, or if baking powder is used, 3
even teaspoons.

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 Graham Bread
(Mrs. Alice Bickford)

1% cups Quaker Oats.

% cup sugar.
1 tablespoon lard.
1 tablespoon salt.
3 cups boiling water.
% cake compressed yeast.
3 cups graham flour.
3 cups white flour.
Put Quaker Oats, sugar, salt, and lard in
bread bowl; add boiling water. When luke-
warm add yeast dissolved in a little water.
Graham flour (unsifted) and white flour
(sifted).
Stir very hard for five minutes and let stand
over night.
In the morning stir down and put into pans
(three small ones). Let rise for an hour or two,
and then bake 1 hour. Do not knead or touch
with the hands.

Quaker Oats Bread

(Mrs. A. L. T. Cummings)
2 cups Quaker Oats.
% cup sugar.
% cup molasses.
1 tablespoon even full lard.
1 teaspoon salt.
4 cups boiling water.
Cool.
1 yeast cake in 1 cup of water.
2 qts. flour.
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 Tea Rolls
(Mrs. John Fogg)
1 pt. flour.
% teaspoon soda.
1 teaspoon cream tartar.
1/2 teaspoon salt.
Sift all together and mix with sweet milk.
Roll about half an inch thick. Spread with
butter and sprinkle with sugar, and roll as for
jelly cake. Cut in small rolls and bake in a
moderate oven.

The Deacon's Blueberry Cake

(Mrs. E. B. Hanson)
1 egg whipped light.
1 cup sweet milk.
3 tablespoons sugar.
Butter size of an egg.
1 teaspoon soda.
2 teaspoons cream tartar sifted in 3 cups flour.
2 cups berries.
To be eaten hot with butter.

Blueberry Muffins
(Mrs. L. A. Berry)

% cup sugar.
2 tablespoons butter.
1 cup sweet milk.
2 even cups flour.
% teaspoon soda.
1 teaspoon cream tartar.
2 cups blueberries.
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 Muffins
(Eliza 8. Lihly)

1 pt. sour cream.

2 eggs.
1 teaspoon soda.
A little salt.

Add flour to make a batter, and drop in hot

tins.

Johnny Cake
(Mrs. Frank L. Tarhox)

1 cup meal.
% cup flour.
1 teaspoon soda.
Salt.
2 tablespoons molasses.
1 tablespoon sugar.
Sour milk to mix.

My Mother's Tea Biscuits

(Mrs. Andrew L. Berry)

Have all the ingredients close at hand, and

see that the oven is hot. After beginning work
very quickly.
To 1 qt. of flour add 2 teaspoons of cream
of tartar, a teaspoon of sugar, and a pinch of
salt. While have dis-
sifting these together,
solving in a cup 1 teaspoon soda and amount
of shortening desired by pouring a small quan-
tity of hot water upon them. When dissolved
fill the cup up with sweet milk and mix with the

flour, adding enough more milk to make a soft

dough.
As soon as the flour is nearly under control
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remove spoon and finish with a knife, cutting
rapidly. Mould and cut into small biscuits and
rush into the oven.

Graham Bread
(Mrs. Emery Harriman)
1% sour milk.
pts.
% coffee cup molasses.
% teaspoon salt.
2 teaspoons soda in a little hot water.
Add as much Graham flour as can be stirred
in with a spoon. Pour into a well-greased pan
and bake 2 hours.

Entire Wheat Muffins

(Mrs. Leonard TowleJ
2 cups entire wheat flour.
1 teaspoon soda.
1 teaspoon salt.
2 teaspoons cream tartar.
% cup sugar or molasses.
1 egg beaten until light and added to
1 cup milk.
1 tablespoon melted butter.
Mix in order given and bake 20 minutes in hot
oven.

Pop-Overs
(Ella Deering)

3 cups flour.
3 cups milk.
3 eggs.
1 teaspoon salt.
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 Mix part of milk with flour until a smooth
paste is formed, then add the remainder of the
milk with the beaten eggs. Mix thoroughly and
bake in gem pans in a quick oven hour, or%
until the puffs are brown and well popped over.

Indian Meal Griddle Cakes

(Mrs. Frederick Dyer)

1 pint sour milk.

legg.
1 teaspoon salt.
% teaspoon soda.
1 teaspoon cream tartar.
1 tablespoon molasses.
% tablespoon melted lard,
% cup of flour.
Meal enough to make a good frying batter.

Warmed-Over Biscuits
(Mrs. Samuel Knox)
Wrap and put in a steamer for 10
in a cloth
or 15 minutes, then place in oven in a well-
buttered pan, first buttering the top crusts.
Keep them in oven till crisp.

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 II

MEAT DISHES
Veal Loaf
(Mrs. H. E. Bradbury)
3 lbs. upper part of leg of veal, chopped fine.

% lb. of well-selected salt pork, chopped fine.

2 eggs, well beaten.
1 cup powdered crackers.
1 teaspoonful salt.
1 teaspoonful pepper.
1 teaspoonful sage.
All to be mixed up thoroughly and baked in
a bread pan for 1 hour and 10 or 15 minutes.

Hamburger Roast
(Mm. Ira LibbyJ

2 lbs. of the bottom of round steak, put

through meat chopper.
% cup milk.
2 well-beaten eggs.
Good % cup rolled cracker crumbs.
% cup melted butter or bacon fat.
Salt, pepper, and poultry dressing to taste and
1 onion, if desired.
Mix well and shape, then dredge well with
flour. Put small pieces of butter on top and
bake in good oven 1 hour. Baste well with but-
ter or bacon fat. Make gravy.
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 Pot Roast
(Mrs. John Ghiilford)
Melt in a hot frying pan a lump of butter; or
fry out a small piece of pork; while very hot put
in the roast, browning all sides. Roll it over;
do not insert fork, so as to keep all juices in.
When browned, put in a pot which has been
heated put water in the frying pan to get any
;

juices that have escaped, and pour over meat.

Cover closely and cook slowly 3 hours, turning
occasionally. Keep about a cup of water under
the meat and sprinkle a little flour and salt over
the meat 15 minutes before taking out, and turn
several times. Browned potatoes are very nice
with this meat: Boil potatoes whole until nearly
done; drain, roll in flour, take meat out and put
in potatoes in the gravy in the pot, until browned
somewhat. Take the potatoes out and place in
a hot oven while thickening the gravy and they
will crisp over and are very nice.

Dorcas Hash
(Mrs. James Woodman)
Cut cold cooked beef or mutton into small bits^
re-heat in gravy or in a sauce made of butter,
flour, and water in which a little beef extract
has been dissolved. Season with salt, pepper,
and grated onion, if you choose. Fill a buttered
baking-dish two-thirds full. Cover the top with
seasoned mashed potato made very light with
the white of an egg beaten to a stiff froth. Bake
in a hot oven until the potato is well puffed and
brown.
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 Baked Sausages

Prick the sausages xvith a fork and bake for

6 or 7 minntes in a hot oven: take 3 cups of
mashed potatoes and whip it with a well-beaten
^?s lay this on a baking dish with the sausages
'

on top, and cook 6 minntes longer.

Chicken a la Dorcas

Cut np a tender chicken. Season with salt and

pepper, dip in egg and ermnbs, and arrange the
pieces close together in a buttered baking-pan.
Dot each piece with butter, cover with another
dripping-pan, and bake in a hot oven until
brown. Make a cream sauce and scrape the
crumbs, butter, and bits of chicken which will
stick to the baking-pan into the sauce. Pour
tiie sauce over the chicken.

Potted Chicken
CMn. yartnn Libhy)
Cut up a chicken as for fricassee and to each
pound of meat allow 2 tablespoonfnls of flour,
\2 teaspoonful salt (very scant), and a dust of
pepper. Mix thoroughly and roll each piece of
the meat in the mixture. Pack closely in a large
bean pot and cover with boiling water and bake
3^2 hours. Cover after 10 or 15 minutes, but not
before it boils.

Beef and Tomato Stew

(Mrt. Gib€on Bradbury)
1 cupful lean, uncooked beef, chopped fine.
iy2 cupfuls strained tomato juice.
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 4 to 6 slices dried toast.
1% tablespoonfuls butter.
11/2 tablespoonfuls flour.
1 tablespoonful finely chopped onion.
1 teaspoonful salt.
%teaspoonful pepper.
Melt the butter, add the onion and cook until
slightly colored; put in the meat, packing it
doTvn solidly. Cook, without stirring, until it be-
gins to brown around the edge, then turn (it will
break, but this does not matter) and cook until
almost dry. Put the tomato juice, salt, and pep-
per into an agate ware sauce pan, and bring to
boiling point. Mix the flour well with the meat,
turn into the tomato juice, stirring until it boils
and thickens. Pour out on the toast and serve
hot.

Second-Day Roast Beef

(Evelyn Dutton Fogg)
Cut the lean meat of the cold roast beef into
small squares, removing any fat or tough parts.
Take a quart, or a pint of stewed tomatoes, ac-
cording to the quantity of meat. Boil 14 pound
of macaroni in water until tender, then drain.
Add left-over gravy to the tomatoes. Put into
a baking dish alternate layers of macaroni and
meat, pour in the tomatoes and gravy, cover the
top with fine bread crumbs and bake in the oven
until the crumbs are well browned. The propor-
tions depend upon the amount of meat, and
additional gvRvj may be had by boiling the
scraps in a little water, seasoning and adding
to the tomatoes.
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 Rolled Beefsteak
(Mrs. John Guilford)
Take a round
steak, beat it well and spread it
with a dressing such as is used for poultry. Be-
gin at one end and roll it np neatly, trying to
keep it in shape. Put it in a bake-pan with a
littlewater, and bake until the meat is tender,
basting it frequently, and when nearly done put
a tablespoonful of butter over it. Thicken the
gravy in the pan with a little flour and season
well. Cut the meat as you would a berry-roll,
slicing off the ends neatly.

Chicken a la Maryland
f^Mrs. Austin G. Gorham)
Cut your chicken as for frying. Wash, and
dry in a cloth: then dip chicken in either melted
butter or fat from fried pork. Salt and pepper
the pieces, then roll them in cracker or bread
crumbs; put in baking pan, in two layers, baste
with melted butter and part water (or baste with
pork fat, if used). Bake till thoroughly done,
then place chicken on hot platter and cover all
with thickened gravy, unstrained.

Dumplings
(Henrietta Elden)
For every cup of flour use 1 heaping teaspoon-
fulbaking powder, 1 small teaspoonful salt. Use
milk to stir as stiff as possible with a strong
spoon, leaving a little dust of flour that is not
mixed in. Dip the spoon in the stew, then in
dough, cutting off small pieces not larger than a
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hen's egg, as they expand to twice their size.
Lay around on top of stew, then draw the pan
they are cooking in back on top of stove, so they
will not burn,keeping just boiling slowly. Leave
the cover dumplings are like puff
off until the
balls, then put the cover over them until they
are cooked, which will be about 20 minutes.

Mexican Stew
(Mrs. Austin G. GorhamJ

1 slice round steak (about 1% lbs.).

6 beets.
6 turnips.
6 onions.
6 potatoes.
6 peppers (large, sweet, green).
6 tomatoes.
Put steak in bottom of pot, then add the beets
and turnips, and cover all with boiling water,
and add water as it cooks away. After these
have cooked 3 hours, add the potatoes, onions,
and peppers (removing part of the seeds from
the peppers, or it will be too hot), and cook 1
hour. Then add the tomatoes and cook 20 min-
utes. Thicken with flour (mixed with a little
cold water), season to taste. Cook slowly all
through on top of stove.

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FISH DISHES
Quillcote Codfish Pie
(Nora A. Smith)
Line a dish with 2 crusts of puff paste and
bake. Eemove upper crust and fill with codfish
prepared as follows Flake and freshen 1 strip
:

of codfish and cut an onion in bits, cooking in

water until done. Let 1 cup of creamy milk
come to a boil, thicken with flour, add fish and
onion and small piece of butter. Serve hot.

Creamed Fish on Toast

(Mrs. William Deering)
Haddock or any wliite fish, cold water to
cover.
1 pt. milk.
1 tablespoon butter.
2 heaping tablespoons flour.
1/2 teaspoon salt.

Pinch of pepper.
1 tablespoon chopped parsley.
Wash the fish well. With a very sharp knife
cut off the best of the flesh, commencing along
the line of the back where the dorsal fins have
been removed and cutting both ways. This
may be saved for frying. Boil the remaining
fish and bones, in cold water enough to cover,
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until done. Remove bones and skin. Add milk,
let come to a boil and then add the flour moist-
ened with a little cold water. When thickened,
season with salt, pepper, butter, and parsley,
and serve on toast.

Baked Halibut
(Sarah D. Moulton)
Take 2 slices of halibut 1 inch thick between ;

them put cracker crumbs, pepper, salt, and fat

pork chopped fine; put the same on top, using
butter instead of pork. Bake in a small pan set
into a larger pan of water. Bake till the
crumbs are brown, basting frequently with the
drippings.

Clam Chowder
(Mrs. Thomas L. Kimball)
1 qt. clams.Separate the belly from the other
part,and cut off the black heads. Have ready
some fried pork scraps, some split crackers,
sliced raw potatoes, and onions. Put a layer of
clams, a layer of crackers, a layer of potatoes,
and onions, with pepper and salt on each layer.
Cover with hot water and boil until potatoes
are done. Then add two quarts of milk.

Salmon Souffle
(Mi's. Emery Harriman)
2 level tablespoons butter.
2 level tablespoons flour.
1 teaspoon salt.
% teaspoon paprika.
1 pt. milk.
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 1 cup stale bread crumbs.
1 teaspoon onion juice.
1 teaspoon chopped parsley.
1 teaspoon lemon juice.
1 pound cooked salmon.
3 eggs.
Prepare a sauce with the butter, flour, sea-
soning, and milk; add bread crumbs, yolks of
eggs well beaten, onion juice, lemon juice, pars-
ley, and salmon rubbed fine with a silver fork.
Then fold in whites of eggs beaten dry. Turn
mixture into buttered baking dish and set this
into a dish of hot water. Bake about 25 min-
utes in a moderate oven.

Salmon Loaf
(Mrs. A. G. Wiley)
1 can salmon picked up fine with fork.
4 eggs.
4 tablespoons butter.
% cup bread crumbs.
Salt and pepper to taste.
Steam 1 hour in quart bowl. Serve with
sauce.

Escalloped Oysters
(Mrs. W. 8. Moulton)
1 pt. oysters.
8 common crackers.
% cup water.
1 cup milk.
Piece of butter size of an o^gg.
Pepper and salt.
Butter a baking dish; sprinkle the bottom
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with cracker crumbs, then have a layer of
oysters, then cracker crumbs. Moisten with
milk, butter, proceed till dish is full, having
cracker crumbs on top. Bake in a hot oven
30 minutes.

Codfish Balls
(Mrs. Oland Trash)
To 1 cup of boiled codfish chopped add fine
2 cups or more of mashed Moisten
potatoes.
with 1 beaten egg, or 2 or 3 tablespoons of sweet
milk. Season with pepper and a little butter.
Make small flat cakes, flour, and fry a delicate
brown in hot dripping or lard. A more deli-
cate dish is made by dipping the cakes in
beaten q^^, then in bread crumbs and fry as
above stated.

Salmon Pie
(Mrs. Perley A. Berry)
2 small cans salmon.
4 eggs.
1 cup macaroni.
Open salmon, pick out bones and skin; cook
macaroni in boiling salted water hour; boil %
eggs until hard, peel and cut in halves. Line a
3-qt. baking pan with puff paste.
Wet edges of pan after being lined, then put
in the salmon, eggs, and macaroni in order
named.
Ijay in 3 crackers split.
Pepper and salt, a little onion if liked, ^4
lb. butter, or a butter gravy poured over the
whole, and fill % full. Cover with crust rolled
out % in. thick.

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 Codfish Foam
(Mrs. Chas. Earle)

Make a white sauce of 1 tahlespoon of flour,

1 teaspoon of butter, and 1 cup of hot milk. Stir
until smooth, then add 2 tablespoons of finely
picked codfish, freshened, and tlie beaten whites
of 2 eggs.

Fish Croquettes
(Mrs. Guy L. Hall)

Chop finely cold cooked fish. To each cupful

add 1 large cracker rolled to a powder, 1 well
beaten egg, 1 tablespoon of milk, and pepper
and salt to taste. Fry in butter until nicely
browned on both sides and allow 1 small table-
spoon for each croquette.

Baked Stuffed Haddock

(Mrs. John Guilford)
One medium-sized fresh haddock.
2 tablespoons of bread crumbs.
2 tablespoons of suet.
2 tablespoons of parsley.
1 teaspoon of herbs.

A little milk, salt, and pepper.

Browned crumbs.
2 ounces of dripping.
Wash and trim the fish; that is, neatly cut
and remove the eyes.
off the fins, point the tail
Next make the stuffing by chopping the suet,
parsley, and herbs, and mix them with the
crumbs. Season well, and add enough milk to
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keep tlie mixture from crumbling. Press this
into the inside of the fish, into the space just
under the head where it is not open. Skewer or
sew the edges together to keep in the stuffing
and truss the fish in a circle by pushing the tail
through the eyes. Next rub the fish all over
with flour to dry it. Beat up the egg and paint
the fish all over with it, then entirely cover with
some nicely browned crumbs, so that it looks
like a fried haddock.
Put the fish in a baking tin with the dripping.
Bake in a moderate oven about 10 to 15 minutes.
Baste it frequently, lift out of tin and remove
skewer or stick. Serve on a hot dish with
anchovy or butter sauce round.

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 IV
VEGETABLES
Macaroni with Cheese
(Mrs. Gibeon Bradbury)
Take % pound of macaroni, break in
of a
small pieces, and boil in 3 pts. of salted water
20 minutes; turn into a collander, pour cold
water over it and drain. Make a sauce of 1
tablespoon each of flour and butter, and 1% cups
of hot milk salt. Put a layer of grated cheese
;

in a dish, then a layer of macaroni, then sauce,

then another layer of cheese, macaroni, and
sauce, covering with fine bread crumbs, dotted
with small pieces of butter. Bake until brown.

Browned Tomatoes
(Mrs. Ira Libly)

Wipe tomatoes and cut in halves, or if large

into thirds. Lay cut side up in baking pan, and
sprinkle with salt. Cover with green peppers
and onions chopped fine. Moisten some soft
bread crumbs with melted butter and put gen-
erous layer over whole. Place the pan in hot
oven and let cook until crumbs are well browned.

Candied Sweet Potatoes

(Mrs. G. F. Howe)
Boil the potatoes until they are thoroughly
cooked, then peel and slice them. Butter a shal-
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low dish or tin and put in a layer of potatoes.
Sprinkle over this a little sugar, then put in
another layer of potatoes and another of sugar,
with a few bits of butter on top. A little maple
syrup added before putting into the oven makes
it still better. Leave in the oven only long
enough to brown.

Stuffed Spanish Onions

(Mrs. Algernon 8. Dyer)
Boil onions until tender, take out middles, and
mix them with cooked chopped meat or fish.
Put this mixture back into onion shells, with
crumbs on top, and place all in baking dish
with a little water or milk (if milk, add when
nearly done), and bake until very tender.

German Luncheon Dish

^Mrs. Algernon 8. Dyer)
Cook spinach in the usual way, and heap on
middle of a platter ;
garnish with slices of hard-
boiled egg, and place round all thin slices of
broiled bacon.

Cucumbers to Serve with Broiled Steak

(Mrs. L. W. 8cribner)
Peel good sized cucumbers, cut lengthwise
and then across through the middle. Sprinkle
heavily with salt and let stand an hour. Drain
and put into upper part of double boiler with
drawn butter sauce. Season with pepper and
salt, a bit of bay leaf, and a drop or two of

vinegar. Cook until soft and transparent. Serve

in sauce plates as a vegetable.
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 Cucumbers to Serve with Roast Beef
(Frances B. Dyer)
Peel and slice good sized cucumbers; put layer
of cracker crumbs in bottom of baking dish, and
on this a layer of the sliced cucumbers, chopped
green peppers, and chopped parsley; sprinkle
with salt and add bits of butter. Over this put
another layer of cracker crumbs, followed by
layer of the cucumbers, green peppers, and pars-
ley. Over all another layer of cracker crumbs,
covered with bits of butter. Add milk until it
can just be seen round edge of dish and bake 1
hour. Serve in baking-dish.

Scalloped Tomatoes
(Minnie Alford)
Butter your baking-dish well. Cut the skinned
tomatoes in small pieces and line the bottom,
then a sprinkle of salt and pepper, with a little
butter. Now bread crumbs, very fine, then sea-
soning and so on until the dish is full. A little
onion in this is a great improvement. An ^gg,
well beaten, poured over the top, adds a great
deal to the taste.

Grandmother's Potatoes
(Mrs. George Riggs)
Pare large potatoes, and cut a tunnel through
the centre of each one with an apple corer.
Draw a small sausage through each one; place
them in the pan and lay a slice of fat salt pork
or bacon on each one. Bake until the potatoes
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are done, basting with hot water whenever
necessary.

Salsify, or Oyster Plant

(Mrs. Thomas L. Kimhall)

Wash, scrape, and throw into cold water. Cut

into inch pieces and boil rapidly. Drain them
well. Add milk, butter, salt, and pepper, as for
an oyster stew.

Pleasant Point Corn Fritters

(Mrs. James B. EldenJ

To 1 heaping cnp of corn add:

^4^ cup sweet milk;

% cup flour;
1 heaping teaspoon baking powder;
Add a little salt and pepper.
Fry in deep lard.

Potato Border
(Sally Akers Ely)

Make a rim of cold mashed potato on a stone-

ware platter, leaving a space in the middle. Fill
the space with creamed fish, or minced beef.
Sprinkle with crumbs and dry cheese, dot with
butter, and brown in the oven.

Chopped Potato
(Mrs. Walter Hill)
Cut cold, boiled potatoes into dice, and add
half as muchhard-boiled egg coarsely chopped.
Season with salt and pepper; add half a cupful
of rich hot milk or cream and heat thoroughly.
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 Escalloped Parsnips
(Mrs. George Sawyer)

Cut cold, boiled parsnips into dice. Put into

a baking-dish in layers, with crumbs, parsley,
and grated cheese in between, having crumbs,
cheese, and butter on top. Pour over a little
cream sauce and bake until brown.

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 SALADS AND DRESSINGS
Mountain View Lobster Salad
(Fannie E. Milliken)
Cut the lobster meat in small pieces and sea-
son with salt. Make nests or cups of crisp let-
tuce leaves; break the poorer leaves and mix
with the lobster; put a large spoonful of the
lobster, mixed with some of the dressing, in each
leaf, with a spoonful of the dressing on top just
before serving. Garnish with the coral sprinkled
over the dressing and with the lobster claws
around the dish.

DEESSING
% tablespoon mustard.
1 tablespoon sugar.
2 tablespoons melted butter.
1 teaspoon salt.
Make smooth, then add slowly 3 well-beaten
eggs. To this add gradually %
cup sweet
milk; then add % cup vinegar, stirring the in-
gredients thoroughly. Cook in a double boiler
until a little thick.

Potato Salad
(Mrs. Emma Sands)
A sufficient number of boiled potatoes cut in
cubes; a layer of potatoes alternating with
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chopped onions, parsley, pepper, salt, mustard,
celery seed, and salad dressing. Spread over
lettuce leaves.

SALAD DEESSING
Wet one rounding teaspoon each of mustard
and cornstarch with vinegar. Add enough more
vinegar to make a half cupful in all. Add 1%
cups milk, sweet or sour, 1 beaten egg, and but-
ter, size of egg. Cook until it thickens, stirring
constantly.

An Old-Fashioned Salad
(Bertha Peirce)
Cut cold potatoes into slices and mix with
shredded lettuce leaves. Cover salad dish with
lettuce leaves, and place mixture upon them.
Lay sliced cold boiled eggs upon the top and
around the edge. Next to the green leaves, lay
slices of cold beef or tongue. Pour dressing
over all, adding a little onion juice, if desired.

fee:n-ch dressing
Three tablespoonfuls of olive oil, 2 table-
spoonfuls of vinegar —
more if dressing seems
too oily —%
teaspoonful of mustard, tea- %
spoonful of salt. Beat violently with egg-beater,
then pour over salad.

Salad Dressing
(Mrs. A. M. Jose)
1 unbeaten egg. Into this sift:
1 scant teaspoon salt;
1 teaspoon mustard;
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 3 rounding teaspoons flour;
6 teaspoons sugar. Mix, then add:
% cup vinegar;
% cup hot water;
Small piece of butter.
Stir till it thickens, but do not let boil. When
cool add cream to thin.

Chicken and Nut Salad

(M7'S. Sewell Smith)

1% cups diced chicken.

1 cup chopped English walnuts.
% cup apple diced.
1 tablespoonful finely chopped celery to each
cup of chicken, a dash of paprika.
Mix with dressing and serve on lettuce leaves.

Crossways Fruit Salad

(Mrs. A. L. T. CummingsJ
1 can pineapple, cut.
2 lbs. California grapes, seeded.
% lb. English walnuts or pecans.

This quantity is for a large company.

DEESSIISTG
1 tablespoon mustard.
1 tablespoon sugar.
A very little cayenne.
1 teaspoon salt.
3 eggs (yolks).
Juice of %
lemon.
^ cup vinegar.
1 pt. best olive oil.

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 Beat yolks and dry ingredients until very
light and thick. Add a few drops of oil at a
time until the dressing becomes very thick and
rather hard; then add oil more rapidly. When
very thick add a little vinegar, continuing until
all the oil and vinegar have been used. Add
lemon juice and a full cup of whipped cream.
(Dressing will keep a long time on ice.)

Salad without Vinegar

(Mrs. Andrew L. Berry)

Arrange lettuce as usual, placing cut oranges,

grape fruit, or bananas over it, a little sugar,
with a sprinkle of lemon juice upon the whole.
Another way: Strew ripe currants and a little
sugar over the lettuce.

Sardine Salad
Emma J. Harmon)
(Mrs.
Arrange sardines on a bed of lettuce. Season
with minced onion, chopped pickle, capers, and
hard-boiled eggs. Pour over French dressing,
season with tomato catsup, and serve cold.

Egg Salad
(Jennie Shepard)
Cut fine 3 hard-boiled eggs and 4 stalks of
celery. Serve on lettuce with French dressing.

Vegetable Salad
(Ella Deering)

Mix equal parts or any desired proportion of

cold boiled vegetables sliced or chopped. Heap
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on a platter or shallow dish, lined with lettuce
leaves, and serve with a cream dressing. Gar-
nish with sprays of parsley.

French Dressing
(Mrs. George Riggs)
Put a pinch each of salt and pepper into a
bowl. Pour in 4 tablespoonfuls of the best olive
oil and stir until the salt is dissolved. Add 1
tablespoonful of vinegar and stir and beat until
no separate globules of oil are visible.
To French dressing made according to direc-
tions given above may be added at discretion
celery salt, capers, horseradish, mustard, Wor-
cestershire sauce, sage, minced olives or pickles.
Materials for salads combined with lettuce :
—
Diced tongue, chicken, ham, or beef. String
beans, spinach, potato, celery, asparagus, peas,
beets, beet greens. Sardines or any cold bits
of fish. Almost any sort of
fruit, which, how-
ever, needs a special dressing. "Whenever the
supply of material is small, add hard-boiled
eggs, chopped or in slices. Develop the salad
* *

habit,'' which is only of recent growth in New

England.

Egg Dressing
(Mary Shepard)
Eub the yolks of 4 hard-boiled eggs to a
smooth paste with salt, cayenne, mustard, and
sugar to season. Add gradually 4 tablespoon-
and vinegar and fold in the
fuls each of oil stiffly

beaten white of an egg.

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 Boiled Salad Dressing
(Nellie Harmon)
Beat the yolks of 3 eggs with 2 tablespoonfuls
of oil, 1 cupful of cream, and salt, sugar, mus-

tard, and cayenne to season. Cook in a double

boiler imtil it thickens, adding gradually %
cupful of boiling vinegar. Take from the fire,
add the whites of 3 eggs, beaten to a stiff froth,
and chill.

Cabbage Salad
(Mrs. F. W. Foster)
The white heart of cabbage,chopped fine;
sprinkle % teaspoon of salt over, and put on
ice to chill. Slice one hard-boiled egg over
when chilled, and pour mayonnaise dressing
over, and serve.

Cheese Dressing
(Frances B. Dyer)
Eub the yolks of 2 hard-boiled eggs to a
smooth paste with 4 tablespoons of oil then add
;

1 tablespoon of vinegar and 1 of grated cheese

with 1 teaspoonful of made mustard. Serve
with the hearts of lettuce.

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 VI
PIES
Quillcote Pie Crust
(Mrs. Helen E. Bradbury)

1 qt. flour.
1 teaspoon salt.
1 large iron spoon lard.
1 full cup butter.
Work it all together with spoon until it is
thoroughly mixed. In summer add a little ice
water and mix it quite stiff. Roll out three times,
then put it in a tight roll and set it down cellar
until the next day. This will make three medium
pies.

Lemon Sponge Pie

(Mrs, E. A. Owen)
1 lemon.
1 cup sugar.
2 eggs.
1 cup milk.
2 teaspoons flour.
1 tablespoon butter.
Cream the butter, sugar, and add the flour.
Separate the whites and yolks of the eggs, mix-
ing the yolks with the sugar and butter. Grate
the rind of the lemon and add the juice, then
the cup of milk. Lastly stir in the well-whipped
whites of the eggs and bake in one crust.
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 Every-Day Pie Crust
(Myra DarrahJ
3 cups flour.
**
1 cup lard cut in.'^
A little salt.
Water enough to mix.
2 tablespoons butter rolled in.
This makes enough for two pies.

Cranberry Pie
(Eliza 8. Lilly)

1 cup of cranberries, chopped fine.

1 cup of chopped raisins.
1 cup of sugar.
1 tablespoonful of flour.
% cup boiling water, scant.
Salt and vanilla.
Mix and sugar, add water, then raisins.
flour
Beat smooth and add cranberries last.
Bake in two crusts.
Mock Cherry Pie
(Mrs. Rolert G. Harhutt)
1 cup of cranberries.
1 cup sugar.
1 cup raisins, unchopped.
% cup water in which put 1% teaspoonfuls of
vanilla.
Sprinkle plate with flour to thicken pie. Bake
in two crusts. Makes one pie.

Filling for Currant Pie

(Mrs. Helen E. Bradlury)
2 eggs, 1 heaping cup sugar, 2 large cups cur-
rants. Beat the yolks of the eggs with the sugar.
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Add the whites, beaten to a stiff froth, the last
thing. Make a lattice work of pastry for the
top crust of the pie.

Buxton Date Pie

(Mrs. J. R. Ford)

Soak the dates over night and stew until they

can be strained. Mix with 1 qt. of milk 3 eggs,
a little salt, and nutmeg. Bake with an under
crust only. One pound of dates is sufficient for
three pies.
Rhubarb Pie
(Mrs. John Fogg)
1 cup chopped rhubarb.
1 cup sugar.
1 Qgg,
1 teaspoonful lemon.
Salt.
Bake with two crusts.

Mock Mince Pie

(Mrs. Priscilla Hanson)

1 cup molasses.
1 cup sugar.
% cup butter.
1/2 cup vinegar.

Boil together for 1 minute. Then add 4

crackers rolled, 2 beaten eggs, spice to suit the
taste, and 1 cup chopped raisins.

Secretary's Chocolate Pie

(Mrs. H. H. Locke)

V2 Clip of sugar.
2 level tablespoons of cornstarch.
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 1 tablespoon of chocolate or cocoa.
Yolks of 2 eggs.
A little salt.

2 cups of milk.
Vanilla.
Bake in one crust. i

MEKINGUE
Whites of 2 eggs.
1 tablespoon sugar.
Brown in oven.

Lemon-Apple Pie
(Mrs. Oeorge Frazier)
Grate rind and strain juice of 2 lemons. Core,
pare, and chop fine 1 large tart apple. Pound
1 soft cracker very fine. Melt 2 teaspoons
butter and mix with the cracker crumbs.
Mix lemon rind and juice wdth chopped apple,
stir with them 2 level cups of sugar.
Beat yolks of 2 eggs to thick froth, whites to
stiffness, then both together.
Beat these wdth the lemon, apple, and sugar.
Mix the buttered crumbs with all. Cover pie
plates; put a broad brim around their edges,
and fill as tarts with the mixture. Bake 20
minutes, or until the crust is done. Orange Pie
in same way, with less sugar.

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 VII

PUDDINGS !

The President's Pudding Sauce

(Mrs. J. W. Mes.erve)

% cup butter.
1 cup powdered sugar.
14 cup cream or milk.
4 tablespoons wine or 1 teaspoon vanilla.
Beat the butter to a cream, add sugar gradu-
ally; when light and creamy add wine, then
cream a little at a time, place in a dish of hot
water till the sauce is creamy and no longer.

Honeycomb Pudding
(Mrs. F. W. Foster)

1 cup chopped suet.

1 cup chopped raisins.
1 cup molasses.
1 cup sweet milk.
3 cups flour.
1 teaspoon soda sifted in flour, spice to taste.
Steam 3 hours and serve with hard sauce.

Foamy Pudding Sauce

(Mrs. Priscilla Hanson)
1 cup sugar.
2 eggs.
Beat sugar and yolks together in a bowl. Set
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in boiling water. Then add whites beaten stiff.
Put a small piece of butter and 1 tablespoon
sherry in a bowl. Pour over the hot sauce just
before serving.

Sokokis Indian Pudding

(Mrs. George Riggs)
1 qt. skimmed milk.
% pt. Indian meal.
1 cup molasses.
A little salt.

Scald the milk and add the ingredients while

it ishot; let it cool, then pour into deep earthen
pan, with straight sides, and bake 3 or 4 hours
in a slow oven. Add %
cup cold milk, and stir
after putting in to bake.

Tory Hill Pudding

(Mrs. James Woodman)
1 pt. of nice bread crumbs to 1 qt. of milk.
1 cup sugar.
The yolks of 4 eggs well beaten.
The grated peel of a lemon.
Butter size of an ^gg. Bake until done, hut
not watery.
Whip the whites of the eggs to a froth, and
beat in %
teacup of sugar. Flavor with lemon.
Spread over the pudding a layer of jelly or fruit
either fresh or dried. Pour the whites over
this and set in the oven till brown. To be
eaten with sugar and cream, or it is good
without.
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 Sandwich Pudding
(Mrs. Martha C. Hanson)
Make a batter of 1 cup of sugar and 1 egg.
Butter the size of an egg.
V2 cup milk.
1 teaspoon cream tartar.
% teaspoon soda.
1% cups flour.
Have a quart pudding dish half full of sliced
sour apples and pour the batter over them.
Bake one hour. To be eaten with a sugar
sauce.

Hilltop Blueberry Roll

(Mrs. Jane C. AkersJ

1 cup milk.
1 tablespoon butter.
2 teaspoons baking powder sifted in flour.
% teaspoon salt.
Flour enough to roll.

Add and baking powder, and salt

sifted flour
to milk; then add melted butter, and roll out
thin.
Add berries to one end of roll, fold over, add
more berries and fold again; and keep adding
berries and folding until roll is filled. Fold over

ends of roll and bake about %

hour.

SAUCE FOR EOLL

White of egg beaten stiff with 2 tablespoons
of milk and 1 cup sugar.

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 Apple Indian Pudding
(Mrs. L. A. Berry)

% cnp Indian meal.

% cup molasses.
1 qt. milk.
Teaspoon salt.
Scald the milk, and pour it slowly on tlie meal,
molasses, and salt. Add small piece of butter,
bit of cinnamon, and ginger. Fill pudding dish
half full of quartered, sweet apples. Pour in
mixture, and add 1 cupful cold milk. Bake
slowly 3 hours.

Pork Pudding
(Mrs. J. W. Rankins)
1 cup salt pork, chopped fine.
1 cup raisins, chopped fine.
1 cup molasses.
2 cups sweet milk.
3 cups flour.
1 teaspoon soda.
Little of different kinds of spice.
Put in a 3-pt. tin, set in a steamer, cover with
a cloth. Steam 2 hours, do not lift the cover
while steaming.

SAUCE
1 cup sugar.
2 tablespoons flour.
2 cups hot water.
Cook a few moments, then flavor to taste.

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 Plymouth Custards
(Cornelia D. BurbankJ

4 eggs.
1 qt. milk.
Scant cup sugar.
Put into custard cups, grate a little nutmeg
over top.
Set in jar of hot water in the oven.
Bake 20 minutes.

Indian Tapioca Pudding

(Mrs. George LihhyJ

3 tablespoons pearl tapioca.

2 tablespoons Indian meal.
1 qt. milk.
14 cup sugar.
% cup molasses.
Salt.
Soak tapioca and meal in 1 cup of the milk.
Scald the rest of the milk, then add meal and
tapioca. When cool enough add 1 egg. Just
before putting into the oven add 1 cup of cold
water.
Bake 2% hours.

Coffee Tapioca Pudding

(Mrs. John Fogg)

Soak 2 tablespoons tapioca over night. In the

morning drain and add 3 cups coffee. Cook until
soft in a double boiler. Thicken with 1 tea-
spoon cornstarch. Add % cup sugar and a
little salt.

Serve with sugar and cream.

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 River Road Pudding
(Mrs. Frank llar))i0)ij

Soak 2 tablospoonf Ills tapioca in water enough

to cover for 2 hours. Tliou phice over fire in
i pt. milk. AVhen boiling stir in yolks of 2
eggs beaten with 1 cup white sugar. Boil 2 or 3
minutes. Vanilla to taste. Have ready in a
dish the whites of the eggs beaten to a froth.
Pour hot pudding over it.

Caroline Pudding
(Mrs. G. F. Howe)
1 qt. milk.
1 cup grated bread crumbs.
34 cup molasses.
Little salt. Piece of butter.
Spice to taste. Bake slowly 3 hours, stirring
often, so as to prevent its having any crust.

Pudding Crusts
Weds)
(Mrs. A.mhrose

Pie paste a suitable cover for boiled or

is

baked fruit puddings.

Potato crust for boiled fruit puddings is made
as follows : Boil and mash
good potatoes.
3 or 4
Mix with 2 of potato.
2 cupfuls of sifted flour
Use a chopping knife, so as to keep free from
clogging. Chop in 1 cup butter and 1 teaspoon
salt. Mix to a paste with very cold water.
Gather into a heap without moulding, on to
the pie board, to roll out. Puddings should be
boiled in a cloth.

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 VIII

COMPANY DESSERTS
Milk Sherbet
(Mrs. Ambrose Weeks)
8 cups milk.
6 lemons.
3 cups sugar.
Mix and sugar, stirring con-
juice (strained)
stantly while adding milk slowly.

Chocolate Sauce for Vanilla Ice Cream

(Sara J. Morton)
2 squares chocolate.
1 cup sugar.
1 teaspoon cornstarch.
1 cup boiling water.
Boil until thick.

Strawberry Blanc-Mange
(Mrs. Gilhert Berry)
Stew nice, ripe strawberries, strain off the
juice and sweeten it to taste. Place over the
fire, and when it boils, stir in cornstarch wet in

cold water, allowing 2 tablespoonfuls of corn-

starch for each pint of juice; continue stirring
until sufficiently cooked. Pour into moulds wet
in cold water, and set away to cool; serve with
cream and sugar and fresh strawberries if de-
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sired. Easpberry blanc-mange prepared in the
same way is equally good.

Junior Dorcas Ice Cream

(Alice Emery)
1 qt. milk.
1 qt. cream.
1 qt. fruit.
3 cups sugar.
Mix sugar and fruit together. Press through
a collander and freeze.

Pineapple Sherbet
(Mrs. Angelia Harmon)
1 tablespoonful of gelatine dissolved in % V^'
of warm water. After it is dissolved, add an-
other % pt. of warm water, 1 pt. of sugar, and
1 can of pineapple, chopped fine, and added
with the juice. Then freeze.

Ossipee Pyramids
(Mrs. Frank Hargraves)
Whipfirmly a pint of cream. Sweeten and
chill. Serve in small glasses. Beat stiffly the
whites of six eggs. Sweeten, and gradually stir
in a small cup of currant jelly. When ready to
serve, drop a spoonful of the beaten egg in the
center of each dish of cream, in the shape of a
pyramid.

Chocolate Whips
(Mrs. H. H. Locke)

1 pt. of milk.
2 eggs.
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 Pinch of salt.
Sweeten to taste.
Heat the milk, adding two tablespoons of
grated chocolate.
Then add the eggs and other ingredients.
Fill glasses two-thirds full.
Drop whipped cream in each.

Apple or Banana Fritters

(Mrs. H. M. Thurston)

1 cup flour.

1% teaspoons baking powder.

3 tablespoons powdered sugar.
1/4 teaspoon salt.

% cup milk.
legg.
Cut the apple or banana in thin slices.

SAUCE
Grated rind and juice of 1 lemon.
% cup Sherry wine.
% cup sugar.
2 eggs.
Mix lemon, wine, sugar, and yolks of eggs.
Stir vigorously over fire until it thickens, then
add whites, beaten stiff.

Apple Custard
(Mrs. Frank Hargraves)

3 eggs.
1 cup sugar.
1 cup sifted sour apple sauce.
% cup butter.
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 Flavor with vanilla. Make nice crust for
holders. Bake in round muffin tins.

Custard Souffle
(Mrs. George E. Smith)
Eub 2 scant tablespoonfuls butter to a cream;
add 2 tablespoonfuls flour and pour on gradu-
ally 1 cup hot milk. Cook 8 minutes in the
double boiler, stirring often. Separate the
yolks and whites of 4 eggs. Put the whites
on ice. Beat the yolks. Add 2 tablespoonfuls
sugar and add to the milk and set away to cool.
% hour before serving, beat the whites stiff and
cut them in lightly. Bake in a buttered pud-
ding dish in a moderate oven 30 minutes. Serve
at once with creamy sauce.

Fig Pudding
(Mrs. Monroe Marsh)

% lb. suet, finely chopped.

% lb. (scant) figs, finely chopped.
2 heaping cups bread crumbs, soaked in %
cup milk.
%cup sugar.
2 well-beaten eggs last.
Mix thoroughly and steam 4 hours. Serve
with hard or foamy sauce.

Fruit Compote
(Mrs. Charles Irving)
5 oranges, cut fine.
4 bananas, sliced fine.

Juice of 1 lemon.
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 1 cup strawberries, cut fine; or substitute
malaga grapes if strawberries are out of season.
1 cup walnuts.
Sprinkle with 6 tablespoons sugar, and %
teaspoon cinnamon.
% pt. whipped cream.

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 IX
CAKE
The Doctor^s Cream Cakes
(Mrs. A. G. Wiley)
Boil together 1 cup water and %
cup butter,
then add 1 cup flour, all at once, and beat
vigorously. When mixture cleaves from pan,
remove from fire and break in 4 eggs, one at a
time, beating for 2 minutes after adding each
egg. After the mixture is cool, drop by spoon-
ful into buttered pan and bake 30 minutes in
a moderate oven.

FILLING FOE CAKES

Mix together %
cup of sugar, %
cup of flour,
and 2 eggs. Pour on this 1 pt. of hot milk and
cook in double boiler. Flavor to taste.

Quick Cake
(Mrs. Alonso Earmon)
1 cup sugar.
1% cups sifted flour.
2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, all together.
Add 14 cup butter.
Break 2 eggs in a cup, fill with sweet milk,
beat all together.
1 teaspoonful vanilla.
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 Chocolate Cake
(Helen King Marshall)

1 cup brown sugar.

^ cup sour milk.
14 cup butter.
2 squares chocolate, dissolved in % cup hot
water.
1 teaspoon soda.
1 cup flour, before sifting.
Vanilla.
This makes a thin mixture, but do not be
alarmed, as it is quite right.

FKOSTING FOR CHOCOLATE CAKE

1 cup granulated sugar. 3 tablespoons hot
water. Boil until it makes a soft ball in water.
Turn this over white of one egg, well beaten.
Beat all together until stiff, then turn over the
cake.
Mocha Cake
(Mrs. Richard Lilly)
1 cup sugar.
1 cup flour.
1 teaspoon cream of tartar.
% teaspoon soda.
1 large teaspoon melted butter.
% cup boiling milk,
2 eggs, not beaten.
Sift flour, sugar, cream of tartar, soda to-
gether twice.
Add butter, then break in eggs, stir. Add
milk last.
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 stir briskly. Bake in moderate oven 20
minutes.

FBOSTING
1 cnp powdered sugar. Small piece of butter.
2 tablespoons coffee.
2 teaspoons cocoa.
% teaspoon vanilla.
Cream butter and sugar. Add cocoa, then
coffee and vanilla. Add more sugar, if neces-
sary. Spread with knife dipped in hot water.

Ribbon Cake
(Mae SkillingsJ

2% cups sugar.
1 cup butter.
1 cup sour milk.
1 teaspoon cream tartar.
% teaspoon soda.
4 cups flour.
4 eggs.
For the dark part, reserve one-third.
1 cup raisins.
1 cup currants.
2 tablespoons of molasses.
1 teaspoon each of all kinds of spices.

Grange Cake
(Mrs. J. W. Rankins)
3 cups of sugar.
1 cup of butter.
5 cups of flour.
1% cups of milk or water.
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 1% cups of chopped raisins.
2 eggs.
2 tablespoonfuls of molasses.
1 teaspoonful soda, dissolved in a little water.
Spice.

Delicious Cake
(Mrs. George Lihby)
2 cups sugar.
1 cup butter.
1 cup milk.
3 cups flour.
3 eggs.
% teaspoon soda.
1 teaspoon cream tartar.
Cream butter and sugar together; add the
yolks of the eggs, then the beaten whites. Dis-
solve the soda in the milk, rub the cream of
tartar in the flour and add last.

Cheap Fruit Cake

(Mrs. F. J. Leavitt)
2 cups of sugar.
% cup molasses.
% cup milk.
1 cup of butter.
4 cups of flour.
1 teaspoon soda.
3 eggs.
Spice of all kinds.
1 cup raisins.
1 cup currants.
% cup citron.
Will make two loaves.
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 Angel Cake
(Mrs, George T. Edwards)

1% cups of sugar.
Y2 cup of butter.
% cup of milk.
2% cups of flour.
1 teaspoon of cream tartar.
14 teaspoon of soda.
5 eggs (the -whites only).
Put all the parts together and then add the
whites of the eggs beaten to a froth. The same
recipe, using the yolks, makes a very nice cake.

Sponge Cake
(Henrietta Elden)
3 eggs.
1% cups sugar.
% cup cold water.
2 cups flour.
1 teaspoonful cream of tartar.
1/2 teaspoonful soda.
Salt.
Sift cream tartar with 1 cup of the floui*;

dissolve soda in a little hot water.

Eind and juice of 1 orange.

Brick House Bride's Cake

(Mrs. W, S. MoultonJ
Whites of 5 eggs.
1% cups of sugar.
% cup of butter.
% cup of milk.
2 cups flour.
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 1 teaspoonful cream tartar.
% teaspoonful of soda.
Flavor to taste; almond is best.

Apple Sauce Cake

(Mrs. Duncan Inneaa)
1cup sugar.
1 cup apple sauce.
% cup shortening.
1% cups flour (full measure).
1 teaspoon saleratus.
Eaisins and spice of all kinds.

Marble Cake
(Mrs. Elmer Boothhy)
1 cup sugar.
% cup butter.
1 cup milk.
2% cups flour.

1 teaspoon soda.
2 teaspoons cream tartar.
Take %of mixture and add to it teaspoon %
each of cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and allspice,
with V2 cup raisins.
Put in pan in alternate spoonfuls.

Tarts
(Mrs. F. J. Leavitt)

3 cups of flour.
% cup butter.
1/2cup lard.
1 teaspoon cream tartar.
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 1/2 teaspoon soda.
White of 1 egg beaten to a froth.
y^ cup of cold water.
Bake in a quick oven.
Fill with any sort of jelly or preserve.

Twin Elms Date Cake

(Mrs. Jane C. Akers)

% cup soft butter.

1% cups brown sugar.
2 eggs.
^ cup milk.
1% cups of flour.
3 teaspoons bulking powder.
I/O teaspoon each of cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves,

and salt.
lo lb. dates, cut into pieces.
Put all together at once, beat 3 minutes, and
bake ^ minutes.
Fudge Cake
(Mrs. Sewell Smith)
1 cup sugar.
2 tablespoons cocoa.
1^4 cup butter.

1 teaspoon salt.
1 teaspoon soda dissolved in % cup sour milk.
1-/2 cups flour.

% cup boiling water; add a little vanilla.

To be put together in above order.
Bake in a shallow tin. When cool, split open
and fill

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 riLLiNa
1 cup hot water.
1 tablespoonful cocoa.
% cup sugar.
1 tablespoon butter.
1 tablespoon cornstarch, mixed with % cup
cold water; add a little vanilla.

Cook until thick and spread when cool.

Potato Flour Cake

(Mrs. Oland Trask)
4 eggs, beaten separate and then together.
Add,—
1 cup of sugar.
Pinch of salt.
1 tablespoon cold water.
1 teaspoon vanilla, and a good half cup of
potato flour with
1 rounding teaspoon of baking powder in it.

Marshmallow Fillings
(Mrs. George Emery)
1 cup brown sugar.
1 cup white sugar.
1 cup water.
1 tablespoonful vinegar.
Boil until thick like candy and stir in the
beaten whites of 2 eggs and %
lb. of marsh-
mallows. Boil up again and place it on the
cake, letting each layer of filling cool before
putting the cake on top of it.
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 Pleasant Point Eggless Cake
(Mrs. Charles Nichols) ,, ,

1 cup sugar.
% cup butter or lard.
2 cups flour.
% teaspoonful soda.
% cup sour milk.
1 cup raisins.
% teaspoonful each of cloves, cinnamon, nut-
meg, and a little salt.

Bake in a slow oven % of an hour.

Cream Cakes
(Mrs. L. A. Berry)
1 cup hot water.
% cup butter.
3 eggs.
1 heaping cup flour.
Melt the butter in the hot water; while it
boils slowly stir in flour till a smooth paste.
Let cool while beating 3 eggs, then stir eggs
into paste. Bake in hot oven 25 minutes.
Makes thirteen.

FILLINQ
% cup sugar.
3 spoonfuls flour.
1 egg-
1 cup boiling milk.
Beat eggy add sugar and flour mixed. Stir
and cook till creamy.
in boiling milk,

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 Parsonage Macaroons
(Mrs. Robert G. Earhutt)
2 eggs, well beaten.
1 tablespoonful butter melted.
1 cup sugar.
A little salt.

4 tablespoonfuls flour.
1% teaspoonfuls baking powder.
% cup milk.
2% cups rolled oats, dry.
Flavor.
Drop by spoonfuls on buttered tin, not very
near together. Bake in rather a hot oven. Add
chopped nuts or sprinkle with cocoanut, if you
choose.

Fryeburg Sponge Cake

(Mrs. Sarah LaddJ
1 cup of sugar.
3 eggs.
3 tablespoonfuls of milk.
% teaspoonful of soda.
1 teaspoonful of cream tartar.
A little salt.
1 cup of flour, rounded up.
1 tablespoonful of cornstarch.
Flavor.

Snowball Cake
(Mrs. H. A. Davis)
1 cup sugar.
% cup butter.
% cup sweet milk.
2 cups flour.
% teaspoonful soda.
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 1 teaspoonful cream tartar.
Whites of 4 eggs.
Beat butter and sugar thoroughly. Add the
whites of eggs beaten to a stiff foam. Milk and
soda last. Flavor to taste.

Silver Cake
(Lena R. Jose)
1 cup of sugar.
Whites of 4 eggs.
% cup butter.
2 cups flour.
% teaspoonful of soda.
1 teaspoonful cream tartar.
% cup of milk, put in last.
A little salt.
Strawberry Frosting
(Mrs. Frank L. TarhoxJ
The white of 1 egg, beaten stiff; 1 cup of
sugar; % cup of strawberries, lightly mashed,
beat all together till a stiff froth.

Poverty Cake
(Mrs. Eudoxy Eaton)

% cup sugar.
% cup molasses.
% cup sour milk.
2 cups flour.
1 cup chopped raisins.
All kinds of spices.
1 good teaspoon soda.
4 large tablespoons melted butter.
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 Cream Puffs
(Mrs. Lewis Shordon)

% cup butter, melted in 1 cup boiling water.

Stir in 1 cup flour while boiling; take from
stove, cool; 3 eggs, one after the other with-
out beating, drop on buttered tins, far enough
apart; bake in quick oven 30 minutes.

FILLING
1 cup milk.
1 egg.
% cup sugar.
Thicken with cornstarch. Flavor with vanilla.

Scripture Cake
(Mrs. J. W. Meserve)
1 cup butter Judges 5 25 :

31/2 cups flour I Kings 4 22 :

2 cups sugar Jer. 6 : 20

2 cups raisins I Sam. 30 12 :

2 cups figs I Sam. 30: 12

1 cup water Gen. 24 17:

1 cup almonds Gen. 43 11:

% doz. eggs Isa. 10 14

:

Tablespoon honey Exod. 16 21 :

A pinch of salt Lev. 2 13:

Spices to taste I Kings 10 10 :

% teaspoon soda Matt. 13 33 :

1 teaspoon cream tartar Matt. 13 33 :

Father Solomon's advice for making

good boys Prov. 23 13 :

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 Gold Cake
(Mrs. H. A. Davis)
2 cups, not quite full, of flour.
1 cup sugar.
% cup sweet milk.
14 teaspoonful soda.
1 teaspoonful cream tartar.
Yolks of 4 eggs.
Flavor to taste.

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 X
COOKIES AND DOUGHNUTS
Salmon Falls Sugar Cookies
(Mrs. W. 8, Moulton)
1 cup butter.
2 cups sugar.
3 eggs.
1 teaspoonful cream tartar.
1 teaspoonful soda.
Flour enough to roll out.

Moderation Hermits
(Mrs. Frank Margraves)
2 cups sugar.
1 cup butter.
3 eggs.
2 cups finely chopped raisins.
1 teaspoonful soda, dissolved in a little hot
water.
1 teaspoonful of all kinds of spices.
1 small piece citron.
Flour enough to roll out.

Ginger Snaps
(Mae Shillings)

% cup molasses.
% cup sugar.
% cup butter.
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 —

Set on tlie fire and boil 5 minutes. Cool,

then add,
legg.
1 teaspoon ginger.
1 teaspoon soda.
1 tablespoon vinegar.
Flour enough to roll; roll thin.

Jumbles
(Mrs. Leonard Towle)

1% cups sugar.
2 eggs.
% cup butter.
% cup milk.
1 teaspoon soda.
2 teaspoons cream tartar.
Lemon to taste.
Mix as can be handled; cut with small
soft as
cutter, and sprinkle top with cocoanut.

York County Doughnuts

(Mrs. Perley A. Berry)

1 dessert spoon thick sour cream.

% cup thick sour milk.
% cup sweet milk.
1 rounding teaspoon soda dissolved in the
above.
1 Qg^ beaten in.
1 rounding cup sugar.
% teaspoon vanilla.
Pinch of ginger.
% teaspoon salt.
Ejiead and roll to % inch thickness.
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 Fry in hot fat, turning many times and roll-
ing in sugar, if preferred.
Eecipe makes 3 doz. doughnuts, and these
never soak fat.

The President's Brownies

(Mrs. J. W. Meserve)
1 cup sugar.
% cup flour.
% cup melted butter.
% cup walnuts broken in small pieces.
2 eggs.
2 squares chocolate.
Bake in shallow tin, garnishing top with nuts.

Muster Gingerbread
(Henrietta Elden)

% cup sugar.
% cup butter.
Yo cup molasses.
% cup sour milk.
1 even teaspoonful soda dissolved in the milk.
1 teaspoonful ginger.
A little salt.
1% cups flour.

Saco Hill Doughnuts

(Mrs. J. R. Ford)
1 cup sour milk.
1 cup sugar.

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 1 tablespoonful butter.
1 teaspoonful soda.
Salt, ginger, and nutmeg.
Flour to roll soft.

Oatmeal Cookies
(Mrs. Alonzo Harmon)
1 cup sugar.
% cup butter.
1 cup oatmeal.
1 cup cocoanut.
2 cups flour.
1 cup raisins, chopped.
1 teaspoonful soda.
7 tablespoonfuls sour milk.
Nuts may be added.
Drop a teaspoonful on buttered pan.

Bar Mills Cookies

(Mrs. H. A. Davis)

1 cup molasses.
1 cup sugar.
1 cup shortening.
1 teaspoonful ginger.
1% teaspoonfuls soda, dissolved in a nttle
hot water.
2 eggs.
Salt. Flour to knead well.

Ladies* Fingers
(Mrs. G. H. Knox)

1 cup sugar.
% cup butter.
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 1 ^gg'
y^ cup milk.
1 pt. flour.
1 teaspoonful cream tartar.
1^ teaspoonful soda.
1% teaspoonful vanilla.
Cut in little strips, roll in sugar, and bake in
a quick oven. Use your hands to roll them,
instead of a rolling pin.

Filled Cookies
(Mrs. Leiois Shordon)

1 cup sugar.
% cup shortening (part lard and butter).
1 egg-
% cup milk.
2% cups flour.
2 teaspoonfuls cream tartar.
1 teaspoonful soda.
1 teaspoonful vanilla.
Eoll thin; put cookies in pan, then put tea-
spoon of filling on each. Place another cookie
gently on top.
FILLING
1 cup chopped raisins.
% cup sugar.
% cup water.
1 teaspoon flour.
Cook imtil thick.

Doughnuts
(Mrs. Elmer Boothhy)
1 cup of sugar.
% cup of butter.
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1% cups of milk.
1 teaspoon of soda.
2 teaspoons cream tartar.
2 eggs and a little nutmeg.

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 XI
PICKLES, ETC.
Tory Hill India Relish
(Mrs, A. G. Wiley)
Put 1% cups salt on 1 peck chopped green
tomatoes and let stand over night. In morning
drain and add 1 medium cabbage, chopped fine,
and boil all in 3 qts. vinegar %
hour. Then add
6 onions, 3 red peppers, 2 green peppers
(chopped fine), 6 cups sugar, 2 tablespoons
celery seed, 2 of mustard seed, and 1 table-
spoon stick-cinnamon and whole cloves (in a
bag). Cook all until onions are perfectly soft.

Chili Sauce
(Mrs. Norton Lilly)
6 ripe tomatoes.
2 onions.
1 green pepper.
% cup granulated sugar.
% cup good cider vinegar.
1 teaspoonful each of cinnamon, allspice, and
nutmeg, and % teaspoonful cloves. Scald and
peel the tomatoes and cook with the onions and
peppers till tender, then add the sugar, vinegar,
and spices and cook 10 minutes longer.
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 Sweet Tomato Pickles
(Mrs. Emma J. Harmon)
1 gal. tomatoes. After they are sliced, salt
and drain over night in a collander. 1 qt. good
vinegar, 1 lb. brown sugar, 1 heaping table-
spoon of all kinds of spice and the same of
mustard, 1 teaspoonful of cayenne. Boil till

tender.
Sweet Pickle for Corning Beef
(Mrs. Norton Libhy)
For 25 lbs. of meat.
2 gals, water, lukewarm.
1% lbs. of brown sugar.
2 lbs. of rock salt.
1 oz. saltpetre.
Mix and stand 24 hours, stirring fre-
let
quently, so that may be thoroughly dissolved
it

before putting in meat. This will keep all win-

ter, and is not too salt for slicing and frjdng.
It is also delicious boiled to eat cold.

Pickled Beets and Carrots

(Mrs. Frank L. Tarhox)
Boil beets until tender; remove the skins;
slicewhile hot; cover with hot spiced vinegar
that has been well sweetened. Carrot pickles
are made in the same way. These are not only
good, but make a bright bit of coloring for the
table.

Watermelon Sweet Pickles

(Mrs. A. E. Harmon)
5 lbs. of fruit.
3 lbs. of sugar.
1 pt. of vinegar.
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 Boil fruit in clear water uiitil tender; drain,
put into the vinegar and sugar. Cook until
well flavored. Use all kinds of spice put in a
thin cloth.

Piccalilli
(Mrs. Thomas L. Kimball)
1 peck green tomatoes, 4 peppers, 12 onions,
chopped fine and drained through cheesecloth.
Add, —
1 10-cent pkg. pickling spices.
1 tablespoon ground mustard.
4 cups sugar.
% cup salt, and cover with cold vinegar
(about 2 qts.). Boil slowly nearly 2 hours.

Rhubarb Jam
(Minnie Alford)
To 6 lbs. of rhubarb add 6 lbs. of sugar and
6 large lemons. Cut the rhubarb in small pieces.
Slice the lemons very thin. Put the fruit in a
large bowl and cover with the sugar, letting it
stand for 24 hours. Boil for about %
of an
hour. Do not stir more than necessary, as its
great beauty is in not being all broken up.
Put in glasses and cover with paper.

Treasurer's Cucumber Pickles

(Mrs. James B. Elden)
To add 1 cup salt and 1
1 gal. good vinegar
cup ground mustard. Each day add freshly
picked cucumbers and stir with a wooden
spoon. Eeady for use in 10 days, if cucumbers
are very young.
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 Wayside Mixed Pickles
(Mrs. C. W. Handy)
2 qts. green tomatoes.
2 qts. ripe tomatoes.
3 green peppers.
1 large ripe cucumber.
2 bunches celery.
3 large onions.
1 small cabbage.
Chop all Cover with
together. %
cup salt
and let it stand over night. Drain off all liquid
in the morning. Add 3 pts. vinegar, 2 lbs.
brown sugar, 2 tablespoons mustard. Cook 1
hour and seal.

Spiced Currants
(Mrs. George Berry)
For every 5 lbs. currants take 2 qts. water
and 1 pt. vinegar.
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon.
2 teaspoons ground cloves.
1 teaspoon each of ground allspice and mace.
Boil currants with the sugar. When quite
thick, add vinegar and spices and boil, stirring
well for 15 or 20 minutes more.

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 XII

MISCELLANEOUS
Canned Tomatoes
(Mrs. Charles Nichols)
Remove the peeling from the tomatoes and
many
place as as possible in a jar. If required
to cut them in two, do it down through instead
of across. Put covers on jars, but do not snap
them down. Place jars in steamer and cook
your
until the top of the jar is too hot to place
hand upon it; remove the cover and
with fill

boiling water; see that all the air is out, and

seal. Place jars in an earthen crock and pour
enough boiling water in to come up around
the neck of the glass jars and let them stand
until cold. A pinch of salt added to each jar
improves the flavor.

Recipe for Canning String Beans

(Mrs. Richard Lihhy)
4 quarts of beans, broken.
1 quart of boiling water.
% cup of salt (table salt).
Put water and salt in kettle. Add beans.
Boil 10 minutes. Fill cans, to overflowing, with
hot mixture. This amount, if heaped a little,

will fill two 1-qt. cans.

When the beans are to be served, soak in cold
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water over night. In the morning pour off
water, put in fresh. Soak until time to cook
them. Cook as you would the fresh beans.

Delicious Cranberry Sauce

(Lillian Palmer)

4 cups cranberries.
3 cups sugar.
2 cups water.
Dissolve the sugar and then cook 15 minutes.
Do not stir.
Chocolate Creams
(Mrs. George Hall)
Dissolve 2 cups white sugar in % cup of boil-
ing water and boil 5 minutes. Flavor with
vanilla.Set the pan in cold water and beat till
itcreams, then mould into balls the size of a
nutmeg and lay on buttered plates to cool.
Melt %
lb. of Baker's chocolate by scraping fine

and placing in a bowl in boiling water. Add

a little sugar, then dip the balls in this with a
toothpick till they are well coated. Then cool
in the buttered plates.

Seminary Fudge
(Sara J. Morton)
2 cups sugar.
% cup Karo corn syrup.
% cup hot water.
Boil until you can make a soft ball in water,
then pour about one-third of it onto the beaten
white of an egg. Boil the rest until it ^* hairs,''
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 then pour on to the other and beat. Add 1 tea-
spoonful of vanilla and about a cup of chdpped
walnuts. Beat until very stiff and pour into
buttered pan.

Delicious Candy
(Jessie Chase)

2 cups sugar.
% cup corn syrup.
% cup water.
A little salt.
Put sugar, syrup, water, and salt on to cook.
Stir occasionally until it strings or forms a hard
ball, when put into cold water. Then stir into
this hotsyrup the whites of 2 eggs beaten to a
stiff froth.Beat until it is stiff and creamy,
and then add %
lb. of English walnuts, broken

into large pieces. Put in buttered dish to cool

and cut into squares.

Green Tomato Mincemeat

'

(Mrs. C. W. Handy)
4 qts. chopped apples. ,.

3 qts. chopped green tomatoes.

11/2 lbs. raisins.

Vslb. butter.
2 lbs. brown sugar. '

1 cup molasses. ,f
1 qt. cider.
2 tablespoons salt.
2 teaspoons cinnamon.
2 teaspoons allspice and clove.
Simmer together until thick, then seal.
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 Butter Scotch
(Mrs. H. A. Owen)
2 cups granulated sugar.
% cup molasses.
1 cup butter.
1 cup hot water.
1 tablespoon vinegar.
Boil gently until it threads from the spoon.
A cup of cocoanut shredded, or one of nuts, is a
very nice addition just before removing from
the stove. Let it cool and cut in squares.

Pineapple Lemonade
(Mrs. A. E. Harmon)
1 pt. water.
1 pt. grated pineapple.
1 cupful sugar.
Juice of 3 lemons.
Make syrup by boiling water and sugar to-
gether. Add pineapple and juice.
Cool, strain, and add 1 qt. of ice water.

Cheese Mould
(Mrs. Lewis Brown)

Break up new cheese into small pieces, put it

in double boiler, cover with milk or cream, a
little salt, paprika, Worcestershire sauce. Melt
and take off and cool, then mould it like a lump
of butter,

Welsh Rarebit
(Mrs. G. H. Knox)
1 tablespoon butter.
1 teaspoon cornstarch.
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 % cup thin cream.
% cheese.
lb.

% teaspoon salt.

% teaspoon mustard.
Cayenne to taste.
Yolk of 1 egg.
Melt butter, add cornstarch, stir until well
mixed; add cream gradually and cook 2 min-
utes add cheese, cut in small pieces stir until
; ;

melted; season. Add beaten yolk and cook

% minute.
Pour over zephyrettes or toast.

Cheese Crackers
(Cornelia D. Burhank)

Take saltines, butter lightly. Grate cheese

over butter, thickly. If cheese is soft, cut in
very thin slices and lay on the crackers. Lay
side by side in a large flat pan, and bake till
brown in a hot, quick oven.

To Improve Roast Lamb

(Mrs. Andrew L. Berry)

To make lamb extra tender and nice to the

taste, anoted cook of a local old-time hostelry
used to plunge the meat into a kettle of hot
water, letting it remain until cool, sometimes
repeating the second time before putting into
the oven to roast.

To Improve Boiled Cod

(Mrs. Louise Stewart)
If cod is boiled in salted water with a slice
of onion, a stalk of celery, or a sprig of parsley,
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agreeable flavor.

Indian Cellar Sandwiches

(Nora A. Smith)
1. Tongue or ham minced.
2. Equal parts of chicken and cold ham finely
minced.
3. Thin slices of cucumber dipped in French
dressing.
4. Sardines made to a paste with lemon juice.
5. Minced hard-boiled eggs, 1 sardine to
every 3, seasoned with lemon juice.
6. Cold baked beans mashed to a paste and
seasoned with mustard or chopped celery.
7. Canned salmon mixed with hard-boiled

eggs chopped fine.

8. 5 heaping teaspoons powdered sugar, 2 of
cocoa, and 2 of boiling water. Stir over the fire
until smooth. Add a few drops of vanilla and
cool.
9. Orange marmalade.
10. Cottage cheese and jam or marmalade.
11. Cottage cheese, lettuce leaves, and French
dressing.
12. Peppergrass mixed with chopped hard-
boiled eggs.

Fried Oysters
(Mrs. Alice Bickford)

Beat up an ^gg, and dip the oysters in it, then

roll some crackers very fine on the cake board.
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Coat the oysters with the crumbs and lay on a
platter for 2 or 3 hours, then heat the spider
very hot and fry the oysters in butter until a
golden brown.

Picnic Eggs
(Mrs. Horatio Harmon)
Boil the eggs about % an hour. Shell them,
then cut in halves with a sharp knife, and roll
out yolks, leaving whites to be filled again.
Mash yolks and season with salt, pepper, mus-
tard, and vinegar, adding melted butter enough
to make it right consistency. Fill the whites
and let them cool.

Cider Apple Sauce

(Delia Hill)

Boil new cider down to one-half. Pare and

quarter sweet apples enough to fill up the syrup.
Boil slowly, with frequent stirring, nearly all

day, keeping closely covered.

Children's Candy
(Bertha Peirce)
1 cup white sugar.
% cup vinegar.
2 tablespoons butter.
Do not stir. Try in water like molasses candy.

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 XIII

TO A DORCAS DAUGHTER
(Kate Douglas WigginJ

any member of the family has a few min-

IFutes a day in which to gather a few flowers
for the supper table, you are the one, whether
you are twenty years old or whether you are
only ten. If you are still going to school, you
may be able to get something every afternoon
on your way home for there is scarcely a week,
;

from the time when the dandelions blow, to the

day when the trees are bare and the ground is
frozen, when you can not find something lovely
by the wayside, in the fields, or in the woods.
If you can do *^ button-hole stitch," you can
make a colored edge on a circle of linen for a
small centre-piece. You can make a pretty
effect also by putting three or four rows of
feather-stitching inside the edge; or failing
anything else, you can feather-stitch a few
ready-made doylies with different colors and
have one to match any nosegay.
If you have a family garden, all is easy from
June to October; but if you have not, God has
been just as good to the poor as the rich in the
matter of flowers, and the busiest country child
has just as much within her reach as a princess
with a conservatory. I give you here a few
suggestions about making a little daily decora-
tion for the table. There is not a flower you
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do not know, nor one you have not often

gathered. You would put them together your-
self in just the same way, perhaps; but some-
how, when a thing is printed in black and white
it looks like a letter written directly to you I

You stop and think: ^*

Why did I never do it!
It is easy ; it is mother and father will
pretty ;

like it.'' You up on a chair to look

will stand
on the top shelf of the closet and find a glass
finger bowl, or a wine glass, or a lemonade cup,
or a spoonholder. You will see what vases there
are in the house and what mother will allow
you to use. As the days go on you will search
for some new growing thing; you will invent
and combine and scheme to get a novel effect.
Some one in the family will notice how you
arrange flowers and leaves and grasses, and
you will do them more and more beautifully
as time goes on, using long stems and putting
them together loosely and naturally, as Mother
Nature does.
Then what will have happened? Only this.
You will have developed a new love of beauty,
for you will have learned to produce it. You
will have used the ^^ thinking part" of you; you
will have devised and combined and invented;
in a word, you will have become an artist!
It is rather a nice thing to be, — a decorator
of the farmhouse, the church, the village school
Perhaps they will beseech you to do something
for the TownHall later on. Who knows? ^^TaU
oaks from little acorns grow."
Meantime, as you are passing the parlor door
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where your mother is talking with a visitor von

may hear something like this

" Yes, our Emily has a great knack with
flowers. She took a bean pot for a vase when
she put that goldenrod in the fireplace, but after
all it looks pretty on the brick hearth. . . .

That bunch of black-eyed Susans on the table

is in one of my cooking bowls. Emily says this
room is so gloomy she always wants to light it
up with yellow, but the sitting-room is full of
sunshine and she generally gives me something
green in there. . .Yes, it's a wonderful com-
.

fort, now that I am too lame to get away from

the house, to have Emily bring all outdoors in
to me, and she is only fourteen. She has
. . .

so much ingenuity Last night was her

I

father's birthday. "VTe had nothing extra for

supper, for a long illness in the house uses up
money faster than am-thing else and we have
to be economical. ."^'elL she took an old
. .

gold-fish globe that the doctor's wife gave her,

and filled it with sprigs of autumn leaves and
then she scattered the handsomest ones over
the cloth and tied a great red bunch on her
father's chair. As he looked in the dining-
room door he caught sight of the table and
guessed it was some kind of an^occasiom' Then
he remembered it was his own birthday, gave
an extra brush to his hair, and put on his second-
best coat. I wasn't going to be outdone, so I
put a couple of purple asters on my plate of
baking-powder biscuits and a sprig of green
on each end of my platter of comed-beef hash,
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. .Jolin, my oldest boy, is about sixteen, and
.

he used to make fun of his sister's way of

^
dressing up victuals, —
that is what he called
'

it; —
but he never does it any more; he says
that we all kind of live up to Emily's flowers
' '

now-a-days.'*
When you
have heard this, if you are a good
Dorcas daughter, your heart will be glad. Per-
haps in order to live up to
' *
your own flowers
'
'

you will take extra trouble in sweeping and

dusting and arranging the furniture to the best
advantage. Eemember, mother carries the
heaviest burden, day after day and year after
year. You can lighten it, of course, by industry
and helpfulness and cheerful companionship,
but you can do it still further if you can
aid in creating and maintaining the '' Home
Beautiful.''

Twenty Weld Flowek Combinations foe Fakm-

HOUSE AND Village Dining Tables

1. A saucer of the very first dandelions, just

as a spring surprise.
2. A tall glass
of purple *^ flags" or gentians.
3. Mayflowers or anemones, or a plate of
partridge berries and their leaves.
4. A
few apple blossoms from some heavily
laden tree that bears poor fruit.
5. Field daisies; sometimes with grasses,
sometimes with buttercups.
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 6. Long-stemmed purple clover in a wine
glass.
7. Ferns of any sort.
8. A bowl of wild roses.

9. ** Butter and eggs '' in a yellow vase.

10. Vase of pink or white wild spirea.

11. Wild clematis. Let it droop from the
vase on to the table.
12. A low glass dish filled with pond lilies.
13. A bowl of tiger lilies, day lilies, or red
lilies. One kind or another is generally to be
found growing near some deserted house or by
the roadside.
14. Goldenrod and Queen Anne's lace (wild
carrot).
15. A glass bowl of goldenrod with little
branches of red choke cherries.
16. Black-eyed Susans.
17. A
low bowl of scarlet bunch berries.
18. Pink hardback.
19. Goldenrod and brown autumn leaves.
20. Red and yellow autumn leaves.
21. A branch of bright-cheeked crab apples,
laid flat in the centre of the table.
22. Arrangements of flat hemlock or juniper
branches, sometimes with the addition of little
pine cones. This is for the holidays. For
Christmas morning you can have a tiny tree, 12
or 14 inches high, and decorate it as you please.

Waenings
Never use any decoration of plush or silk or
ribbon on a plainly furnished table. Never
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ceal from each other the faces of the persons
opposite. Never pack flowers tightly in a vase
nor fill it too full. Never allow a faded flower
on the table. Do not use one vase nor one kind
of flowers until the family is tired of the sight
of them. Variety is the spice of life.

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