3 New Biscuit Recipes To Try

BRAN BISCUITS
1/2 cup bran
1-1/2 cups flour
5 teaspoons Baking Powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons sugar
1/2 cup water
2 tablespoons shortening
Mix thoroughly bran, flour, baking powder, salt, sugar; add sufficient
water to make soft dough; add melted shortening; roll out lightly to
about 1/4 inch thick on floured board; cut with biscuit cutter. Bake
in hot oven 12 to 15 minutes.


CHEESE BISCUITS
1-1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons Baking Powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon shortening
6 tablespoons grated cheese
5/8 cup milk
Sift together flour, baking powder and salt; add shortening and
cheese; rub in very lightly; add milk slowly, just enough to hold
dough together. Turn out on floured board and roll about 1/2 inch
thick; cut with small biscuit cutter. Bake in hot oven 12 to 15
minutes.


EGG BISCUITS
2 cups flour
3 teaspoons Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
1 egg
2 tablespoons shortening
1/3 cup water
Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar; add well beaten
egg and melted shortening to water and add to dry ingredients to make
soft dough. Roll out on floured board to about 1/2 inch thick; cut
with biscuit cutter. Bake in moderate oven about 25 minutes.

6 Salad Dressings

BOILED SALAD DRESSING
1/2 tablespoon salt
1-1/2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon mustard
1/2 tablespoon flour
few grains cayenne
1/2 cup vinegar
2 eggs
3/4 cup milk
1 tablespoon butter or other shortening
Mix dry ingredients in top of double boiler; add vinegar and beaten
egg yolks and mix; add milk and butter. Cook in double boiler until
thick and smooth. Take from fire and add beaten egg whites. Cool and
serve.


RUSSIAN DRESSING
To 1 cup mayonnaise add just before serving 2 teaspoons chili sauce, 6
pimentos chopped fine, and if desired a dash of grated cheese.



MAYONNAISE
Put the yolks of three eggs in a clean cold dish, beat slightly and add
slowly, almost drop by drop, a half pint or more of salad oil. After adding
the first half pint, add a half teaspoonful of vinegar now and then to
prevent breaking. You may add a quart of oil, if you like; you may serve it
plain, or stir in at the last moment stiffly whipped cream. One quart of
mayonnaise will hold one quart of whipped cream. For light colored salads,
as sweetbread and Waldorf, it is well to use the whipped cream slightly
colored with a drop of vegetable green.


SAUCE TARTAR
Add to a half pint of mayonnaise dressing a tablespoonful of chopped
gherkin, the same of chopped parsley, four chopped olives and a
tablespoonful of capers.


SAUCE SUEDOISE
1/2 pint of mayonnaise
1/2 pint of cream
2 tablespoonfuls of finely grated horseradish
Whip the cream and drain it, then stir it carefully into the mayonnaise,
and at last add the horseradish. This sauce is appropriate to serve with
boned partridges or quail, and is also nice to serve with mixed cold meats.


FRENCH DRESSING
Put eight tablespoonfuls of oil in a bowl, add a half teaspoonful of salt,
and a piece of ice the size of an egg. Work the ice with the oil until the
salt is thoroughly dissolved, then add a tablespoonful of tarragon vinegar
and a drop of Tabasco sauce. Remove the ice, beat rapidly until you have
a creamy dressing, and use at once. French dressing should be used over
cucumber or tomato molds, and is nice with fish or chicken mousse and East
Indian Salad.

4 Delicious Salad Recipes

CHICKEN SALAD
4 cups cold boiled chicken, cut into small pieces
2 cups finely cut celery
1 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
2 hard boiled eggs
2 cups mayonnaise dressing
6 olives
1/3 cup French dressing
Mix chicken with celery, seasoning and one egg cut into small pieces;
marinate with French dressing, and let stand in cold place about one
hour. Serve on lettuce leaves and spread mayonnaise over top. Garnish
with olives and remaining egg cut into slices. Sprinkle with chopped
parsley and paprika.

FRUIT SALAD
1/2 pound Malaga grapes
2 pears
1 grapefruit
1 orange
1 head lettuce
Wash, peel; remove seeds from all fruit; cut grapes into halves, pears
in lengthwise pieces, grapefruit and orange into sections; chill until
ready to serve. Serve on lettuce leaves with French dressing.
Alligator pears, melon or other fruit may be substituted for above
variety.

MARQUISE SALAD
3 firm tomatoes
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup chopped parsley
2 tablespoons salad oil
Peel tomatoes and cut in half. Mix onion and parsley, add oil; let
stand two hours before using. When ready to serve line salad bowl with
lettuce, place tomatoes in it and on each half put 1 tablespoon onion
and parsley mixture. Pour on French dressing. Everything should be ice
cold.


VEGETABLE SALAD
1 cup finely cut red cabbage
1 cup cold boiled beets
1 cup cold boiled carrots
1 cup cold boiled potatoes
1 cup chopped celery
1/2 cup pimentoes
1 head lettuce
1 cup French dressing
Soak cabbage in cold water 1 hour; drain and add beets, carrots and
potatoes cut into small pieces; add celery. Mix well together, season
with salt and pepper and serve on lettuce leaves. On top put strips of
pimento and serve with French dressing, to which may be added one
teaspoon onion juice.

Tomorrow you will get 6 salad dressings!

Time For Griddle Cakes

BUCKWHEAT CAKES
1 cup flour
2 cups buckwheat flour
6 teaspoons Dr. Price's Baking Powder
1-1/2 teaspoons salt
2-1/2 cups milk or milk and water
1 tablespoon molasses
1 tablespoon shortening
Sift together flours, baking powder and salt; add liquid, molasses,
and melted shortening; beat three minutes. Bake on hot greased griddle
and serve immediately with butter and syrup.


CORN MEAL GRIDDLE CAKES
1-1/3 cups corn meal
1-1/2 cups boiling water
3/4 cup milk
1 tablespoon shortening
1 tablespoon molasses
2/3 cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
4 teaspoons Dr. Price's Baking Powder
Scald corn meal with boiling water; add milk, melted shortening and
molasses; add flour, salt and baking powder which have been sifted
together. Mix well and bake on hot greased griddle until brown and
serve immediately with butter and syrup.


RICE GRIDDLE CAKES
1 cup boiled rice
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon shortening
1 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 cup flour
2 teaspoons Dr. Price's Baking Powder
Mix rice, milk, melted shortening, salt and well-beaten egg; stir in
flour and baking powder which have been sifted together; mix well.
Bake on hot greased griddle and serve immediately with butter and
syrup.

Cocktails And 3 Fruit Cocktail Recipes

Cocktails made of a combination of fruits are often served as the first course of a meal, usually a luncheon or a dinner, to precede the soup course. In warm weather, they are an excellent substitute for heavy cocktails made of lobster or crab, and they may even be used to replace the soup course. The fruits used for this purpose should be the more acid ones, for the acids and flavors are intended to serve as an appetizer, or the same purpose for which the hot and highly seasoned soups are taken. Fruit cocktails should always be served ice cold.

The cocktail here explained may be served in stemmed glasses or in the shells of the grapefruit. If the fruit shells are to be used, the grapefruit should be cut into two parts, half way between the blossom and the stem ends, the fruit removed, and the edges of the shell then notched. This plan of serving a cocktail should be adopted only when small grapefruits are used, for if the shells are large more fruit will have to be used than is agreeable for a cocktail.

Grapefruit Cocktail
2 grapefruits
2 oranges
1 c. diced pineapple, fresh or canned
Powdered sugar
Remove the pulp from the grapefruits and oranges. However, if the grapefruit shells are to be used for serving the cocktail, the grapefruit should be cut in half and the pulp then taken out of the skin with a sharp knife. With the sections of pulp removed, cut each one into several pieces. Add the diced pineapple to the other fruits, mix together well and set on ice until thoroughly chilled. Put in cocktail glasses or grapefruit shells, pour a spoonful or two of orange juice over each serving, sprinkle with powdered sugar, garnish with a cherry, and serve ice cold.

Summer Cocktail
As strawberries and pineapples can be obtained fresh at the same time during the summer, they are often used together in a cocktail. When sweetened slightly with powdered sugar and allowed to become ice cold, these fruits make a delicious combination.
2 c. diced fresh pineapple
2 c. sliced strawberries
Powdered sugar
Prepare a fresh pineapple, and cut each slice into small pieces or dice. Wash and hull the strawberries and slice them into small slices. Mix the two fruits and sprinkle them with powdered sugar. Place in cocktail glasses and allow to stand on ice a short time before serving.

Fruit Cocktail
A fruit cocktail proper is made by combining a number of different kinds of fruit, such as bananas, pineapple, oranges, and maraschino cherries. Such a cocktail is served in a stemmed glass set on a small plate. Nothing more delicious than this can be prepared for the first course of a dinner or a luncheon that is to be served daintily. Its advantage is that it can be made at almost any season of the year with these particular fruits.
2 bananas
1 c. canned pineapple
2 oranges
1 doz. maraschino cherries
Lemon juice
Powdered sugar
Peel the bananas and dice them. Dice the pineapple. Remove the pulp from the oranges in the manner, and cut each section into several pieces. Mix these three fruits. Cut the cherries in half and add to the mixture. Set on ice until thoroughly chilled. To serve, put into cocktail glasses and add to each glass 1 tablespoonful of maraschino juice from the cherries and 1 teaspoonful of lemon juice. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve.

Cooking Grains

All grains, with the exception of rice, and the various grain meals, require prolonged cooking with gentle and continuous heat, in order to so disintegrate their tissues and change their starch into dextrine as to render them easy of digestion. Even the so-called "steam-cooked" grains, advertised to be ready for use in five or ten minutes, require a much longer cooking to properly fit them for digestion. These so-called quickly prepared grains are simply steamed before grinding, which has the effect to destroy any low organisms contained in the grain. They are then crushed and shredded. Bicarbonate of soda and lime is added to help dissolve the albuminoids, and sometimes diastase to aid the conversion of the starch into sugar; but there is nothing in this preparatory process that so alters the chemical nature of the grain as to make it possible to cook it ready for easy digestion in five or ten minutes. An insufficiently cooked grain, although it may be palatable, is not in a condition to be readily acted upon by the digestive fluids, and is in consequence left undigested to act as a mechanical irritant.

Water is the liquid usually employed for cooking grains, but many of them are richer and finer flavored when milk is mixed with the water, one part to two of water. Especially is this true of rice, hominy, and farina. When water is used, soft water is preferable to hard. No salt is necessary, but if used at all, it is generally added to the water before stirring in the grain or meal.

The quantity of liquid required varies with the different grains, the manner in which they are milled, the method by which they are cooked, and the consistency desired for the cooked grain, more liquid being required for a porridge than for a mush.

All grains should be carefully looked over before being put to cook.

In the cooking of grains, the following points should be observed:

1. Measure both liquid and grain accurately with the same utensil, or with two of equal size.

2. Have the water boiling when the grain is introduced, but do not allow it to boil for a long time previous, until it is considerably evaporated, as that will change the proportion of water and grain sufficiently to alter the consistency of the mush when cooked. Introduce the grain slowly, so as not to stop the sinking to the bottom, and the whole becomes thickened.

3. Stir the grain continuously until it has set, but not at all afterward. Grains are much more appetizing if, while properly softened, they can still be made to retain their original form. Stirring renders the preparation pasty, and destroys its appearance.

In the preparation of all mushes with meal or flour, it is a good plan to make the material into a batter with a portion of the liquid retained from the quantity given, before introducing it into the boiling water. This prevents the tendency to cook in lumps, so frequent when dry meal is scattered into boiling liquid. Care must be taken, however, to add the moistened portion very slowly, stirring vigorously meantime, so that the boiling will not be checked. Use warm water for moistening. The other directions given for the whole or broken grains are applicable to the ground products.

Place the grain, when sufficiently cooked, in the refrigerator or in some place where it will cool quickly (as slow cooling might cause fermentation), to remain overnight.