The bride's cook book

2 Tablespoons Cooking Oil Yz Teaspoon Salt 1 Tablespoon Sugar 1 Cup Whole Wheat Flour 1 Cup Corn Meal 1 Egg Beat egg into milk to which oil has been added. Add salt and beat slowly. Beat into this enough of the flour, to which sugar is added, to make batter that will pile slightly when poured in a thick stream. Bake in very hot greased gem irons in brisk oven. WHOLE WHEAT AND RYE TEA BISCUITS v/z Cups Rye Flour 1 Cup Whole Wheat Flour 3 Tablespoons Baking Powder 1 Teaspoon Salt 1 Tablespoon Thin Syrup 2 Tablespoons Melted Fat 2-3 Cup Water 1 Egg White, beaten stiff Mix and sift, the dry ingredients; work in the shortening, add syrup, then liquid and fold in stiffly beaten egg white; roll thin on a floured board, cut with cookie or large biscuit cutter, rub over with cooking oil or melted fat, make a crease across the center of each with dull edge of knife and fold over like Parkerhouse rolls, pressing edges together lightly. Bake in a hot oven. CORN MEAL AND WHOLE WHEAT BISCUIT 2 Cups Corn Meal V/z Cups Hot Milk '/a Cup Whole Wheat Flour V/z Tablespoons Baking Powder 14 Teaspoon Salt 1 Tablespoon Sugar 1 Beaten Egg Pour hot milk over corn meal; let stand until cool. Add egg. Mix and sift 40 BRIDE'S COOK BOOK balance of dry ingredients and add. Beat thoroughly and bake in greased gem pans in a hot oven. beaten egg whites. Bake in greased shal- low baking pans in hot oven about 30 minutes. HOMINY BREAD (similar to Johnny Cake) 1'/i Cups Hominy Grits 2 Cups Liquid, IVfilk or Water (Boil together In double boiler fialf hour. Then add 1 tablespoon fat and cool slightly.) 2 Eggs, beaten separately 1% Cups Whole Wheat Flour V/2 Tablespoons Baking Powder % Teaspoon Salt 3 Tablespoons Syrup When cooked hominy is cool add beaten egg yolks, mix and sift whole wheat flour, salt and baking powder, then add syrup; beat well and fold in stiffly JOHNNY CAKE VA Cups Scalded (Sweet) Milk 1'/2 Cups Corn Meal 1 Beaten Egg 1 Tablespoon Corn Syrup or Molasses 1 Tablespoon Melted Fat «/2 Cup Whole Wheat Flour 1 Level Tablespoon Baking Powder Yz Teaspoon Salt Pour hot milk over corn meal; let stand until cool, then add beaten egg, then molasses and melted fat; sift dry ingredients and add; pour in shallow greased baking pan and bake in a hot oven. 41 LAYER CAKES Substitute syrup for sugar in cake. One cup of syrup will take the place of one cup of sugar and ^ of a cup of liquid. In almost any cake recipe the syrup may be used for Yz of the sugar. LAYER CAKE 1 Cup Rice Flour Vz Cup Corn Flour •A Cup Barley Flour % Cup Sugar 1 Cup Milk 2 Egg Yolks 1 Tablespoon Shortening 2 Teaspoons Baking Powder 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Beat the egg yolks until thick. Add the sugar and cream; work in the short- ening. Add the milk; sift in the dry in- gredients, beat well. Bake in greased pans about twenty minutes. Makes three layers. SOUR CREAM CAKE 1 Cup Sour Cream 1% Cups Sugar 2^^ Cups Rice Flour 3 Eggs 1 Heaping Teaspoon Baking Powder Vz Teaspoon Soda ' Lemon and Vanilla, mixed Beat whites very stiff, add yolks one at a time, then sugar, and stir; then cream and flour, with baking powder. Blend and bake in three large layers. Flavor with two parts of vanilla, to one of lemon. POTATO FLOUR LAYER CAKE Contributed by C. E. Grosjean Rice Milling Company. 4 Eggs 1 Cup Sugar