The farm cook & rule book

1 cupful nuts 1 teaspoonful vanilla % teaspoonful salt Beat the egg well and add the sugar to it. Then mix the bread crumbs, baking powder, chopped dates and nuts and combine the two mixtures. Add the milk, vanilla and melted butter. Mix thoroughly and turn into a well oiled baking dish. Set in a pan of cold water and place in a moderate oven. Bake 45 minutes and serve with whipped cream or lemon pudding sauce. Blueberry Pudding Line a pudding dish with stale bread buttered lightly, sprinkle with a few grains of salt and fill the dish almost full of blueberries mixed with a little sugar. Cover the berries with slices of bread buttered on both sides and sprinkled with salt. Cover the baking dish, set in a pan of cold water and bake 1 hour in a moderate oven. Remove the cover just long enough to brown the top of the pudding. Serve hot with a pudding sauce or sugar and cream. Steamed Pudding ^ cupful shortening 2 cupfuls flour Ys cupful raisins % teaspoonful soda % cupful molasses Xi teaspoonful cloves % cupful milk V2 teaspoonful mace % teaspoonful salt Cream the shortening, beat in the chopped raisins and molasses and add the milk alternately with the dry ingredients which have been mixed together. Place in an oiled can and steam 3 hours. Serve warm with a pudding sauce. Cream Pie 2 tablespoonfuls butter 2 cupfuls flour 2 tablespoonfuls lard 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder 1 egg yolk % teaspoonful salt 1 cupful sugar 1 egg white 1 cupful milk % teaspoonful vanilla Cream the shortening; beat the egg yolk until very light and whip % cupful of sugar into this. Cream the other % cupful of sugar with the shortening and beat until light. Combine the two mixtures. Add the milk alternately with the dry ingredients which have been sifted together and fold in the stiffly beaten egg white. Bake in two layers, put together with a cake filling and sprinkle powdered sugar on top. Dutch Apple Cake 2 cupfuls flour 1 egg 6 tablespoonfuls butter % teaspoonful salt 1 cupful milk 4 tart apples 4 teaspoonfuls baking powder 2 tablespoonfuls sugar Vo teaspoonful cinnamon Sift the salt, baking powder and flour together and work in the shortening. Add the egg yolk to the mixture and fold in the stiffly beaten egg white. Spread the mixture % inch thick in a shallow baking tin. Wipe, pare, quarter and core the apples. Cut every quarter into two pieces lengthwise. Then place them in parallel rows on top of the mixture with the sharp edge down. Sprinkle the apples with the -sugar and cinnamon which have been mixed together. Bake in a hot oven 30 minutes, or until the apples are soft. Serve with a pudding sauce or with whipped cream. Indian Pudding % cupful milk, scalded % cupful molasses 2 tablespoonfuls cornmeal % teaspoonful salt y2 cupful cold water % teaspoonful cinnamon 14 cupful sugar % teaspoonful ginger 1 egg ^4 cupful milk Stir the cornmeal into the cold water and add the scalded milk. Cook 20 minutes. Then add the other ingredients except the % cupful of milk. Pour into a greased baking dish and bake in a moderate oven 35 minutes. Pour the cold milk on top and bake 2 hours longer without stirring. Pineapple Cream 1 cupful canned pineapple % pound marshmallows 1 cupful cream 1 tablespoonful lemon juice 14 cupful powdered sugar 1 tablespoonful pineapple juice