Show j jP r P eM f a ITS IT'S PICNIC TIME TI Recipes Below Summertime is picnic time and andou you ou pack up your troubles as you unpack your picnic kit Perhaps one one reason why a picnic is such a popular outdoor sport is because its preparations are so easy on the lady ladys s of the house sandwiches stuffed tomatoes or just small whole toma toma- tomatoes tomatoes toes with hard cooked eggs and a steaming cup of tea are a tradition tradition- traditional al picnic lunch lunch and and that's an easy meal if there ever was vas one No dishes to wash afterward paper cups and plates eliminate all such labor Carry the tea in a ather- ather ther thermos mos coos bottle if you like or brew it fisherman style over an open fire One hot dish is important at a picnic it might be stew or chow chow- chowder chowder chowder der baked beans or f a macaroni dish dish but u but do have s 1 something hot There are arC pic pic- picnic picnic nic hints and menus that you'll like in my ray cook cook- cookbook cookbook r book Easy En En- Entertaining Entertaining Entertaining theres there's a menu menu for a beach party a hiking trip and a asteak asteak asteak steak fry too with too with all the recipes you'll need for this simple form of entertaining Broiled Baked Bean Sandwiches Bread sliced Baked beans be ns Cheese he s s sliced l' l lor l'or or cut cui In in strips strIp Bacon slices cut in m halves Arrange bread on broiler When bread is toasted on one side turn Then cover the sides of the slices of bread with baked beans Place cheese over the beans and top each sandwich with one half slice of bacon Place under broiler and broil until bacon is crisp and brown and cheese is melted Ginger Creams Makes 3 dozen 1 I 1 inch ch squares Vz h cup shortening 2 tablespoons sugar 2 cups flour f teaspoon soda Vi r teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ginger p 1 cup dark molasses 1 egg separated 1 cup boiling water Cream shortening and sugar to to- to gether Sift flour soda salt and and ginger and blend with the creamed mixture using a pastry blender or a fork Add molasses and egg yolk and beat well Then add boil boil- boiling boiling boiling ing water gradually and beat well Fold in the stiffly beaten egg white Spread batter in greased jelly roll pan about 11 by 16 inches and bake in a moderately hot oven J degrees for approximately 18 min min- utes Cool and frost with boiled icing or confectioners' confectioners sugar icing Cut in squares Deviled Eggs 4 eggs hard cooked r V 1 teaspoon salt Dash pepper 1 tablespoon butter melted melt d Vi teaspoon vinegar 1 teaspoon prepared mustard Cut the hard- hard cooked eggs In halves crosswise Remove yolks mash and add 4 salt pepper melt melt- melted melted r ed butter vine vine- vinegar vinegar vinegar gar and prepared mustard Refill whites with this mixture One-Dish One Meal for a Picnic 1 pound country style sausage 2 medium size onions sliced d 1 can lima beans p 1 No 2 can tomatoes 1 teaspoon chili powder I Shape sausage into flat cakes and fry with the onions until the sau sau- sausage sausage I sage is well done Drain off of all but bui buiA A cup of the fat add remaining ingredients and simmer for foi 30 min ruIn utes Baked Macaroni Creole Macaroni Creole Style Serves 4 rh Jh package macaroni 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons onion minced 1 green pepper chopped 1 No 2 can tomatoes 1 tablespoon granulated sugar sugar 1 teaspoon salt Jh ih pound country style sausage cup soft soU bread crumbs but but- buttered buttered buttered Cook macaroni in boiling salted water Brown Drown onion slightly in th the r r Remember the wonderful ice cream you used to love as a achild the child child the kind you had at par- par parties parties ties tics and picnics and Sunday school socials too Eleanor Howe has a collection of her favorite ice cream recipes to give you next week and recipes for frosty drinks as well Watch for her column next week week and and then serve one of the delicious des des- desserts desserts desserts or beverages the next time you entertain butter Add green pepper and to to- matoes Add sugar and salt and aDd cook ook until the green pepper is ten- ten der er Make sausage into fiat flat cakes cakos In n a buttered baking dish place a layer ayer of macaroni then a layer of sausage cakes and another layer of ot macaroni Pour the tomato mixture over the macaroni and top with buttered crumbs Bake in a mod- mod moderate moderate erate rate oven degrees for about 45 5 minutes Raisin Drop Cookies cup butter buttercup 34 cup granulated sugar 2 eggs 1 cups cake flour 2 teaspoons baking powder k 34 2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon I 1 cup seedless raisins 1 tablespoon milk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Cream butter and add sugar grad grad- Add eggs well beaten and mix thoroughly Mix and sift dry ingredIents and add alternately with the he milk and vanilla beginning with the he flour mixture Add raisins Drop from rom a teaspoon on a greased bak- bak bakIng baking Ing ng sheet and place a raisin on the theop top op of each one Bake in a moderate oven oden degrees for 12 to 15 min ruin utes Crazy Cake 1 cup sugar 1 egg rh cup cocoa rh cup lard h teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking powder rh teaspoon 2 soda 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cups flour sifted silted Vt rh cup boiling water Place all of the ingredients in a bowl in the order given Do not stir until boiling water is added Then beat 3 min min- minutes utes using a ro ro- rotary rotary rotary tary beater or 2 y minutes if 11 an electric mixer is used Place in greased inch 8 square pan and bake 35 to 40 minutes in hi a moderately hot lot oven degrees Let Better Detter Baking Solve Your Baking Problems True it is we all have baking problems Yet if solved correctly we savo save time because fallen cakes dont don't have to be made over again and we save money too too because because the family simply wont won't eat cat tough chewy pastry heavy soggy cakes etc In fact it Is to avoid just such uch baking failures as these and many more that I have compiled this cookbook Better Baking Better Baking brings to you a whole se se- series serIes series I ries of baking as well as a compilation of many of my own fa fa- favorite favorite fa- fa favorite baking recipes including such unusual good eat ones as a frost frost- frosted frosted ed cd nut spice cake gumdrop cake chocolate fudge cake quick apple cake and even a maraschino cher cher- cherry cherry cherry ry cake To secure your copy of this book simply send 10 cents in coin and please address Better Baking care of Eleanor Howe Bowe North Michigan Ml Avenue Chicago Illinois Released by Western Newspaper Union |