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Show TRIFLES FOR TABLE SMALL DELICACIES THAT FINISH THE MEAL. Filled Cookies Will Be Appreciated by Both Old and Young Recipe for Eagle Cake French Fried Toast. Filled Cookies. Ingredients: Two cupfuls of rolled oats, three cupfuls of flour, one scant teaspoonful of salt, two cupfuls of sugar, one cupful ' of shortening, one cupful of sour or buttermilk, but-termilk, one teaspoonful of soda dissolved dis-solved in the milk, one pound of washed and seeded dates pressed perfectly per-fectly flat. Cream the sugar and shortening, mix flour, oatmeal and salt, and add alternately with milk. If the dough is not quite stiff enough use a little more flour. Roll the dough very thin, cut with the cookie cutter, then lay each one on a pressed date and on the date another layer of dough. Bake to a light brown. Eagle Cake. Cream together one-half one-half cup butter and one cupful brown sugar. Add one cupful sour milk into which has been stirred a teaspoonful soda, two teaspoonfuls cinnamon, onu-half onu-half teaspoonful cloves, two cupfuls flour and one cupful chopped and floured raisins, and bake in a loaf. French Fried Toast. Beat two eggs and add one cup of sweet milk and a little salt; a little sugar may be added to the milk if desired. Dip slices of bread into the mixture, allowing thera to absorb a little of it, then crown the slices on a hot, buttered griddle or a thick-bottomed frying pan. Butter But-ter and serve hot. Bread and Butter Folds. Cut bread In thin slices, take up in pairs, remove crusts and cut into strips an inch and a half wide by four inches long Spread lightly with creamed butter, plain or flavored, fold together, press the edges, and arrange log-cabin fashion on a dainty plate. Cream Strawberry Pie. Line a pie plate with a puff paste, and fill with strawberries. Strew these thickly with sugar. Put a top crust on the pie; first rubbing the edge of the lower low-er crust with butter to prevent their sticking. Bake to a light brown. When cold, lift the cover of the pie and put under this top crust a great cupful of whipped cream. Replace the crust and sprinkle this with powdered pow-dered sugar. Harper's Bazar. |