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Show f FOOD FOR THE FAMILY 'TABLE, f 'Lq&S By NELME MAXWELL HKHKHHK8KHKHKHW The delicious cinnamon or pecan roll which may be made with one base is a most delicious bread to serve on many occcasions. Cinnamon Rolls. Take one cupful of scalded milk, add two table-spoonfuls table-spoonfuls of sugar, one-half tea- spoonful of salt, four tablespoonfuls of shortening to the hot milk. Cool until lukewarm and add an yeast cake 1 softened in one-fourth cupful of warm water. Mix with sufficient flour to handle and knead thoroughly, then allow the bread to rise until treble its bulk. Cut down and fold and let rise again. When light roll Into a sheet one-half inch in thickness and spread with melted butter, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Roll like a jelly roll and slice into one-inch slices. Place In a baking pan and allow to rise again. Bake in a hot oven twenty minutes. For the pecan rolls place a gener- ous portion of butter and brown sugar with a half cupful of pecans in the bottom of the pan. Place the rolls and bake when light. Turn upside down and serve. S p iced H ot C ross B u ns. Prepa re the above mixture, make the rolls into rounds after adding one-half cupful of currants or a mixture of currants and raisins, a teaspoonful of cinnamon and one-half teaspoonful of allspice. Cut a cross on the top of each witli a sharp knife just before baking. Spice Cake. Sift two and one-half cup fuls of pastry flour with onedinlf teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful of baking powder, one-fourth teaspoonful teaspoon-ful each of allspice, nutmeg, mace and one-half teaspoonful of cinnamon. Sift three times. Cream one-half cupful of butter, add two cupfuls of sifted brown sugar and cream together until light and Huffy. Add two eggs well beaten and the flour mixture alternately with one cupful of sour milk. Beat well after each addition and bake in a greased tin eight by eight Indies. P.ake fifty minutes. 1930, Western Nevvspapfr Union.) |