Show S l ll r. r N Nl J lY JI Qi iL 1 t I ili ii m 3 ift t f q ill r r l lR R f arm W S y e a y Today's Cake Fixings Are Arc Simple Food Saving See Recipes Below Bake Your Own Those of you who have chosen homemaking as a career can set aside a half day for baking your own goodies right in m your own oven There are few things nicer than coming into a kitchen full of busy bustling testing the cake plumping plumping plumping plump plump- ing fat loaves of bread on racks to cool or packing cookies in fresh wax 0 paper for pantry shelves shelves for for those fine boys in the service When sugar rationing first came into the picture most of us feared that it would not allow enough for home baking needs but we have found ways to make sugar stretch Or perhaps we should say corn syrups and honey to make baking possible With eggs up in price and fats becoming scarce we have changed our recipes to fill these needs tool Today's recipes may not call for forthe forthe forthe the quantity of materials that yesterdays yesterday's yesterdays yesterday's yesterdays yesterday's yes yes- did but they can make just as tempting a product Hot Bot Water Sponge Cake Makes lakes 2 inch 8 layers 1 cup sifted silted cake flour 1 teaspoons baking powder Vi teaspoon salt 2 eggs 1 cup sugar Yi 34 teaspoon lemon juice 6 tablespoons hot water Sift together flour baking powder and salt Beat eggs until thick and fluffy about 10 minutes Add l sugar gradually beating constanta constantly constant- constant a ly until thick enough to hold a a soft peak Beat in e lemon juice add r tn I hot water and beat until thick after each addition Fold in flour in small amounts Bake in tube pan or lightly greased layer-cake layer pans in a moderate degree ov ov- ov- ov en A tube cake takes 45 minutes to bake layer cakes 25 to 30 min min- utes Ever tried a fragrant gingerbread baked in a ring The slices can be fairly thin and the cake will really go far farl I Or you can fill the center with apple sauce and serve as a dessert Gingerbread Ring Rung 1 cup molasses 1 cup sour milk 24 cups sifted flour 1 19 teaspoons baking soda 2 teaspoons ginger V i teaspoon salt 1 egg well beaten Yi Ve cup melted shortening Mix l milk and molasses Sift dry ingredients Add to milk and molasses molasses molasses mo mo- mo- mo lasses then mix in egg and shortening shortening shortening shorten shorten- ing and beat until smooth and This Weeks Week's Menu Breaded Pork Tenderloin Seven Minute Cabbage Potatoes Grapefruit-Carrot Grapefruit Salad Whole Wheat Bread Butter Hot Water Vater Sponge Cake Peaches Beverage Recipe Given creamy Pour into a greased pan and bake in a moderate oven 30 minutes It might be said of this cookie that its it's spice and all things nice nice nice- but you'll notice I didn't say sugar because it uses corn syrup Raisin Cookies Makes 50 to 60 cookies Vz f cup shortening I I 1 cup white corn syrup 1 egg Yi ifs teaspoon cinnamon extract 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 cups flour Y 2 teaspoon salt Yz teaspoon baking soda 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 cup apple sauce Yz i cup chopped nutmeats Yi I cup chopped raisins Cream shortening with corn syrup and egg Add flavorings Sift Slit dry ingredients together and add to creamed mixture Alternate dry ingredients ingredients ingredients in in- with apple sauce Fold in chopped raisins and nuts Drop by spoonfuls on a greased baking sheet and bake in a moderate oven 15 to 18 minutes Who Vho ever heard of carrots in cookies cookies cookies cook cook- ies Well Vell the surprise is a nice one and the cookies are popping full ful of vitamins when you make Honey-Carrot Honey Cookies Makes 5 dozen 2 cups sifted silted flour 1 teaspoon baking powder powderY 4 Y teaspoon soda Yz i teaspoon salt saIt salti Yi i teaspoon cinnamon i Yz teaspoon nutmeg 2 cups quick-cooking quick oatmeal 1 cup raisins 1 cup chopped nutmeats Yi cup shortening 1 cup strained honey 2 eggs well beaten 1 cup grated raw carrot Sift dry ingredients together Sift Slit again Add oatmeal raisins and nut- nut meats Mix well Cream shortening shortening shorten shorten- in ing g. g a add d d hone honey Y n creaming thor thor- Add eggs then carrots beating well Stir in dry ingredients and l blend thor thor- Drop by spoonfuls on a greased baking sheet Flatten with witha a floured fork Bake for 15 minutes minutes min min- utes in a degree oven Store only when cold Whole grain especially oatmeal is rich in that important morale vitamin Bl BI or thiamin as it is sometimes called Oatmeal Refrigerator Rolls Yz y cup shortening 3 tablespoons sugar l' l teaspoons salt saIt 3 Yi cup boiling water 1 cup quick cooking cooking oatmeal 1 cake yeast Yi cup lukewarm water 1 egg beaten 2 i cups purpose all-purpose flour Add boiling water to sugar salt shortening and oatmeal Stir well Cool to lukewarm Soften yeast in lukewarm water then add with beaten egg to oatmeal mixture Stir in half of flour add rest of flour Place in a greased bowl Cover with waxed paper and store in re re- When needed remove from refrigerator and form into cia clo- in greased muffin tins Cover Coyer Cov Coy er and let rise in a warm place until until until un un- til almost double Bake 12 to 15 minutes in a degree oven Lynn Chambers Chamber welcomes you OU to submit your our household queries to her lIer problem clinic Send your letters to her at Western West ern Newspaper Union South Des plaines Street Chicago Illinois Dont Don't forget to enclose a stamped self sell addressed envelope for your our reply rc Released by Western Nc Newspaper Union |