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Show ) I Recipes for the Economical Housewife PjpJ-rnTt I'ALITT rather than quan- i l l !,houl1 b,? tnc nousc ILltSSrMl w,fe s'Kan Just now. for a&9KgM B"e ls -"covering that it is not how much you eat out M i , i t'I wnat y0U cat that matters. All the following suggestions aro nourishing nour-ishing and economical to prepare. Try them. Horrey Pinoche. One cupful of honey, three cupfuls of brown or molasses sugar, three-fourths cupful of top milk, two tabic spoonfuls of butter, ono cupful of chopped walnuts, pecans or other nut meuts. Holl the honey, sugar and milk to the soft ball stage Add the butter, boll one minute longer. Put the saucepan In cold water hen partly cooled beat until creamy Add the nuts when it begins to harden Popcorn Balls. On cupful of butter, ono cupful of molasses, mo-lasses, a pinch of salt; boll until It will become brittle In cold water stir In popcorn pop-corn until well mixed, wet the hands and make balls. War Doughnuts. One egg. tin measuring cup half full of sugar filled with molaaeea, two tablespoon-fuls tablespoon-fuls of molted lard, add pinch of ginger and cinnamon, tearpoonfu! of salt, beat all together; to-gether; two cupfuls of sour milk, tea-spoonful tea-spoonful of soda, two cupfuls of rye flour, add enough white flour to handle easily. This recipe will make fifty lanc doughnuts. dough-nuts. i Chocolate Mocha Cake. Cream together one largo tablespoonf ul ' of butter and one cupful of brown sugar. ' add tho yolk of ono ogg. stir In three- 1 quarters of a cupful of milk one-quarter ' tcaspoonful of salt, ono cupful of flour with one rounded teaipoonful of baking I powder sifted Into it. I Melt over steam two squarea cooking chocolate and mix well, then add the c .stiffly beaten white of tho egg. Bako in I two layers in nine Inch Washington pie v tins In a fairly hot oven about twenty-five or thirty minutes. When cool fill and Ice with tho following mixtures. Beat together until crcumy ono cupful ot onfectioners' sugar, ono large table-spoonful of butter, ono teaspoonful of vanilla extract, two teaspoonfuls of dry cocoa and two tablespoonfuls of very strong black coffee As this makes a largo coke, it is not expensive. f s Apricot Mnrshmallows. Drain the syrup from a can of apricots and arninco the halves on a serving dish. Place on top of each half a marrihmallow 0 which haa been parti melted and top with e another apricot half; decorate tho plate 1 with leaves or ferns and serve with small I cakes 3 Tho syrup from the nprlcots should be heated, and w hen they are served It should be poured over them. ThLs makes a delicious de-licious and simple dessert Stuffed Dates. Ono pound of sugar date fstoned), three-quarters of a pound of walnuts (with sheds on), one Neufchntel cheese. Put nut meats througn food chopper and then mash with cheese until thoroughly mixed. Then stuff dates with tho mixture and roll In brown sugar Marlborough Shortcake. Make dough of one level cup sifted pastry flour, one level teaspoon baking powder, one-half teaspoon salt and one tablespoon butter rubbeci It; wet with milk to make dough as stiff as for biscuits. bis-cuits. Put in greased pan and pat. down with a floured spoon Bake till crisp and well browned, turn upside down on plate and spread with butter; cover with hot apple saueo (uso red baked apple sauce), sprinkle with one-fourth cup sugar mixed with one-fourth teaspoon Cinnamon, put bits of butter on top and set in oven till butter Ls melted. Servo hot For raisin shortcake add one-half cup Chopped ralalns to the flour and omit tha sugar and spice on top, serving with or without cream |