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Everyday Foods in War Time, by Mary Swartz Rose

 

CAKE AND COOKIES

Apple Sauce Cake (4)

  • Sugar, 1 cup

  • Butter, 2 tablespoons

  • Apple sauce, 1 cup

  • Flour, 2 cups

  • Raisins, ⅔ cup

  • Soda, 1 teaspoon

  • Cinnamon, ½ teaspoon

  • Cloves, ½ teaspoon

  • Salt, ¼ teaspoon

  • Nutmeg, ¼ teaspoon

Sift together the soda, spices, salt, and flour. Cream the butter, add sugar, apple sauce, dry ingredients, and seeded raisins. Bake in a moderate oven.

 

Buckwheat Cookies (8)

  • Butterine, ½ cup

  • Sugar, 1 cup

  • Eggs, 2

  • Clove, ½ teaspoon

  • Buckwheat, 1 ¾ cups

  • Salt, ¼ teaspoon

  • Cinnamon, ½ teaspoon

Beat the eggs, add the sugar and melted butter, and beat until thoroughly mixed. Sift the buckwheat, spices, and salt together and add very slowly. Mix well; roll on a floured board one-eighth to one-sixteenth inch thick. Cut the cookies and bake on a greased baking sheet in a moderate oven about 10 minutes.

 

Honey Bran Cookies (5)

  • Bran, 3 cups

  • Sugar, ½ cup

  • Soda, ¼ to ½ teaspoon

  • Cinnamon, ¼ teaspoon

  • Ginger, ¼ teaspoon

  • Honey, ½ cup

  • Milk, ½ cup

  • Melted butter, ½ cup

Soft Honey Cake (5)

  • Butter, ½ cup

  • Honey, 1 cup

  • Egg, 1

  • Sour milk, ½ cup

  • Soda, 1 teaspoon

  • Cinnamon, ½ teaspoon

  • Ginger, ½ teaspoon

  • Flour, 4 cups

Rub the butter and honey together; add the egg well beaten, then the sour milk and the flour sifted with the soda and spices. Bake in a shallow pan.

 

Molasses Cakes (4)

  • Sugar, ½ cup

  • Fat, ½ cup

  • Molasses, 1 cup

  • Ginger, 1 teaspoon

  • Cinnamon, ½ teaspoon

  • Egg, 1

  • Flour, 2 ½ cups

  • Soda, 2 teaspoons

  • Hot water, 1 cup

  • Salt, ½ teaspoon

Sift together the salt, sugar, flour, soda, and spices. Melt butter in hot water, add molasses, egg well beaten, and dry ingredients. Mix well. Bake in small cup cake tins in a moderate oven for about 25 minutes.

 

Molasses Cookies (11)

  • Flour, 2¾ cups

  • Salt, 1 teaspoon

  • Soda, 1 teaspoon

  • Ginger, 1 tablespoon

  • Molasses, 1 cup

  • Hot water, 1 tablespoon

  • Hardened vegetable fat, ¼ cup

Sift together the flour, salt, soda, and ginger. Melt fat; add hot water and molasses; stir this liquid gradually into the dry ingredients. Chill. Roll on floured board to one-eighth inch thickness. Cut. Bake about 10 minutes in a moderate oven (360-380° F.).

 

Nut Molasses Bars (9)

  • Oleomargarine, ¼ cup

  • Hardened vegetable fat, ¼ cup

  • Boiling water, ¼ cup

  • Brown sugar, ½ cup

  • Molasses, ½ cup

  • Soda, 1 teaspoon

  • Flour, 3⅔ cups

  • Ginger, ⅓ teaspoon

  • Cloves, 1/8 teaspoon

  • Salt, 1 teaspoon

  • Cocoanut, ½ cup

  • English walnuts, ½ cup

Pour boiling water over fat; add sugar and molasses; add flour, soda, spices, and salt sifted together. Chill. Roll one-eighth inch thick. Cut in strips about three and a half by one inch. Sprinkle with cocoanut and English walnuts cut in small pieces.

Bake about 10 minutes in a moderate oven.

 

Oatmeal Cookies (4)

  • Egg, 1

  • Sugar, ¼ cup

  • Milk, ½ cup

  • Water, ¼ cup

  • Flour, 2 cups

  • Fine oatmeal, ½ cup

  • Baking powder, 2 teaspoons

  • Salt, 1 teaspoon

  • Raisins, 1 cup

  • Melted fat, 5 tablespoons

Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Add the oatmeal. Beat the egg add sugar, water, and milk, dry ingredients mixed together, raisins, and melted fat. Drop from spoon on greased baking sheet and bake in moderate oven.

 

Oatmeal Macaroons (12)

  • Fat, 1 tablespoon

  • Corn syrup, 3/8 cup

  • Sugar, 2 tablespoons

  • Egg, 1

  • Almond extract if desired, 2 teaspoons

  • Oatmeal, 1 ½ cups

  • Salt, ¼ teaspoon

  • Baking powder, ½ teaspoon

  • Flour, 1½ tablespoons

Combine the melted fat and sugar and syrup, add the beaten egg and stir in the other ingredients. Drop from a teaspoon on greased baking sheets or pans and bake in a moderate oven about 15 minutes.

 

Potato Drop Cookies (13)

  • Hot mashed potatoes, 1½ cups

  • Sugar, 1¼ cups

  • Beef or mutton fat, 1 cup

  • Flour, 1¾ cups

  • Baking powder, 2 teaspoons

  • Cinnamon, 1 teaspoon

  • Cloves, ½ teaspoon

  • Nutmeg, ½ teaspoon

  • Raisins, chopped, ½ cup

  • Nuts, chopped, ¼ cup

Combine the ingredients in the order given and drop the mixture by spoonfuls on a slightly greased tin. Bake the cookies in a moderate oven.

 

Spice Cake (9)

  • Hardened vegetable fat, 3½ tablespoons

  • Sugar, ¼ cup

  • Egg, 1

  • Corn syrup, ¼ cup

  • Milk, ¼ cup

  • Flour, 1 cup (plus 1½ tablespoons)

  • Baking powder, 1¼ teaspoons

  • Chopped citron, 2 tablespoons

  • Raisins, cut in half, ½ cup

  • Cinnamon, ¾ teaspoon

  • Clove, ¼ teaspoon

  • Nutmeg, 1/8 teaspoon

Cream fat; add sugar gradually, syrup, egg well beaten; mix and sift dry ingredients; add alternately with milk to first mixture. Add raisins (which have been rolled in a little of the flour), mixing them through the cake thoroughly.

Bake about 30 minutes in a moderate oven (about 380° F.).