Foods that will win the war and how to cook them (1918)Goudiss, C. Houston (Charles Houston)
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Foods that will win the war and how to cook them (1918)
Goudiss, C. Houston (Charles Houston)
Cooking, American; Food conservation; Menus
Heat drippings in saucepan until slightly brown, add water and when
boiling, add barley meal, stirring constantly. Cook in a double
boiler one-half hour, cool, and add well-beaten yolks. Fold in whites,
beaten. Bake in greased dish in moderate oven one-half hour.
BARLEY PUDDING
5 cups milk
1/2 cup barley meal
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ginger
3/4 cup molasses
Scald the milk, pour this on the meal and cook in double boiler
one-half hour; add molasses, salt and ginger. Pour into greased
pudding dish and bake two hours in a slow oven. Serve either hot or
cold with syrup.
BARLEY SCONES
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup barley meal
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
3 tablespoons fat
3/4 cup sour milk
1/3 teaspoon soda
Sift flour, barley meal, salt and baking powder together. Add fat.
Dissolve soda in one tablespoon cold water and add to sour milk.
Combine flour mixture and sour milk to form a soft dough. Turn out on
a well-floured board, knead slightly, roll to one-half inch thickness;
cut in small pieces and bake in a hot oven 15 minutes.
THE USE OF POTATO
POTATO BISCUIT
1 cup mashed lightly packed potato
2 tablespoons fat
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
About 1/2 cup milk or water in which potatoes were cooked
Add melted fat to mashed potato. Mix and sift flour, baking powder and
salt and add to potato mixture, add enough of the milk to make a soft
dough. Roll out 1/2 inch thick, cut with a biscuit cutter and bake in
a quick oven for 15 minutes. (If bread flour is used in place of whole
wheat, the biscuits are slightly lighter and flakier in texture.)
POTATO BREAD
1-1/2 cups tightly packed mashed potato
2-1/2 cups wheat flour
1 tablespoon warm water
1/2 yeast cake
1/2 teaspoon salt
Make dough as usual. Let rise in warm place for 15 minutes. Mould into
loaf, put in pan, let rise until double in bulk in warm place. Bake
for 45 minutes in hot oven.
POTATO YEAST BREAD
1/2 cup milk and water or water
2 tablespoons corn syrup
4 tablespoons fat
1-1/2 teaspoons salt
4 cups boiled potatoes
8 cups flour
1/2 cake compressed yeast
1/4 cup warm water
Dissolve yeast in the warm water. Add other ingredients and make same
as any bread.
POTATO PARKER HOUSE ROLLS
1/2 cake yeast
1 cup milk (scalded)
1 teaspoon fat
3 tablespoons corn syrup (or 1 tablespoon sugar)
3-1/2 cups flour
2 cups potato (mashed and hot)
1 teaspoon salt
1 egg
Dissolve yeast in milk (luke warm). Stir in dry ingredients. Add
potato and knead until smooth. Let rise until light. Roll thin, fold
over, bake until brown.
THE USE OF MIXED GRAINS
WAR BREAD OR THIRDS BREAD
1 pint milk, or milk and water
2 teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons molasses
1 yeast cake
2 tablespoons fat
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