"The elements so mixed that nature might stand up and say; this is indeed a loaf of bread. "

Tea Biscuits

Mix one cup mashed potatoes, two-thirds cup lard, one-half cup sugar, two cups flour, one cup sweet milk, one yeast cake dissolved in one-half cup warm water, two eggs well beaten. Let rise one and one-half hours. Add about four cups flour or enough so dough can be rolled out. Roll about inch thick. Cut with small cooky cutter. Put in greased pan. Let rise one or two hours. Mrs. H. E. Bunn.

Bran Bread

Mix one teaspoon sugar, one cake yeast in one cup warm water. Let stand until yeast rises to top. Mix two cups bran, four cups flour, two teaspoons salt, one tablespoon shortening. Combine mixtures. Add one-half pint warm water. Knead, adding more flour if necessary but leaving as wet as can be handled. Let rise three hours. Mold into two loaves. Let rise one hour and bake one hour. Have oven hot when bread goes in till it begins to brown, then reduce heat.

Mrs. Wm. Hodson.

Brown Bread

Mix two round teaspoons baking soda with five cups graham flour, one and one-half cups white flour. Add two tablespoons sugar, two teaspoons salt, one quart sour milk. Bake one hour in slow oven. Mrs. Chas. Price.

Coffee Bread

Sift one and one-half cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, one-half teaspoon salt, three-quarters teaspoon cinnamon, six tablespoons sugar. Cut in one tablespoon butter. Add one unbeaten egg, two-thirds cup milk. Stir until smooth. Place in shallow pan. Cover with mixture of four tablespoons sugar, two tablespoons flour, one teaspoon cinnamon, one tablespoon butter. Bake in hot oven 400° 25 min.

Mrs. T. O. Menees.

Date Bread

Sprinkle one teaspoon soda over one cup chopped dates. Add three-quarters cup boiling water. Mix two tablespoons melted butter, three-quarters cup sugar and yolk one egg. Combine. Add one and three-quarters cups flour, one teaspoon baking powder. Fold in beaten white. Add one teaspoon vanilla and a little salt. Bake.

Mary Shaner Wood.

Date And Nut Loaf

Cream four tablespoons shortening. Add two cups brown or white sugar, two beaten eggs, three and one-half cups flour, one teaspoon salt, one cup chopped nuts. floured. Pour two cups boiling water over one package dates pitted and quartered. Add two teaspoons baking soda. Add to the above. Beat until smooth. Bake in two buttered bread pans fifty minutes in moderate oven, increasing heat last ten minutes. Will keep a week. .Mrs. W. C. Carlson.

Doughnuts

Sift two cups sifted flour, two teaspoons baking powder, one-half teaspoon cinnamon, one-half teaspoon salt, three times. Add one-half cup sugar to one well beaten egg. Add one tablespoon melted butter. Add dry ingredients alternately with one-half to three-quarters cup milk.

Mrs. E. H. McNeill.

Ginger Bread

Mix one-half cup each of sugar, molasses, cold coffee, butter. Add one egg, one teaspoon cinnamon, one teaspoon ginger, one teaspoon baking soda, pinch salt, flour to make medium batter. Mrs. Thornton M. Pratt.

100 Year Old Ginger Bread

One-half cup butter, one-half cup sugar, one egg, one cup molasses, one-half cup boiling water, two teaspoons soda, pinch salt, spices to taste, three cups flour.

Mary Boynton.

Soft Ginger Bread

Cream one-quarter cup butter, one-quarter cup sugar. Add one-half cup molasses; one half cup hot water in which one teaspoon baking soda has been dissolved; one and one-quarter cups flour with which one-half teaspoon ginger and one-half teaspoon cinnamon have been sifted.

Mrs. W. H. Brown.

Health Bread

Mix two cups white flour, two cups graham flour, two cups bran, one-half cup sugar, one cup raisins or chopped dates, one-half teaspoon salt. Beat until frothy two cups sour or buttermilk, two teaspoons soda, one egg, two tablespoons melted fat, one-half cup mild molasses. Combine two mixtures. Stir well. Bake one hour in moderate oven.

Edith L. Van Valkenburgh.

Nut Bread

Mix thoroughly one cup graham flour; two cups white flour; two cups clabber, or a little less buttermilk; two teaspoons baking soda; one teaspoon baking powder; one cup raisins; one cup nuts. Bake very slowly one-half hour, with slightly more heat for one-half hour longer.

Mrs. W. Wilbur Hatfield.

Popovers

Beat four eggs with one-half teaspoon salt. Add alternately two cups milk, two cups flour. Beat until full of bubbles. Bake in hot buttered muffin pans in hot oven.

Mrs. H. C. Olmstead.

Snip-Doodle

Blend two tablespoons butter, two-thirds cup sugar. Add two-thirds cup milk, one egg, one and one-third cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon, Chopped nuts. Bake in quick oven.

Edna F. Tompkins.