Plain Brown Bread

(Without Wheat)

1/3 cup molasses 1 cup sour milk 1 teaspoon salt

1 cup rolled oats

2 cups rye flour 1 1/2 teaspoons soda

Raisins may be added if desired. Make according to directions for Boston Brown Bread.

Peanut Bread

1 cup sweet milk 4 tablespoons peanut butter 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon syrup

2 1/2 cups flour 5 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 cup chopped peanuts

Turn all ingredients into mixing bowl.

Beat until well mixed, turn into three pound baking powder cans, filling two-thirds full. Put at once into oven and bake, uncovered, forty minutes.

Quick Chocolate Bread

1 egg

1 cup sweet milk 1 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons fat 1/4 cup sugar

3 tablespoons cocoa About 3 cups flour 5 teaspoons baking powder 1/3 cup nuts

Put all ingredients into mixing bowl and beat until well mixed. Good without nuts. Makes delicious sandwiches if spread lightly with butter and a tart apple jelly.

Nut Bread

Follow receipt for Chocolate bread, omitting the cocoa and using peanut butter for the fat. Put at once into the oven.

Bran Bread

1 cup prune juice

2 tablespoons sorghum 1 tablespoon fat

1 teaspoon salt 1 1/2 cups bran

1 cup Graham flour 5 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 cup chopped, cooked prunes

Mix all ingredients together and bake fifty minutes. Sour milk and 1 teaspoon soda may be used instead of the prune juice and baking powder.

Rye Pop-Overs

1/2 cup rye flour 1/2 cup white flour

3/4 teaspoon salt 1 egg

1 cup sweet milk

Sift dry ingredients together. Into a well in center drop the egg and gradually beat in the milk. Beat about three minutes with Dover egg beater. Turn into well-greased gem pans and bake forty minutes in a hot oven. If pop-overs fall, it is because they have not baked enough.

Short Cake

1 1/2 cups flour

3 tablespoons sugar

3 tablespoons fat

3 teaspoons baking powder 3/4 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup milk

The short cake will be a little better if 1 egg and 1/2 cup milk is substituted for the 3/4 cup milk. Spread in greased pan and bake.

Crust For Meat Pie

1 1/2 cups flour 1 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons fat

3 teaspoons baking powder 3/4 cup milk

1 egg

Mix egg yolk with the milk and stir gradually into the dry ingredients which have been sifted together; beat in the liquid fat, then fold in the whipped white of egg. Drop by spoonfuls on the prepared meat, and bake in a moderate oven.

A plainer crust can be made by omitting the egg.

Potato Crust (Good)

1 cup flour

2 cups hot mashed potatoes 6 teaspoons flour

1 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup milk 1/2 teaspoon butter coloring

The potato makes crust deliciously tender without the addition of fat. Drop by spoonfuls on hot, prepared meat and bake in moderate oven.