Cream Of Wheat - Cream And Sugar

Creamed Dried Beef Sponge Biscuits

Coffee

Cream Of Wheat

3/8 c cream of wheat, 2 c boiling water, 1/2 t salt, as on P 17.

Creamed Dried Beef

Make a white sauce using 4 T butter, 4 T flour and 2 c milk. To it add 1/4 pound dried beef broken into small pieces. Cook about 5 m and just before serving pour very slowly onto 1 well beaten egg. Serve at once.

Sponge Biscuits

Beat the yolks of 4 eggs, add 1 c thin cream or rich milk, 1/4 t salt, and then gradually pour onto 1 c flour beating continuously until perfectly smooth and free from lumps. Cut and fold in the stiffly beaten whites of 4 eggs, pour into hot greased gem pans and bake about 15 m in a hot oven, 360 Fahr.

Preparing The Meal

Reheat the, cereal, then make the sponge biscuits. While they are baking make the creamed dried beef and the coffee. Serve the cereal, then the dried beef, sponge biscuits and coffee.

Saturday Morning Baking

Baked Figs

Wash well and soak overnight in just enough water to cover, 1/2 pound of dried whole figs. In the morning add 1/2 c sugar, 1/2 T butter, juice of 1 lemon, a grating of nutmeg and bake 1 h in a moderate oven.

Gingerbread

To 1/2 c boiling water add 1 T butter. Pour into 1 c molasses with which 1 t soda has been mixed, then add quickly 2 c flour mixed and sifted with 1 T ginger and 1/2 t salt. Beat well, pour into a deep cake pan and bake in a moderate oven about 1 h or until a sterilized straw, when inserted, can be withdrawn clean.

Spice Cakes

Cream 2/3 c butter with 2/3 c sugar, add the beaten yolk of 1 egg and cream well, then add 2/3 c molasses and mix all together. Add 1 c milk alternately with 2 1/2 c flour mixed and sifted with 2 t soda, 1 t cream of tartar, 2 t cinnamon, 1/2 t clove, 1/4 t allspice, 1/4 t nutmeg. When well blended add 1 T lemon juice or vinegar, and cut and fold in the stiffly beaten white of the egg. Pour into muffin pans or individual cake pans and bake 20 m in a moderate oven.

Noodles

Two eggs, 2 T milk, 1/2 t salt, and flour to make a stiff dough. See Lesson 148.

Method Of Work

Immediately after breakfast prepare the figs and while baking make the gingerbread and place in the oven. Then make and bake the spice cakes. Now make the noodles for Saturday evening dinner and set aside to dry.