Farina

Fish Cakes Breakfast Muffins

Coffee

Breakfast Muffins

Sift together 2 c flour, 1 t salt, 4 t baking-powder, and 2 T sugar. Beat 1 egg until light, add 1/4 c milk, and stir at once into the dry mixture. Add 1 T melted butter and 1/4 c broiled bacon cut into small pieces. Mix well and pour into hot greased muffin rings. Bake about 25 m in a hot oven.

For Farina see Lesson 19.

For Fish Cakes see Lesson 37.

Preparing The Meal

Start cereal to cooking. Make the muffins. While baking make the fish cakes from the mashed potatoes and baked fish left from the preceding evening. Or if desired the cakes may be made the evening before and set away in a cool place until morning. While browning make the coffee.

Serve the cereal, then the fish cakes, muffins and coffee.

Saturday Morning Baking

The following dishes for the Saturday and Sunday meals should be prepared in the order given:

Brown Bread

See Lesson 17.

Fruit Pudding

Sift together 1 c whole wheat flour, 1/2 c white flour, 1/2 t salt, 1/2 t soda, 1 t each cinnamon, mace, and cloves. Beat 1 egg and add to it 1/2 c molasses, 1/2 c sweet milk, and 1/4 c melted butter. Add the dry ingredients to the molasses mixture, and then add 3/4 c chopped fruit, currants, raisins, figs, dates, citron, etc.

Pour into a greased mold and steam 2 1/2 h. Serve with hard sauce made according to directions given in Lesson 51.

Nut Brownies

Cream 1/3 c butter and 1/3 c pulverized sugar until very light and creamy. Add 1/3 c molasses and mix well. Then add 1 well beaten egg. When this is well blended with the other ingredients add 7/8 c bread flour and 1/2 to 1 c chopped nuts.

Drop from a spoon onto greased tins and bake 15 m in a moderately hot oven.

Cranberry Jelly

Cook 4 c cranberries with 1 c water until they are tender. Press through a strainer.

To the juice and pulp thus obtained add 2 c sugar and cook until the mixture is ready to jelly. With this amount of fruit this stage will be reached in a few minutes. It may be determined by trying a little from time to time on a saucer. Remove from the fire, pour into hot jelly glasses and set aside to be used when desired.

Method Of Work

Immediately after breakfast mix the Brown Bread and start to steaming. Next make the Fruit Pudding and steam with the Bread. Make the Nut Brownies, and while they are baking make the Cranberry Jelly.