This section is from the book "Lessons In Cooking Through Preparation Of Meals", by Eva Robeeta Robinson. Also available from Amazon: Lessons in Cooking Through Preparation of Meals.
Cream Of Wheat With Sliced Bananas
Bread Crumb Griddle Cakes Mapleine Syrup
Add 1 1/2 c scalded milk and 2 T butter to 1 1/2 c stale bread crumbs. Soak until the crumbs are soft. Add 2 eggs, well beaten, then 1/2 c flour, 1/2 t salt, and 4 t baking-powder sifted together. Bake on a hot griddle.
Boil together 2 c sugar, 2/3 c water and 1 t "Mapleine" until a moderately thick syrup is formed. Remove from the fire and use as needed.
Use 3/4 c cream of wheat and 4 c boiling water (p. 17), and pour half into moulds for frying the next morning.
Reheat the cereal, put the bread crumbs to soak and ake the Mapleine syrup. Make the coffee, then the gridle cakes. Begin baking, then serve the cereal.
 
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