Foods That Will Win The War And How To Cook Them (1918) Part 3

BARLEY SCONES

1 cup whole wheat flour 1 cup barley meal 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking powder 3 tablespoons fat 3/4 cup sour milk 1/3 teaspoon soda

Sift flour, barley meal, salt and baking powder together. Add fat.

Dissolve soda in one tablespoon cold water and add to sour milk.

Combine flour mixture and sour milk to form a soft dough. Turn out on a well-floured board, knead slightly, roll to one-half inch thickness; cut in small pieces and bake in a hot oven 15 minutes.

THE USE OF POTATO

POTATO BISCUIT

1 cup mashed lightly packed potato 2 tablespoons fat 1 cup whole wheat flour 1 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt About 1/2 cup milk or water in which potatoes were cooked

Add melted fat to mashed potato. Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt and add to potato mixture, add enough of the milk to make a soft dough. Roll out 1/2 inch thick, cut with a biscuit cutter and bake in a quick oven for 15 minutes. (If bread flour is used in place of whole wheat, the biscuits are slightly lighter and flakier in texture.)

POTATO BREAD

1-1/2 cups tightly packed mashed potato 2-1/2 cups wheat flour 1 tablespoon warm water 1/2 yeast cake 1/2 teaspoon salt

Make dough as usual. Let rise in warm place for 15 minutes. Mould into loaf, put in pan, let rise until double in bulk in warm place. Bake for 45 minutes in hot oven.

POTATO YEAST BREAD

1/2 cup milk and water or water 2 tablespoons corn syrup 4 tablespoons fat 1-1/2 teaspoons salt 4 cups boiled potatoes 8 cups flour 1/2 cake compressed yeast 1/4 cup warm water

Dissolve yeast in the warm water. Add other ingredients and make same as any bread.

POTATO PARKER HOUSE ROLLS

1/2 cake yeast 1 cup milk (scalded) 1 teaspoon fat 3 tablespoons corn syrup (or 1 tablespoon sugar) 3-1/2 cups flour 2 cups potato (mashed and hot) 1 teaspoon salt 1 egg

Dissolve yeast in milk (luke warm). Stir in dry ingredients. Add potato and knead until smooth. Let rise until light. Roll thin, fold over, bake until brown.

THE USE OF MIXED GRAINS

WAR BREAD OR THIRDS BREAD

1 pint milk, or milk and water 2 teaspoons salt 2 tablespoons mola.s.ses 1 yeast cake 2 tablespoons fat

Mix as ordinary bread dough. Add 2 cups cornmeal and 2 cups rye meal and enough whole wheat flour to knead. Let rise, knead, shape, let rise again in the pan and bake 45 minutes.

CORN MEAL AND RYE BREAD

2 cups lukewarm water 1 cake yeast 2 teaspoons salt 1/3 cup mola.s.ses 1-1/4 cup rye flour 1 cup corn meal 3 cups bread flour

Dissolve yeast cake in water, add remaining ingredients, and mix thoroughly. Let rise, shape, let rise again and bake.

BOSTON BROWN BREAD

1 cup rye meal 1 cup cornmeal 1 cup graham flour 2 cups sour milk 1-3/4 teaspoons soda 1-1/2 teaspoons salt 3/4 cup mola.s.ses

Beat well. Put in greased covered molds, steam 2 to 3 hours.

BREAD m.u.f.fINS

2 cups bread crumbs 1/3 cup flour 1 tablespoon fat, melted 1-1/2 cups milk 1 egg 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt

Cover crumbs with milk and soak 10 minutes. Beat smooth, add egg yolks, dry ingredients sifted together and fat. Fold in beaten whites of eggs. Bake in m.u.f.fin tins in moderate oven for 15 minutes.

CORN, RYE AND WHOLE WHEAT FRUIT m.u.f.fINS

1/3 cup boiling water 1 cup cornmeal 1/4 teaspoon soda 1/4 cup mola.s.ses 1 cup whole wheat flour 1 cup rye flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup milk 1/3 cup raisins cut in halves 1/4 cup chopped nuts 2 tablespoons fat

Scald meal with boiling water, mix soda and mola.s.ses. Mix dry ingredients, mix all thoroughly. Bake in m.u.f.fin pans one-half hour.

SOY BEAN MEAL BISCUIT

1 cup soy bean meal or flour 1 cup whole wheat 1-1/2 teaspoons salt 4 teaspoons baking powder 1 tablespoon corn syrup 2 tablespoons fat 1 cup milk

Sift dry ingredients. Cut in fat. Add liquid to make soft dough. Roll one-half inch thick. Cut and bake 12 to 15 minutes in hot oven.

EMERGENCY BISCUIT

1 cup whole wheat flour 1 cup cornmeal 1 tablespoon fat 1/2 teaspoon soda 1 cup sour milk 1 teaspoon salt

Mix as baking powder biscuit. Drop by spoonfuls on greased baking sheet. Bake 15 minutes in hot oven.