Manuscript Cookbook 228

{Mother's} A newspaper recipe clipping{Figure} Popcorn Balls (About 25 balls) Two cups molasses, 1 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon vinegar, butter the size of an egg, pinch soda. Cook molasses, sugar, vinegar and butter until it reaches the soft ball stage. Add soda. Pour this hot syrup over 5 quarts of hot salted popped corn. Mold into balls as soon as it is cool enough to handle. Popcorn balls, hanging from the Christmas tree, are another good thought. Mold popcorn around a piece of clean white string and when syrup sets and ball is firm, the string will hold. Chutney Pickles 1 qt vinegar 1 T of cassia 3 cups sugar 2 green tomatoes 4 onions 1 cup raisins 12 large sour apples 2 T salt Cook tomatoes, ontion, raisins salt + cassia in vinegar 1½ hrs. Peel + slice apples put in + cook until done.

Newspaper clippings for household hints{Figure} Ball Blue Book of Canning + Preserving Recipes Edition 0 Published by Educational Dept Ball Brothers Co. Muncie, Indiana Add 3 drops of Vinegar to a boil frosting before taking from the stove. Prevents hardening. Household Hints Windows may be kept clean and clear during the winter if rubbed with glycerine occasionally then polished with a dry cloth. The cut surface of a lemon will removed marks made by matches on painted walls. Clinkers that form on the stove lining will soon disappear if four or five oyster shells are bruned on red hot coals that are left after fire has been shaken down. Tar may be removed from cloth with turpentine. Rub well into cloth and ever trace of tar will disappear. For dull and spotted mirror, take a small portion of whiting and add sufficient cold tea to make a paste; rub the glass with warm tea, dry with a soft cloth, rub a little of the paste well on the mirror and polish dry with tissue paper. Household Hints Before painting metal, first wash surface with soap and water. It will then be found easier to apply the paint. Flannel and blankets will keep soft and white and will not shrink if ashed with a tablespoon of ammonia in the water. When a shoe bag sags and tends to wear away from its hooks, run a narrow curtain rod thru the top hem. Salt and pepper shakers that are filled from the bottom may be sealed with a piece of adhesive tape. Remove and renew the tape when the shakers are washed. Old nail holes may be filled with a mixture made of fine sawdust and glue. Fill the hole with it and leave till dry. Add 1 t cold water to each egg white before beating. It will make almost double meringue.

Nut Bread 1 cup milk 2¼ C soft wheat flour 3 T melted butter, 1 egg 3 T baking powder 2 T sugar ½ t salt ½ C chopped nuts Beat the egg, add milk + sugar Cover the nuts with 2 T flour sift the remainder with the baking powder + salt. Pour the liquid mixture into the dry ingredients Add the nuts + melted butter Bake in a greased pan at 375° [degrees] for 1 hour. Allow the bread to cool before cutting To take shine from blue serge pants. Sponge with vinegar before pressing.

Raisin Filling 1 Cup sugar, ¼ cup boiling water Sugar + ½ C chopped raisins boiled together about 10 mins then add the white of an egg beaten to a froth.

Cora Case

Cream Filling ¾ C sweet milk 2 t flour or cornstarch ½ C sugar, 1 egg small piece of butter Flavor with lemon or vanilla

Bread + Butter Cucumber Pickles Slice cucumbers with out removing the peeling + pack in jars. To each one quart jar add 2 t salt 1 t mustard Heat 1 qt of vinegar, 1 cup of sugar a heaping tablespoon of pickling spice Pour over pickles Hermits (Good) 1 egg, 1 cup sugar, ½ cup sour milk 1 t soda, 1 t nutmeg, 1 t cassia 1 t cloves, ⅔ C lard (scant) ⅔ cup chopped raisins ½ t salt Flour to drop Mrs. Edith Wilson's Hermits 1 cup sugar, ½ cup molasses ½ C butter or lard ½ C lukewarm water 1 t soda 1 cup raisins 3 C flour, 1 egg salt. 1 t cinnamon, 1 t cloves Drop in buttered tin sprinkled with sugar.