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Angela Varesano --7-- / 12

8/17/72

Mary Washko

Ceregi (cher-e'-gi)

Make the dough by taking about one cup of flour in a bowl.
Add sugar of about half a cup, dash of salt, about a cup of
milk, a teaspoon of baking powder, and one beaten egg. Work
it together with hands, adding flour if necessary. When it
forms a dough in the bowl, put it on a floured board and knead
it until it gets smooth. Roll it out a fourth inch thick. Cut
in two inch strips, six inches long. Twist the strip about
three times and form into a loose knot.

Fry in deep fat in a saucepan four inches deep in two
inches of oil, till golden brown. Save the remainder of oil
for the next time. When done, sprinkle with powdered sugar
while still warm. This was made, especially, when the kids
were small so they could have something to eat when they wanted.

Sweet cabbage and noodles:

Chop a head of cabbage fine, salt, and let stand a few
minutes. Brown butter and a large onion; then squeeze the
cabbage and put it in the butter to fry. Fry the cabbage
about an hour for the cabbage to get soft and brown.

Make homemade noodles. Boil them, and then mix together
with the sweet cabbage. Salt to your own taste. This is a
good meal and cheap when there is a large family.

Mixed vegetable soup:

Peel and cut potatoes and carrots in cubes. Let them boil
with an onion cut up. Add some fresh parsley and celery and
let this boil for about a half hour. Cut a half of a head of
cabbage in small pieces and put that in. In about another
half hour, add a half cup of rice. Let this all boil together.
When everything is soft, make a thin gravy by frying two or
three tablespoons of flour in butter. Add this gravy to the
soup. Let boil for about fifteen minutes for everything to
mix together. Season to your own taste with salt and a little
pepper the way you like it.

Macaroni and cottage cheese (4 to 6 servings)

Boil elbow macaroni, about two cups in salted boiling water.
When the elbows are boiled, drain but do not cool off. Break
your cottage cheese (pressed) apart and mix the cheese with the
macaroni. Brown onion with butter and pour over the above and
salt to taste. Mix well. This makes a fine dish.

Doughnuts: (fried in deep fat and rolled in powdered sugar, hot)

1 cup sugar, granulated 3 cups flour, unsifted

4 tablespoons butter 3 teaspoons baking powder

1 cup sweet milk 1/2 teaspoon salt

2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla

Sift the flour with the last four ingredients. Enough flour
is needed in rolling them out. Cut dough with dough cutter
for doughnuts after rolling out to a half inch thickness. 4 doz.