Everyday Foods in War Time, by Mary Swartz Rose. A few brief essays on why milk is nearly the perfect food, and recipes using grains other than wheat. I may make some of the cookies and puddings…
Entries from November 2004 ↓
Everyday Foods in War Time
November 16th, 2004 | Project Gutenberg
1918, Nonfiction
Potato Drop Cookies
November 15th, 2004 | Excerpts
1918, DP, Whole
by Mary Swartz Rose
- Hot mashed potatoes, 1½ cups
- Sugar, 1½ cups
- Beef or mutton fat, 1 cup
- Flour, 1¾ cups
- Baking powder, 2 teaspoons
- Cinnamon, 1 teaspoon
- Cloves, ½ teaspoon
- Nutmeg, ½ teaspoon
- Raisins, chopped, ½ cup
- Nuts, chopped, ¼ cup
Combine the ingredients in the order given and drop the mixture by spoonfuls on a slightly greased tin. Bake the cookies in a moderate oven.
(Originally from: Waste of Meat in the Home, Cornell Reading Course for the Farm Home, Lesson 109)
This recipe is from a book I recently submitted to PG. It’s full of advice and recipes on how to live “wheatless” and “meatless” and economically scientifically.
I can’t decide if I would like these cookies or not, but I would definitely leave out the raisins.
Atlantic Monthly #51
November 2nd, 2004 | Project Gutenberg
1862, January, Periodicals
The Atlantic Monthly, January, 1862. Number 51. A 300+ line poem in dialect, a story about skating, and the index to the volume.