Cold Days Good For Sorting

Old Cookbooks List Advertisements For Baking Soda, Salad Oil

These cold days are good for reading, sorting through stored items, etc., and last week I did all three when I ran across some of my mother’s old cookbooks.

Some of them were really advertisements of popular cooking items:

Clabber Girl Baking Soda ( leaves no bitter taste); Snow King Baking Power; Staley’s Salad Oil and Syrups; Royal ( the only nationally distributed cream of tartar baking powder); and one that was made in the same of the can that it came in (non-edible) W.E. Garrett and Sons (mild or rich) Snuff !

This last one also included jokes and pages to write your own recipes where Mom had writ- ten some of hers — mince meat, fondant, sweet pickles, etc., and ...

Chocolate Bread Pudding

2 cups crumbs 4 cups milk 3 tablespoons water 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 ounces bitter chocolate, grated 2 eggs 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg Mix bread, milk, nutmeg and chocolate. Soak for two hours.

Beat together eggs , sugar and salt. Stir bread with a spoon and add egg mixture.

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bread

Pour into baking dish, bake in slow oven, about 40 minutes.

Serve with sweet sauce.

Kitchen Tips For Now

1 teaspoon onion powder equals 1/ 2 cup onion

1/ 8 teaspoon powder equals 1 clove

1 cup minus 2 tablespoons all purpose flour, 11/2 teaspoon baking powder and 1/8 teaspoon salt equals 1 cup self-rising flour garlic garlic

The Guessing Cook

She guessed the pepper — the soup was too hot.

She guessed the water — it dried in the pot.

She guessed the salt and what do you think?

All day long she did nothing but drink.

She guessed the sugar — sauce was too sweet.

And by her guessing, spoiled the meat.

What is her moral? ’ Tis easy to see

A good cook measures and weighs to a “T.”

Happy birthday to Nicole Patrick, Connie Meyer, Mitzi Bingamon, Mike Lyons, Shawn Holloway, Bobby Jack Spears, Gail Myers, Gerald Kidd, Leon Tucker, Tommy Reed, Robi Carter and Payton Long who is 1 year old.

Remember recycling next Monday, Jan. 23.