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Preface
“We may live without poetry, music and art; -
We may live without conscience and live without heart;
We may live without friends, we may live without books;
But civilized man cannot live without cooks.”
Possibly the best cook book for any individual
is one she has prepared for herself by years of
experiments. Next to that is one prepared and
tested by competent cooks, and then written in
such plain language that every one can understand
it. Just such a book we claim this to be. Its reci-
pes have been tested by long and familiar use, and
its authors believe that its merits will be gratefully
acknowledged by all who use it. With this faith it
is respectfully commended to the public by the
Woman’s Missionary Society, Liberty Chapel.



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SOUPS
BEEF SOUP
This is nicer if you take two kinds of meat in-
stead of one, such as a 5 cent beef bone and a 5 or
10 cent veal bone. Put into pot together and cover
with cold water; boil until meat is tender. Take
out, skim off most of fat; add enough boiling water
to make quantity needed. Then add half head of
cabbage, two or three onions, a carrot, two turnips,
all cut up fine; also a sprig of parsely or celery.
Pepper and salt to taste.
Mrs. Peter Hay, Dubuque, Iowa.
VEGETABLE SOUP
Take a good fat soup bone or piece of boiling
beef. Put on to boil in cold water. Add a handful
of salt, tablespoonful of rice, one of barley. Take
one turnip, two potatoes, small piece of cabbage,
very little carrot, half an onion. Chop all very fine,
putting in first the cabbage, carrot and turnip, as
they require more cooking than the potato and the
onion. Last of all, add half a teacup of tomatoes
and sprig of parsley, chopped fine. Let boil until all
vegetables are tender. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Mrs. J. W. Done, Little Rock, Arkansas.
BEAN soup
One pint white beans, soaked over night, cooked
in enough water to have 1 quart of soup when done.
Season with bacon size of teacup, A can tomatoes,



muslin bag and boil in the vinegar, but do not leave
them in the pickle, as they discolor the melon. Put
in a jar, having them fully covered with the syrup.
The last morning the syrup is heated, scald the
pickle also. -
Mrs. W. H. Snedaker, Tranquility, Ohio.
PRE PARED MUSTARD
Put 2 tablespoons ful of ground mustard in a
bowl. Add sufficient water to make thick paste;
rub smooth. Add /ø cup of vinegar, 1 tablespoon-
ful of sugar, a pinch of salt on the beaten yolks of
2 eggs. Place the bowl in boiling water and stir
the mixture until it thickens, then add butter the
size of an egg. -
Mrs. Fannie Johnson, Ripley, Ohio
CUCUMBER CATSUP
Grate large cucumbers and put in a sieve or colan-
der, with a small handful of salt, to drain 4 or 5
hours, or over night. Then squeeze through a cloth
all the juice you can get out. Pour over the cucum-
bers a quantity of vinegar equal to the amount of
juice drained there from, after which throw away
the juice. Season with horseradish, salt, pepper and
spice. Put in glass cans.
Mrs. W. H. Snedaker, Tranquility, Ohio.
SWEET CUCUMBER MANGOES
Take medium sized cucumbers, let them be in
salt water 9 days, then in fresh water 24 hours.
Open them lenghtwise and take out the seeds. Place
them in a preserving kettle with alternate layers of
grapeleaves, sprinkling a teaspoonful of alum over
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in flour quite slowly until quite thick. When cool
enough not to scald the yeast, add 1 yeast cake, or
the cup of soft yeast, not salt, cover and let rise
until morning in a warm place. In the morning add
salt. A tablespoonful of butter or lard makes it
very tender and nice, and a little sugar improves the
taste for some, but only a little, about a tablespoon-
ful to 4 or 5 loaves. Now mold it, not stiff, but
until it is smooth. Let it rise again until light, then
mold into loaves, adding only enough flour so it will
not stick. Put it into the well greased tins, let rise
again and bake until a broom splint will come out
clean. Turn right side up on a clean towel. Take
a lump of fresh butter in a clean cloth, grease the
crust well while the bread is hot. When cool, wrap
in a bread cloth and put in the bread can or box.
This never fails if it is kept warm and not molded
too stiff, 1 quart of wetting for 2 loaves.
Miss Flava Milligan, Sheridan, Indiana.
SALT RISING BREAD
Stir enough white corn meal into /3 pint boiling
Sweet milk to form a thick batter. Do this at noon
or supper time. Keep in a warm place until next
morning. Then make a thin batter of flour and
warm water (or fresh milk); add your corn meal
batter. The whole need not be more than a quart
bowl half full. Keep warm until light or the bowl
is full. For 4 loaves, take 1 quart warm milk, add
yeast, salt and flour to knead well. Do not make
too stiff. Mrs. Phebe Geeslin, Ripley, Ohio.
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POTATO DOUGHNUTS
One and one-half cups of mashed potatoes, 3 eggs,
beaten together, 1% cups of sugar, 1 cup of Sweet
milk, lump of butter or lard size of a walnut, 3%
level teaspoons ful of baking powder. Flavor to
taste. Six cups of flour or flour to make stiff enough
to roll. Have lard hot before beginning to fry. You
can use 1 cup of sour milk and 1 teaspoonful of soda
instead of using the sweet milk and baking powder.
Mattie M. Bennett, Ripley, Ohio.
MARGUERITES
Boil a cup of granulated sugar with a quarter of a
cup of water until it begins to thread, pour it slowly
over the beaten white of an egg, stir in a cup of
chopped nuts, and spread on thin crackers, this rule
will make several dozen which will keep for weeks.
Mrs. Essie G. Wilson.
WAFFLES
Sift 2 cups flour, 4 teaspoons ful baking powder
and 34 teaspoonful salt together; add 1% cups milk
to yolks of 2 eggs. Mix thoroughly and add to
dry ingredients 1 tablespoonful melted shortening
and mix in beaten whites of eggs. Serve hot with
maple syrup. Mrs. Ruby Paeltz.
COOKIES
Two cups of sugar, 1 cup of lard, 1 cup of butter-
milk, 2 even teaspoonsful soda. Make very soft.
Mrs. Mary Edwards, Russellville, Ohio.
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