Good Cooks’ Recipes

4 cups of cooked chicken
1 cup chicken broth
1 small can red pimento
1 small can mushrooms
2 Tablespooons butter
1 cup sweet milk
3 Tablespoons flour
4 hard cooked eggs

Add the broth to the sweet milk. Place in the top of a double boiler. Make a paste of flour mixed with a little cold water. Add salt and pepper to taste. Blend wih the milk and broht mixture. Cook thoroughly until mixture thickens.

Place the butter in a skillet. Add the chopped mushrooms and brown thoroughly. Chop the pimento and hard cooked eggs and add to the chicken, then add mushrooms. Cover with the thick sauce. Serve on buttered toast or cups made from short pie crust.

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6 cups flour
1/3 cup shortening
1 teaspoon salt
3 Tablespoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon paprika
1 cup pure tomato juice (canned juice is preferred.

Put flour in bowl. Make a hole in the flour. Put in shortening, salt, paprika, soda and baking powder. With the finger tips gradually work in the shortening and other ingredients. Last add the tomato juice gradually working in more flour. Work until a soft dough is formed. Better biscuits are obtained if dough is allowed to cool before baking. Cut biscuit about 3/4″ – 1″ thick and bake in oven about 15 minutes at about 425 degrees.

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2 cups shortening or butter
2-1/4 cup sugar
10 whole eggs
4 cups flour
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon salt

Cream together the shortening and sugar until the sugar is thoroughly melted and the granules have disappeared. Add the eggs one at a time and beat for a minute after adding each one. After the last egg has been added, add flour gradually, and beating the mixture all of the time, after the flour has all been added, add the lemon juice. Pour into a well greased stem or loaf pan and bakein oven with temperature of about 325 degrees for one hour and 15 minutes.

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1 cup molasses
1/2 cup flour
1 cup boiling water
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon ginger
2 teaspoons cinnamon
2 eggs
1 teaspoon soda
1/2 cup nuts
1/2 cup raisins

Mix the molasses, butter and sugar with the boiling water. Add the flour which has been sifted with the baking powder, and spices. Add well beaten eggs. Last add the raisins and nuts. Bake in loaf or square pan for 40 minutes. (Recipe does not give a baking temperature.)

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