Good Cooks’ Recipes

2 cups milk
2 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons cold water
1/2 cup grated cheese
3 eggs
salt to taste

Make a sauce of the milk by making a paste of the flour and water, add salt to taste. Cook in top of double boiler until thick. Add butter and cheese and allow to melt. Separate the egg yolks and whites and beat until thick. Allow the first mixture to cool to which add the well beaten yolks and stir thoroughly. Last fold in stiffly beaten whites. Pour into a well greased baking dish and bake in a moderate oven until mixture leaves the sides of the dish.

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Nut Bread

3 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1-1/2 cup milk
3 teaspoon baking powder
1-1/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup nuts

Sift dry ingredients and add brown sugar. Add milk and nuts. Bake 45 to 60 minutes at 350 ° in greased pan.

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Fried Corn Pone

2 cups corn meal
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup cracklings
2-1/2 cup boiling water
1 egg

Pour boiling water over meal that has been sifted with salt. Place over fire and cook for 2 minutes. Remove and add 1 egg and cracklings. (Cracklings may be omitted if desired.) Shape into croquettes with pierced cooking spoon so as not to pack the meal too firmly. Deep fry croquettes until done.

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2 lbs. ground beef or chuck
1/4 cup finely chopped green peppers
1 cup ketchup
3 cups crushed potato chips
1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
1 can cheddar cheese soup
1 tablespoon mustard

Scramble hamburger in frying pay until done. Drain off all the grease. To meat mixture, mix in ketchup, garlic salt, and green peppers. Crumble 1-1/2 cups potato chips into bottom of casserole dish. Dilute the can of cheddar cheese soup with 1/4 cup of water and stir well. Pour soup oer top of casserole. Sprinkle remainder of potato chips over top of casserole. Cook for 5 minutes at 250 degrees.

Serves 4

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1 medium sized ham
1 small bottle of ginger ale or Coca Cola
25 whole cloves
1 cup brown sugar
3 tablespoons prepared mustard

With a sharp knife remove the outside skin from ham on the fat side, and mark in squares. Mix the sugar with the mustard and make a paste, with the hands rub the ham thoroughly with this mixture. Put cloves in scored squares. Place in a roaster or on a shallow pan, baste good with ginger ale or Coke and cook slowly in an oven of about 350 degrees basting often. The ham should be cooed 30 minutes for each pound. A good sauce may be made from the drippings by adding juice to browned mushrooms. Cooked noodles with this sauce and baked ham make a delicious meal.

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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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Boil one large pack of boneless chicken, pull or cut into bite size pieces and put in a buttered casserole. Combine 1 can cream of chicken soup, 3/4 stick of butter (melted), 1 can English peas with liquid, and a small jar of chopped pimento. Salt and pepper to taste. Pour mixture over chicken. Mix 1 cup Bisquick and 1 cup milk and pour over the top of the combined mixtures. It will be soupy. Bake 30-45 minutes in a medium hot oven until the top is golden brown.

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