This section is from the book "Food Facts For The Home-Maker", by Lucile Stimson Harvey. Also available from Amazon: Food facts for the home-maker.
Home recipe
2 cups milk
3 tablespoons cornstarch 1/4 cup sugar
1 square chocolate grated 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Individual recipe
1/2 cup
1 teaspoon 3/4 tablespoon 3/4 tablespoon or 1/8 square
Pinch 1/8 teaspoon
Melt chocolate in double boiler over hot water, add sugar and thin by adding milk, a few drops at a time. When smooth add scalded milk. Add cornstarch blended to a paste with a little cold milk, reserved for the purpose. Cook 20 minutes. Add salt and vanilla, and mold. Pour on a little cold water to prevent skin forming on top of mold.
Individual recipe I tablespoon butter 3 tablespoons sugar 1 tablespoon beaten egg 3 tablespoons milk
1/2 cup flour
3/4 teaspoon baking-powder
Large recipe 3 or 4 tablespoons 3/4 cup 1 egg 3/4 cup
2 cups
3 teaspoons
Make like cake, using more milk if necessary for a batter between a drop and a pour. Bake in a sheet, serve hot with lemon sauce.
Individual recipe
1 /3 cup boiling water
1/4 inch square yellow lemon rind
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon flour
1 teaspoon butter
1 teaspoon lemon juice
Large recipe 2 cups 2 inch square
1 cup
2 tablespoons 2 tablespoons 2 tablespoons
Cook first four ingredients until clear and somewhat thick, add butter and lemon juice just before taking from the stove, remove rind, and serve.
Cream together 1 cup of sugar, and 1 /2 cup of shortening, add 1 saltspoon of salt, 1/2 teaspoon of cloves, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, little nutmeg, and 1 cup of raisins.
Dissolve 1 teaspoon soda in a bit of warm water and then stir it into 1 cup of sour apple sauce letting it foam over the ingredients in the bowl. Beat all thoroughly and add 1 3/4 cups flour. Bake in a loaf tin 45 minutes.
Individual recipe 1 apple 1/4 cup water 1/8 cup sugar 1/2 inch stick cinnamon
Large recipe 8 or 10 I cup 1 cup 2-inch stick
Make syrup with sugar, water, and cinnamon; boil slowly 10 minutes, skimming well. Core and pare apples, cook till nearly done in syrup. Turn apples while cooking. Drain and bake apples a few minutes in the oven. Boil the syrup until almost like a jelly. Arrange apples on dish for serving. Fill core cavities with jelly or marmalade. Pour the syrup over them. Put whipped cream around the base.
Individual recipe 1/3 cup flour 1/2 teaspoon baking-powder
Speck salt 1/2 tablespoon butter Milk 1 apple
Large recipe
2 cups 31/2 teaspoons
1/2 teaspoon
3 tablespoons 2/3 cup
Mix dough as for biscuits, pat or roll large enough to cover apple. Pare and core apple, fill center with raisins, jelly, or sugar with lemon juice or spices, place in middle of dough and press edges together. Put on floured tin and bake in moderate oven until apple is tender. Serve hot with molasses sauce.
 
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