Grandma Hystad's Recipes, Bar Mixes, Food, Cooking, Cleaning Tips

BEEF AND POTATOE CAKES CINNAMON APPLES6 boiled potatoes.
ICED TEA2 tablespoons butter.
THE USES OF FOOD4 tablespoons hot milk.
8 WAYS TO PREPARE POTATOES½ teaspoon salt.
LIGHTSIDEMash the cooked potatoes with a potatoe-masher until
CLEANING AROUND THE KITCHENsoft; add the butter, salt, pepper, and milk, and beat all
BAR MIXESuntil light and fluffy. Pile lightly in a hot serving-dish.
RECIPESBAKED POTATOES Select smooth, medium-sized
Beef And Potato Cakespotatoes. Wash well with brush. Bake in a hot oven 45
You can use ground meat if desired. A treat forminutes, or until done. Break the skins to let the steam
children.escape and serve at once. If baked potatoes stand
8 oz. Beef.they become soggy.
8 oz. Potatoes.STUFFED POPATOES 6 medium-sizes potatoes
1 small 2-3 inch onion chopped finely.baked.
1 egg yolk.2 tablespoons butter.
Dark soy sauce.½ teaspoon salt.
1 teaspoon salt.4 tablespoons hot milk.
Cook the potatoes and mash.Cut a slice from the side of the potato and scoop out
Mix in egg yolk and salt.the inside. Mash, add butter, hot milk, and seasonings.
Chop onion finely, brown with 1 tablespoon oil, addBeat until light and fluffy. A stiffly beaten egg-white
ground meat. Brown for 4 minutes. Add soy saucemay be added. Refill skins and brown in a hot oven.
and mix the batch with the potatoes. Shape into ballsGrated cheese may be added, if desired.
the size of golf balls, flatten into cakes. Heat theFRANCONIA POTATOES Wash and pare potatoes
cooking pan. Grease lightly with oil, use medium heat toand parboil 10 minutes. Drain and place in pan in which
brown the cakes, turn to brown both sides. If you havemeat is roasting. Bake about 40 minutes, basting with
a electric skillet set temperature at 340. Whenfat in the pan when basting the meat.
automatic control light blinks, turn cakes over.ESCALLOPED POTATOES. Prepare potatoes as for
Cinnamon Applesboiling. Cut in 1/8 inch slices. Put in layers in buttered
4 tart apples, sliced.baking-dish; sprinkle with salt and pepper and dredge
1 cup sugar.with flour. Dot over with small pieces of butter. Add hot
½ cup water.milk until it may be seen through the top layer. Bake
½ pound cinnamon candy.about 1 hour.
Pare and slice apples into eights.LIGHTSIDE
Combine sugar, water and candy to make syrup.The first day teacher was reading the story of Three
Bring to a boil and when sugar and candy areLittle Pigs to her class. She came to the part in the
dissolved, add sliced apples. Cook until apples are soft.story where the first pig was after building materials
Makes 4 servings.for her home.
Iced CoffeeShe read "so the pig went up to the man with the
Make coffee double strength. Pour the hot coffeewheelbarrow full of straw and asked". "Sir may I have
over plenty of ice in tall glasses. As the ice melts, itsome of that straw to build my house?" The teacher
dilutes the coffee. Top the glass with whipped cream.stopped reading and asked the class, "And what do
THE USES OF FOODyou think that man said?"
To build new tissues (muscle-tissue, bone tissue, andOne little boy raised his hand and said, "I think he said"
nerve tissue) to repair those issues that are worn out."Holy crap! A talking pig!"
To furnish the body with energy for work and play.Cooking In Year 500
(heat is a form of energy).Two cannibals were sitting by a fire. The first says,
To regulate the body processes; to keep the body in"Gee I hate my mother-in law". The second replies, "so,
good working-order.try the potatoes".
To promote the growth and to keep the body healthy.CLEANING AROUND THE KITCHEN Care Of Silver;
BASE-FORMING, ACID-FORMING FOODS.to avoid scratching, wash kinds separately. Hold a few
Besides grouping our foods under the headings of sixpieces in the hand and wash. Use hot, soapy water.
foodstuffs, we classify them as base forming and acidDry and polish by rubbing with a towel. Silver is brighter
forming. These terms do not refer to the taste of foodif wiped without rinsing. Store in cases or drawer
but rather to the use of foods in the body. Foods aredivided into sections for the purpose.
acid-forming or base forming according to the ash thatCLEANING SILVER; Use an aluminium pan. Put water,
is left after they are digested and utilized by the body.salt, and baking-soda into the pan. (For each quart of
The body needs both types of foods so that onewater use 1 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon soda). Place
counteracts the other, preserving neutrality that issilver in pan. There should be enough water to cover it.
essential for health.Place pan over flame and heat it until the tarnish
Base-forming foods are milk, milk-products, fruits, anddisappears. Pour off the water, wash in hot, soapy
vegetables, except prunes, plums, cranberries andwater, and dry thoroughly.
corn.CLEANING COPPER AND BRASS. Wash thoroughly.
Acid-forming foods are meat, fish, egg, grains, prunes,Dip soft cloth in vinegar and then in whiting or salt and
plums, cranberries, and corn.scour the metal. Wash and dry, rubbing with a soft
POTATOES Potatoes are a big part of most meals.cloth. A commercial cleaner "Brasso", is also effective
Did you know there is eight ways (maybe more) ofin cleaning.
preparing them?CLEANING ALUMINUM Use mild soap and hot water.
BOILED POTATOES. Select potatoes that areDo not use soda or ammonia. A little weak acid will
smooth and have uniform size. Cook in boiling, saltedbrighten aluminium. Rub with steel wool when
water until soft. Drain and let stand uncovered in anecessary. Boiling with fresh water will soak off any
warm place until served. Serve hot. Potatoes may beburned food.
boiled with the skins on or steamed.NICKEL Wash with soap and water. Polish with sifted
RICED POTATOES. Put cooked potatoes through awhiting applied with a soft cloth dampened with
hot potatoe-ricer and serve at once. Do not pack orammonia or water. Let dry and rub.
mash in putting into the serving-dish. Sprinkle withBAR MIXES. Hoots Mon. 1 jigger Scotch Whiskey.
paprika.½ jigger Lillet. ½ jigger Sweet Vermouth. Stir
CREAMED POTATOES Cut the boiled potatoes intowith ice and strain.
½ -inch cubes. Make a medium white sauce andImperial Fizz. 1 jigger Rye Whiskey. Juice of ½
combine with potatoes while hot. Add finely cut parsleylemon. ½ teaspoon sugar. Shake with ice and
and serve.strain. Fill with chilled Champagne.
MASHED POTATOES