26 DAUGHTERS OF THE ALLIES

OATMEAL BISCUITS

1 teacupful oatmeal, 1 teacupful flour, 1 bles dan dripping or lard, % teaspoonful baking soda, 1 egg, a little cold water. Mix in a basin the flour, meal, sugar and soda. Melt the lard or dripping and beat up the egg with a little water. Pour the hot lard among the dry ingredients nd mix well, then the beaten egg and just enough water to wet all well. Knead it a little and roll out quite thinly ; cut into small rounds and bake in the oven for 10 minutes, or till the biscuits are a pale yellow color.

—Mrs. Gilchrist.

WAFFLES

1 pint milk, 1% teaspoon salt, 3 eggs, ¥% cup melted butter, 1 tablespoon sugar, 2 teaspoons baking powder. Make soft batter of milk, butter, salt and flour. Add the well-beaten yolks, then the whites and baking powder last. Waffle iron must be hot and well greased.

—Mrs. A. M. Moline.

QUAKER OAT PANCAKES

2 cups Quaker Oats (uncooked), 1% cups flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon soda, dissolved in 2 tablespoons hot water, 1 tea- spoon ‘baking powder (mix in the flour), 2% cups sour milk or buttermilk, 2 eggs ‘beaten lightly, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 or 2 table- spoons melted butter (according to richness of milk). Process: Soak Quaker Oats over night in milk. In the morning mix and sift flour, soda, sugar and salt—add this to Quaker Oats mixture— add melted butter, add eggs beaten lightly—beat thoroughly and cook as griddle cakes.

PAN CAKES

2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 teaspoons cream tartar, small piece butter, 4 cup white sugar, pinch salt, 114 cups sweet milk, l egg. Beat well together, adding flour last. Drop from a spoon on a hot pan.

—Miss Isaacs.

FRENCH POTATO CAKES

Mash three boiled potatoes, with two ounces of butter, some grated cheese, about a ‘heaping tablespoonful, salt and pepper and five beaten eggs. Form this into flat cakes and fry in boiling fat. Potato cakes can also be made of the mashed potato from the day before by adding a little milk and forming cakes and frying until a

delicate brown. Bi gabeth Gist,

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