This section is from the book "The Metropolitan Life Cook Book", by Unknown. Also available from Amazon: The Metropolitan Life Cook Book.
2 tablespoons fat ¼ cup sugar 1 egg, well-beaten ½ cup flour
1 teaspoon baking-powder ½ teaspoon salt
2½ tablespoons milk 1 cup chopped peanuts ½ teaspoon lemon juice
Cream the fat, add sugar gradually, add well-beaten egg. Mix and sift baking-powder, salt and flour; add to first mixture. Then add milk, peanuts and lemon juice. Drop from tip of a spoon on an unbuttered sheet 1 inch apart. Place ½ peanut on top of each. Bake 12 to 15 minutes in a slow oven. This makes 24 cookies.
½ cup fat
1 cup light brown sugar 1 well-beaten egg ½ cup milk
1½ cup flour (may be part buckwheat) ½ teaspoon soda
2 squares melted chocolate 1 cup chopped nuts 1 teaspoon vanilla
Cream the fat, add the brown sugar gradually, then the well-beaten egg, milk and the flour mixed and sifted with the soda. Stir in the melted chocolate, chopped nuts and vanilla. Drop mixture by spoonfuls onto a well-buttered pan.
1/3 cup fat ½ cup sugar 1 egg 1/3 teaspoon soda
1 tablespoon hot water 1¼ cups flour 1/3 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon ½ to 1 cup chopped nuts 1/3 cup raisins
Cream the fat, add sugar gradually, and eggs, well beaten. Add soda dissolved in water, ½ flour mixed and sifted with salt and cinnamon. Then add nut meat, fruit and remaining flour. Drop by spoonfuls onto a greased tin, 1 inch apart, and bake in a moderately hot oven.
1 cup fat
1 cup sugar
2 beaten eggs ¼ cup milk
2 cups oatmeal 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon ¼ teaspoon salt 1 cup raisins
Cream the fat, add the sugar gradually and work until creamy. Add the well-beaten eggs, milk and oatmeal, the flour, soda, cinnamon and salt mixed and sifted, and the raisins. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto a buttered pan. Bake.
Roll cookie dough into rectangular shape, sprinkle with spices or spread with fruit or fruit nut mixture. Fold, roll again and cut out and bake.
Pastry, if it is to be served at all, should be light, tender and flaky. It is then more easily digested.
Winter wheat flour, called pastry flour, should be used as it makes the pastry more tender than bread flour. Less shortening is required when pastry flour is used.
The lightness of the pastry depends upon the amount of air enclosed and its expansion in baking.
The flakiness depends upon the number of layers of shortening and paste formed by folding and rolling.
Use butter substitutes for the fat.
Rub in with the tips of the fingers or chop in with a knife. Add enough cold water to make a stiff dough, using a knife for mixing. All the ingredients must be cold.
Handle the dough as little as possible, and keep it as cold as possible, as heat melts the fat and makes it difficult to handle the dough. Use as little flour as possible during the rolling. Cut the pastry a little larger than the dish to allow for shrinkage.
1½ cups flour ½ teaspoon salt
1/3 to ½ cup shortening
Cold water to make a stiff dough, about 4½ tablespoons.
Mix and sift the flour and salt. Rub in shortening with tips of fingers or cut it into the flour with 2 knives. Add the cold water, using a knife for mixing. Knead the dough lightly into a ball. Cut in two; roll into circular pieces to fit pie tin.
5 sour apples 1/8 teaspoon salt ½ cup sugar
1 teaspoon butter ¼ teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon lemon juice
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg Few gratings lemon rind
Line pie plate with paste. Pare, core and cut apples and fill the pie. Mix the dry ingredients and lemon juice, and sprinkle over apples. Dot over with butter. Wet edges of under crust, cover with upper crust, pressing the edges close together. Bake in a hot oven 40 to 45 minutes, or until fruit is cooked.
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1 cup boiling water
1 teaspoon butter Grated rind 1 lemon
2 egg yolks Juice 1 lemon
Mix cornstarch and sugar; add to boiling water, stirring constantly. Cook until clear; add the butter, beaten yolks, lemon juice and rind. Cool. Line plate with paste. Prick the paste and bake. Fill with lemon mixture and cover with meringue, and bake until meringue is brown.
Whites 2 eggs 1½ tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons sugar or powdered sugar, and ¼ teaspoon vanilla
Beat the whites until stiff; fold in sugar and add flavoring.
1½ cups scalded milk 1/3 cup sugar ¼ teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons cornstarch Yolks 3 eggs
1 tablespoon butter
½ cup shredded cocoanut
½ teaspoon vanilla
Add the sugar, cornstarch and salt to the egg yolks. Pour the scalded milk into this, return to double boiler, stir and cook until thickened. Add the butter, cocoanut and vanilla. Pour into a pie tin lined with pastry. Bake. Cover with meringue.
Line a pie tin with pastry. Fill with mince meat. Cover with pastry.
1½ cups chopped beef
(roast or steak) 1 pint chopped apple ½ cup chopped suet 1 1/3 cups sugar
1 cup cider
½ cup syrup from sweet
pickle jar 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon mace
Grating of nutmeg ¼ teaspoon cloves ½ teaspoon cinnamon 2/3 cup raisins (Sultana preferred)
Mix all together. Cook 1 hour. Put into sterilized jars.
2 cups cranberries
1 cup water
½ cup seeded raisins
1 cup sugar
½ cup cracker crumbs
1 egg
1 tablespoon lemon or orange juice
Boil first 3 ingredients until cranberries burst open, then add the sugar. Cool, add the cracker crumbs, egg and orange juice. Line a pie plate with pastry. Fill with fruit mixture. Arrange strips of pastry lattice fashion over top and bake in a quick oven 25 minutes.
1 ¼ cups steamed pumpkin forced through a strainer
¼ cup sugar
½ teaspoon cinnamon ¼ teaspoon ginger 1/8 teaspoon cloves
½ teaspoon salt
1 slightly beaten egg
7/8 cup milk
Mix ingredients in order given. Bake in a pie tin lined with pastry.
 
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