Vinegar Butter, page 239

One cup of nice vinegar, 1 1/2 cup of powdered sugar; let the vinegar come to a boil, then put in the sugar; take 2 table-spoonfuls of flour and make a batter and pour in constantly stirring to avoid lumps.

Hot Milk as a Stimulant, page 255

If any one is fatigued the best restorative is hot milk. A tumbler of the beverage as hot as can be sipped. This is far more of a restorative than any alcoholic drink.

Mt. Vernon Cook Book, Second Edition, 1908, Thompson Company Printers, Carthage, Mo.

Tomato Fritters, page 75

One quart of tomatoes, yolk of 1 egg, 1 teaspoonful of salt, 1/4 teaspoonful of pepper, bread crumbs until proper consistency.

Baked Bananas with Orange Sauce, page 209

Strip the skins from one side of the bananas, and arrange them in the baking pans, loosen the skin, sprinkle over each a teaspoonful of sugar, and bake in a moderate oven twenty minutes. While they are baking, make the orange sauce (lemons may be used instead of oranges): mix one teaspoonful of corn starch with 1/4 cup of sugar, press the juice from three good-sized oranges; put it over the fire; when hot add sugar and corn starch, stir and cook a moment. Put this over the bananas and serve.

Cabbage Pickles, page 222

Take four heads of cabbage, six onions; cut up the onions first quite fine, sprinkle a little salt on, and let draw until the cabbage is cut up fine; salt the cabbage to suit the taste; mix with onions two pods of pepper chopped fine, into one-half gallon of vinegar put one-half cup of light or white sugar and about two table-spoonfuls of spice of all kinds tied up in a bag, boil this a little while, then pour over onions and cabbage. This recipe may be used in small or large quantities.

Mt. Vernon Cook Book, Second Edition, 1908, Thompson Company Printers, Carthage, Mo.