Fried Onions, page 78

Peel and slice, boil about ten minutes, drain, fry in butter, season with salt and pepper. Serve hot.

Strawberry Ice Cream, page 244

Take 1 quart of strawberries, mash very fine; add sufficient sugar to make real sweet. Then take 1 gallon of sweet milk, and sweeten to taste. Mix milk and berries and freeze. Stir often while freezing.

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

Butter-milk Pie, page 111

One cup of sugar, 2 cups of fresh butter-milk, 2 eggs, 2 table-spoonfuls of butter, flavor with lemon. For two pies.

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

Cream Cake, page 174

Two cups of sugar, 2 cups flour, 2/3 cup of sweet milk, 4 table-spoonfuls butter, scrape off not too full; 2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, 1 of soda or 2 of baking powder. Bake as jelly cake. Take one cup thick sweet cream well beaten, add five table-spoonfuls sugar, beat again, flavoring. Use in place of jelly.

Ginger Snaps, page 200

Take 3 pounds of flour, 1 of butter, 1 pint of molasses, 1 table-spoonful of soda, 4 of ginger, 3/4 of a pound of brown sugar; make them crisp, roll thin, cut out and bake in buttered tins, in a quick oven.

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

Banana Salad, page 91

Select fine ripe bananas, peel and slice lengthwise the thickness of a silver dollar, fill a large preserve dish 2/3 full and sprinkle with powdered sugar; have ready some thick cream which should be whipped to a froth. Pour over the bananas 1/2 pint sherry wine and then the cream. If preferred the wine may be omitted and more cream used. This is delicious and should be served ice cold.

Angel Cake, page 152

Whites of ten large fresh eggs, 1 1/4 cups sifted granulated sugar, 1 cup sifted flour, 1 level teaspoonful cream tartar, 1 teaspoonful of lemon or vanilla. Have the eggs very cold and break into a large platter, add a pinch of salt and when about half beaten add cream tartar and beat until very stiff, stir in sugar, and lastly the flour, which should be sifted five times, then measured. Do not beat the cake after adding the flour, but stir lightly as possible. Bake 40 to 50 minutes in a moderate oven. If icing be preferred the following is excellent: Wet 2 cups granulated sugar with half cup fresh milk and boil hard 6 minutes; take vessel from stove and place in another vessel of cold water and beat till cold. Flavor with lemon or vanilla.

Tomato Soup, page 283

One quart of ripe tomatoes, 1 pint of water, boil twenty minutes; add 1 teaspoonful of soda and 1 quart of fresh milk, a piece of butter the size of an egg, salt and pepper to taste. Thicken with a little flour and strain through a sieve. Excellent.

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