FAVORITE DISHES IN FAMOUS HOMES addition to the large variety of recipes in this book, we present con tributions from the wives of famous men in all parts of America. The wife of President Taft and Vice President Sherman each commend their favorite dish, while from wives of U. S. Senators and the Governors of various States come excellent rec ipes. The value of such recipes con sists not only in an interesting study of what are favorite dishes in famous homes, but in a most valuable addi tion to the cookery encyclopedia of every housewife. Many of the recipes are for fine old-fashioned disbes, such as toothsome gingerbread, brown bread, and an excellent mince-meat. Here we find food peculiar to a cer tain part of the country, such as the Governor of Florida's fried okra, or a toothsome chicken pie, suggested by Mrs. Dawson, the wife of the Gov ernor of West Virginia. There are various recipes which are unlike any found in ordinary cookbook literature; for instance, a delicious angel-food pudding, Mrs. Chester Long's favorite cake, Hamburg cookies, Frankfort pudding, potato cake, and raspberry bims. Each recipe is well worth try ing, and, once tried, it will become a favorite in thousands of homes.
From Mrs. William H. Taft. Sponge Pudding.
I cupful sugar, cupful flour, I cupful butter, 1 pint boiled milk, 5 eggs.
Mix sugar and flour, wet with a lit tle cold water and stir into the boil ing milk. Cook until it thickens and is smooth. Add the butter and when well mixed stir it into the well-beaten yolks of the eggs. Then add the whites beaten stiff and bake in a shal low dish or cups, placing them in a pan of hot water while in the oven. Serve with creamy sauce.
From Mrs. J. S. Sherman, wife of Vice-President Saratoga Pudding.
2 cupfuls coarse bread crumbs, 4 eggs, 1 quart sweet milk, 1 cupful sugar, Pinch salt, cupful raisins, Butter, size of walnut, Flavoring, milk or vanilla.
After baking, spread with layer cur rant jelly before putting on meringue.
From Mrs. Reed Smoot, wife of U. S.
Senator from Utah.
Five-Egg Orange Cake.
5 eggs, cupful butter, 1 cupful sugar, / cupful milk, 3 cupfuls flour, teaspoonfuls vanilla, teaspoonfuls baking powder.
Beat sugar and butter to a cream, drop in yolks of eggs, thoroughly beaten, add 1 cupful flour, milk, then another cupful flour, beating thoroughly all the time. Add rest of flour, with whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Bake in layer tins in mod erate oven.
Filling for the Cake Beat white of 1 egg to a stiff froth, and add 1 teacupful pulverized sug ar; grate the outside of an orange down to the white, squeeze out juice, and add to frosting.
From Mrs. Joseph W. Bailey, wife of U. S. Senator from Texas.
Stuffed Tomatoes.
Take fresh, firm tomatoes, and cut pulp from them with a sharp knife. Mix together chopped cucum ber, onion to taste, cabbage, pepper, celery and salt, with some pulp of tomato. Place this mixture in scooped tomatoes and serve on lettuce with a garnish of mayonnaise.
From Mrs. J. W. Burrows, wife of U. S. Senator from Michigan.
Delicious Fruit Punch.
Sweeten juice of 8 lemons and 4 oranges th taste. Just before serving, place a square of ice in a punch bowl and pour over it sweetened juice, then add 2 quarts Apollinaris water or White Rock, and garnish with a bunch of grapes laid on ice. A gill of rasp berry or blackberry juice left over from canned fruit adds a beautiful color to the punch as well as a fine flavor.
From Mrs. B. R. Tillman, wife of TJ. S. Senator from South Carolina.
Tillie's Gingerbread.
1 cupful sugar, 1 cupful butter, 4 eggs, 2 cupfuls molasses, 4 cupfuls sour milk, 2 teaspoonfuls soda, 2 teaspoonfuls cinnamon, 2 teaspoonfuls salt, 2 teaspoonfuls ground ginger, 5 cupfuls flour.
Cream together butter and sugar, add eggs well beaten, molasses, then sour milk, and, last, flour with which has been sifted spices, salt, and soda. Bake in moderate oven.
From Mrs. Robert J. Gamble, wife of U. S. Senator from South Dakota.