Date Cook Book | by May Sowles Metzler
It has been quite fitting that a date cook book should originate in Coachella Valley, the American home of the date...
| Title | Date Cook Book |
| Author | May Sowles Metzler |
| Publisher | May Sowles Metzler |
| Year | 1919 |
| Copyright | 1919, May Sowles Metzler |
| Amazon | Date Cook Book |
Coachella Valley, Riverside County, California
"We may live without poetry, music, and art;
We may live without conscience, and live without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live without books;
But civilized man cannot live without cooks."
- Owen Merridith.
Preface- It has been quite fitting that a date cook book should originate in Coachella Valley, the American home of the date. I feel that the time is not far distant when dates will be used universally both i...
- Food Value Of The Date
- In the arid regions of the old world dates always have been an essential in the dietry, and in some parts have been used even to a greater extent than bread and potatoes here. Owing to its compact fo...
- Some Of The Ways Dates Are Used
- By The Arabs Split date, remove seed and then fill cavity with un-salted butter. This manner of eating the date has been popular throughout the Arabic world for centuries. Another popular combinatio...
- Bread
- Biscuits, Muffins, Rolls, Gems, Etc. Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter. - Goethe. Bran Bread 1 cup white flour 1 cup wholewheat flour l 1/2 cups bran 1/2 ...
- Muffins
- Date Bran Muffins 2 cups bran 1 cup flour 1 teaspoon soda 1/4 cup butter 3 tablespoons molasses 1 1/4 to l 1/2 cups sour milk 1 cup chopped dates Mix dry ingredients, rub in the butter with the tip...
- Waffles
- 1 1/2 cups thick sour milk 1/2 cup sweet milk 3 tablespoons shortening, or thick sour cream 3/4 teaspoons soda 1 teaspoon salt About 2 cups flour (just white flour may be used or it may be mixed wi...
- Schnecken
- 1 pound of bread dough, add 2 eggs, 1/4 cup butter. Mix well and add flour to stiffen. Roll thin, and spread with melted butter, cinnamon, currants, chopped dates, sugar and a little citron. Roll, cut...
- Steamed Date Bread
- Into a bowl put 1 1/2 cups corn meal 1 cup rye meal 1/2 cup flour 1 teaspoonful baking powder 1 cup each milk and water 2 cups dates which have been steamed and rubbed through a sieve 1 teaspoon sa...
- Puddings
- One thing is always sure to please, Just give him puddings such as these. Apple Pudding Wash and soak 1/2 pound dried apples (fresh ones may be used). Stone 1/4 pound of dates and cut each one i...
- Puddings. Part 2
- Carrot Pudding 1 cup grated raw potato 1 cup grated raw carrot 1 cup chopped suet 1 cup raisins 1 teaspoon each of soda, salt and allspice; soda dissolved in 2 tablespoons milk. 1 cup chopped dates...
- Puddings. Part 3
- Quick Graham Pudding (No Sugar) Boil 1 quart of water, add 1 ten spoonful salt and drop in slowly, stirring constantly enough Graham flour to make a moderately thick mush. Continue cooking and stirri...
- Steamed Date Pudding
- 1 cup dates 1 egg 1 cup sweet milk 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 cups Graham flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon each of cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg Mix well and steam 3 hours. Serve with Date Sauce...
- Date Pudding
- 1/2 pound of dates 3 tablespoons butter 1/2 cup of molasses 1/2 cup sweet milk 1 2/3 cups flour 1/2 teaspoon soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon cloves 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1/2 teaspoon allspice Ston...
- Pudding Sauces
- Hunger is the best sauce. Brown Sauce 1 cup sugar butter the size of a small egg 1 tablesooon of flour Set on the stove and brown, being careful not to burn. Add 1 1/2 cups of water, stirring ...
- Cold Desserts
- An't please your Honour, quote the peasant, This same dessert is very pleasant. - Pope. Baked Apples Take the ceres out of good cooking apples, and fill the openings with finely chopped dates....
- Cold Desserts. Part 2
- Date Delight (No Sugar) 2 tablespoons of nut butter 2 tablespoons of cornstarch 3 tablespoons of honey A few grains of salt 1 pint of milk 2 eggs 1 cup of chopped dates Melt the butter; stir in t...
- Cold Desserts. Part 3
- Fruit Compote 5 oranges, cut fine 4 bananas, cut thin 1 cup malaga grapes, cut 1 cup fresh dates, cut 1 cup walnuts Juice of 1 lemon Sprinkle with sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, and add whipped...
- Marshmallow Pudding
- One tablespoon gelatine dissolved in a little cold water. Boil 1 cup Sugar and 1/3 cup water till it forms a soft ball when tried in cold water, add gelatine and stir just enough to mix it with syrup....
- Confections
- Sweets to the Sweet Bon-Bon Cream 5 pounds of sugar l 1/2 pints water 6 drops acetic acid Put sugar and water in a kettle, and set on a hot stove, stir till well dissolved. Just before it boil...
- Confections. Continued
- Date Delight 2 cups light brown sugar 1 cup granulated sugar 1 cup milk 1 cup chopped dates 1 tablespoonful of butter 1 teaspoon vanilla Boil sugar and milk a few minutes, add butter and boil unt...
- Pies
- No soil upon earth is so dear to our eyes, As the soil we first stirred in terrestrial pies. - Holmes. Pie Paste 1/3 cup lard or other shortening 1 1/2 cups flour 3/4 teaspoonsful salt Cold wa...
- Date Tartlets
- l cup sugar 1/2 cup butter 3 eggs 1/4 cup milk 1 cup dates % cup English walnut meats 1 teaspoonful vanilla Cream butter and sugar, add yolks or eggs, milk and dates, which have been cooked in a ...
- Apple Sauce Cake
- Apple Sauce Cake (In Layers) 1 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup butter 1 1/2 cups hot apple sauce ( unsweetened) into which put 1 scant teaspoonful soda, mash. 1/2 teaspoonful each of cloves and salt 1 tea...
- Cake
- My rule? Why certainly: It's queer: But no one ever ate that cake, Who does not ask me for the rule - (How much to use, how long to bake.) Cake Or Pudding 1 pound dates, stoned and cut 1 cup Eng...
- Cake. Part 2
- Devil's Cake 14 cup butter 1/2 cup brown sugar 3/4 cups finely minced dates 2 yolks of eggs 1/2. cup sour cream 1/2 teaspoon soda 1/2 cup wheat flour 1/2 cup barley flour 1/4 cup cocoa 1 teasp...
- Cake. Part 3
- New England Election Cake With Dates Cream 1/2 cup of butter and work with the hand into 1 cup light bread dough; add 1 egg, well beaten, 1 cup soft brown sugar, 1/2 cup sour milk, 1/2 cup chopped ra...
- Date Cake
- Weight of 3 eggs in each sugar and flour. Weight of 2 eggs in butter. 1 teaspoon baking powder. Grated rind of 1 lemon, or 1 tablespoon marmalade. Put in the 3 eggs. About thirty dates, halved, ston...
- Bishop's Bread
- Bishop's Bread, No. 1 4 eggs and 2 cups sugar beaten well together 1 cup dates 1 cup nuts 2 cups flour 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder Pinch salt and 1 teaspoon vanilla Bake in a shallow pan slowly f...
- Oatmeal Cakes
- Oatmeal Cakes 1 cup rolled oats 1/2 cup flour 1/4 teaspoonful salt 1/4 cup shortening 4 level teaspoonfuls baking powder 1/2 cup milk 1/2 cup chopped dates Mix flour, oats, baking powder and sal...
- Cookies And Small Cakes
- Appetite comes with eating.'* Rabelais. Cake Balls Use any good sponge cake. The following is a good one given by Mrs. R. H. Postlethwaite: Four eggs, beaten separately. To the yolks add 1 scant...
- Cookies And Small Cakes. Continued
- Date Cookies 1/2 cup butter 3/4 cup sugar 2 eggs 1/2teaspoonful soda dissolved in 3 tablcspoonfuls sour milk 1/4 teaspoonful salt 1/2 teaspoonful cinnamon 1/2 cup chopped walnuts 1/2 cup dates...
- Frostings And Fillings
- Boiled Frosting-One and one-quarter cups sugar and 1/2 cup hot water boiled together till it spins a thread. Let cool a minute or two, and pour slowly over the well beaten whites of 2 eggs, beating al...
- Salads
- To make a perfect salad there should be a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a wise man for salt and a mad cap to stir the ingredients up and mix them well together. - Spanish Proverb. Ar...
- Salad Dressings
- Cream Dressing 1 teaspoonful salt 1/4 teaspoonful unmixed mustard 2 teaspoonfuls sugar Yolks of 4 eggs 1/2 cup melted butter 1/2 cup vinegar 2 teaspoonfuls lemon juice A few grains of red peppe...
- Sandwiches
- Tame is at best an unperforming cheat, But 'tis substantial happiness to eat. Date, Fig And Nut Sandwiches 1/2 cup dates 1/2 cup figs 1/4 cup almonds Cream to moisten Put fruit and nuts throu...
- Preserves And Jams
- Fruit, unripe, sticks on the tree, But fall unshaken when they mellow be. Cranberry Relish 2 quarts of cranberries 3 1/2 pounds of white sugar 1/2pound seeded raisins 1/2 pound dates Rind of 2...
- Miscellaneous
- The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find, Lies through their mouths, or I mistake mankind. Dr. Wolcot. A Good Laxative Put through a food chopper twice 1/2 pound seeded raisins 1/2 pound o...
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