Modernistic Recipe-Menu Book

Jessie Marie DeBoth's 1929 cooking school, recipe by recipe - planked dinners, bridge parties, a Chinese supper, and a hundred kinds of Christmas cookie.

Menus for Small Children

4 recipes in this part of Modernistic Recipe-Menu Book.

Apple Tapioca (2 1/3 cups)

1/2 cup quick tapioca 1/2 cup sugar 3 cups water Pinch salt 4 medium-size cooking apples Boil tapioca, sugar, salt and water together (or…

Apple Betty (2 1/2 cups)

2 cups stale bread crumbs 4 tablespoons shortening 3 large cooking apples 1/2 cup sugar 1 cup water cinnamon Place bread crumbs and sliced…

Baked Apple

1 good-sized apple 2 tablespoons sugar 1 tablespoon water Core apple. Fill center hole with sugar and cinnamon and the water. Bake in…

Creamed Egg

Do not boil egg; just simmer it for 20 minutes. Blend 2 tablespoons margarine and 2 tablespoons flour in small pan over flame; gradually…

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