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To Use One Recipe in Different Ways

Often a full recipe can be made and used in different ways for several occasions.

The Recipe for Creamed Chicken, for instance, will provide enough for an au gratin oven dish.

A Rich Baking Powder Biscuit Dough will make shortcakes for one meal, toasted biscuits for another, and, if baked in a sheet and covered with cinnamon and sugar, coffee-cake for a third.

Pie Dough will make pies, tart shells for meat or dessert, cheese strips for soup or salad, and tiny jam turnovers for afternoon tea. Cake Batter may be baked as loaves, layers, sheets or cup cakes, as cottage pudding, to be served hot with a sauce, or as a ring in which to serve fruit, jelly or a creamed dessert. A fruit cake mixture may be baked as fruit cake or steamed in small molds and served hot with sauce.