| 3/4 tablespoon sugar | 1/4 tablespoon flour |
| 1/4 tablespoon butter | 1/8 teaspoon mustard |
| 1 egg yolk | 1/4 teaspoon salt |
| 1/4 cup vinegar | Dash of red pepper. |
Heat the vinegar in the upper part of double boiler over direct heat. Sift the flour, mustard, salt and pepper thoroughly. Pour the boiling vinegar gradually upon the mixture, stirring constantly. Return to the upper part of the double boiler and cook over hot water until the mixture thickens, stirring constantly. Add the butter and remove from the fire. Chill before using.
Mayonnaise.—
| 1 egg yolk |
| 2 tablespoons lemon juice or 2 tablespoons vinegar |
| 1/2 teaspoon mustard |
| 2/3 teaspoon salt |
| Dash of cayenne pepper |
| 2/3 cup of oil (olive oil, cotton seed oil or other edible oil). |
Have the ingredients chilled, Place the mixing bowl in crushed ice. Mix the egg yolk, mustard, salt and cayenne pepper. Add a few drops of vinegar or lemon juice, then a teaspoon of oil, drop by drop, until all the ingredients are used. Constant beating is necessary throughout.
Fruit and Vegetable Salads.—Good combinations for salad are (1) potato and beet, (2) carrot and green peas, (3) tomato and celery, (4) asparagus and pimento. Combinations of fruit and vegetables are, (1) apple and celery, (2) orange and green pepper. Combinations of different kinds of fruit and nuts or cheese are especially good. Examples are, (1) pineapple and orange, (2) white cherries stuffed with nuts, (3) banana rolled in chopped nuts or (4) half pears (cooked or raw) with a ball of cream cheese and chopped nuts in the cavity made by the removal of the core.
Magazines which devote a page to cooking usually have in their summer numbers pictures of salads from which suggestions in regard to arrangement may be taken.
Baking Powder Biscuit.—
| 2 cups flour |
| 4 teaspoons baking powder |
| 1 teaspoon salt |
| 3 tablespoons shortening |
| ¾ to 1 cup milk or milk and water. |
Sift the flour, baking powder and salt, twice. Put in the shortening, then add the milk gradually, mixing with a knife. The dough should be as soft as can be handled without sticking. Turn onto a lightly floured board, roll lightly 3/4 inch thick and cut with a floured cutter. Bake in a hot oven 12 or 15 minutes.