Depression Era: Frugal Recipes

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HONEY CAKE

1 cup sour cream
1 cup honey
2 eggs

Mix well. Sift together 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon soda. Add to other ingredients, add 1 teaspoon vanilla. Mix well and bake in moderate oven until top springs back when lightly touched.

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ECONOMY PIE

2/3 cup vinegar 1 cup sugar
1 cup hot water 2 egg yolks
2 tablespoons corn starch Butter size of an egg

Mix vinegar, sugar, cornstarch and egg yolks until smooth, stir into boiling water. Stir constantly until it thickens. Pour into baked pie shell. Cool and top with meringue made with the 2 egg whites.
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MOCK ANGEL FOOD CAKE

1 cup scalded milk

Mix together 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, 3 level teaspoons baking
powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt and sift well. Stir into scalded milk. Fold
in 3 stiffly-beaten egg whites. Bake in small tube pan in 350 degree oven until done.
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CORN MEAL DUMPLINGS

Cost, 10 cents (November 1941) Serves 4 to 6 Woman's Day Kitchen
1 cup white corn meal
1 cup sifted flour
1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon lard
1 egg, grade B
1 cup buttermilk

Sift dry ingredients together into a bowl; work in lard with fork. Combine well-beaten egg and buttermilk. Add to dry ingredients mixing only enough to moisten flour. Do not mix until smooth. Drop by teaspoonfuls into gently boiling pot, broth, soup, or on top of turnip, mustard or collard greens. Cover, cook 20 minutes. Serve at once.
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SHAMPOO

Flake a bar of castile soap. Melt soap in one pint of boiling water, then cool. Put soap mixture into mixing bowl, and add one egg. Beat with rotary egg beater; put in jar. After it settles, it is ready to use. This shampoo will keep indefinitely.

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