BEVERAGES

Cocoa

4 tablespoons cocoa powder
4 cups scalded milk
1/4 cup sugar                  
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup boiling water
Few grains salt

Process:  Scald milk (heat until just before it comes to the boil) in a heavy sauce-pan or double boiler. Mix cocoa, sugar and salt in sauce-pan.  Add sufficient  boiling water to make a smooth paste; stir constantly.  Then add remaining water, boil for one minute. Add to  scalded milk and beat for two or three minutes with a  Dover egg beater.  A foam will form on top, preventing the scum from rising, which is so unsightly.  This is called "milling".

4 cups scalded milk 
1 cup boiling water
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 squares Baker's chocolate 
Few grains salt

Boiled Coffee

1 cup medium ground coffee
1 cup cold water
2 tablespoons slightly beaten egg
6 cups boiling water 

Process:  Put the coffee in a bowl; beat egg slightly with a fork.  Add two tablespoons of the beaten egg to the coffee.  Add one half cup of cold water.  Mix well  and turn into an enameled lined coffee pot, previously scalded.  Add six cups boiling water; pack the spout of the coffee pot with soft paper, place on range and bring to boiling point.  Boil four minutes from the time coffee begins to boil.  Stir down and add remaining half cup of  cold water.  Pour off a cup to clean the spout of grounds return to coffee pot and place the latter over a simmer burner to keep hot but do not boil.  Let stand ten minutes. If for any reason the coffee must stand longer than that, strain it from the grounds and  keep it at a uniform temperature until ready to serve. Serve with hot cream. Change of temperature affects the coffee very materially.

Cafe au lait

Follow the recipe for Boiled Coffee, using three cups of boiling water and three cups scalded milk.

When the coffee is placed over simmer burner to ripen, scald the milk in a double boiler, then combine the two.  This is a most delicious beverage and serves the purpose well when cream is scarce.

Lemonade

2 cups sugar
3 thin shavings lemon peel 
1/2 cup hot water
2 quarts cold water 
Juice of six lemons 

Process: Put sugar in a sauce-pan, add hot water;  stir well. Place on range and bring to boiling point;  boil three minutes. Pour hot syrup over lemon peel,  being careful that all the white, bitter portion  has been removed from the latter. Let stand until  syrup is cold. Add the lemon juice and cold water; mix well. Let stand two hours in a covered vessel  then strain. Dilute with cracked ice.  A sprig of fresh mint is a soothing addition.

Sparkling  Strawberry Lemonade

Puree perfect, sweet berries, place about 3 tablespoons in the bottom of tall, pretty glasses.
Add about 1 or 2 teaspoons of superfine sugar to each glass.
Add about 1/4 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice to each glass.
Add ice cubes and fill each glass with  sparkling water.  Buy a good quality water not just club soda.
Serve with an ice tea spoon and a sprig of fresh mint in each glass.

Hot Perked Punch

Dee Hickman - 30 cups

9 cups pineapple juice  
9 cups cranberry juice
4 1/2 cups water 
1 cup brown sugar
4 or 5 cinnamon sticks
3 or 4 whole cloves
1 teaspoon salt

Process:  Mix all ingredients together thoroughly. Perk in 30 cup coffee maker; or enamelware coffee  pot for 10 minutes.  Serve hot with a stick of  cinnamon to stir.

Comfort Food_

All recipes offered here were collected from various sources. All have been tested in our family's kitchens over the past 90 years or so. We offer them, not as health food, but as healthy food. Good for body and sou..