How To Prepare: Rolls, Papaya Pineapple Candy, Baking Powder Biscuits, And Cooked Meringue
ROLLS
Ingredients:
6 cups flour
1 cup milk
3 tbsp sugar
4 tsp salt
1 cup cold water
2 yeast cakes
1 egg
6 tsp shortening
Procedure:
Sift flour and measure.Scald the milk in saucepan into large bowl.Pour in hot milk, stir until ingredients dissolve.Blend half of sifted flour, 3 cups, into mixture.
Add unbeaten egg.Beat butter until smooth.Add remaining flour.
Stir until well mixed.
PAPAYA PINEAPPLE CANDY
Ingredients:
6 cups crushed pineapple
6 cups crushed ripe papaya
4 1/3 cups sugar
Procedure:
Place in a copper vat the above ingredients.Cook, stirring continuously until thick and can be molded to candy in any desired form.Cool and wrap.
BAKING POWDER BISCUITS
Ingredients:
2 cups flour
3-4 tsps baking powder
1 tsp salt
5 tbsp fat
¾ 1 cup milk
Procedure:
Sift dry ingredients together twice.Work in fat with fingers or a fork, or cut in with 2 knives held back while working.Add milk, all at once, mixing until product cleaves from sides of bowl.Dough should be as soft as can be handled.Turn onto a lightly floured board, knead vigorously for 20 seconds.Shape into a ball.Pat or roll lightly into a sheet ½ to ¾ inches in thickness.Shape with a floured cutter.Place fairly close together on a floured pan.If crusty sides are desired, place farther apart.Bake in a hot oven (425-450 F.) 12 to 15 minutes.20 biscuits, 1 1/2” high, 2” in diameter.
COOKED MERINGUE
Ingredients:
4 tablespoons water
4 tablespoons egg white
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar
¾ teaspoon vanilla flavoring
1 teaspoon gelatin dissolved in 1 teaspoon water
Procedure:
Put water, egg whites, salt and sugar on top of double boiler and beat to blend ingredients.Soften gelatin in cold water.Cook egg white mixture over boiling water, beating constantly 3 or 4 minutes or until meringue piles into glossy peaks.Add softened gelatin and beat vigorously 1 minute.Remove from heat and place pan in cold water; beat until cool.Flavor and spread on pudding.