Askov American

Mother's Cook Book
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil; men who are as easy as an old shoe are generally of as little worth.-Spurgeon.
FOOD WE LIKE
Where fresh clams in the shell are in the market, remove the clams without breaking the shells apart.
Wash the shells and clams.
Make a dressing of soaked bread crumbs, two eggs, a half teaspoonful of salt. butter to season and a little sage or poultry dressing If liked. Pack the clams in the dressing and push back into the shells, press them together and bake in a hot oven.
Horseradish Sauce.
This is very good served with fish.
Mix four tablespoonfuls of fresh grated horseradish, two tablespoonfuls of vinegar, one teaspoonful of salt, and a few grains of cayenne. Chill.
Just before serving fold in one cupful of whipped cream; less cream will be satisfactory.
Sweet Potato Biscuit.
Take two cupfuls of sifted flour, one teaspoonful of salt, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one cupful of mashed sweet potatoes, three tablespoonfuls of shortening. and milk to mix. Add the shortening to the flour in the usual way for pastry or biscuit. then add the mashed potato in the same way. Add milk to make of the consistency to roll, roll one-third inch thick, and cut into rounds. Bake fifteen minutes in a hot oven.
Sweet Potato Custard.
Beat three eggs, separating the yolks and whites, grate three cupfuls of sweet potato uncooked, measure one cupful of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of butter. one pint of milk, one-half teaspoonful of salt. Cream the butter and sugar. Add the egg yolk, potatoes milk, spices, salt and vanilla.
Put into a buttered baking dish, dot with bits of butter and bake covered for the first of the baking. Serve from the dish.
This will be good served with boiled ham.