1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Oat Cakes and Oat Bread. 
Will some one give recipe for making oat 
cake from rolled oats? M. f. k. 
If the inquirer means Scotch oat cake, 
rolled oats cannot be used, this being 
made from finely ground oatmeal. How¬ 
ever, there are several ways in which 
cooked rolled oats can be used very ac¬ 
ceptably, thus using up small portions of 
the cooked cereal 
Oatmeal Gems.—Separate two eggs; 
beat the yolks for a moment; add a half 
pint of milk, then one and one-half cup 
of bread flour, and beat thoroughly; add 
n tablespoonful of melted butter, a half 
teaspoonful of salt, one cup of left-over 
oatmeal porridge and one rounding tea¬ 
spoonful of baking powder. Beat for 
about two minutes. Fold in carefully the 
well-beaten whites of the eggs. Pour 
this mixture into 12 greased gem pans and 
bake in a moderately quick oven 20 min¬ 
utes. This recipe is from Mrs. Rorer's 
“Bread and Bread Making." 
Oatmeal Pone.—Add one cup of milk 
one cup of cold left-over oatmeal por¬ 
ridge. Add one saltspoon of salt and a 
scant cup of flour, into which has been 
sifted a teaspoon of baking powder. Pour 
into a greased baking pan and bake for 
30 minutes. Serve hot, cut into squares 
with a hot knife. 
Oatmeal Bread.—One cup of oatmeal 
cooked as for porridge, two tablespoonfuls 
sugar, one-third of a compressed yeast 
cake. If oatmeal was salted when cooked, 
add no salt; if not add a small teaspoon¬ 
ful. Cool the oatmeal till lukewarm, add 
sugar and yeast dissolved in a tablespoon¬ 
ful of water, then stir in wheat flour till 
stiff as can be stirred with a spoon; will 
take from a quart to three pints of flour, 
it depends on how wet the porridge is. 
Let rise till very light in the baking pan. 
Bake slowly about an hour and a quarter. 
This is best the day after it is baked. 
Oatmeal Wafers.—Add to one pint of 
cooked oatmeal a generous pinch of . salt, 
and enough whole wheat flour to make 
a dough. Roll into a thin sheet, cut into 
squares, and bake in a slow oven, so that 
they are crisp and dry when done. 
The genuine oat cake made by a Scotch 
relative consisted simply of the finely- 
ground oatmeal, to which a little salt was 
added, mixed to a stiff dough with water, 
and then rolled very thin. Sometimes 
they were baked on a dry griddle, and 
sometimes they were dried rather than 
baked by being tilted up on a pie tin in 
front of an open fire. It is a difficult 
matter to roll this crumbly dough thin 
and bake it without breaking, but the 
maker of these “girdle cakes’’ did it with 
the deftness of 60 years’ practice, and 
they were crisp, yet never hard. 
Scotch Scones.—Take two pounds of 
fine oatmeal, a tablespoonful of salt, a 
tablespoonful of lard and enough water to 
make a stiff dough. Rub the lard into the 
oatmeal and add the salt and water. In 
rolling the palm of the hand should be 
used instead of a rolling-pin. Press the 
dough into a round cake about a quarter 
of an inch thick, cut into segments and 
cook on a griddle over a slow fire until 
a light brown. Oatmeal scones properly 
prepared will keep for weeks. 
Scotch Oat Bread.—To two cups of 
steel-cut oatmeal, one teaspoonful soda 
and one teaspoonful salt, add two cups of 
boiling water; when cool add one cup of 
molasses and one cake of yeast. Stand 
over night. In the morning mix stiff 
with wheat flour. Shape into loaves, let 
rise and bake. 
Mrs. Rorer’s Brown Bread.—Mix thor¬ 
oughly one pint of Quaker oats, one pint 
of Pettijohn’s breakfast food, one cup 
of cornmeal and one cup of entire wheat 
flour. Add one teaspoonful of salt and 
one cup of molasses, in which one tea¬ 
spoonful of soda has been dissolved. 
Stir into this one pint of thick sour milk, 
turn into a greased tin, and steam three 
hours, then bake one hour in a moderate 
oven. 
The Rural Patterns. 
A jaunty little Eton jacket, like No. 
5098, is a favorite in two-piece suits for 
young girls. This one is so simple that 
it involves the least possible labor and 
skill in the making and at the same time 
is attractive. Illustrated it is made of 
taffeta with bands of the silk, cut bias and 
edged with tiny braid, as finish, and serves 
the purpose of a general wrap, but it also 
would be suited to the costume, to linen, 
*>098 Misses Eton Jacket, 12 to 16 yrs. 
to mohair and to all seasonable materials. 
The jacket consists of the front, back and 
sleeves and is fitted by means of shoulder 
and under-arm seams. The sleeves are 
loose and in elbow length. For a girl 
of 14 years will be required 2J4 yards of 
material 21, 2 yards 27, or % yards 44 
inches wide with 6 yards of banding to 
trim as illustrated. The pattern 5098 is 
cut in sizes for girls 12, 14 and 16 years; 
price 10 cents. 
Nothing that the season has brought 
has taken a firmer hold upon popular 
fancy than shepherd’s check and it never 
appears to better advantage than when 
combined with plain color as in the illus¬ 
tration. In No. 5092 the material is blue 
and white linen voile and the yoke and 
cuffs are of plain white linen. The dress 
is made with the waist and the skirt, the 
waist being gathered at both upper and 
lower edges and joined to the square yoke 
of the skirt ,while its sleeves are full and 
finished with the cuffs. The skirt is 
straight, gathered at its upper edge and 
joined to the circular yoke and the clos¬ 
ing is made at the back. The quantity 
of material required for the medium size 
(10 years) is 4*4 yards 27, 3^4 yards 32 
or 3 yards 44 inches wide with $4 yards 
27 inches wide for yokes and cuffs. The 
pattern 5092 is cut in sizes for girls of 
6, 8, 10 and 12 years; price 10 cents. 
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