Ebook - Recipes Tried And True (1894 Cookbook).txt

One quart of bread sponge, one coffee-cup white sugar, one teacup

butter, two eggs, one pint sweet milk, a little salt. Beat the sugar

and eggs well before adding the milk. Flour to knead well.

PARKER HOUSE ROLLS. MRS. CHARLES MOORE.

Rub one-half teaspoon of lard and one-half of butter into two quarts

of sifted flour. Into a well in the center of flour, one pint cold

boiled milk, and add one-half cup yeast or one cake dry yeast,

dissolved in one-half cup warm water, one-half cup sugar, and a little

salt. Set at one o'clock [ten p.m. for dinner next day?]; make up at

two o'clock, and put in pans at half past four for six o'clock tea.

Keep in warm place.

BAKING POWDER BISCUIT. MRS. H. T. VAN FLEET.

To one pint of flour, add two teaspoonfuls of baking powder; sift

together; add one heaping tablespoon of butter, and a pinch of salt.

Use enough sweet milk to make a very soft mixture. Work the butter

through the milk in the center of flour. Do not roll out on board, as

the mixture is too soft, but make out by hand as you would light

rolls. Avoid kneading. Bake in quick oven.

DELICIOUS TEA ROLLS. MRS. U. F. SEFFNER.

Two tablespoonfuls butter, two tablespoonfuls sugar, two eggs. Beat

the three articles all together; add a little salt, one cup sweet

milk, two cups flour, three teaspoonfuls baking powder. Grease a

large dripping pan with butter. Drop a tablespoonful in each place.

Bake twenty minutes.

GOOD MUFFINS (CHEAP AND EASY). MRS. E. FAIRFIELD.

One egg, one cup milk, one tablespoon sugar, one tablespoon butter,

two teacups flour, three teaspoons baking powder, one teaspoon salt.

Mix yolk of egg, butter, and sugar; add then the flour, baking powder,

and salt, sifted together; then white of egg, beaten well. Bake ten

minutes in quick oven. Much of the success in baking depends upon

having the iron muffin ring well heated on the top of stove before

putting the batter in them.

MUFFINS. MRS. W. C. BUTCHER.

Three eggs beaten separately, one-half cup of sugar, two-thirds cup of

butter, one pint of sweet milk, two heaping teaspoons of baking

powder; add flour to make it as thick as cake batter.

MUFFIN OR SHORTCAKE DOUGH. MRS. DR. McMURRAY.

Two pints of flour, three tablespoons of sugar, one tablespoon of

melted butter, one egg, one pint of sweet milk, three teaspoons of

baking powder. Bake in a quick oven in muffin rings, or drop the

dough from the end of your spoon as you do for drop cake. To be eaten

hot. Try with a broom splint, as cake. Enough for four or five large

persons.

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