The Twentieth Century Home Cook Book

Practical recipes and household wisdom from 1906 — when the icebox was high technology and dinner had nine courses.

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Fried Cakes

Take four cupfuls of white sugar, four of buttermilk, one of butter, two eggs, two teaspoonfuls of soda. Season with cinnamon, mix quite hard, roll half an inch thick, cut in rings. They will fry much nicer than when twisted. Griddle-Cakes. To one quart of flour add one teaspoonful of cream of tartar and one three-fourths full of soda, mix with sour or butter milk, and bake on a griddle; season to taste. Buttermilk cakes made the same way, adding two eggs, are ver

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