Bread-Making
Potato Yeast
Take five or six potatoes; grate fine. Then add two tablespoonfuls of sugar and one of salt. Take one quart of water and a handful of hops…
Salt Hop Yeast
Put a gallon of cold water on the fire; let it come to a boil, and then put into it eight good potatoes and boil until well done, when they…
Bread Without Yeast-Salt-Rising
In the morning set a sponge in a pitcher, by taking one teaspoonful of sugar, two-thirds teaspoon of salt, one-half as much saleratus, and…
Kneading-Pan
serve either warm or cold. It is good toasted, as an accompaniment to vegetables at dinner, and may be used with butter, soup, or the gravy…
Potato Bread
Take six good-sized potatoes, boil and mash very fine. Add three pints of boiling water. Stir flour in till it makes a stiff batter. When…
Corn and Rice Bread
Take one pint of well-boiled rice, one pint of cornmeal, one ounce of butter, two eggs, one pint of sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls of baking…
Kentucky Corn Bread
To one and a half pints of corn-meal, use a pint of buttermilk, one egg, a small teaspoonful of soda, one of salt, and one tablespoonful of…
Corn Pone
Mix thoroughly five teacupfuls of corn-meal, two of Graham flour, one of New Orleans molasses, and two teaspoonfuls of soda with one quart…
Corn Dodger
Take a scant quart of meal, one teaspoonful of soda, half as much salt, and a pint of buttermilk; mix well and bake in a moderately heated…
Western Corn Bread
Take one pint of meal, pour boiling water on it, and stir until it is about as thick as griddle-cakes. Add one small tablespoonful of salt…
Corn-Cake Pans
when light so it fills the basin, bake in a moderate oven two hours.
Buttermilk Bread
Take one quart of buttermilk, set it over the fire until it is scalded (but not boiling), then stir in flour enough to make it thick as for…
Steamed Corn Bread
One and a half cups of sweet milk, a tablespoonful of molasses, half a teaspoonful of soda, and a pinch of salt. Make a thick batter of…
Breakfast Biscuit
Take a piece of risen bread dough, and work into it one beaten egg and a teaspoonful of butter; when all is thoroughly worked together…
Thin Biscuits, or Notions
Take one pint of flour, and make into dough as soft as can be rolled, with sweet milk, a saltspoonful of salt, and two ounces of butter…
Raised Biscuit
One pint of milk, one egg, one gill of butter, half-pint, or iess, of sugar, two potatoes baked quite dry and mashed through a colander…
Breakfast Puffs
Take two eggs well beaten, and stir into a pint of milk, a little salt, a piece of butter, and a pint and a half of flour. Beat the eggs…
Bread Cake
Three cups of dough, very light; three cups of sugar, one cup of butter, three eggs, a nutmeg, raisins, one teaspoonful of pearlash…
Graham Gems
Take one quart of sweet milk. Stir in Graham flour until the batter is a little thicker than for griddle-cakes. Add salt. Bake in gem-pans…
Coffee Bread
Take two teacups of hop-yeast dough, and add two eggs well beaten up, three tablespoonfuls of sugar, two of butter. Mix them well. Roll out…
Split Rolls
One egg well beaten; one tablespoonful of sugar; one yeast-cake dissolved in a cup of warm milk; two teaspoonfuls of salt; flour enough to…
Cinnamon Rolls
Take some of the dough you make bread of. Work in shortening and sugar. Then make a paste of butter, sugar and cinnamon. Roll your dough…
Pastry And Puddings (I DIGESTIBLE PASTRY II PIES)
I. DIGESTIBLE PASTRY. - II. PIES FOR DYSPEPTICS. III. MINCE PIES. IV. RHUBARB PIE.-V.
SOME EVERY-DAY PIES
VI. TARTS AND TART CRUSTS. - VII. FRUIT SHORT-CAKE. - VIII. PUD-
OATMEAL PUDDING OR PORRIDGE
XII. FOUR PUDDINGS OF POTATOES. - XIII. BROWN BETTY. -XIV. SOME GOOD PUDDINGS. - XV. DUMPLINGS. - XVI. A HEN'S NEST AND THE SAUCE.— XVII…
INE Puff Paste
To make fine puff paste take one pound of flour, half a pound of butter and half a pound of lard. Cut the hard butter and lard in thin…
Plain Paste
This may be made with rather less butter and lard than the above. Mix all together, roll out into thin sheets and fold over and over into a…
German Puff Paste
Take one pound of butter and one of flour. Mix the butter into one-half of the flour, using a knife; mix the remainder of the flour with…
Pumpkin Pie
Stew, sift, add as much boiling milk as will make it about onethird thicker than for common pumpkin pie; sweeten with sugar or molasses…
Cranberry Pie
Stew the cranberries, strain through a sieve, add sugar; bake on under crust. Apple Pie. This is made in the same way as cranberry pie…
Pies with Cider
Three pounds of good beef, lean and fat together; nine quarts of green apples quartered; three pounds of good raisins; nine cups of good…
Pies without Cider
Take four pounds of boiled lean beef; one-half pound suet; four ounces cinnamon; two ounces mace or nutmeg; one ounce cloves; four pounds…