The Twentieth Century Home Cook Book

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

Bread-Making

32 recipes in this part of 20th Century Cook Book.

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…

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