Buckeye Cookery

Tried and approved: the great American housekeeping bible of 1880.

Breakfast And Tea Cakes:

5 recipes in this part of Buckeye Cookery.

Coffee Rolls

Work into a quart of bread dough a rounded table-spoon of butter, and a half tea-cup of white sugar; add some dried currants (well washed…

Dinner Or French Rolls

Make dough as directed in recipe for "Long Breakfast Rolls," make into balls as large as a medium-sized hen's egg, place on a well-floured…

Egg Rolls

Two tea-cups sweet milk, two eggs, a little salt, three and a half scant cups of sifted flour. Bake in hot gem-pans. -Mrs. L. S. W…

Every-Day Rolls

Take a piece of bread dough on baking day, when molded out the last time, about enough for a small loaf, spread out a little, addi one egg…

French Rolls

Peel six medium-sized mealy potatoes, boil in two quarts of water, press and drain both potatoes and water through a colander; when cool…

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