Consolidated Library of Modern Cooking and Household Recipes

Christine Terhune Herrick's 1905 subscription set, Books Three and Four complete - soup stock to cheese straws, with the famous chefs of the United States listed on the title page.

Bread and Cakes

9 recipes in this part of Consolidated Library of Modern Cooking and Household Recipes.

Pulled Bread

Take the crust off a newly baked loaf while it is still warm. Pull it lightly and quickly with the fingers of both hands into rough pieces…

Unfermented Bread

Fermented bread is sometimes considered unwholesome. Those who are of this opinion may make their bread as follows: Mix 1 ounce of…

Whole-Wheat Bread

Dissolve a cake of yeast in a cupful of warm water. Measure out 2 cupfuls of milk, and pour onto this 2 cupfuls of boiling water. Add to…

Graham Bread

This is made the same as white bread. Set the sponge in the same way and treat in the morning by working into a cupful of salted…

Virginia Corn Bread

Take 1 pint of hot corn-meal mush; 1 tablespoonful of melted butter or lard; 2 eggs beaten separately; 1 cupful of raw oysters (drained)…

Plain Corn Bread

1 egg well beaten, 2 cupfuls of sour milk, 1 even teaspoonful of soda, corn meal enough to make a thick batter, and 2 tablespoonfuls of…

Boston Brown Bread

Beat together thoroughly 2 cupfuls New Orleans molasses, 2 cupfuls sweet milk, 1 cupful sour milk. Add to this 1 heaping cupful each of…

Rye Bread

Dissolve into a quarter-cup of lukewarm milk a half cake of yeast. Add a pint of luke-warm water after pouring it into a wooden bowl. Also…

Bread-Sticks

Dissolve 1 cake of yeast in 1/2 cupful lukewarm water. Put in bread-pan 1 cupful milk, 1 cupful boiling water, and 1 cupful warm water. The…

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