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.

Rolls

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

Currant Rolls

2 cupfuls sifted flour, 2 slightly rounded teaspoonfuls baking-powder, 1/2 teaspoonful salt, 1 rounded tablespoonful sugar; sift these…

Quick Rolls

Sift 1 pint flour, 1/2 teaspoonful salt, and 1 teaspoonful each of sugar and baking-powder together, rub 1/2 tablespoonful each of butter…

Sally Lunn

Warm 1/2 cupful of butter in 1 pint of milk; add 1 teaspoonful of salt, 1 tablespoonful of sugar, and 7 cupfuls of sifted flour; beat…

Rusk

1 pint of warm milk, 1/2 cupful of yeast or 1/2 cake of dried yeast. Mix sufficient flour to make a thick sponge; when light, work in 1…

Coffee-Bread

1 cake of compressed yeast soaked in 1/3 cupful of tepid milk. Sift and weigh 2 pounds of flour. Early in the morning make a small hole in…

Scotch Shortbread

2 pounds of flour, 1 pound of butter, 1/4 pound of sugar. Work the butter to a cream, add the sugar and stir in the flour, work them well…

Scotch Soda Scones

1 pound flour, 3/4 teaspoonful cream of tartar, 3/4 teaspoonful soda, 1/4 teaspoonful salt, 1/2 pint buttermilk. Rub all the lumps out of…

Breakfast Rolls

1 1/2 pints flour; 1/2 pint Indian corn meal (white); 1 teaspoonful salt; 2 teaspoonfuls baking-powder; 1 tablespoonful butter or lard; 3/4…

Parker House Rolls

Prepare firm dough by taking 1 quart of flour, 1 teaspoonful of salt, 2 teaspoonfuls of baking-powder, 1 tablespoonful of butter or lard…

Graham Rolls

1 pint Graham flour; 1 pint wheat flour; 1 teaspoonful salt; 2 teaspoonfuls baking-powder; 1 tablespoonful butter or lard; 3/4 pint milk…

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