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Baking-Powder Breads: Calumet

Batter Bread. 2 eggs, 1 cupful cornmeal, 1 cupful milk, 1 tablespoonful butter, melted, cupful white flour, ½ teaspoonful salt, 1 teaspoonful Calumet baking powder.

Melt the butter over hot water; separate the eggs; beat the yolks 3 teaspoonfuls Calumet baking slightly; add the milk, butter, cornpowder, teaspoonful salt, 1½ cupfuls milk.

Sift the baking powder, salt, and flour together, rub in the butter with the tips of the fingers, then add the milk, and beat to a soft dough.

Grease a baking pan, lift a level tablespoonful of the dough and drop it into the pan, having each biscuit an inch apart, and bake in a hot oven. This is an excellent recipe to use when one is in a hurry and there is not time to make a biscuit which has to be rolled out and cut.

Flannel Cakes. 1 tablespoonful butter, 2 cupfuls milk, 2 eggs, meal, flour, and salt. Beat thoroughly, add the baking powder, beat again, and fold in, carefully, the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Bake in greased shallow bak. ing pan in a moderate oven thirtyfive minutes. Cut into squares, and serve warm.

Shortcake. 2 cupfuls flour, teaspoonful salt, 2 tablespoonfuls sugar, 2 teaspoonfuls Calumet baking powder, 4 tablespoonfuls butter, 1 cupful milk. 2 teaspoonfuls Calumet baking powder.

Sift together all the dry ingredients, rub in the butter with the tips of the fingers, then wet with the milk to a soft dough. Drop it on a floured baking board and, handling it just as little as possible, roll and 1 teaspoonful salt, MRS. CURTIS'S COOKBOOK pat into two round cakes, which will fill a deep pie plate. Drop in one cake of the dough, brush with melted butter, and lay the other one on top of it. Bake until crisp, brown, and puffy. Split and between the cake and on top spread any fruit which is in season. Strawberries, of course, make a most delicious shortcake. Besides this, peaches can be used, red raspberries, cherries, fresh apricots, oranges, or a blend of oranges and bananas, while shortcake filled with stewed prunes or well-seasoned apple sauce is not to be despised.

Chipped pineapple mixed with bananas and oranges makes a delicious filling. In every case, have it juicy by leaving the fruit covered with sugar to stand for an hour in a cool place before it is served.

Graham Biscuits. a 2 tablespoonfuls butter, 2 cupfuls Graham flour, 1 cupful white flour, 1 teaspoonful salt, 1 teaspoonful sugar, 3 teaspoonfuls Calumet baking powder, 2 cupfuls milk.

Mix thoroughly, and chop into the mixture 2 tablespoonfuls butter. Add the milk, and if the mixture is then too stiff to handle, add enough water to make it a soft dough. Turn upon a floured board, roll out and cut into biscuits, handling as little and as lightly as possible. Bake in a steady oven.

Waffles. 2 eggs, 1 cupful milk, 1½ cupfuls flour, 1 tablespoonful melted butter, teaspoonful salt, 2 teaspoonfuls Calumet baking powder.

Beat the yolks of the eggs light; add alternately, and beating in well, the milk and flour. When these ingredients are mixed, add the butter, baking powder, salt, and whipped whites of the eggs.

Sally Lunn. 2 tablespoonfuls butter, 2 cupfuls sweet milk, 3 eggs, 6 cupfuls flour, 3 teaspoonfuls Calumet baking powder, 1 teaspoonful salt, 1 tablespoonful sugar.

Warm the butter in the milk; pour over the eggs, beaten light; then stir in a little at a time, and beating continuously, the flour, with which has been sifted the baking powder, salt, and sugar. Turn into a greased cake mold, and bake in a steady oven.

Egg Biscuits. 3 cupfuls flour, 1 teaspoonful salt, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoonful lard, 1 cupful sweet milk, 1½ teaspoonfuls Calumet baking powder.

Sift the flour, add the salt, sugar, eggs (beaten well), lard, milk, and baking powder. Work to a smooth dough, roll half an inch thick, cut in large biscuits, rub over with sweet milk, lay on buttered tins, and bake brown in a quick oven.

Corn Cakes. 2 cupfuls cornmeal, 1 teaspoonful salt, 3 eggs, 1 cupful sweet milk, 1 teaspoonful Calumet baking powder.

Put the meal in a bowl, mix with salt, and pour over it enough boiling water to moisten the mass; cover for five minutes or an hour, as convenient. Beat the eggs separately, add a cup of sweet milk to the yolks, and pour over the scalded meal; mix well, add the baking powder and the beaten whites of the eggs. Grease a griddle with bacon drippings, and fry. Vienna Biscuits.

BAKING-POWDER BREADS 2 teaspoonfuls Calumet baking powder. teaspoonful salt, 4 cupfuls flour, 1 tablespoonful butter, 1 tablespoonful lard, 1½ cupfuls milk.

Sift the baking powder and salt with the flour; mix thoroughly with the butter and lard; wet with the milk; turn out on a floured bread board, and knead smooth; roll into a sheet half an inch thick, and cut with a biscuit cutter. Bake at once in a quick oven.