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Favorite Dishes in Famous Homes: Cream
Cream sugar and butter, add wellbeaten eggs, then milk. Sift spices and baking powder with enough flour to make a batter that will drop from a spoon, add mixture, stir in nuts and raisins, beat well, then drop by teaspoonfuls on a greased pan and bake in hot oven.
From Mrs. Henry B. Quinby, wife of Governor of New Hampshire.
Breakfast Gems. 3 eggs, 1 teaspoonful sugar, 1 coffeecupful sweet milk, 1 cupful warm water, 4 tablespoonfuls yeast, Flour enough to make a stiff batter.
Beat yolks of eggs and sugar, stir in milk, water, and yeast. Beat well and set in a warm place to rise. When light, beat whites of eggs to a stiff FAVORITE DISHES IN FAMOUS HOMES froth and stir into batter, with a pinch of salt. Bake in greased gem pans.
If wanted for breakfast, mix batter night before.
From Mrs. Edwin Lee Norris, wife of Govenor of Montana.
Molasses Pudding. 1 cupful molasses, 1 cupful butter, 1 cupful hot water, 1 teaspoonful soda, 3 cupfuls flour, 1 cupful raisins.
Cream butter, add molasses, then hot water; beat in flour with which soda has been sifted, stir in raisins, put in a greased mold, and steam three hours.
Sauce for Molasses Pudding. 1 cupful butter, 1 cupful sugar, 2 eggs.
Cream butter and sugar, then add thoroughly beaten eggs. Stir together, set over fire in cold water, let water come to boil, and serve sauce hot. A glass of sherry or brandy may be added, though we prefer it without.
From Mrs. W. M. O. Dawson, wife of Governor of West Virginia.
Chicken Pie.
Meat of 1 chicken cooked, 1 can mushrooms, 1½ pints potato balls parboiled, 6 hard-boiled eggs, 1 heaping tablespoonful minced parsley, 1½ pints cream dressing.
Cut chicken meat as for a salad, put in bottom of baking dish, cover with mushrooms, then with potato balls.
Season to taste. Sprinkle over it minced whites of eggs, then minced yolks. Scatter with minced parsley, and cover with dressing. On top put a cover of small biscuits as large as a finger ring. Bake three quarters of an hour.
From Mrs. F. M. Warner, wife of Governor of Michigan.
Pinafore Cake. 1 cupful sugar, cupful butter (scant), cupful milk (scant), 2 cupfuls flour, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, Whites 3 eggs.
Cream butter and sugar, add milk, flour sifted with baking powder, then whites of eggs whipped to a stiff froth, also 2 tablespoonfuls cold water and teaspoonful lemon flavoring. Put half of this mixture into a layercake pan; to what is left add 1 teaspoonful strawberry coloring. When both cakes are baked, put together with following filling: