The Aunts' Cook Book

To 2 gallons of water add 2)^ pounds of powdered sugar, boil them ^ hour, and take oiF the scum as it rises, then pour it into a tub to cool, with the rinds of 2 lemons. When it is cold add 4 quarts of cowslip flowers to the liquor, with the juice of 2 lemons; let it stand in the tub two days, stirring every 2 or 3 hours, and then put it in the barrel and let it stand 3 weeks or a month. Then bottle it and put a lump of sugar into every bottle. This is a good wine against the consumptions or any inward complaints. UEB ADDITIONAL RECIPES ADDITIONAL REaPES ADDITIONAL RECIPES ADDITIONAL RECIPES ADDITIONAL RECIPES ADDITIONAL RECIPES ADDITIONAL REOPES ADDITIONAL RECIPES ADDITIONAL RECIPES ADDITIONAL RECIPES ADDITIONAL RECIPES ADDITIONAL RECIPES ADDITIONAL REaPES ADDITIONAL RECIPES ADDITIONAL RECIPES INDEX Page BREAD AND BUNS. S Buns (Grandmother Holden) 5 Bread (Aunt Robbie)_ 6 Blueberry Bread or Muffins (Aunt Virginia).- 10 Blueberry Muffins (Aunt Elizabeth)... 11 Bran Muffins (Aunt Gertrude) 11 Baking-powder Biscuits (Aunt Dell).-.. 12 Big Uncle Tom*s Potato Biscuits (Aunt Mattie) 13 Buckwheat Cakes (Aunt Robbie) 14 Corn Bread (Aunt Elinor) 8 Corn Bread (Aunt Robbie) 8 Coffee Cake (Aunt Virginia).-.. 13 Gluten Rolls (Aunt Virginia) 7 Graham Gems (Aunt Virginia)..— 9 Grandmother Davis*s Soda Biscuits (Aunt Mattie) .... 12 Griddle Cakes (Aunt Robbie).- 14 Huckleberry Muffins (Aunt Mattie) 10 India Spoon Bread (Aunt Mattie) 9 Muffins (Aunt Emery) .--.-; H Maryland Biscuits (Aunt Virginia) 12 Oatmeal Bread (Aunt Dell) 6 Parker House Rolls (Aunt Robbie).- 7 Popovers (Aunt Elizabeth).- 13 Quick Rolls (Aunt Elinor) 6 Sally Lunn (Auntie).— 7 Sally Lunn (Aunt Virginia) 8 Swedish Griddle Cakes (Aunt Emery) 14 Uncle Tom*s Huckleberry Muffins (Aunt Mattie) 10 Wheat Muffins (Aunt Virginia) 9 Waffles (Auntie) IS White War Bread (Aunt Robbie) .- IS • CAKES AND COOKIES... 109 Aunt Deborah's Cookies (Aunt Virginia).- 120 Chocolate Roll (Aunt Elinor) Ill Chocolate Layer Cake (Aunt Emery) Ill Cup Cakes (Aunt Elinor) 112 Chocolate Cookies (Aunt Elinor) 118 Cookies (Aunt Dell).- 119 Cookies with Nuts (Aunt Robbie) 120 Crullers (Aunt Virginia) 12 1 Page DeviFs Food (Aunt Elinor) 112 Doughnuts (Aunt Virginia) 121 Fruit Cake (Aunt Virginia) 116 Gingerbread (Aunt Robbie). 1 16 Gingerbread (Aunt Elinor) 117 Ginger Cookies (Aunt Elinor) 117 Telly Roll (Aunt Robbie) ._ 110 Maple Cake (Aunt Emery) 113 Orange Cake (Aunt Elinor) 114 Orange Cake (Aunt Dell) 114 Oat Meal Wafers (Aunt Elinor) 118 Oat Meal Macaroons (Aunt Gertrude) 120 Plain Layer Cake (Aunt Elinor) 112 Pound Cake (Aunt Virginia) 115 Sponge Cake (Aunt Elinor).. «.. 109 Sponge Cake — ^potato flour (Aunt Elinor) 110 Sponge Cake (Aunt Gertrude)... 110 Spice Cake (Aunt Virginia) 115 Spice Cake (Aunt Dell)._ 116 Sugar Cookies (Aunt Elinor) 119 Vanilla Wafers (Aunt Elinor) 117 White Cake, "Lady Cake" (Aunt Elinor) 113 Walnut Wafers (Aunt Virginia)... 119 DRINKABLES AND DELICATESSEN.^.. 141 Arthur's Fruit Lemonade (Grandmother Holden) 143 Blackberry Wine (Aunt Virginia) 142 Coffee (Aunt Robbie) 143 Coffee — ^without boiling (Aunt Robbie) 144 Cup (Aunt Robbie). 145 Delicious Drink (Aunt Virginia) 142 Egg Nogg (Auntie)..._ 141 Fruit Cup (Aunt Elinor) 141 Mint Julep (Auntie) 143 Mulled Claret (Aunt Robbie). 144 Punch (Aunt Virginia)... : 142 EGGS AND ENTREES 45 Baked Eggs (Aunt Robbie) 49 Cheese Souffle (Aunt Elizabeth) 45 Egg Timbales (Aunt Emery) 48 Eggs Benedict (Aunt Robbie) ^ 49 Egg and Tomato (Aunt Elinor) 49 Page Eggs a la Belle Otero (Aunt Dell) 49 French Rum Omelet (Aunt Elinor) 47 Plain Omelet (Aunt Elinor)._. 46 Scrambled Eggs (Aunt Robbie) 46 Spanish Scrambled Eggs (Aunt Elinor) 46 Souffle Omelet (Aunt Elinor) 47