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Ransom's family receipt book, 1886

1886

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Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Graham flour, half a cupful of sugar, and a teaspoonful of salt. Into a sieve put half a pint of flour, a teaspoonful of saleratus and two of cream of tartar; mix thoroughly with the flour, and sift on to the material in the bowl. Mix all thoroughly while dry, and add two well-beaten eggs and a pint of milk. Fill muffin cups about two-thirds to the top, and bake in a quick oven, llOMINT DMOP«CAKES. — One pint of fresh boiled hominy ■®-®. (or, cold hominy may be used; if the latter, break into grains, as lightly as possible, with a fork, and heat in a farina kettle without adding water), one tablespoonful of water, two eggsMuffins — whites and yolks beaten separately. Stir the yolks into the hominy first, then the whites, and a teaspoonful of salt, if the hominy has not been salted in cooking; or, if it has, use half a teaspoonful. Drop, in tablespoonfuls, on well-buttered tin sheets, and baketoagood brown in a quick oven. ’X® AX@XvO 'WAF3F'JE3S®.-One pint of milk, one pint and a half of flour, an egg, a teaspoonful of salt, one-fourth of a yeast cake, or one- fourth of a cupful of liquid yeast. Dissolve the yeast in two tablespoonfuls of cold water. Have the milk blood warm, and add to it the yeast, salt and the egg, well beaten. Stir gradually into the flour. Cover and let it rise four hours. Cook as usual. CILYER CAKE> — One cupful of sugar, half a cupful of butter, the whites of three eggs, half a cupful of corn-starch, dissolved in nearly half a cupful of milk; one and a fourth cupfuls of flour, half a teaspoonful of cream of tartar, one-fourth of a teaspoonful of soda, and vanilla or almond flavorCilyer Cake. Beat the butter to a cream, arid gradually beat in the sugar. Add the flavor. Mix the flour, cream of tartar and soda together, and sift. Beat the whites to a stiff froth. Add the corn-starch and milk to the beaten sugar and butter; then add the whites of the eggs and the flour; mix quickly and thoroughly. Have the batter in sheets, and about two inches deep. Bake in a moderate oven for about half an hour. A chocolate frosting is nice with this cake. Our Medicines are as good as our Receipts.” (11) RHEUMATISM. Wbat is it, and Siow can it i»e cured? HOW MANY poor afflicted beings have lived through years in hourly agony from Chronic Rheumatism, their muscles contracted, joints swollen, bodies distorted, even features twisted out of all recognition, until what was before a splendid specimen of manly vigor, or "womanly beauty becomes a repulsive deformity! How many, suffering from. Acute or Inflammatory Rheumatism, have lain for days and weeks scarcely able to move a linjh, their nights sleepless except for opium, their days full of almost unendur¬ able torture, almost praying for death as their only relief ! OF ALL DISEASES which the human flesh is heir to, the most widely spread, at the same time one of the most lingering, painful, and least under¬ stood, is Rheumatism Therefore, from it physicians reap their richest harvests.