The Elm City cook book

Crumb six slices dry white bread, pour a little hot water on it, then pass it through a colander. Add a pint sour milk, two eggs, one teaspoonful soda, pinch salt, and a little four. Bake on a hot griddle. BUTTER MILK BATTER CAKES. One cup and half sour butter milk, one egg, one and half cups sifted flour, half teaspoonful soda, salt to taste. BUCKWHEAT CAKES. To one pint best buckwheat flour, allow half cake compressed yeast, dissolved in half cup warm water. Two tablespoonfuls flour, two of meal. With warm water mix this into a very stiff batter, and set to rise over night in a warm place. Next morning mix half of level teaspoonful soda in a cup of fresh milk, making the batter thin enough to use, add one tablespoonful molasses, salt to taste. TuHos, A. GREEN, care EK. H. Mrapows, Vice-President. H. M. Groves, Cashier. Se Ib aad OF NEW BERNE, N. DO A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. The Accounts of Banks, Bankers, Corporations, Farmers Merchants and others received on favorable terms ‘ms. Prompt and earefal attention given to the interest of our customers COLLECTION A SPECIALTY fa Board of Directors: Ferdinand Ulrich, E. H. Meadows, Charles Duffy, Jr., J. A. Meadows, Samuel W. Ipock, James Redmond, Chas. H. Fowler, E. W. Smallwood, Thomas A. Green, Mayer Hahn, Geo. N. Ives, C.K J. W. Grainger, }. Foy, W. F, Crockett. lin | nn NUTT Me Retailers of Fine Ching FOR Ladies % Misses. Agents for DREW, SELBY & CO’s SHOES Bk Oi Which are noted for Fine Quality and Long Wearing.7~ om QYK. BR. JONES, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in ChoicexFamily*Groceries AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE N. W. Corner South Front and Middle Streets CONSIGNMENTS OF Cotton, Grain and other Produce Solicited Prompt Attention Guaranteed. New Berne, N, C. PRICES TO FIT THE TIMES, AT BRADHAM’S PHARMACY. SALLY LUNN. One quart flour, half pint milk, three eggs well beaten, one generous tablespoonful butter, 4 cake compressed yeast dissolved in one cup warm water, one-half cup sugar. Put ina buttered dish and set to rise. Make this about dinner time, and it will be ready to bake for supper. CARE OF SPONGES. After the cake is all put together lift a spongeful of the mixture, and let it drop back into the bowl, if the surface of the batter immediately becomes smooth it is too thin, if you can see the circles make when it drops from the spoon for a few minutes it is just right. If the spoonful remains on top of the batter at all it is too stiff. Any cake with fruit must be stiffer than a plain cake. The thinner the dough can be made without falling the more moist the cake will be. In cooking a cake beware of too hot an oven to start with. Some cook books will tell you the exact number of minutes to bake your loaf, but don’t be misled, your minutes will vary with your style of oven and your kind of fire. Don’t always pin your faith to a brown splinter either. When your cake stops singing it is done every time. CHRISTMAS CAKE. Cream one pound butter, add one pound soft sugar, beat fourteen eggs very light, the yolks and whites separately. Sift, and warm one pound flour, add by handfuls to the sugar and butter, alternating the egg yolks and whites. Stir in one heaping teaspoonful each of ground mace and cinnamon, one cup molasses. Have ready two pounds of seeded, chopped raisins, two pounds currants, one of citron cut small, two pounds almond, blanched and pounded, one-half pound each candied orange and lemon peel, one glass of good brandy. Mix the fruit very lightly into the batter, and cook in moderate oven four hours. WHITE MOUNTAIN CAKE.