Favorite recipes (North Carolina, 1948)

Dissolve yeast cake in warm water, dissolve Snowdrift and sugar in ae water; -cool and combine. Add well beaten eggs, flour and salt. Mrs. Alice A. Gill _ HUSH PUPPIES corn meal 1% cups sweet milk ons baking powder * % cup water ea oon salt 1 large onion cut fine corn } ‘meal, baking powder, and salt together. Add milk and and mix well. Add onion and make into balls the size of an egg are in deep fat. Mrs. P. D. Hutchison 2 HUSH PUPPIES corn meal 1 teaspoon baking powder fl 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons baking fat Mrs. Charles Menzies, Jr. SPOON BREAD Pour 1 pint boiling water over 1 pint corn meal. Add 1 teaspoon salt nd a heaping tablespoon butter. Stir well. When cool, add 3 well eaten eggs, 1 quart milk and 1 teaspoon baking powder. Bake at 350°. 3 Pr meres 12 people. Mrs. Alex Shuford BATTER BREAD 1 cup corn meal - 2 cups buttermilk teaspoon soda _ 2 eggs ablespoons shortening 1 teaspoon salt pa cup boiling water > 3. ai : . ‘ Seal corn meal with boiling water. Mix in other ingredients and > bake 30 miutes in oven 400 degrees. Mrs. Ernest A. Herman = SOUR MILK BUCKWHEAT CAKES 7 ses beaten very light 2 tablespoons molasses cups buttermilk or sour milk 1 tablespoon shortening melted spoon soda 1 cup old fashioned buckwheat x poon salt - flour & and fry on sightly greased griddle. Mrs. Wade H. Shuford ~ 4 ane: SWEDISH ROLLS Mix and sift 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoon salt, 33 teaspoons pakine powder, 1 tablespoon sugar and % teaspoon cinnamon. With the tips of the fingers work in 3 tablespoons butter. Beat 1 egg, add about 2 cup ric milk and then add to the flour mixture. If the dough is too stiff ad more milk. Toss onto a floured board, roll and pat out to about % inch thickness. Spread with 2 tablespoons butter sprinkled with % cup brown sugar, 2 teaspoons cinnamon and 3 cup raisins. Roll up like a jell twenty five minutes in moderate oven. Mrs. T. M. Johnston. COFFEE CAKE Add: 2 rounded tablespoons shortening % cup milk “ae 1 beaten egg 14 - 1% cup sifted cake flour wi % cup sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder Cream these together until light 4 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla Spread in large flat pan. Bake at 400 for 20 minutes. When done — cover with melted butter, brown sugar and cinnamon. Place under broiler and watch until sugar melts a bit. Mrs. Leslie Moody CINNAMON MUFFINS 2 cups flour 4 teaspoons cinnamon 2 cup butte 1 cup sugar 1 cup milk 1 2 teaspoons baking powder 2 eggs Mix and put in greased muffin rings and bake about 15 minutes in. hot oven. Mrs. Ernest A. Herman RUSSIAN ROLLS Cream 1 cup shortening and 6 tablespoons sugar and 2 tablespoons cream. Add 2 cups sifted flour with 1 teaspoon salt. Add 2 cups nuts and 1 teaspoon almond extract. Roll in balls about the size of a pecan and press with a fork. Bake at 325 degrees on greased cookie sheet. While still warm roll in confectioners sugar. Mrs. Wade H. Shuford © e SHOO-FLY CAKE Pennsylvania Dutch Recipe “4 1st part—Crumbs 2nd part—Liquid 2 . ee cups flour 1 cup baking molasses Pelt cup brown sugar 1 cup hot water cup shortening 1 teaspoon soda , Put soda in hot water _ Make crumbs by mixing with fork or fingers, flour, sugar, and short- 5%, ening. Save 4 crumbs. Then mix remainder of crumbs and liquid grad- Wee ually. Stir well. Batter will be thin. Pour into greased and floured cake pan and top with 3 cup crumbs. Bake in moderate oven (350 de- rees) for 25 to 30 minutes. Mrs. H. D. Althouse SHOO-FLY PIE ne ean recipe as above. Line pie pans with pastry and put in batter Mrs. H. D. Althouse STRAWBERRY MERINGUE CAKE egg yolks, beaten i 2 cups erie flour 4 teaspoons baking powder $ cup milk cup shortening % cup sugar easpoon vanilla 1 quart strawberries % cup sugar egg whites, stiffly beaten : cup sugar