FoodNet

A laboratory manual of foods and cookery

1916

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Presented as published in 1916. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Corn Meal Gems Ingredients : i c. sweet milk | c. molasses 3 tbsp. sour cream i tsp. soda i c. corn meal i c. wheat flour \ tsp. salt Method : Mix and sift the dry ingredients. Add the liquids and mix thoroughly. Turn into greased muflin tins, and bake in a moderate oven 12 minutes. Graham Pudding Ingredients : 1 c. buttermilk or i c. molasses sour milk i c. raisins 2 c. graham flour i tsp. soda i tsp. cinnamon \ tsp. salt Method : Mix the cinnamon, salt, and soda well with the graham flour. Add the liquid ingredients and the raisins. Mix thoroughly and turn into a buttered mold and allow it to steam three hours, or turn into individual molds and steam 45 minutes. Plum Pudding Ingredients : 3 c. chopped suet i c. sour milk i c. molasses 2 eggs i c. sugar i tsp. nutmeg i Ib. raisins i tbsp. cinnamon i Ib. currants \ tsp. ginger \ Ib. citron i tsp. cloves i tsp. soda \ tsp. mace i c. bread crumbs FLOUR MIXTURES USING SOUR MILK 245 Method : Wash and prepare the currants and raisins. Put through the meat grinder with the citron. Mix the finely chopped suet with the bread crumbs and thoroughly mix the spices, salt, and soda all through. Add this to the first mixture, add the molasses and sour milk and lastly the eggs slightly beaten. Turn into buttered molds and steam five hours. Dried Apple Cake Ingredients : i c. dried apples (soaked over- i egg night) 3^ c. flour i c. molasses i tsp. soda \ c. butter i c. sugar i c. buttermilk i tsp. cloves i tsp. cinnamon i tsp. nutmeg Method : Cook the molasses and dried apples until thick. Allow the mix- ture to cool. Cream the butter, add the sugar and egg slightly beaten. Mix and sift the dry ingredients. Add the milk and dry ingredients alternately to the egg mixture. Lastly add the molasses and apple. Mix thoroughly. Turn into a prepared pan and bake 30 minutes in a moderate oven. Fruit Cake without Eggs Ingredients : 1 c. sugar i c. sour milk 4 tbsp. butter i c. raisins 2 c. flour i tsp. soda \ tsp. salt i tsp. cinnamon \ tsp. cloves Method : Cream the butter, add the sugar and stir until the mixture is light- colored. Mix and sift the dry ingredients and add alternately to the first mixture. .Add the raisins and bake in a moderate oven 30 minutes. 246 LABORATORY MANUAL OF FOODS AND COOKERY Spice Cake I Ingredients : \ c. butter \ c. sour milk \ c. sugar 2 c. flour \ c. molasses i tsp. soda 1 egg \ tsp. cloves \ c. raisins \ tsp. cinnamon Method : Follow general directions for cake mixtures. Bake in very moder- ate oven 45 minutes. Spice Cake II Ingredients : f c. butter i c. buttermilk 2 c. brown sugar 2 tsp. soda 3 eggs 2 c. flour i tsp. cinnamon i tsp. cloves 1 tsp. allspice i tsp. nutmeg Method : Follow general directions for cake mixture. Bake as a loaf cake 40 minutes, or as a layer cake 30 minutes. Sugar Cookies Ingredients : 2 c. sugar i c. sour cream 2 eggs 2 tsp. soda i c. butter i tsp. cream of tartar flour to make a stiff dough Method : Follow general directions for cooky mixtures. Molasses Cookies I Ingredients : i egg i c. shortening 1 c. sugar i c. buttermilk 2 c. molasses i tsp. soda i tsp. ginger i tsp. cinnamon flour to make a stiff dough Method : Follow general directions for cooky mixtures. FLOUR MIXTURES USING SOUR MILK 247 Molasses Cookies II Ingredients : ✪ Soft Gingerbread