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Lillian Massey school recipes

1913

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Presented as published in 1913. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Rinse, hull and press strawberries. through a strainer; add the sugar and let stand until it is dissolved. Add cream, and freeze. ‘tial Cole Cote PEACH ICE CREAM. 3 c. thin cream. 3 tbsp. sugar. 13 canned peachesPeach Ice Cream. Make as Strawberry Ice Cream. CAKE PLAIN CAKE. 1 tbsp. butter. + tsp. baking powder. 3 tbsp. fruit sugar. 2 c. flour. OMe a 4 tsp. spice, 8 drops flavoring, 4 oz. 2 tbsp. milk. chocolate, or 1 tbsp. cocoPlain Cakea. Cream the butter, add the sugar gradually, then the beaten yolk of egg. Mix well, and add alternately the milk, and flour and baking powder sifted together. Add flavoring, then fold in beaten white of egg. Bake 25 minutes in a moderate oven. If chocolate is used, melt over hot water and add after yolk of egg. Spice or cocoa may be mixed and sifted with the flour. SPONGE CAKE. Yolk of 1 egg. Few gratings lemon rind. 1-6 -c. fruit sugar. 4 White of 1 egg. + tsp. lemon juice. 1-6 c. flour. SaltSponge Cake. Beat yolk until thick and lemon-colored, add sugar gradually, beating all the time. Add lemon juice, rind, and white of egg beaten until stift and dry. When white is partially mixed with yolk, carefully cut and fold in flour mixed and sifted with salt. Bake in an unbuttered pan, in a slow oven, for 4 hour. HOT WATER GINGERBREAD. / 1 tbsp. butter and lard. 4 tsp. soda. 2 tbsp. brown sugar. Salt. * 68g. 3 c. flour. 2 tbsp. molasses. i tsp. ginger. 2 tbsp. boiling waterHot Water Gingerbread. Cream butter and lard, add sugar, beaten egg and molasses; then mixed and sifted dry ingredients, and boiling water. Pour into a greased pan and bake in a slow oven 25 to 30 minutes. FRUIT CAKE. 14 oz. butter. oz. figs. 4 14 oz. brown sugar. ? oz. shelled almonds. 1 egg. 1 tsp. lemon juice 14 oz. flour. Grated lemon rind. # tsp. mixed spice. 2 tsp. cold coffee. 4% oz. raisins. 2 tsp. preserved fruit juice. 1+ oz. currants. 4 oz. citron peel. * oz. dates. + oz. lemon peelFruit Cake. Line the pan with three thicknesses of paper; butter the top layer only. Seed the raisins and tear in quarters; wash and dry the currants; stone the dates and cut them and the figs in small pieces. Blanch and chop the almonds; cut citron and lemon peel in thin slices and then in small pieces. Mix the fruit (except peel) and dredge with 3 tbsp. of the flour. Dredge 112 citron and lemon peel with flour. Mix and sift remaining flour with the spices. Cream the butter, add sugar, yolk of egg well beaten, then white of egg beaten stiff, lemon juice and rind; beat thoroughly. Add liquid and sifted flour alternately, beat well, then add fruit and nuts. Put a layer of the mixture into the pan, then a layer of the peel, repeat until pan is two-thirds full; have cake mixture for top layer. Bake in slow oven 2 to 3 hours. COOKIES. + tbsp. butter. 1 tsp. egg. 1 tbsp. sugar. 4 tsp. baking powder. z tsp. milk. 3 tbsp. flour. 4 drops vanillaCookies. Cream the butter, add sugar, milk, egg and flavoring, then the flour and baking powder mixed and sifted together. It should be a stiff dough; more flour may be required. Roll and cut into cookies, or drop from a teaspoon on a buttered sheet and pat into shape with a cup which has been dipped in flour. Bake in a moderate oven about 10 minutes. PEANUT COOKIES. ' tbsp. butter. + tsp. baking powder. 1 tbsp. sugar. Salt. 2 tsp. egg. 2 tsp. milk. 2 tbsp. flour. 2 tbsp. finely chopped peanuts. + tsp. lemon juicePeanut Cookies. Cream the butter, add sugar, egg, and mixed and sifted dry ingredients; then add milk, peanuts and lemon juice. Drop from a teaspoon on an unbuttered baking sheet one inch apart, and place one-half peanut on top of each. Bake in a slow oven 12 to 15 minutes. This recipe will make eight cookies. ROLLED ALMOND WAFERS. s tbsp. butter. 1$ tbsp. bread flour. 1 tbsp. fruit sugar. 5 drops vanilla. + tbsp. milk. Finely chopped almondsRolled Almond Wafers.