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The new Kentucky home cook book

1884

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Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Take one quart of flour, one egg not beaten, one cupful of sugar, a lump of butter the size of an egg. Mix with sweet milk to a soft dough (nearly one pintCoffee Bread), two tea-spoon- fuls of baking-powder. Divide into three quantities and put into jelly-pans. Score deeply; pour over this one cup- ful of melted butter; then mix one cupful of sugar and one paper of ground cinnamon together, and sprinkle over this. Bake. Mrs. G. T. Hunter. FEDERAL BREAD. Take three eggs, one table-spoonful of butter, one table- spoonful of lard, two tea-spoonfuls of cream of tartar, one tea-spoonful of soda, one quart of flour, sufficient buttermilk to wet it, two table-spoonfuls of sugar. Let it rise like light bread. Bake. ^Rs. D. B. Lacy, Owixgsville, Ky. SODA BISCUIT. Take one quart of flour, into which' mix one table-spoon- ful of lard and one-half tea-spoonful of salt. Then stir into one-half pint of buttermilk one-half tea-spoonful of soda. Mix this with the flour. Bake quickly. GRAHAM BISCUIT. Take one quart of Graham flour, one tea-cupful of sugar, sour cream enough to make a soft dough, one tea-spoonful soda, one table-spoonful of butterGraham Biscuit. Work sugar, butter, and flour together; then add cream, and work but little. Make into biscuits, and bake. Mrs. Joxes, Escuuapia Springs. 144 The New Kentucky Some Cook Book. BEEF-SUET BISCUIT. Take one quart of flour, oue tea-spoouful of suet chopped fine, one-half pint of buttermilk, and one-half tea-spoonful of sodaBeef-Suet Biscuit. Mrs. N. A. Glascock. BUTTERMILK BISCUIT. Take one quart of buttermilk, one tea-spoonful of soda, one table-spoonful of butter, flour enough to roll outButtermilk Biscuit. Mrs. Cary Hall. GRAHAM GEMS. Take one quart of unbolted flour, one pint of buttermilk, one egg, one tea-spoonful of soda, saltGraham Gems. Put the soda in the buttermilk, then add the egg. Stir in the flower very slow- ly until it becomes a smooth batter. Bake quickly in a hot oven. Mrs. Tabb. QUICK GRAHAM BREAD. Take one and one-half pint of sour milk, one-half coffee- cupful of molasses, one-half tea-spoonful of salt, two tea- spoonfuls of soda dissolved in a little hot water, as much Graham flour as can be stirred in with a spoonQuick Graham Bread. Pour into a well-greased pan, and put into the oven. Bake for two hours. Excellent. Mrs. W. S. Moores. GRAHAM PUFFS. Take one quart of buttermilk, two eggs, one tea-spoonful of salt, one tea-spoonful of soda, one table-spoonful of sugar, Graham flour to make a stiff batterGraham Puffs. Grease the muffin- irons, set on the stove until thoroughly heated ; pour in the batter and bake. Mrs. Moores, GRAHAM BISCUIT. Take one and one-half pint of Graham flour, two level table-spoonfuls of lard, one and one-half dessert-spoonful of baking-powder, three-fourths of a pint of sweet milk, salt. Mix as in baking-powder biscuits, and bake quickly. Do not sift Graham flour. Mrs. J. F. Robinson. The New Kentucky Home Cook Book. 143 RUSK. Take one coffee-cupful of lard and butter mixed, beat with one cupful of sugar, beat one egg with another cupful of sugar, one even tea-spoonful of soda, two tea-spoonfuls of salt, sifted with three pints of flour. Use two coffee-cupful^ of potato spongeRusk. Knead well; let rise, and knead again before putting into pans. Miss Phcebe Wood. RUSK.