Coffee Bread

Ingredients

• 34 cupful milk
• 1 cupful sugar
• Y% cupful melted Crisco
• 1 teaspoonful lemon extract
• 1% cake compressed yeast
• 1 teaspoonful salt
• 2 eggs
• About 7 pints flour

Method

1. 1

   Heat milk slightly, then add flour to make batter and yeast dissolved in little lukewarm water.

2. 2

   Allow to rise until light, then add Crisco, eggs well beaten, sugar, lemon, salt, and enough flour to make stiff dough.

3. 3

   Knead ten minutes and let rise until light.

4. 4

   Place in Criscoed pan and let rise again.

5. 5

   Spread with melted Crisco and sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon and nuts.

6. 6

   Bake in hot oven half an hour.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 14 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes (1913) by Marion Harris Neil, page 52. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Coffee Bread 34 cupful milk 1 cupful sugar Y% cupful melted Crisco 1 teaspoonful lemon extract 1% cake compressed yeast 14 cupful chopped English 1 teaspoonful salt walnut meats 2 eggs Flour _ Heat milk slightly, then add flour to make batter and yeast dissolved in little lukewarm water. Allow to rise until light, then add Crisco, eggs 99 Breads, etc. ; well beaten, sugar, lemon, salt, and enough flour to make stiff dough. Knead ten minutes and let rise until light. Place in Criscoed pan and let rise again. Spread with melted Crisco and sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon and nuts. Bake in hot oven half an hour. Sufficient for one large loaf. Columbia Muffins 3 tablespoonfuls sugar 1% cupfuls milk 3 tablespoonfuls Crisco 1 teaspoonful salt 1 egg 31% teaspoonfuls baking powder 3% cupfuls sifted flour Sift flour, salt, and baking powder together. Cream Crisco and sugar, add egg well beaten, then milk and flour mixture. Divide into Criscoed and floured gem pans and bake twenty-five minutes in hot oven. Sufficient for twenty muffins. Corn Bread 1 cupful cornmeal 1 cupful sour cream 2 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco 2 eggs 1 cupful flour Y% teaspoonful baking soda Y% cupful sugar ¥% teaspoonful salt Mix cornmeal with flour, sugar, salt, Crisco, eggs well beaten, and soda mixed with cream. Mx well and turn into Criscoed tin and bake in moderate oven thirty minutes. Sufficient for one small pan of corn bread. Cornmeal Rolls 1% cupfuls flour 1 tablespoonful sugar 2 tablespoonfuls Crisco Yteaspoonful salt 1 egg 34 cupful cornmeal Y% cupful milk 4 teaspoonfuls baking powder Sift together, flour, cornmeal, salt, baking powder, and sugar. Rub in Crisco with finger tips, then add egg well beaten and milk. Roll out, cut into rounds with a large cutter, brush over with melted Crisco, fold over as for Parkerhouse rolls, brush tops with beaten egg or milk and bake in hot oven ten minutes. Sufficient for fifteen rolls. Cream Scones 2 cupfuls flour Y teaspoonful salt 4 tablespoonfuls Crisco 2 eggs 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder % cupful cream 2 teaspoonfuls sugar 1 white of egg Mix and sift flour, salt, sugar, and baking powder. Rub in Crisco with finger tips, add eggs well beaten and cream. Knead dough lightly on floured baking board, divide into four equal pieces, make smooth and roll out, 100 Breads, etc. and cut into 4 small scones. Lay them on hot griddle, brush over with beaten white of egg and fry slowly on both sides. The dough should always be lightly handled. Sufficient for sixteen scones. Crisco Brownies \% cupful sugar 1 cupful flour 1% cupful Crisco 1 cupful chopped nut meats % cupful molasses % teaspoonful salt 2 eggs ¥% teaspoonful vanilla extract Cream Crisco and sugar together, add eggs well beaten, molasses, extract, flour, salt and nuts. Divide into small fancy Criscoed tins, or bake in Criscoed sheet tin and cut in squares. Bake in moderate oven half hour. These are a cross between cake and candy. Sufficient for twelve squares. Crisco Batter Cakes 3 eggs 1 cupful buttermilk ¥% cupful melted Crisco ¥% teaspoonful baking soda 1 cupful flour 1 teaspoonful baking powder Y% teaspoonful salt Beat up yolks of eggs, add milk, Crisco, and flour mixed with salt, soda, and baking powder and beat till smooth. Fold in whites beaten toa stiff froth. Drop in large spoonfuls on ungreased skillet or griddle. Serve hot with butter or maple syrup. Sufficient for fifteen cakes. Crisco Milk Bread 3 tablespoonfuls sugar 1 yeast cake 3 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco 1 quart milk 2 tablespoonfuls salt About 7 pints flour

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