Coffee Bread (Alternate)

Ingredients

• one quart of sponge
• two eggs
• half cup butter
• one large cup of sugar
• one teaspoon of salt

Method

1. 1

   Add ingredients to sponge, knead well, and set to rise.

2. 2

   Mold into loaves and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 68. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two eggs into a pint of cold milk. Slice baker's bread, dip slices into the egg and milk and then lay in a skillet of hot lard and fry brown ; sprinkle a little cinnamon and sugar over them when taken out. Serve hot in a covered dish. Cream Toast. — Boil one quart milk ; stir in tablespoon butter, a little salt. When the milk comes to a boil stir in two table- spoons of flour mixed to a smooth paste with a little milk. Let boil a few minutes. Have ready toasted bread on a dish and pour boiling milk on it. Cover and send to table hot. Lemon Toast. — Take yolks of six eggs, beat well, add three cups sweet milk. Take baker's bread, not too stale, and cut in slices ; dip them into the milk and eggs and lay into a frying pan with sufficient melted butter to fry a delicate brown. Take the whites of six eggs, beat to a stiff froth, adding large cupful white sugar; add juice two lemons, heating well and adding two cupfuls boiling water. Serve over the toast as a sauce, and you will find it a delicious dish. Bread Sticks. — Common bread dough can be used for these by adding more shortening. Tear off pieces from the risen dough the size of a butternut; roll into sticks and lay in an oiled pan which comes for this purpose; bake fifteen minutes. HOW WE COOK IN TENNESSEE. 119 Tie three or four with baby ribbon, serving each guest with a bundle. Crowns. — Rub two tablespoons of butter into one quart of sifted Dainty flour, then add two teaspoons of baking powder, one of salt ; add just enough milk to make a soft dough easily handled ; roll out to half an inch thick ; cut into squares ; then fold the corners to the middle ; brush tops with milk ; bake in hot oven for twenty minutes. Serve hot or cold. Potato Puffs. — Three medium sized potatoes, boil and mash fine ; while hot add one large spoon lard and one of sugar and a little salt. When cold add one egg, one cup of milk with one cake of compressed yeast dissolved in it. Beat well, then mix enough flour to make a soft dough. Set to rise in a well greased bowl until quite light. When ready to bake sprinkle flour on biscuit board and roll out about half an inch thick, cut with biscuit cutter and turn half over the other in pocket- book shape. • Place well apart in greased pan. Let stand until they rise, then bake in quick oven. — Mrs. J. L. Nelson. Buns. — Take a piece of dough large enough to make one dozen rolls, put it in a bowl; add two eggs, half cup sugar, piece of butter size of egg. Work all together, add enough Dainty flour to make a smooth dough; roll out and cut into biscuits. Let them rise till light and bake. Will require longer to bake than plain rolls. Very good. — Mrs. E. J. Taylor. Sally Lunn. — Two eggs beaten very stiff, half cup sugar, half cup butter, one cup liquid yeast, one quart Dainty flour. Put to rise at 11 o'clock in summer; it will be to bake at tea time (salt). Put to rise in a well greased pan and when risen bake in the same. — Mrs. William Long, Sr. Dutch Toast. — Take a good round steak and scrape the meat off with a very sharp knife. Have ready your bread sliced as for toast, and butter it. Spread the meat on each piece of bread, adding salt, pepper and butter, and run it into the oven only 120 HOW WE COOK IN TENNESSEE. FOR FINE BISCUITS APPETIZING PASTRIES DELICIOUS CAKES ELEGANT LIGHT BREAD A Barrel of Satisfaction. HOW WE COOK IN TENNESSEE. 121 long enough to brown the bread. Very nice for luncheon. — Eleanor Freeman Lancaster. Sally Lunn. — Two eggs beaten very light, half cup sugar, one cup butter, one cup yeast, one quart flour. Put to rise at 11 o'clock and it will be ready for tea at 6 o'clock. Quick Sally Lunn. — One cup sugar, half cup butter ; stir well together two eggs, one pint sweet milk, three teaspoons baking powder in sufficient Dainty flour to make batter as stiff as cake batter. Bake quickly and butter while hot. Coffee Cake. — Take a piece of light dough, roll thin, put in a pan; sprinkle with cinnamon, sugar and butter and let rise, bake in moderate oven. It will take longer to bake than plain bread.— Mrs. E. J. Taylor. Coffee Bread. — Add to one quart of sponge, two eggs, half cup butter, one large cup of sugar, one teaspoon of salt

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