Colonial Bread (Whole Wheat)

Ingredients

• 2 cups whole wheat flour
• 1.5 cups sweet milk
• 4.5 teaspoons CALUMET Baking Powder
• 1 cup white flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup broken walnut or pecan meats
• 2 tablespoons sugar

Method

1. 1

   Sift the dry materials, add the milk, and mix with a knife.

2. 2

   Add the nut meats.

3. 3

   Place in well-greased bread pans.

4. 4

   Let stand fifteen minutes.

5. 5

   Bake in moderate oven for one hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Twenty lessons in domestic science (1916) by Marian Cole Fisher, page 19. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

% teaspoons CALUMET Baking Powder Preparation : Sift the dry ingredients together. Beat the egg, stir in the milk and pour into the other ingredients. Add the melted shorten- ing and mix thoroughly by cutting batter back and forth. Pour into baking pan, brush the top with melted shortening and bake in moderate oven twenty-five minutes. This recipe will make six large corn meal muffins or corn bread sufficient for three or four people. Waffles f 2 cups flour \Vz cups milk 1 tablespoon . sugar Yz teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon oil "2 teaspoons CALUMET Baking 2 eggs Powder Preparation: Separate the eggs, placing the whites in a quart bowl, beat very stiff with rotary beater, then add the yolks and beat again. Then add the other materials, and mix well, using the rotary beater as it makes the batter smooth. Cook in well-greased hot waffle irons, allow- ing about a tablespoonful to each section of the iron. Dust with powdered sugar and serve hot. Colonial Bread (Whole Wheat) 2 cups whole wheat flour 1% cups sweet milk 4% teaspoons CALUMET Baking 1 cup white flour Powder 1 teaspoon salt % cup broken walnut or pecan <2 tablespoons eugar meats Preparation: Sift the dry materials, add the milk and mix with a 40 All measures level unless otherwise specified. Domestic Science LESSON No. 2 Carbohydrates knife. Add the nut meats. Place in well-greased bread pans. Let stand fifteen minutes. Bake in moderate oven one hour. When in the oven about one-half hour, turn the pan. Currants, raisins or dates may be substituted for nut meats. Buttermilk Biscuit 2 cups bread flour 1 cup buttermilk 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon CALUMET Baking % teaspoon soda Powder 3 tablespoons shortening Preparation : Sift the flour with the baking powder, soda and salt. Mix in shortening with a fork or spatula. If the buttermilk is not very sour use proportionately less soda. Stir in the milk and do not touch the dough with the hands until turned onto the floured board. Roll it about one-half inch thick and cut with a medium size biscuit cutter. Brush the tops with melted shortening and bake in moderate oven about twelve to fifteen minutes. This recipe will make twenty-four small or eighteen medium biscuits. Dainty Muffins 3 cups flour 4 teaspoons CALUMET Baking 1 teaspoon salt Powder 4 tablespoons melted shortening 2 .tablespoons sugar 1 egg 1%'cups milk Preparation : Sift the dry materials, add the milk, into which the egg beaten slightly is added, then the melted shortening.. Mix thoroughly and quickly, cutting the dough back and forth. Drop into deep gem pans. Brush the tops with melted shortening and bake twenty-five minutes. Half of this recipe may be dropped as usual into the gem pans and set away in a cool place to bake the next morning or for a later meal. This recipe makes one dozen muffins. Raisins may be added and in season one cup of blueberries will add greatly to the muffins. Bran Bread The following recipe for a health bread was prescribed by a physi- cian for a patient of sedentary habit. As a choice between bran and drugs, the bran is perhaps the better of the two. 3 cups whole wheat flour 1 cup bran 3 tablespoons New Orleans Pinch of salt molasses 1 teaspoon CALUMET Baking 1 teaspoon soda Powder Buttermilk to make soft dough Preparation : Stir all of the ingredients together. Bake about forty- five minutes in a moderately hot oven. This is usually baked in a Buster 41 All measures level unless otherwise specified. Domestic Science LESSON No. 2 Carbohydrates Brown tin or in a tea or coffee (Jan, that will leave little of the surface exposed to crust over. I would prefer to make this entirely of unsifted graham flour, as the amount of bran would be about the same. Twin Biscuit % cups flour '% cup milk, more or less 3 teaspoons CALUMET Baking 1 teaspoon salt Powder 4 tablespoons lard or butterine Preparation: Sift the flour, CALUMET and salt three or four times. Work in the shortening with a spatula or fork. Then make a soft dough with the milk. Roll out half an inch thick. Brush generously with some melted shortening. Fold over and run the rolling pin over the dough or pat lightly together. Cut out with a fluted cooky cutter. Brush tops with milfir^ Bake ten minutes in medium hot oven. These may be prepared some hours before baking, placed in the pans and kept in cool place until ready to take places at the table when they may be put into the oven. In this way the biscuit may be served piping hot after the first course is disposed of. Twin biscuit are just the thing for individual strawberry short cakes, also for serving with chicken fricassee, family style. Dutch Apple Bread (American Style) 2 cups flour Cinnamon and sugar 1 egg 1 cup milk 3 teaspoons CALUMET Baking" 1 teaspoon salt Powder 2 tablespoons sugar

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