Cornbread

Ingredients

• 1 cupful cornmeal
• 1 cupful sour milk
• 1 cupful flour
• 1 tablespoonful butter
• 4 tablespoonfuls sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/4 teaspoonful salt
• 1 teaspoonful soda

Method

1. 1

   Sift the soda and flour together and mix with the dry ingredients.

2. 2

   Beat egg and add it to the sour milk and the melted butter.

3. 3

   Beat in the dry ingredients, pour into an oiled tin and bake in a hot oven about 25 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The farm cook & rule book (1923) by Nell Beaubien Nichols, page 12. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 teaspoonful salt 3 cupfuls buttermilk 3 tablespoonfuls fat 1% teaspoonfuls soda Sift the meal, add the salt and melted shortening. Beat the eggs thoroughly and then add the buttermilk. Dissolve the soda in a little water and add it. Pour into hot, well greased muffin or gem pans and bake in a hot oven. Baking Powder Biscuits 2 cupfuls flour % to 1 cupful milk % teaspoonful salt 4 teaspoonfuls baking powder 2 tablespoonfuls fat Sift the dry ingredients together and work in the fat with the tips of the fingers. Gradually add the milk, mixing it in with a knife. The dough should be as soft as can be handled with- out sticking. Turn on to a lightly floured board, roll lightly % inch thick and cut with a floured cutter. Bake in a hot oven from 12 to 15 minutes. 26 THE FARM COOK AND RULE BOOK Parisian Biscuits Use the ingredients for Baking Powder Biscuits, only add an additional tablespoonful of fat and I/2 cupful of chopped raisins. Mix the raisins with a little of the flour and work them into the biscuit dough the last thing before rolling it. Roll about I/2 i^ich in thickness and cut or drop by spoonfuls into a pan. Brush the top with milk and bake. Cheese Biscuits Use the Baking Powder Biscuit dough, only add 1 well beaten egg to it. Roll out, cut biscuits and sprinkle one-half of these with grated cheese. Cover with other biscuits and bake in a quick oven. Quick Coffee Cake Use the Baking Powder Biscuit dough, adding 1 extra table- spoonful of fat to it. Place the dough in a pan; a round one about 4 inches deep is desirable. Spread a mixture made by combining 1 tablespoonful of butter, 1 tablespoonful of flour, 1 tablespoonful of sugar and l^ teaspoonful of cinnamon on top. Bake in a hot oven. Fancy Biscuits Add 2 tablespoonfuls of fat to the Baking Powder Biscuit mixture, roll out and cut in tiny circles. Place 3 raisins or 1 nut meat on top of every circle and brush the tops with melted butter. Bake in a hot oven. Pinwheels Use the same ingredients as for Baking Powder Biscuits, only add 1 tablespoonful of fat, making 3 in all. Roll the dough about 1/2 inch thick. Sprinkle it with 2 tablespoonfuls of sugar mixed with 1/2 teaspoonful of cinnamon. Dot with butter and then distribute 1/2 cupful of chopped raisins and 1 tablespoonful of citron evenly over the top. Roll like a jelly roll, cut off 1/2 inch slices and place them, the cut side down, in a greased pan. Bake 15 minutes in a hot oven. QUICK BREADS 27 Jam Rolls Add 1 tablespoonful of fat to the Baking Powder Biscuit dough, roll 14 i^ch thick and spread with strawberry, raspberry or blackberry jam. Eoll like a jelly roll, cut off i/^ inch slices and place cut side down in a greased pan. Bake in a hot oven. Serve with a pudding sauce. Fruit Dumplings Make biscuit dough, using 3 tablespoonfuls of fat. Cut rather large biscuits and in the center of them place well cooked dried fruit or canned fruit and sprinkle with a little sugar and a dash of spice. Bring the edges of the biscuit together with a twist, covering the fruit. Bake in a hot oven and serve with a sauce made from sweetened fruit juice thickened with a little corn- starch. Steamed Dumplings Roll out biscuit dough, cut in six parts and pat every one into a square. Place a small pared and cored apple in the center of every piece, sprinkle with brown sugar and a dash of nutmeg and fold the corners of the dough about it, pressing them to- gether tightly. Steam 45 minutes and serve hot with a pudding sauce. Meat Pie Covering Use a biscuit dough made with 4 tablespoonfuls of fat instead of the 2. Dumplings Omit the fat in the recipe for Baking Powder Biscuits and use either milk or chicken broth for the liquid. Meat stock may be used instead of the chicken broth. Biscuit Pies Cover the bottom of a casserole with dried fruit, cooked and seasoned with spices. The fruit should be sweetened to taste. Cover with a layer of Baking Powder Biscuit dough and bake in 28 THE FARM COOK AND RULE BOOK a hot oven. Serve with a pudding sauce which may be made from the fruit juice, thickening it with cornstarch or flour. Hot Cross Buns 2% cupfuls flour 1 egg 4 teaspoonfuls baking powder 4 tablespoonfuls lard % teaspoonful salt % cupful raisins 2 tablespoonfuls sugar milk Sift together 2 cupfuls of the flour, ths baking powder, salt and sugar. Work in the lard with the tips of the fingers. Break the egg into a cup and beat it until light with a fork. Fill the cup with sweet milk and pour this on the flour mixture. Mix thoroughly, add the raisins which have been stirred into the % cupful of flour, turn on a floured board, roll I/2 iiich thick and cut in circles. Place in an oiled pan and bake. When almost baked, brush the tops with slightly beaten egg white. When the buns are cool, make a frosting by beating powdered sugar into the white of 1 egg, adding sufficient sugar to make a frosting of the right consistency to spread. Either top these buns with the frosting or make a cross of it on top of every one. To make the cross, a piece of stiff paper may be rolled to form a cone and this is filled half-full with the frosting which is pressed out at the small end. Scones 1 cupful flour 1 teaspoonful salt 3 cupfuls oatmeal 2 cupfuls milk 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 2 tablespoonfuls butter 1 tablespoonful sugar Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt; add the oat- meal. Heat the milk to the boiling point and add the butter and sugar to it. Make a hollow in the sifted flour and add the milk gradually. Turn out on a floured board, roll into a thin sheet, cut with a biscuit cutter and bake on a hot griddle. Cornbread 1 cupful cornmeal 1 cupful sour milk 1 cupful flour 1 tablespoonful butter 4 tablespoonfuls sugar 1 egg y^ teaspoonful salt 1 teaspoonful soda

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