Good Graham Gems

Ingredients

• three cups sour milk
• one teaspoon soda
• one teaspoon salt
• one tablespoon brown sugar
• one tablespoon melted lard
• one beaten egg
• Graham flour

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients to make a stiff batter.

2. 2

   Fill hot gem pans and bake for fifteen minutes in a hot oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 28. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Good Graham, Gem.s. — Three cups sour milk, one teaspoon soda, one of salt, one tablespoon brown sugar, one of melted lard, one beaten egg ; to the egg add the milk, then the sugar and salt, then the Graham flour (with the soda mixed in), together with the lard ; make a stiff batter, so that it will drop, not pour, from' the spoon. Have gem-pans very hot, grease, fill and baxe fifteen min- utes in a hot oven. Sweet Milk Gems, — Beat one egg well, add a pint new milk, a little salt and Graham flour until it will drop off the spoon nicely ; heat and butter the gem-pans before dropping in the dough ; bake in a hot oven twenty minutes. Oat Meal Gems, — One cup cooked oat meal, or soaked over- nighty in one cup water. Add one cup sour milk, one teaspoon soda, one cup flour, a little salt, and bake in gem-pans. Try one first and if too moist or sticky add more flour, "Wheaten Gems, — Mix one teaspoon baking-powder and a littlo salt into one pint flour ; add to the beaten yolks of two eggs on« tea- cup sweet milk or cream, a piece of butter (melted) half the sire of an egg, the flour with baking-powder and salt mixed, and the well 38 BREAKFAST AND TEA CAKES. beaten whites of the two eggs. Beat well, bake immediately in gem« pans in a hot oven, and take out and send to the table immediately. Alabama Johnny- Cake. — Cook a pint of rice till tender, add a tablespoon butter; when cold add two beaten eggs and one pint meal, and when mixed spread on an oaken board and bake by tip- ping the board up before the fire-place. When done on one side turn over. The dougn should be spread half an inch thick. Johnny- Cake, — Two eggs, one cup sugar, one ana one-half of com meal, two-thirds cup melted butter, or lard, two cups each sour milk and flour, two teaspoons each saleratus and salt. Johnny- Cake. — Two-thirds teaspoon soda, three tablespoons sugar, one teaspoon cream tartar, one egg, one cup sweet milk, six tablespoons Indian meal, three tablespoons flour, and a little salt. This makes a thin batter. Com MuMn%. — One quart sifted Indian meal, a heaping tea- spoon butter, one quart muk^ a salt-spoon salt, a third cup yeast, a tablespoon of molasses ; let it rise four or five hours, and bake in muffin-rings. . Com MufHn%. — ^Two cups corn meal, one-half cup flour, one- fourth cup sugar, two eggs, butter size of a walnut, one teaspoon salt

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