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Grandmother's Unsweetened Fried Cakes

From Superior cook book, 1905

Serves 1

To be eaten hot with maple syrup, like fritters.

Presented as published in 1905. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Superior cook book (1905) by Grace Church (Ishpeming, Mich.), page 90. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Dousman's Best Patent flour to roll soft. Cut in s(|uares and frost with boiled fi'osfing and put an almond on toji of eacb. F)ake in dripping pan in a Jewel Pange. Mim. Maas. Bro\vn Drop Cookies. Two cups light brown sugar, 1 cup butter. :! eggs. 1 cup raisins. 1 cup |)ecan nuts, 2 nutmegs, grated, I/2 cup cold water, in wliicb dissohc 1 teaspoon of soda, 4 cups of Dousmair's Best Patent flour. Drop from spoon in floured j^an and bake a light brown in a Jewel Pange. Mrs. O. Vmvm. Spice Nuts. Four eggs, 1 lb. granulated sugar, '/; lb. shelled almonds, V; '!>• citron. 1 heap- ing teaspoonful ciiniamon, 1 even teaspoonful cloves, 1 even teaspoonful alls])ice, 1 lb. Dousman's Best Patent flour, 2 teas])oonfuls baking powder. Wipe the almonds on a clean clotb. and chop or cut into small pit'C( s. Cut the citron fine. Sift the flour, weigli it and divide into two poi'tions. Mix the spicks. nuts and citron witli one jxulion aii<l to the otl:er portion add llie baking powder. Break open the eggs into a lai'ge l)owl. add tic sugar ami beat with a wire egg-beater until liglil and thick as custard. Then gi'adually add tl;e floui", tb.e spiced ])ortion fii-st. and mix well. Flour the hands and mould into little balls about the size of a bickoi-v nut. Droj) on buttered tins an inch apai't ami bake in a modei'ale oven until a light bi'own in a .lewel Hange. M ISS /ILI.AII I )VS()X. German Honey Cakes. iicat 1 lb. of ])ure. sti'ained honey and 1 II). of powdered sugar togeth<>r: when clear add 1 lb. of chopped blanched alnu)nds, the gi'ated peel of a lai\i;e lemon, V. 122 Sl^PERIOK'COOK liOOK grated iiiitniog. 1 sall-sjxjoii of itrouud cloves, and uii\ ; now lake from the ,sto\('. blend in gradually 1 Ih. ol: sifted J)ousrnan's Best Patent flour and a wine-glassfnl of brandy. Let it rise in a cold ])laee foi' a \ve(^k. then roll out and bake as cookies in a Jewel Range or bake in sliei'ts and lut in linger-strips Avhen half cooled. Miis. ]\r. II. Klenxek. Almond Sticks. Beat together d talilespoons of sugar and yolks of -'5 eggs, add l)ousnian"s Best Patent flour to make the consistency of fried-cake batter, 1 teaspoon salt, i/o pound blanched almonds cut very fine, and lastly, wbites of eggs whipped stiff. Roll out, cut into narrow strips and fry in hot fat. ]\Ii!S. Pellow. Fruit Cookies. Three eggs. Y-i <'^d^ '*' l)uttei-. 1 VL' cups of sugar, 1 teaspoonful of spices, all kinds, 1 teaspoonful soda dissohcd in 2 tablespoons of hot water, 1 cup of raisins aiul 1 cup of nuts. 'iV> cups of Donsnian's Best Patt'ut flour. To be mixed over night. ' ^Liis. T. H. Baegh. Mrs. P*s Sour Milk Doughnuts. Scant cu]i sugar. 2 eggs, 3 tablespoons nudted butter, 1 teas))oon soda, 1 cup sour nnlk. Dousman's Best Patent flour to roll. ^Ins. Bilkey. Cream Doughnuts. Beat 1 cup each of sour cream and sugar and 2 viXii:^ together. Add level tea- spoon soda, a little salt and Dousman's Best Patent flour enough to roll. Grandmother's Unsweetened Fried Cakes. To be eaten hot with maple syrup, like fritters. One cup of sour cream. 1 cup of sour milk, 2 well-beaten eggs. 1 teaspoon of soda, i,^ teaspoon of salt
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