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Hominy Cakes

From A bill of fare for every day in the year ..., 1892
Presented as published in 1892. 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 A bill of fare for every day in the year ... (1892) by Beatrice Wilde Bryant, page 23. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

I teaspoonful salt, J^ yeast cake dissolved in ^ cup luke warm water, 6 or 7 cups flour. After scalding the milk, add lard, sugar, and salt. When luke warm, add yeast, and then stir in the flour, being careful not to make it too stiff, use just enough to knead it. Knead till smooth and elastic. Cover, let it rise till light cut it down, divide into four parts, shape into loaves or biscuits. Let it rise again in the pans. Bake forty or fifty minutes. SUNDAY, FEB. Little Pigs in Breakfast.— Wheat Germ with Cream. Bhinkets. Hot Buttered Toast. Coffee. ■^^' Dinner.— Boiled Leg of Mutton with Caper Sauce. Mashed White Potatoe. Turnip. Celery. Bread and Butter. Mince Pie. ("heese. Supper. — Cold Meat Sliced Thin. Crackers. Cheese. Stewed Apricots. Delicate Cake. Tea, Little Pics in Blankets.— Take as many large oysters as are wished, wash and dry them thoroughly with a clean towel. Have some fat bacon, cut in very thin slices, cover each oyster with them and pin on with wooden tooth-picks. Broil or roast them until the bacon is crisp and brown. Do not remove tooth-picks. Serve hot. MONDAY. FEB. 6 Breakfast.— Oatmeal with Cream. Buckwheat Cakes with Maple Syrup. Bread and Butter. Coffee. Dinner. — Meat Pie, (made of cold mutton) Baked Sweet Potatoes. <.'.inned Tomatoes. Bread and Butter. Rice Pudding. Supper.— Milk Toast. Hot Baked Apples. Bread and Butter. Lrtke. Tea. Rice Pudding. — Take one teacup of rice, wash, pour boiling water over it and let it stand five minutes ; throw off, add a cup of sugar, a Utile nutmeg and two quarts of milk. Bake slowly about two hours, stirring occasionally until last half hour then brown. TUESDAY, FEB. Breakfa5t.— Oranges. Fried Sausages. Warmed Pota- ■ toes. Bread and Butter. Coffee. ^ Dinner.- Broiled Beef Steak. Turnips. White Potatoes. Bread and Butter. Baked Apple Dumplings. Supper.— Macaroni with Cheese. Bread and Butter. Chocolate. Canned Peaches. Cake. Baked Api-le Dumplings. — One quart flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, one-half teaspoonful salt mixed well together. Add one large tablespoonful butter and lard mixed, and enough sweet milk or water to make a soft dough. Roll out into half inch sheets. Peel and quarter some good tart apples, put each quarter on a square of dough, sprinkle over it sugar and pinch the edges together firmly. Bake until the crust is brownand the apples soft. WEDNESDAY, FEB. Hot 8 Cel- Breakfast.- Oatmeal with Cruam. Scrambled Eggs, • Buttered Toast. Coffee. Dinner. — Roast Beef. Gravy. Browned Baked Potatoes, ery. Bread and Butter. Indian Pudding. Supper.— Cold Roast Beef Sliced Very Thin. Warmed Over Po- tatoes. Currant Jelly. Chocolate Cake. Tea. Scrambled Eggs.— Beat four eggs slightly with a fork ; add half a teaspoonful of salt, half a saltspoonful of pepper aud half a cup of milk. Turn into a hot buttered frying pan and cook quickly stirring all the time till the egg is firm but soft. Serve at once. It is very nice served on toast or on hot minced ham or veal. THURSDAY, FEB. Breakfast. — Oranges. Boiled Eggs. Potatoes Warmed mW in the Pork Gravy. Puffs. Coffee. ^^ Dinner.— Broiled Beef Steak. Baked White and Sweet Potatoes, Bread and Butter. Boiled Rice, Served with Cream. Supper.- Cold Roast Pork. Crab Apple Jelly. Fried Sweet Pota- toes. Bread and Butter. Cake. Chocolate. Breakfast Puffs. —One egg, (well beaten), one cup of milk, a little salt, one cup flour. Beat the batter Tery light. Bake in a hot oven in /lot roll pans. FRIDAY, FEB. 10 Breakfast. -Hominy with Cream. Fried Liver and Bacon. Warmed Potatoe. Bread and Butter. Coffee. Dinner.— Baked Haddock. Baked White and Sweet Potatoes. Celery. Bread and Butter. Lemon Wafers. Salted Peanuts. Supper. —Creamed Fish (made of cold haddock). Bread and But- ter. Canned Blue Berries. Cake. Tea. 0 Liver and Bacon. — Soak the liver a few minutes in boiling water to draw out the blood. Drain, remove the thin skin and veins. Cut into slices, season with salt and pepper, roll in flour and fry with thin slices of fat bacon. Drain and serve with a brown gravy seasoned with onion, lemon juice or vinegar. SATURDAY, FEB. II Breakfast.— Oatmeal with Cream. Hominy Cakes with Mai>le Syrup. Bread and Butter. Coffee. Dinner. — Broiled Mutton Chops,- lUi^shed White Potatoe. Fried Parsnips. Bread and Butter. Pumpkin Pie. Supper.— Scalloped Oysters. Bread and Butter. Cut up Oranges. Locoanut Cake. Cocoa. Hf)MiNV Cakes. — i cup sweet milk, i cup boiled hominv, yi tea- spoonful salt, 2 eggs, I tablespoonful melted butter, flour enough to make a thin batter
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