Nancy's Cheats

Ingredients

• One quart flour
• three eggs
• one large tablespoonful of milk
• pinch of salt

Method

1. 1

   Make very stiff and pound until light.

2. 2

   Form into balls and roll thin.

3. 3

   Bake in a quick oven.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Germantown D. A. R. cook book (1907) by Daughters of the American Revolution. Pennsylvania. Germantown chapter, page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one large tablespoonful of molasses. If too thick, thin with a little hot water. Contributed by Miss Sally Wheeler Johnson Receipts brought to " Upsala," Germantown, in 1800, by Sarah Wheeler Johnson MUFFINS One quart of milk, five eggs, piece of butter, size of a big egg. Make the batter quite thick. One cup of home-made yeast, (one-quarter cake compressed yeast.) Raise over night. "A batch o' bread that hain't riz once ain't goin' to rise agin ; An' it's jest money thro wed away to put the emptins in." Lowell — " Bigelow Papers." POTATO WAFFLES Take five good sized potatoes, boil soft. Mash them fine. Put a piece of lard a little larger than an egg into them while warm, add a quart of milk and flour to make it of a proper consistency. Spoonful of saleratus and two eggs, teacup of empty- ings. " The Indian pudding, with its gelatinous softness, matured by long and patient brooding in the motherly old oven." — H. B. St owe BAKED INDIAN PUDDING One quart milk, scald and stir in five table- spoonsfuls of Indian meal while on the fire. One tablespoonful of butter or cream, one-half cup of sugar, one-half cup molasses, two eggs and spices to suit taste, bake an hour. "A joint of mutton and many pretty tiny little kickshaws, tell William the Cook. ' ' — Shakespeare HARICOT OF MUTTON Sift flour on the bottom of a pot, add a layer of tomatoes, a layer of lima beans and an onion chopped fine and a layer of mutton chops, salted and peppered, add other layers in the same order as much as wanted. Cover and cook slowly two and one- half to three hours. 33 OP DEN GRAEFF TAPIOCA PUDDING Contributed by Mrs. James H. Graeff One cup old fashioned flaked tapioca, one heap- ing cup brown sugar, one-half lemon squeezed, one- half lemon cut thin, one cup black molasses, one quart water. Cook slowly on the back of stove. As it cooks down add water till it has the consistency of gum drops. Put in oven to brown. Serve with whipped cream. " A dish fit for the Gods." — Shakespeare Contributed by Mrs. William E. Chapman WHITE MOUNTAIN CAKE The whites of seven eggs, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, twe" cups new milk, one cup butter, two teaspoonsful cream tartar, one teaspoon- ful soda, three layers. Make icing, whites of three eggs, three-quarters pound pulverized sugar, spread one cocoanut grated over icing. GRANDMOTHER'S COOKIES One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, four eggs beaten separately, one-half cup sweet milk, five scant cups flour, two teaspoonsful of cream tartar, sifted with flour, one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in hot water. Roll thin, bake quickly. 34 "NANCY'S" CHEATS One quart flour, three eggs, one large table- spoonful of milk, enough to wet it; pinch of salt

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