Rye Gems
From The Cook County cook book, 1912
Serves 2
Recipe by Mrs. Conklin.
Presented as published in 1912. 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 The Cook County cook book (1912) by Associated College Women Workers, page 61. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
cup corn- meal and }/2 cup flour, adding a little at a time, beat well for at least 5 minutes; then add the stiffly beaten whites of egg, and bake in gem pans in moderate oven. — Mrs. Ella Fairchild, Palatine, 111. GINGER GEMS. — Mix together 1 cup molasses, 1 cup sour cream, I egg, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 tablespoon ginger, 2J/^ cups flour, a little salt; bake in patty-pan tins. — Mrs. Chas. Ellis, Winnetka. 111. GRAHAM GEMS. — Sift 3 cups graham flour with 2 teaspoons baking powder, and J/^ spoon of salt; add 1 egg, 1 cup milk, 1 cup water. Beat well and pour in heated gem pans. Bake 15 to 20 minutes. — Mrs. C. E. Rawlins, Glen View, 111. VARIATION I. — Mix 2 cups graham flour, 1 cup white flour, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 tablespoon sugar, a little salt, 2 teaspoons baking powder and sweet milk to make a stiff batter, or use 1 tea- spoon soda and sour milk. Bake either in a loaf or gem pans. — Mrs. E. C. Westinghous, Mayfair, 111. VARIATION II. — 1 tgg, 1^ cups brown sugar, V/^ cups sour cream, pinch of salt, 1 small teaspoon cinnamon, a good ^2 cup currants, 3 cups graham flour. Beat tgg and sugar together, add ^p tQ\ir crearoi s»lt, cinnamon and currants; beat well together, COOK COUNTY COOK BOOK 95 then add the flour in which the soda has been thoroughly mixed. Bake in well-buttered gem rings. — Mrs. Ella Fairchild, Palatine, 111. HONEY GEMS.— To 2 qts. flour add 3 tablespoons melted lard, y^ pt. honey, Yi. pt. molasses, 4 'heaping teaspoons brown su- gar, 1^ level tablespoons soda, 1 level teaspoon salt, J^ pt. water, 54 teaspoon extract vanilla. — Mrs. C. C. Cleveland, Bartlett, 111. OATMEAL GEMS.— To 1 cup cold water and 1 cup sour milk add 2y2 cups fine oatmeal, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, Yz teaspoon soda. — Mrs. D. O. Dooley, Bensen, 111. RYE GEMS. — Mix together 1 cup ;9f cornmeal and 1 cup of rye
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