Snow Pancakes

Ingredients

• Half a pint of milk
• an egg
• an apple, pared, quartered, and chopped very fine
• a cupful and a half of flour
• one-fourth of a teaspoonful of salt
• a bowl of snow

Method

1. 1

   Beat the egg light, and add the milk to it.

2. 2

   Pour gradually on the flour, and beat until smooth and light.

3. 3

   Add the apple and salt, and at the last moment the snow.

4. 4

   Drop by spoonfuls into boiling fat, and cook until a rich brown.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's new cook book and marketing guide (1880) by Maria Parloa, page 181. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one-fourth of a teaspoonful of salt, butter the size of an egg, one cupful and a half of boiling water, one teaspoonful of sugar. Pour the boiling water on the meal, sugar and salt. Beat thoroughly. Add the but- ter, and, when well mixed, spread very thin on buttered tin sheets. Bake slowly for about twenty minutes. Rye Muffins. One pint of rye meal, not flour ; one pint of wheat flour, one pint of milk, half a cupful of sugar, one teaspoonful of salt, one of soda, two of cream of tartar and two eggs. Put the meal in a mixing bowl. Put the flour and other in- gredients in a sieve, and mix thoroughly, and sift. Beat the eggs light. Add the milk to them and pour on the dry in- gredients. Beat well. Butter the muffin tins and bake twenty minutes in a quick oven. The quantities given will make twenty-four muffins. To make a less quantity, divide the dry mixture after it is prepared (it can be used whenever it may be wanted if it is keot dry) ; then halve the other in- gredients. Fried Rye Muffins. One cupful and a half of rye meal, one cupful and a half of flour, one cupful of milk, two eggs, one teaspoonful of soda, BREAKFAST AND TEA. 365 two of cream of tartar, two generous table-spoonfuls of sugar, half a teaspoonful of salt. Put the meal in a large bowl. Put the flour, cream of tartar, soda, sugar and salt in the sieve, and rub through on to the meal. Beat the eggs well, add the milk to them, and stir into the dry ingredients. Fry the same as Indian muffins. Rice Muffins. One pint of milk, one quart of flour, one pint of boiled rice, three eggs, two table -spoonfuls of sugar, one teaspoon- ful of salt, one of soda, two of cream of tartar. Mix the sugar, salt, soda and cream of tartar with the flour, and rub through a sieve. Beat the eggs and add to the milk. Stir gradually into the flour. When a smooth, light paste, add the rice. Beat thoroughly. Bake thirty-five minutes in buttered pans. Three dozen muffins can be made from the quantities given. Raised Rice Muffins. One pint of warm milk, two cupfuls of warm boiled rice, one quart of bread flour, one teaspoonful of salt, two table- spoonfuls of butter, one-third of a cake of compressed yeast. Mix the butter, rice and milk together. Pour the mixture on the flour, and beat till a light batter is formed. Mix the yeast with four table -spoonfuls of cold water, and add it and the salt to the batter, which let rise over night in a cool place. In the morning fill buttered muffin pans two- thirds to the top, and set them in a warm place till the batter has so risen as to fill the tins. Bake thirty-five minutes. One-third of a cupful of liquid yeast may be substituted for the com- pressed yeast. Hominy Muffins. A pint of milk, a quart of Haxall flour, one teaspoonful of salt, two table-spoonfuls of buttef, one-third of a cake of 366 MISS PARLOA'S 1STEW COOK BOOK. compressed yeast, or one-third of a cupful of liquid yeast ; half a cupful of hominy, measured before cooking. 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