Sweet Milk Griddle Cakes
From Blue Ribbon and Pure Gold cook book, 1905
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 Blue Ribbon and Pure Gold cook book (1905) by Blue Ribbon Manufacturing Company, page 42. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Sweet Milk Griddle Cakes—Use the above recipe, but substitute sweet milk, and 4 teaspoons Blue Ribbon baking powder, for sour milk and soda. Rice Griddle Cakes—To 1 cup boiled rice add 1 cup milk, the yolks of two eggs, ? cup flour, } teaspoon salt, 3 teaspoons Blue Ribbon baking powder and 1 tablespoon melted butter. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, fold into the other ingredients and bake as soon as possible after they are added, on a hot, greased griddle. Raised Buckwheat Griddle Cakes—2} cups boiling water, 4 yeast cake dissolved in 2 tablespoons lukewarm water, 1} cups buckwheat flour, $ teaspoon salt, 4 teaspoons sugar, 3 cup white flour, { teaspoon baking soda. Use only 2 cups of the water cooled to lukewarm. To this add the yeast, the flour, salt and 1 teaspoon sugar. Mix and let stand overnight. ‘Then add the other $ cup of lukewarm water, with the sugar and soda dissolved in it. Bake at once. Keep 3 cup and use in place of yeast for the next day. Store in a cool place. Quick Buckwheat Cakes—To 2 cups of buckwheat flour and + cup of white flour, add 5 teaspoons Blue Ribbon baking powder, 3 teaspoon salt, and 1 tablespoon of brown sugar, or molasses. When ready to bake, add 2 cups cold water, or enough to make a batter. Cornmeal or Graham flour may be added if desired. Potato Griddle Cakes—2 cups grated raw potato, 2 table- spoons flour, 1 egg, beaten; } teaspoon salt, } teaspoon pepper. Mix well, and make thin cakes. Cook slowly on greased griddle. Waffles OL A Substitute for Maple Syrup—rTake 2 cups brown sugar and 1 cup water, and boil 5 minutes, add 2 tablespoons butter, then flavor with a teaspoon of Pure Gold vanilla when cold. Nice with griddle cakes and hot biscuits. Use other flavoring if desired. Imitation Maple Syrup—Boil clean corn cobs in water; then remove the cobs, add brown sugar, and boil to a nice, thick syrup. One can hardly tell it from genuine maple syrup. ‘The cobs give the maple flavor. Bread Crumb Griddle Cakes—2 cups stale breadcrumbs, soaked i in 1 cup boiling water, 2 cups flour
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