Wheaten Gems

Ingredients

• one teaspoon baking powder
• a little salt
• one pint flour
• two eggs
• one teacup sweet milk
• a piece of butter half the size of an egg

Method

1. 1

   Mix baking powder and salt into flour.

2. 2

   Add to beaten yolks of eggs, milk, melted butter, and beaten egg whites.

3. 3

   Bake immediately in hot gem pans.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 28. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Wheaten Gems, — Mix one teaspoon baking-powder and a littlo salt into one pint flour ; add to the beaten yolks of two eggs on« tea- cup sweet milk or cream, a piece of butter (melted) half the sire of an egg, the flour with baking-powder and salt mixed, and the well 38 BREAKFAST AND TEA CAKES. beaten whites of the two eggs. Beat well, bake immediately in gem« pans in a hot oven, and take out and send to the table immediately. Alabama Johnny- Cake. — Cook a pint of rice till tender, add a tablespoon butter; when cold add two beaten eggs and one pint meal, and when mixed spread on an oaken board and bake by tip- ping the board up before the fire-place. When done on one side turn over. The dougn should be spread half an inch thick. Johnny- Cake, — Two eggs, one cup sugar, one ana one-half of com meal, two-thirds cup melted butter, or lard, two cups each sour milk and flour, two teaspoons each saleratus and salt. Johnny- Cake. — Two-thirds teaspoon soda, three tablespoons sugar, one teaspoon cream tartar, one egg, one cup sweet milk, six tablespoons Indian meal, three tablespoons flour, and a little salt. This makes a thin batter. Com MuMn%. — One quart sifted Indian meal, a heaping tea- spoon butter, one quart muk^ a salt-spoon salt, a third cup yeast, a tablespoon of molasses ; let it rise four or five hours, and bake in muffin-rings. . Com MufHn%. — ^Two cups corn meal, one-half cup flour, one- fourth cup sugar, two eggs, butter size of a walnut, one teaspoon salt, two tea-spoons baking powder and enough sweet milk to make quite thin. Bake in gem pans. Cream jITw^tw.— Beat the yolks of three eggs with one teaspoon salt and stir in a half-pint sweet cream adding a half-pint of flour and lastly the whites of the eggs beaten to a stifl" froth. Bake in buttered gem pans in quick oven from ten to fifteen minutes. Chaham Muffins. — One egg, heaping tablespoon butter, one and a half cups milk, little salt, one teaspoon baking powder

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