Whole Wheat Puffs

Ingredients

• One pint of flour
• 1 cup of thin cream
• 1 cup sweet milk
• 1 egg
• butter size of a walnut

Method

1. 1

   Beat white of egg to stiff froth, to the yolk add the cream and milk.

2. 2

   Beat until very light, then gradually add the flour.

3. 3

   Beat hard for 10 minutes, then stir in lightly the beaten white of egg; turn at once into heated iron and bake.

4. 4

   Serve for breakfast or tea.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 70. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Whole Wheat Puffs. One pint of flour, 1 cup of thin cream, 1 cup sweet milk, 1 egg- Beat white of egg to stiff froth, to the yolk add the cream and milk. Beat imtil very light, then gradually add the flour. Beat hard for 10 minutes, then stir in lightly the beaten white of egg; turn at once into heated ironi? and bake. Serve for breakfast or tea. Wafers. One pint of whole wheat flour, 1 tablespoon of butter, 1 tea- spoon salt; make into a stiff dough, with sweet milk. Break off pieces of dough ; roll into a thin sheet. Bake in a hot oven until a chestnut brown. Sweet Potato Bread. Three good-sized sweet potatoes, 1 tablespoon granulated sugar, 1 tablespoon flour, % teacup sweet milk, butter size of a walnut

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