Cakes, Fillings And Cookies

Brown Bread

One cup corn meal, 1 cup graham flour (Sperry Graham), 1/2 cup white flour (Sperry Drifted Snow), 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon soda; mix together and add 1/2 cup molasses, 1 cup milk, sour preferred, raisins; steam 2 hours; 1 pound baking powder cans well greased and filled about 1/2 full would be suitable.

- Susie Smith.

Three-Day Biscuit

At noon put a cake yeast in a cup of cold water; at evening stir in flour (Sperry Drifted Snow), to make a batter. Put in large vessel and let rise over night. In morning add 1 cup soft lard, 2 cups water, 1 cup sugar, 1 teaspoonful salt; mix in flour until it will not stick to the hands; let rise until night; pinch off biscuit size of walnut; if you like crust flatten to 3/8 inch thick. Let rise until morning and bake 20 minutes. Work down remaining dough and in evening pinch off more to rise for next morning; keep left-over dough in cold place, as it is good until used.

- Mrs. F. W. Fahs.

Dumplings

Two cups of flour (Sperry Drifted Snow), 1 cup of sweet milk, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt; boil 7 minutes with lid on. The secret of light dumplings is, before putting them in, put in plenty of cold water in gravy to stop boiling; then place dumplings. This gives them time to raise and cook inside.

- Mrs. Cornelia Bolton.

Steam Corn Bread

Two cups sour milk, 2 cups yellow corn meal, 1 cup brown flour (Sperry Graham), 1 cup molasses, 1 level teaspoon soda, and salt; steam 3 hours.

- Mrs. Copper.

Chicken or Meat Pie Crust

Two cups of flour (Sperry Drifted Snow), 2 teaspoons of baking powder, 2 tablespoons of melted butter, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 egg, beaten very light, 3/4 cup of milk; sift baking powder and salt with flour, then add beaten egg, milk and melted butter; blend lightly with a fork.

- Mrs. Franklin.

Date Bread

One cup graham flour (Sperry Graham), 2 cups white flour (Sperry Drifted Snow), 3 level teaspoons baking powder, 1-3 cup sugar, 2 level teaspoons salt, 1-3 pound dates, chopped fine, 1 1/2 cups of milk, 1 egg; mix all dry ingredients together, beat egg well, add milk and then fold in dry ingredients; bake 45 minutes in slow oven. This is sufficient for two loaves.

- Mrs. Sayles.

Bran Bread

Two cups of bran (Sperry Bran Flakes), 1 1/2 cups graham flour (Sperry Graham), 2 cups sour milk, 1 teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in a little hot water and stirred into the milk, 1 large spoon of molasses, 1 cup of raisins, 1 teaspoon of salt; bake 1 1/2 hours in slow oven.

- C. Belle Champlin.

Brown Bread

One cup wheat flour (Sperry Drifted Snow), 2 cups graham (Sperry Graham), 2 cups corn meal, 1 cup molasses, 3 1/2 cups sour milk, 1 teaspoon soda, salt; beat all together thoroughly and steam 4 hours, and bake about 15 or 20 minutes to dry it a little.

- Mrs. G. A. Merrill.

Johnny Cake

One-half cup sugar, 1 cup flour (Sperry Drifted Snow), 1 1/4 cups corn meal, 1 1/4 cups sour milk, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 egg, salt and last add 1/2 cup butter.

- Mrs. Myrtle Hutchison.

Salt Raising Bread

Scald a teacup of sweet milk, stir in corn meal until thick as gruel or a little thicker; at noon the day before you want to bake bread, put it in a can, put on the cover and stand it in a warm place until light; in the morning take water as hot as can and not scald, put in a pinch of salt, 1 of soda, and a little sugar, and the rising, then stir in flour (Sperry Drifted Snow), until stiff as can well stir with a spoon and set to rise; when light, which will be in a few minutes, make into dough and put in pans, and as soon as light bake quickly.

- Mrs. E. B. Shaffner.

Baking Powder Pan Cakes

Beat one egg well, add 1 cup coldwater, 1teaspoon melted butter or Crisco, 1 heaping cup flour (Sperry Drifted Snow), sifted, with 1heaping teaspoon baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon sugar or honey; beat well.

- A. Y. Soule.

Waffles

One pint sour milk stirred over night with nearly a quart of flour (Sperry Drifted Snow), and 4 tablespoons melted butter. In the morning add a small teaspoon soda dissolved in a little hot water, then 2 eggs beaten very light.

- Gertrude Kennedy.

Pop-Overs

One cup of flour (Sperry Drifted Snow), 1 cup of milk, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 2 eggs; set pop-over cups on stove to heat; put flour in bowl, make a well in center; drop in salt and then unbeaten eggs; add milk, gradually stirring and widening circles from center; bake in buttered muffin pans or earthen cups for about 30 minutes.

- Mrs. P. L. Hill.