Reception Rolls

Mix one cupful of lukewarm wheat mush, one-fourth of a cupful of brown sugar, two tablespoonfuls butter and one-half tablespoonful salt. When lukewarm, add one cake compressed yeast dissolved in one-fourth cupful lukewarm water; add enough flour to make dough; knead, working in one cupful chopped and stoned dates; cover, set in warm place to raise. When light, put in buttered pan as rolls or loaves. Let raise again and bake in moderate oven.

Date Bread

Take six good-sized potatoes, boil and mash very fine; add one pint potato water and two pints hot water. Stir in flour until you have a stiff batter; when lukewarm, add one cake compressed yeast dissolved in one-fourth cupful lukewarm water; cover, set in warm place to raise. When light, add two tablespoonfuls sugar, one tablespoonful salt and one tablespoonful butter (melted); add flour to make dough, knead twenty minutes. Let raise again, make into loaves or rolls. Let raise and bake.

Potato Bread

Dissolve one cake compressed yeast in one-half cup lukewarm water; cream one-half cup butter with one and one-half cups sugar, add one teacupful milk; add yeast and four well-beaten eggs; add one teaspoonful vanilla and flour enough to make an ordinary batter. Set aside and let raise. When light, pour in well-buttered pans and let raise again; then bake as any ordinary cake.

Raised Feather Cake

Dissolve one cake compressed yeast in one cup milk; add one teaspoonful sugar and flour enough to make batter. Set aside in warm place, well covered, to raise. When light, have ready one-half cup butter creamed with one and one-half cups sugar; add to sponge. Now separate sponge, dividing it in half; add to one-half of it the well-beaten yolks of four eggs, vanilla and flour enough to make ordinary cake batter; put in well-buttered pans and let raise and bake. Do same with other half, using whites of four eggs.

Raised Layer Cake

Dissolve one cake compressed yeast in one cup lukewarm milk; add one cup of finely mashed potato and flour enough to make a sponge rather thin; set aside in warm place, well covered until light. Cream two cups sugar with three-fourths cup butter; add one-half cup lukewarm milk, four eggs, one at a time, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one teaspoonful allspice, one teaspoonful cloves, one cup chopped English walnuts, one cup raisins, two cupfuls flour and three tablespoonfuls ground chocolate; mix all ingredients well together and put in buttered pan to raise. Set in warm place. When light, bake in moderate oven slowly. Requires long baking.

Raised Potato Cake

Four cups flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, one-half cup sugar, two cups sweet milk, two eggs, one teaspoonful salt, one cup chopped walnuts, one cup seedless raisins. Mix dry ingredients, add milk and eggs, mix to stiff dough; put in pans, stand thirty minutes, then bake one hour. Makes nice toast.

Baking Powder Nut Bread

Rub two rounding tablespoonfuls butter in one quart sifted flour; add two teaspoonfuls baking powder and a level teaspoonful salt; grease a baking pan, have rolling pin and cutter ready; then add sufficient milk to make a soft dough. Turn on board and knead quickly; roll out and cut in small biscuits. Put in pan so they will not touch; brush with milk and bake in quick oven.

Milk Biscuits

Beat up two eggs; add one-half pint milk and a cup and a half white flour and beat thoroughly; add two tablespoonfuls melted butter, one-half teaspoonful salt and one rounding teaspoonful baking powder. Beat well and pour into well-greased gem pans. Bake twenty minutes.

Muffins. Graham Bread With Baking Powder

Three pints graham flour, one cup molasses, one teaspoonful soda, one teaspoonful salt and sour milk enough to make soft dough. Stir thoroughly, put in pans, bake one hour.