This section is from the book "Common Sense In The Household. A Manual Of Practical Housewifery", by Marion Harland. Also available from Amazon: Common Sense in the Household.
1 quart milk.
1 heaping quart flour. 5 tablespoonfuls yeast.
2 eggs.
1 tablespoonful melted butter.
1 teaspoonful salt.
Set the mixture - minus the eggs and butter - over night as a sponge; add these in the morning, and bake in waffle-irons.
2 cups milk.
2 eggs.
3 cups flour.
1 teaspoonful cream-tartar. 1/2 " soda.
1 saltspoonful salt. 1 tablespoonful melted butter.
Sift the cream-tartar into the flour with the salt. Dissolve the soda in a little hot water. Beat the eggs very well. Add the flour the last thing. If the batter is too stiff, put in more milk.
1 cup boiled rice.
1 pint milk.
2 eggs.
Lard, the size of a walnut. 1/2 teaspoonful soda. 1 " cream-tartar.
Flour for a thin batter.
1 quart milk.
1 cup cold boiled rice.
3 cups rice flour, or enough for thin batter.
1 tablespoonful melted butter.
3 eggs.
1 teaspoonful salt.
1 pint milk.
3 eggs, beaten very light. 1 tablespoonful melted butter. 1 teaspoonful cream-tartar sifted in the flour. i " soda.
A heaping pint of flour, or enough to make soft batter.
1 cup cold boiled rice.
1/2 cup white flour, and same of corn-meal.
2 eggs well whipped, and milk to make soft batter. 1 tablespoonful melted butter.
1/2 teaspoonful soda, dissolved in hot water. ' 1 " of salt.
Beat the mixture smooth before baking.
Be especially careful in greasing your irons for these waffles, as for all which contain rice.
 
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