Home Bakings | by Edna Evans
We can live without poetry, music and art, We can live without conscience and can live without heart, We can live without friends and can live without books, But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
| Title | Home Bakings |
| Author | Edna Evans |
| Publisher | The Golden Gate Compressed Yeast Co |
| Year | 1912 |
| Copyright | 1912, The Golden Gate Compressed Yeast Co |
| Amazon | Home Bakings |
Edna Evans
Price Fifty Cents
Dedicated to the Golden Gate Compressed Yeast Co. of San Francisco, California, whose excellent compressed yeast has made my work in home bakings more than satisfactory
Drawings By Harold Evans
Table Of Measures- Sixty drops equal one teaspoonful. Three teaspoonfuls equal one tablespoonful. Four tablespoonfuls equal one-quarter cup or one-half gill. Eight rounded tablespoonfuls of dry material equal o...
- Bread
- Dough should be thoroughly mixed with a perforated spoon before kneading. Make small loaves and bake well. If your dough is not light and spongy enough, give your dough more age; if too mu...
- Bread. Part 2
- Light Biscuit Dissolve one cake compressed yeast in one-half cup lukewarm water; scald one pint of milk when lukewarm add yeast add white flour enough to make batter; beat well and set aside for on...
- Bread. Part 3
- Raisin Bread Dissolve one cake compressed yeast in two-thirds cupful lukewarm water; add two tablespoonfuls sugar; scald one-half pint milk; when lukewarm add to yeast with enough flour to make a b...
- Bread. Part 4
- Vienna Rolls Scald one pint of milk; add three tablespoonfuls butter and when lukewarm add a cake of compressed yeast dissolved in one-third cup lukewarm water; add a pinch of salt and enough flour...
- Bread. Part 5
- Nun's Puffs Beat up four eggs, add one cake compressed yeast dissolved in one cupful lukewarm water, add one pound butter, one and one-half cups sugar and one-half pint milk. Sift one and one-half ...
- Bread. Part 6
- Dutch Cake Dissolve one cake compressed yeast in one pint of lukewarm milk; add flour to make sponge; let rise until it begins to drop. Rub together butter the size of an egg and one teacupful suga...
- Bread. Part 7
- Rye Bread Dissolve one cake yeast in one pint lukewarm water; stir in sifted flour to make a light sponge and stand in warm place until light. Then add to sponge one-half pint milk, one tablespoonf...
- Bread. Part 8
- 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...
- Cakes
- In one full cup of flour mix one cup sugar. Beat up he yolks of four eggs; add two tablespoonfuls cold water and a little vanilla; add this to flour and sugar and last add whites of four eggs, well be...
- Cakes. Part 2
- Plain Cake Two quarts fresh milk, one quart sugar, three well-beaten eggs. Freeze ten minutes, then stir in juice of six lemons and finish freezing. A can of grated pineapple may be added, if desir...
- Cakes. Part 3
- Cream Puffs Cream one cup sugar with one-half cup butter. Beat in three eggs, adding eggs one at a time, until mixture is smooth; add one cup sweet milk and one and two-thirds cups flour in which h...
- Puddings And Sauces
- Scald one quart of sweet milk in double boiler; add one-half cup of sago and one-half teaspoonful salt and cook until transparent, stirring frequently; add one and one-half tablespoonfuls butter...
- Memoranda Meats
- Beef should be a bright, clear red, and the fat should be white. The finest pieces are the sirloin and the ribs - the latter making the best roasting piece in the animal. Before cooking steak...
- Memoranda Poultry
- Boil chicken until tender; when done remove the bones and cut meat into small cubes. Put chicken back into liquor, add six tomatoes and six small onions, salt, pepper, a teaspoonful of sugar and...
- Fish
- If fresh, the eyes will be bright and bulging out. The flesh will be firm. Do not leave fish in water after boiling. If cooked too soon, take from water, put on dish and cover. In frying f...
- Memoranda Salads And Dressings
- Scald and slice two tomatoes set on ice while you slice two cucumbers and one small onion add one cup cooked green beans, one cup cooked peas, two radishes, sliced very thin. Rub salad bowl with...
- Memoranda Salads And Dressings. Continued
- Cucumber Jelly Salad Boil or bake liver; salt after cooking. Take out and chop fine. Slice two good-sized onions and mix in with chopped liver; garnish with parsley and two hard-boiled eggs, sliced...
- Vegetables
- Peel and wash fresh mushroooms; put in sauce pan with plenty of butter and simmer until tender; about twenty minutes; season with salt and pepper; have ready thin slices of toast; put mushrooms ...
- Vegetables. Continued
- Boiled Asparagus Select a medium-sized, firm white cauliflower; soak in cold water for several hours before using; strip off green leaves; put in kettle of hot water and boil for twenty minutes. Ta...
- Miscellaneous Recipes
- Put one tablespoonful butter in chafing dish, and when melted, add one pound Eastern cheese. Let melt, stirring at intervals. Take three eggs, beat up, adding one-half teaspoonful mustard, a tab...
- Miscellaneous Recipes. Continued
- Raspberry Pyramid Mix one and one-half cupfuls of Eastern cheese (grated) with one-fourth teaspoonful each of salt and paprika; then cut and fill into the mixture the whites of three eggs beaten st...
- To Clean White Plumes
- Make paste of gasoline and flour; dip in plume and rub thoroughly; dip again, let dry, shake off flour. This may be repeated until plume is entirely clean. Soft, silk waists should be iron with onl...
- Clever Ideas For Wash Day
- Winter Washing - Add a large handful of salt to the rinse water, and the clothes will not freeze while hanging them out. When ready to go out, wet the hands well with vinegar. Let it dry on, and you w...
- Soap And Fancywork
- Hemstitching forms a dainty and inexpensive finish for household linen and underclothing, but the difficulty of drawing the threads often prevents the busy woman from undertaking it. If a piece of pur...
- Household Hints
- If a pinch of ginger is put into doughnuts they will not absorb the fat in which they are fried. If potatoes are pared and laid in cold water before boiling they will remain white. Dry cel...
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