This section is from the book "The Just-Wed Cook Book", by E. F. Kiessling. Also available from Amazon: The Just-Wed Cook Book.
Scald a pint of milk; add a quarter pound of butter, 2 tablespoonfuls of sugar and 1 yeast cake, dissolved; add 2 eggs, well beaten, and sufficient Gold Medal Flour to make a soft dough. Knead lightly; put aside in a warm place. When very light roll into a sheet; spread with butter and dust with sugar and then with currants. Cut into buns. Stand them in a greased pan, and when very light bake,in a moderate oven three-quarters of an hour.
Sift together twice, 1 pint of Gold Medal Flour, 1-3 cup of sugar, 3 teaspoonfuls of baking powder and 1/2 teaspoonful each of salt and ground cinnamon. Mix to a soft dough with about half a cup of milk stirred into a well beaten egg. Add 3 tablespoonfuls of melted Cottolene, spread in a shallow pan, sprinkle with sugar mixed with cinnamon, and bake in a moderate oven.
1 pint Gold Medal Flour sifted, |
3/4 pint bran or graham flour, |
1 cup lukewarm water, |
1/2 teaspoonful salt, |
2 teaspoonfuls sugar, |
1 tablespoonful melted butter, |
1 cake compressed yeast. |
Dissolve yeast by breaking into a cup and adding 1 teaspoonful sugar, let stand 3 minutes. Sift flour into a bowl, add graham flour or bran, make well in center; add salt, sugar, butter, water, yeast. Mix and knead well, put in warm place to rise 11/2 hours, or until light. Turn on moulding board, knead lightly, shape into loaves, put in a well-buttered pan, let rise 3/4 hour. Bake 45 minutes.
To 1 pint scraped corn add 1/2 cup milk, 1/2 cup Gold Medal Flour, 1 table-spoonful melted butter, 2 beaten eggs, 1 teaspoonful salt, 1-3 teaspoonful pepper, 1 teaspoonful baking powder. Beat well, and fry in small spoonfuls as directed.
Wash and dry 25 good-sized clams or 2 strings soft-shell clams, discarding black part. Chop fine. Make a plain fritter batter, using the clam liquor (or that and milk) in place of milk. Stir in the chopped clams, season well with salt and pepper, and fry as directed.
2 cups hominy (boiled), |
2 eggs well beaten, |
1/2 level teaspoonful salt, |
1/2 cup milk, |
1/2 cup Gold Medal Flour, |
1 teaspoonful baking powder. |
Cook all the above in a double boiler; pour out in biscuit tin and allow to cool. Cut and fry in deep fat. Good with wild game.
 
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