This section is from the book "A Book Of Original Receipts", by Kathryn Romig McMurray. Also available from Amazon: A book of original receipts.
2 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons peanut butter About 3/4 cup milk or water
Sift dry ingredients. Work peanut butter into them with fork; add the liquid gradually until soft dough is formed. Turn out on floured board, roll to one-third inch in thickness. Cut with small round cutter, place on floured pan, and bake in quick oven. If desired one-third rye, Graham, barley or corn-meal may be used instead of all white flour. For a plain biscuit substitute other fat for the peanut butter. Sour milk with 3/4 tea-spoon soda may be used in place of sweet milk and baking powder.
1 egg
1 cup sweet milk 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon syrup
2 tablespoons fat
3/4 cup cook cereal (left over) About 2 1/4 cups flour
4 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
Put moist ingredients into mixing bowl, sift dry ingredients into them, beat well, turn into greased gem pans and bake about twenty-five minutes.
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon fat
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon molasses
2 cups barley flour 4 teaspoons baking powder
Follow directions for Cereal Muffins.
Use either receipt for Plain Corn Bread or Virginia Corn Cake and bake in gem pans twenty-five minutes.
2 cups milk
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons syrup
2 tablespoons fat 2 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
Use receipt for Plain Waffles, using 1/2 cup corn meal and 1 1/2 cups flour instead of all flour.
1 1/2 cups milk 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons syrup
3 tablespoons fat
2 eggs
2 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
Sift dry ingredients into moist ones, beat together, fold in stiffly beaten whites of eggs. Waffles will be crisp if not baked too quickly.
cakes, instead rub it with 1/4 cup salt tied snugly in strong muslin. If cakes stick at first, drop about three drops fat on griddle and rub with salt bag.
Sour milk may be used in any of these griddle cake receipts by using a level tea-spoon soda for every cup of sour milk instead of the baking powder.
2 cups sweet milk 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 1 tablespoon syrup
1 tablespoon fat 2 cups buckwheat flour 4 teaspoons baking pow-der
2 cups bread crumbs 2 cups sweet milk 2 tablespoons fat 2 eggs 1 tablespoon syrup
1 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup flour or corn meal 4 teaspoons baking powder
If crumbs are very dry, more moisture may be needed.
2 cups sweet milk
1 cup cooked cer 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons fat
1 tablespoon syrup
1 egg
2 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
Put all ingredients together and beat until well incorporated.
2 cups sweet milk 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 2 tablespoons fat 1 tablespoon syrup 1 egg or none
1/3 cups white flour
1/2 cup rye, Graham, or barley flour 4 teaspoons baking powder
Do not try to cook cereals in the morning before breakfast. If there is no tireless cooker in which to cook them all night, cook them in a double boiler the day before. At night pour a half cup of cold water gently over the top and no crust will be formed. Pour this water off in the morning and reheat.
Cereals make an excellent supper dish.
3 cups water 1 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup raisins
1/2 cup hominy grits
Put the raisins into the water and bring slowly to the boil; add the salt, and when water is boiling rapidly sift in the hominy grits. Cook until thickened, then place in double boiler or fireless cooker and cook four hours. None but the cook will know they are not eating Cream of Wheat.
1 cup pearl barley
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
8 cups boiling water
Cook next the fire until thickened, then place in double boiler or fireless cooker and cook eight hours. Served with sliced bananas, this is excellent
4 cups water 1/2 cup dates
3/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup coarsely ground rye
Cook together at least three hours. This combination is unusually good.
Rice with brown sugar and bananas.
Freshly popped corn with milk.
Two parts soda crackers ground with one part peanuts.
Uncooked bran with prunes - excellent for constipation.
Corn Nuts: Corn bread, dried until crisp and run through coarse knife of food chopper.
2 cups crisp, dried bread, coarsely ground 2 tablespoons cocoa 1/2 cup peanuts
Heat together in oven, stirring frequently, until cocoa is melted and absorbed by crumbs.
 
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