This section is from the book "A Book Of Original Receipts", by Kathryn Romig McMurray. Also available from Amazon: A book of original receipts.
Fancy breads are permissible in a War Cook Book since they are to be used as sweet sandwiches in place of cake.
1 cup sweet milk 1/4 cup syrup 1/3 cake yeast
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons fat About 3 1/4 cups flour
To the receipt for Sandwich Bread add 1/2 cup Raisins.
1 cup sweet milk
3 tablespoons molasses
1/3 cake yeast
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons fat
1 1/2 cups Graham, rye or barley flour About 1% cups white flour 1/2 cup raisins
1 cup sweet milk 1/4 cup syrup
1/2 cake yeast
2 egg yolks
1 1/4, teaspoons salt 3 tablespoons fat About 3V4 cups flour 1/2 cup raisins
1 cup sweet milk 1/4 cup syrup 1/3 cake yeast 1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons tat flour About 1 1/2 cups white; flour 1/2 cup dates
1 cup sweet milk
2 tablespoons syrup 1/3 cake yeast
2 to 4 egg yolks
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons fat
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon About 3 cups flour
This makes a rather soft dough that is hard to handle, but the soft dough breads make a crisper toast than do stiff dough breads. The egg yolks make the bread very tender.
1 cup sweet milk 1/3 cup sugar 3 tablespoons cocoa 1/3 cake yeast
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons fat About 3 cups flour 1/4 cup nuts
Juice 1 orange 3/4 cup water 1/4 cup syrup 1/3 cake yeast
1 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons fat
2 egg yolks About 3 cups flour
1/2 cup thick orange marmalade
1 cup sweet milk
2 tablespoons syrup 1/3 cake yeast
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons fat
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
About 2 1/2 cups flour
Scald the milk, cool until lukewarm, add the syrup, yeast, salt, fat, and cinnamon. When yeast rises to top of liquid beat in enough flour to make dough as stiff as it can be stirred. Beat vigorously, turn into a well-greased shallow pan about 8x14 inches, cover and let rise until doubled in bulk. Spread lightly with soft butter substitute, sprinkle with 1/2 cup brown sugar, 4 chopped nuts, and 1 teaspoon cinnamon, drop a teaspoon of milk or two of cream in drops over the top, and bake thirty minutes in a moderate oven.
1 cup sweet milk 1/4 cup sugar
2 to 4 egg yolks 1/3 cake yeast
3 tablespoons fat 1 1/4 teaspoons salt About 3 cups flour
Make according to directions for plain coffee cake. The more yolks the more tender the cake.
To the Sunday Morning Coffee Cake receipt add 1/2 cup raisins. Bake in a shallow loaf pan, making the cake about two inches deep when finished. Cool and cover top with the following:
2 tablespoons syrup 3/4 cup brown sugar 1/3 cup milk
1 tablespoon butter substitute 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
Boil sugar, syrup and milk together until soft ball is formed when a little of mixture is dropped into cold water. Set off stove and cool until lukewarm, add butter substitute and vanilla. Beat until of right consistency to spread.
 
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