This section is from the book "Mrs. Owens' Cook Book", by Frances E. Owens. Also available from Amazon: Mrs. Owens' Cook Book.
1 quart flour.
2 eggs.
2 tablespoons butter.
1/2 cup yeast.
Beat well over night. In the morning bake in muffin-rings greased and heated.
3 cups flour before sifting.
1 cup water 1 1/2 cups sweet milk.
1 heaping tablespoon butter.
2 tablespoons sugar.
4 teaspoons bakingpowder.
Mix the sugar and shortening to a cream, add the wetting, then sift the flour and baking powder into it. Beat well, heat gem-irons hot, grease, fill nearly full, and bake in hot oven 20 minutes. An egg is used sometimes, in which case use but 3 teaspoons baking powder.
Mrs. E. B. Baldwin.
1 cup corn-meal.
2 cups flour.
2 cuds sweet milk.
1/2 cup sugar.
1 cup butter, pinch of salt.
2 teaspoons baking powder.
Bake in muffin-rings or gem-pans.
Columbia Loving, Bowling Green, Ky.
2 cups meal.
1 cup buttermilk.
1 egg, beat white and yolk separately.
1/2 teaspoon each soda and salt.
Add the white of egg last thing and stir in lightly. Bake in hot gem-irons.
Wash a pint of fine hominy through several waters. Pour boiling water on it, cover and let it soak half a day. Then boil it in a saucepan in half a pint of water, till soft enough to mash. Drain it, and mix it with a pint of corn-meal or wheat flour, a little salt, 3 cups milk, and 2 tablespoons melted butter. When the batter is cool enough, add 4 tablespoons yeast; cover, and keep warm until very light, with the surface covered with bubbles. Grease some muffin-rings, set them on a hot griddle, fill them § full, and bake brown on both sides. Send to the table hot, to be buttered quickly.
Make corn-meal mush as you ordinarily do, and when cold take 2 cups mush. 2 cups flour.
2 cups milk.
3 eggs.
2 teaspoons baking powder. 1 of salt.
1 tablespoon melted butter. Bake in gem pans.
1 cup sifted squash. 3 cups sifted flour. 1 tablespoon sugar.
1 teaspoon soda, and 2 teaspoons cream of tartar - both mashed fine and put in dry.
1 teaspoon butter. 1 pint sweet milk.
Bake in a quick oven, in gem-pans, 20 minutes.
 
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