Home Made Raisin Bread

1 pint water, 1 pint sweet milk, 2 ounces sugar, 1 ounce salt, 2 ounces lard, 1 1/2 ounces compressed yeast, 2 pounds raisins, 4 pounds flour. Have milk and water warm. Dissolve yeast in water. Mix dough thoroughly. Let dough raise well, then punch down and let raise again. Mould in round loaves and when raised bake in hot oven of about 450 degrees. When potato yeast is used, use 1 pint yeast and 1 pint milk or water.

Spiced Raisin Bread

2 cups scalded milk, 3 tablespoonsful butter, 2 tablespoonsful sugar, 1 tea-spoonful salt, 1/2 teaspoonful cinnamon, 1 yeast cake in 1/4 cup lukewarm water, 3 cups flour, 1 cup raisins. Beat thoroughly, cover, let rise till light; cut down and add enough flour to knead (about 2 1/2 cups). Let rise again and bake in moderate oven.

Raisin And Nut Sandwiches

Take mayonnaise or firmly whipped sweet cream, thicken with powdered or chopped nut meats, and Not-A-Seed Raisins. Walnuts, pecans, almonds, filberts or Brazil nuts are nice, 01? a mixture of several varieties are good. Made with tea biscuits or finger rolls they are very nice and require no butter.

Raisin Layer Cake

Cream 3/4 cup butter with 2 cups sugar, add yolks of 4 eggs well beaten. Mix 3 cups flour, 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder. Add this alternately with 1 cup milk, 1 teaspoon lemon extract. Bake in 4 jelly cake tins. Put together with raisin cream made of 4 whites of eggs beaten well with 1/2 cup powdered sugar and 1 cup Not-A-Seed Raisins chopped fine.

Raisin Brittle

1/4 cup Not-A-Seed Raisins, 1/4 cup figs, 1/4 cup Brazil nuts, sliced 1/4 cup cocoanut. Grease tin plates and scatter nuts and fruit over them. Then boil until good and brittle the following:

2 cups sugar, 1 teaspoon butter, 1/4 cup vinegar, 1/2 cup water. Pour into plates containing fruit. Break into pieces when cold.

Cranberry And Raisin Pie

1 cup Not-A-Seed Raisins, 2 cups cranberries, 2 cups sugar. Put all together and chop fine; add 1 cup water. Bake in shallow plates with 2 crusts. Make two pies.

Cocoanut And Raisin Pudding

Put 1/2 pound desiccated cocoanut into a pudding dish. Break in pieces 6 small sponge cakes; over these pour 1 quart boiling milk with 1 teaspoon butter melted in it; add 4 tablespoons sugar. Let it stand an hour covered close. Mix 1 pound Not-A-Seed Raisins with 4 well beaten eggs and bake in a slow oven.' This is delicious either hot or cold.

Raisin Brown Bread

3 cups yellow corn meal, 1 1/2 cups graham flour, 1 1/2 cups white flour, 1 cup N. O. molasses, 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in half cup hot water, 1 teaspoon salt, enough sour milk to make a soft batter. Mix flour and salt, then molasses with soda. Stir until foamy, then add milk and 1 1/2 cups raisins. Fill mould half full and steam 3 hours.

Raisin Loaf Cake

A piece of raised dough, 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 3 eggs well beaten, 1 cup walnuts chopped, 1 pound Not-A-Seed Raisins, 1 tablespoon cinnamon. Mix well and let raise until light; bake in mould.

Raisin Sandwiches

Chop fine one cup of raisins together with one cup of nuts, preferably walnuts, mix with whipped cream or the white of an egg beaten, season with salt. Spread between slices of bread, cut very thin.

Raisin Cake

Put 1 pound butter into a basin, warm it, beat it to a cream and add gradually 1 pound sifted flour, the same of crushed loaf sugar, and the yolks of 6 eggs. Stir these well and when they are Incorporated add a wineglass brandy, 1 grated nutmeg, 1 teaspoon water, and lastly the whites of 6 eggs whipped to a froth. Work well until the mixture has a light and creamy appearance, then add 1 pound Not A-Seed Raisins finely chopped and sprinkle over with 1 breakfast cup flour to make them mix easier. Pour the cake mixture into a tin or mould lined with well buttered paper, bake 1 1/2 hours, turn it out, when done it is ready for use. A few rose leaves steeped in the brandy will add to the flavor of the cake.

Raisin Rice Pudding

1% cups boiled rice, 1 pint of milk, 2 eggs beaten light, 3 tablespoons sugar, 1 cup Not-A-Seed Raisins, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Put in dish, grate nutmeg over the top and bake until brown.

Raisin Chocolates

Put 1/2 lb. cake of vanilla sweet chocolate in a sauce pan over boiling water, and when melted add 2 level teaspoons butter and 2 of boiling water. Dip raisins and put on oiled paper.

Raisin Cookies

1 pound sugar, 1 pound dark brown sugar, 1 pound butter, 1 1/2 pounds raisins, 2 1/2 pounds flour, 1/2 cup molasses, 8 eggs, cinnamon and cloves to taste, 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in a little hot water. Cream butter and sugar as for regular cake and mix accordingly. Drop a teaspoonful on a buttered pan and it should spread like a cookie. If too thin, a little more flour may be added.