A history of Vermont's maple sugar industry — John Shaqi
A history of Vermont's maple sugar industryVermont Maple Sugar Makers Association
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A history of Vermont's maple sugar industry
Vermont Maple Sugar Makers Association
Arboriculture; Maple sugar
One layer of wheat bread sliced thin, 1 layer of sliced apples, put on
another layer of bread and apples and so on alternately until the dish
is full; flavor with lemon, pour over all two teaspoons water; cover
and bake one-half hour. To be eaten with maple syrup.
Berry Pudding.
1 pint flour, 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar, ½ teaspoon of soda, milk
enough to make a little thinner than biscuit, add 1 pint of berries;
boil 1 hour.
The sauce (served hot): 1 cup of maple sugar, ⅔ of cup of hot water, 1
tablespoonful of flour, butter size of an egg.
Let come to a boil, then pour it over a well beaten egg, stirring the
egg. Flavor.
Maple Sugar Cake.
One-half cup of butter, ½ cup of milk, ½ teaspoon soda, whites of
5 eggs, 1 cup of maple sugar, 2 cups of flour, 1 teaspoon cream of
tartar. Beat the butter to a cream, then gradually add the sugar and
stir until light and creamy, then add the milk, then the whites of eggs
which have been beaten to stiff froth, last the flour in which the soda
and cream of tartar have been thoroughly mixed. Bake in three layers in
a quick oven. To be frosted with maple sugar frosting.
Nut Cake.
One cup maple sugar, 2 cups of flour, 1 cup of chopped raisins, 3
teaspoonfuls of baking powder, ½ cup of sweet milk, 2 eggs, 1 cup of
chopped English walnuts.
Beat the butter to a cream, add the sugar gradually, and when light add
the eggs well beaten, then the milk, and last the flour in which the
baking powder has been thoroughly mixed. Mix this quickly and add the
nuts and raisins. Bake in rather deep sheets in a moderate oven about
35 minutes.
Marble Cake.
Yolks of 4 eggs, ½ cup of butter, 1 teaspoonful of soda, 1½ cups flour,
½ cup of maple molasses, ½ cup sour cream, spices of all kinds.
For the light part: Whites of 4 eggs beaten to a froth, ½ cup of
butter, ½ teaspoon of cream tartar, ½ cup of flour, 1 cup of white
sugar, 2 tablespoons of sweet milk, in which dissolve ½ teaspoon of
soda.
Apple Cake.
One cup thinly sliced sweet apples cooked until transparent (in one
cup maple sugar, and water to make a good syrup); when cool, add 1 cup
dry maple sugar, 2 eggs, 1 heaping teaspoonful mixed spices, ½ cup of
butter, ½ cup cream, 1 teaspoonful soda, flour till the spoon will
stand in the middle without falling.
Shrove Tuesday Cake.
One quart of milk, 3 cups of flour, ½ teaspoonful of salt, 2 eggs, 3
teaspoonfuls of baking powder.
Mix the baking powder thoroughly with the flour, add the flour to the
milk, add the salt then the eggs, well beaten. Fry on a hot griddle in
large cakes. Butter and spread with maple sugar in layers until you
have a plate four or five inches high. Cut in pie shape and serve hot.
Maple Sugar Cream Cake.
One cup of maple sugar, 1 egg, ½ teaspoonful of salt, 1 cup sour cream,
1½ cup of flour, 1 teaspoonful soda.
Add the soda to the cream; when it foams add the egg well beaten; next,
the sugar and salt, last the flour. Bake in a quick oven.
Maple Fruit Cake.
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