One quart of flour, one tablespoonful lard and butter mixed, a little
salt. Make a stiff paste with water. Beat the dough till it blisters.
Roll thin, stick, and bake quickly.--_Mrs. A. C._
SODA CRACKERS.
1 quart of flour.
1 tablespoonful of lard and butter mixed.
1 egg; a little salt.
1 teaspoonful of soda, sifted into the flour.
Make a stiff paste with buttermilk, beat until light, roll tolerably
thin, cut in squares, prick, and bake quickly.--_Mrs. A. C._
HUNTSVILLE CRACKERS.
Take a lump of risen dough, as large as your double fist, a heaping
teaspoonful of loaf sugar, beaten with the yolk of an egg. Mix with
the dough a lump of butter the size of a hen's egg and an equal
quantity of lard, a tablespoonful of soda, dissolved in a cup of
cream. Beat a long time, stirring in flour all the while, till quite
stiff. Roll out, cut in square cakes and bake in a brisk oven.--_Miss
E. P._
WATER CRACKERS.
1 lb. of flour.
1 teaspoonful of salt and the same of soda.
1 tablespoonful of lard.
Make up with sweet milk, beat well, roll thin, and bake quickly.
WAFERS.
1 quart flour.
Yolk of one egg.
1 heaping tablespoonful lard.
A little salt.
Mix with milk, as stiff as you would for biscuit. Beat well with the
biscuit beater, roll out thin and put in the wafer irons. Put in the
fire and bake.--_Mrs. W. S._
NUN'S PUFFS.
Boil one pint of milk with half a pound of butter. Stir them into
three-quarters of a pound of flour and let them cool. Then add nine
eggs, yolks and whites to be beaten separately, and whites to be added
last. Fill cups or tins half full and bake. When done, sprinkle with
white sugar while hot. Very nice for tea.--_Mrs. A. D._
_Miscellaneous Flour Breads._
LAPLAND BREAD.
1 quart of flour.
1 quart of cream.
1 teaspoonful of salt.
Twelve eggs (whites and yolks beaten separately and very light). Put
the whites in the batter the last thing, beat very light, bake in a
quick oven, in small tins, which must be perfectly dry and sprinkled
with a little flour before being greased. A delicious bread.--_Mrs.
Dr. J._
_A Plainer Recipe for the Same._
1 pint of flour.
1 pint of milk.
2 eggs.
Beat the eggs well and stir in the flour and milk. Bake in little
pans.
NEW BREAD.
1 quart of flour.
1 dessertspoonful of lard and the same of butter.
1 teaspoonful of soda.
Work the lard and butter in the flour, and sprinkle in the soda, with
salt to taste. Mix with buttermilk or clabber to the consistency of
biscuit. Roll it round to the size of a teaplate. Made just before
eating.--_Mrs. F._
HENRIETTA BREAD.
1 pint of flour.
1 pint of sweet milk.
2 eggs, beaten separately.
1 tablespoonful of lard or butter.
Make the consistency of poor man's pudding. Bake in cups.--_Mrs. K._
JENNY LIND BREAD.
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