Boil the butter and water together, stir in the flour while boiling;
after it is cool, add the eggs, well beaten. Put a large spoonful in
muffin rings, and bake twenty minutes in a hot oven.
The cream for them is made as follows:
Put over the fire one cup of milk and not quite a cup of sugar, one
egg, mixed with three teaspoonfuls of corn starch and one
tablespoonful of butter. Boil a few moments only. When cool, add
vanilla to the taste.
Open the cakes and fill them with this cream.--_M. H. K._
BUTTERMILK CAKES.
1 quart of flour.
2 eggs, well beaten.
1½ pint of buttermilk.
1 teaspoonful of salt.
Beat very light, after mixing the ingredients. Just before baking,
stir in a little soda, mixed in a little of the buttermilk.
Bake on a griddle, free from grease.--_Mrs. L._
SOUR MILK CAKES.
1 pint sour milk.
1 pint flour.
Butter size of a small egg.
1 tablespoonful of sugar.
1 saltspoonful of salt.
Half teaspoonful of soda.
Bake in hot and well greased iron clads.
FARINA CAKES.
Melt together one pint of milk and one tablespoonful of butter. Then
add four tablespoonfuls of farina and boil till quite thick. Set aside
to cool. When ready to bake, add three well beaten eggs, a few
spoonfuls of flour, and salt to your taste.--_Mrs. S._
RICE CAKES.
Put one pound of rice in soak the over-night. Boil very soft in the
morning, drain the water from it and mix with it, while hot, a quarter
of a pound of butter. After it has cooled, add to it one quart of
milk, a little salt, and six eggs. Sift over it and stir into it
gradually a half pound of flour. Beat the whole well and bake on a
griddle like other batter cakes.--_Mrs. W._
_Another Recipe for Rice Cakes._
One cup of cold boiled rice, rubbed in a quart of milk, one pint of
flour, a teaspoonful of salt, two eggs beaten light. Beat all till
free from lumps. Bake as soon as made, on a well greased griddle.
BATTER CAKES.
Two eggs beaten separately. Pour into the yolks a pint of buttermilk,
then put in two handfuls of meal and one of flour, then the whites of
the eggs, half a teaspoonful of soda and a little salt. Fry with very
little grease, or with egg shells. Put two spoonfuls of batter to a
cake.--_Mrs. C. L. T._
_Another Recipe for Batter Cakes._
1 quart of flour.
1 pint of meal.
1 teaspoonful of soda.
1 teaspoonful of salt.
3 eggs.
Make up with buttermilk.--_Mrs. Dr. J._
_Batter Cakes made of Stale Bread._
Put a loaf of stale bread to stand all day in a pint of milk. Just
before tea add three eggs and one large spoonful of butter. If too
thin, add a little flour.--_Mrs. R._
_Old Virginia Batter Cakes._
Beat two eggs very light in a bowl. Add one teacup of clabber, one of
water, one of corn meal, a teacup of flour, one-half teaspoonful of
salt. Just before baking, sift in half a teaspoonful of soda and stir
well. It is better to grease the griddle with fat bacon than with
lard.
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