Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper: Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; also, Many Directions for Securing Health and HappinessBeecher, Catharine Esther
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Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper: Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; also, Many Directions for Securing Health and Happiness
Beecher, Catharine Esther
Cooking; Home economics
=Rye and Indian Bread.=—The Boston or Eastern Brown Bread is made
thus: One quart of rye, one quart of corn-meal, one cup of molasses,
half a cup of distillery yeast, or twice as much home-brewed; one
tea-spoonful of soda, and one tea-spoonful of salt. Wet with hot water
till it is stiff as can be stirred with a spoon. This is put in a
large brown pan and baked four or five hours. It is good toasted, and
improved by adding boiled squash.
=Third Bread.=—This is made with equal parts of rye, corn-meal, and
unbolted flour. To one quart of warm water add one tea-spoonful of
salt, half a cup of distillery or twice as much home-brewed yeast, and
half a cup of molasses, and thicken with equal parts of these three
kinds of flour. It is very good for a variety.
=Rye Bread.=—Take a quart of warm water, a tea-spoonful of salt, half
a cup of molasses, and a cup of home-brewed yeast, or half as much of
distillery. Add flour till you can knead it, and do it very thoroughly.
=Oat-meal Bread.=—Oat-meal is sometimes bitter from want of care in
preparing. When good, it makes excellent and healthful bread.
Take one pint of boiling water, one great-spoonful of sweet lard or
butter, two great-spoonfuls of sugar; melt them together, and thicken
with two-thirds Oat-meal and one-third fine flour. When blood-warm,
add half a cup of home-brewed yeast and two well-beaten eggs. Mold
into small cakes, and bake on buttered tins, or make two loaves.
=Pumpkin Bread and Apple Bread.=—These are very good for a variety.
Stew and strain pumpkins or apples, and then work in either corn-meal
or unbolted flour, or both. To each quart of the fruit add two
table-spoonfuls of sugar, a pinch of salt, and a cup of home-brewed
yeast. If the apples are quite sour, add more sugar. Make it as stiff
as can be stirred with a spoon, and bake in patties or small loaves.
Children like it for a change.
=Corn-Meal Bread.=—Always scald corn-meal. Melt two table-spoonfuls of
butter or sweet lard in one quart of hot water; add a tea-spoonful of
salt and a tea-cup of sugar. Thicken with corn-meal, and one-third as
much fine flour, or unbolted flour, or middlings. Two well-beaten eggs
improve it. Make it as stiff as can be easily stirred with a spoon,
or, as some would advise, knead it like bread of white flour.
If raised with yeast, put in a tea-cup of home-brewed yeast, or half
as much of distillery. If raised with powders, mix two tea-spoonfuls
of cream tartar _thoroughly_ with the meal, and one tea-spoonful of
soda in the water.
=Sweet Rolls of Corn-Meal.=—Mix half corn-meal and half fine or
unbolted flour; add a little salt, and then wet it up with sweetened
water, raise it with yeast, and bake in small patties or cups in a
very quick oven.
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