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
=Oat-meal.=—Take one pint of boiling water, and pour it on to one pint
of Oat-meal. Add a great-spoonful of butter, half a tea-spoonful of
salt, and two great-spoonfuls of sugar. Stir fast and thoroughly; then
add two well-beaten eggs, and boil twenty minutes. To be eaten as mush
for supper; and next morning thin it, and bake in muffin-rings.
Several of the above articles are good with only salt and water; and
many persons would like them better with the butter, sugar, and eggs
omitted.
=Wheat Muffins.=—One pint of milk, and two eggs.
One table-spoonful of yeast, and a salt-spoonful of salt. One
table-spoonful of butter.
Mix these ingredients with sufficient flour to make a thick batter.
Let it rise four or five hours, and bake in muffin-rings. This can
be made of unbolted flour or grits, adding two great-spoonfuls of
molasses, and it is very fine. Make it so thick that a table-spoon
will stand erect in it.
=Sally Lunn, improved.=—Seven tea-cups of unbolted flour, or fine
flour.
One pint of water.
Half a cup of melted butter, and half a cup of sugar.
One pinch of salt.
Three well-beaten eggs.
Two table-spoonfuls of brewers’ yeast, or twice as much of home-brewed.
Pour into square buttered pans, and let it rise two or three hours
with brewers’ yeast; with home-brewed, five hours are required. It is
still better baked in patties.
=Cream Griddle-Cakes.=—One pint of thick cream.
One tea-spoonful of salt.
One table-spoonful of sugar.
Three well-beaten eggs.
Make a thin batter of unbolted or of fine flour, and bake on a griddle.
=Royal Crumpets.=—Three tea-cups of raised dough.
Two table-spoonfuls of melted butter.
Half a tea-cup of white sugar, mixed with three well-beaten eggs.
Bake in two buttered pans for half an hour.
=Muffins of fine Flour or unbolted Flour.=—One pint of milk or water.
One pinch of salt.
Two well-beaten eggs.
One table-spoonful of yeast.
Make a thick batter of fine flour or unbolted flour, and let it rise
four or five hours. Bake in muffin-rings.
=Unbolted Flour Waffles.=—One pint of unbolted flour.
One pint of sour milk, or buttermilk, or water.
Half a tea-spoonful of soda, or more if needed, to sweeten the milk.
Three well-beaten eggs.
Two table-spoonfuls of sugar.
=Drop-Cakes of fine Wheat or of Rye.=—One pint of milk or water.
One pinch of salt.
Two table-spoonfuls of sugar.
Three well-beaten eggs.
Stir in rye, or fine or unbolted flour to a thick batter, and bake in
cups or patties half an hour.
=Sachem’s Head Corn-Cake.=—One quart of sifted corn-meal, scalded.
One tea-spoonful of salt.
Three pints of scalded sweet milk or water.
Half a tea-spoonful of soda in two great-spoonfuls of warm water.
Half a tea-cup of sugar.
Eight eggs, the whites beaten separately, and added the last thing.
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