Motherly talks with young housekeepers: embracing eighty-seven brief articles on topics of home interest, and about five hundred choice receipts for cooking, etc.Beecher, H. W., Mrs.
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Motherly talks with young housekeepers: embracing eighty-seven brief articles on topics of home interest, and about five hundred choice receipts for cooking, etc.
Beecher, H. W., Mrs.
Cooking; Home economics
Or, pour boiling water over one quart of Graham flour; add a
teaspoonful of salt, three table-spoonfuls of molasses. Let it stand
till lukewarm; then add half a cup of home-made yeast, or part of a
penny’s worth of bakers’ yeast; dip your hands in cold water, and mix
it thoroughly. If too stiff, add more warm water. If too thin, mix in
more flour. It should not be so stiff as for fine flour bread. Let it
rise light; then put it into well-buttered pans to rise again. When
light, bake one hour. It requires a hotter oven and needs to bake
longer than other bread.
Or, one quart of flour, one teaspoonful of salt, three table-spoonfuls
of molasses, and two table-spoonfuls of yeast; wet with warm water,
or warm milk and water, till as thick as pound-cake. If wanted
for breakfast, let it stand overnight. When ready to bake, add a
well-beaten egg and a teaspoonful of soda; put into buttered pans and
bake well.
Or, one quart of buttermilk or sour milk, soda enough to make it foam,
and while foaming pour it on the Graham flour, stirring it together
quickly. The flour should be all ready in the pan, and one teaspoonful
of salt, and a scant half-teacup of molasses stirred into it before the
soda is put to the buttermilk. Make it as thick as pound-cake; bake
immediately one hour with a steady hot fire; add a well-beaten egg if
in a hurry for your bread, as it will bake sooner, and we think be
lighter for it.
=Steamed Brown Bread.=--One cup of Indian meal, two cups of rye, one
cup of molasses, two cups of milk, a half-teaspoonful of soda, the same
of salt. Stir well together and steam in some of the new “boilers” or
“cookers” or “steamers” three hours; taking care that the water does
not stop boiling. Add boiling water as the water boils away. If you
wish it hot for breakfast, steam the day before, and in the morning set
it in the oven for half an hour to form a good crust.
=Corn Bread.=--Sift two cups of Indian meal overnight; pour on it just
enough really _boiling_ water to moisten or wet it through; cover it
up and let it stand till morning; then add one cup of flour in which
an even teaspoonful of cream of tartar has been sifted. Dissolve half
a teaspoonful of soda in one cup of sweet milk, and stir with the meal
and flour; add half a small cup of sugar; beat two eggs--yelks and
whites separately--and put in the last thing. Bake in a quick oven.
=Rice Bread= (_Southern Receipt_).--One pint of rice flour, half a pint
of wheat flour, one pint of sour milk, two eggs, butter half the size
of an egg, and one teaspoonful of soda. The rice flour must be very
fine, and stirred in after the other ingredients are partly mixed. Bake
as soon as possible after the whole is stirred together.
Bread is sometimes made of _apple_ mixed with flour, by putting one
third of stewed apple-pulp to two thirds of flour, and fermenting
with yeast for twelve hours. This bread is said to be light and very
palatable. It is much used in France.
BISCUIT.
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