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
=Corn-Meal Cake with Apples and Suet.=--One pint scalded milk, or a
half cup cream, or a pint of sour milk, one teacupful suet chopped
fine, a table-spoonful sugar, a teaspoonful salt, six good-sized sweet
apples chopped fine, three eggs well beaten, and a small teaspoonful of
soda. Beat thoroughly, and bake in a shallow tin pan.
=Muffins.=--One pint of milk, one table-spoonful of butter, one pint of
flour, a small teaspoonful of salt, three eggs, whites and yelks beaten
separately and very stiff, a small even teaspoonful of soda; add the
whites last, beat smartly and perfectly free from lumps. Butter the
griddle, and bake in well-buttered rings. When the bottom is done, turn
over the rings and bake the top, or put the rings on a well-buttered
bake-pan and bake in a quick oven. We think them lighter and better so
baked.
=Another Way.=--One quarter of a pound of butter, one teaspoonful salt,
three eggs, one pint sweet milk, one quart flour, a heaping table-spoon
of brewers’ yeast, or two of home-made yeast. Melt the butter and
put into the milk, beat the eggs and put them also into the milk,
then stir in flour and add the yeast. If for breakfast, set them to
rise overnight. If at all sour, add half-teaspoonful of soda. Bake in
well-buttered rings in a quick oven.
=Cream Muffins.=--One quart rich milk, or, if you can get it, half
cream and half milk; one quart of flour heaping, six eggs, one
table-spoonful of butter, one of lard; softened together. Beat whites
and yelks separately very light; then add flour and shortening and
a scant teaspoonful of salt, and stir in the flour the last thing,
lightly as possible, and have the batter free from lumps. Half fill
your well-buttered muffin-rings, and bake immediately in a _hot_ oven,
or your muffins will not be good. Send to table the moment they are
done.
=Another Way.=--One teacup sour cream, two eggs, one half-teaspoonful
of soda, thickened with flour about as stiff as waffles. Bake in a
quick oven.
=Raised Muffins.=--One quart milk, a halfpenny’s worth of bakers’ yeast
or half cup of home-made yeast, two table-spoonfuls white sugar, one of
butter (lard will answer, but is not as good), one teaspoonful of salt,
two eggs well beaten, and flour sufficient to make a stiff batter.
Make the batter overnight, leaving out the eggs. In the morning beat
the eggs, yelks and whites separately, very light, and stir into the
well-risen batter. Have the muffin-rings well greased, fill half full
with the batter, and bake twenty minutes in a quick oven. Serve hot.
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