Cream Crisco and sugar together, add yolks of eggs well beaten. Beat
whites stiffly and add alternately with milk. Add sifted flour, baking
powder and salt, then fruits, nuts and extract. Divide mixture into
Criscoed and floured gem pans, and bake twenty minutes in moderate
oven.
Sufficient for eighteen drop cakes.
Fruit Rolls
1 cupful milk
1 yeast cake
1/4 cupful lukewarm water
1/4 cupful sugar
1/4 cupful melted Crisco
2 teaspoonfuls salt
2 eggs
1/2 cupful chopped cocoanut
1/8 lb. chopped candied citron peel
1/2 cupful chopped English walnut meats
1/2 cupful currants
1/2 cupful sultana raisins
1/2 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon
1/2 teaspoonful powdered mace
Flour
Scald milk, when lukewarm add yeast cake dissolved in tepid water and
1-1/2 cupfuls flour, beat well, cover and let rise till light. Add
sugar, salt, eggs well beaten, Crisco and enough flour to knead;
knead, let rise again. Roll out one-eighth inch thick, spread with
melted Crisco, sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon and mace, fruit and
nuts; roll like jelly roll and cut in one inch pieces. Place pieces in
Criscoed pan, let rise, brush over with melted Crisco, and bake in hot
oven twenty minutes.
Sufficient for sixteen rolls.
Ginger Snaps
2 cupfuls molasses
1 cupful brown sugar
1 cupful Crisco
2 teaspoonfuls baking soda
2 teaspoonfuls powdered ginger
1 teaspoonful powdered mace
1 teaspoonful salt
2 tablespoonfuls boiling water
Flour
Cream Crisco and sugar together, add molasses, spices, salt, soda
mixed with boiling water and sufficient flour to make stiff paste.
Roll out thin, cut with small cutter, lay on Criscoed tins and bake in
hot oven from five to seven minutes.
Sufficient for one hundred snaps.
Ginger Gems
1 cupful sugar
1/2 cupful Crisco
3/4 cupful chopped preserved ginger
2 eggs
1 cupful milk
3 cupfuls flour
3 teaspoonfuls baking powder
1/2 teaspoonful salt
Cream Crisco and sugar together, then add eggs well beaten. Sift
flour, baking powder, and salt together and add alternately with milk
to first mixture. Now mix in ginger and divide mixture into Criscoed
and floured gem pans and bake in hot oven twenty-five minutes.
Sufficient for sixteen gems.
Gluten Bread
2 cupfuls scalded milk
2 cupfuls boiling water
2 teaspoonfuls salt
1 egg
2 tablespoonfuls Crisco
1/4 cupful warm water
1/2 yeast cake
3 cupfuls gluten flour
Mix Crisco, boiling water, milk, and salt. When lukewarm, add yeast
cake dissolved in warm water, egg well beaten, and gluten. Let rise,
when risen and spongy beat well, add enough gluten to make a stiff
dough and knead well. Allow to rise, shape in loaves, place in
Criscoed bread pans, let rise, and bake for one hour in moderately hot
oven.
Sufficient for two small loaves.
Golden Corn Muffins
1 cupful flour
2 tablespoonfuls Crisco
1 cupful yellow cornmeal
3 tablespoonfuls sugar
1 cupful milk
2 eggs
1 teaspoonful salt
3 teaspoonfuls baking powder
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