upful Crisco
4 eggs
4 cupfuls flour
3 tablespoonfuls milk
1 teaspoonful salt
3 teaspoonfuls baking powder
1 teaspoonful almond extract
1 teaspoonful rose extract
Cream Crisco and sugar thoroughly together, then gradually add eggs
well beaten, now add milk, extracts, flour, salt and baking powder.
Mix and roll out lightly on floured baking board; cut into circles
with doughnut cutter, lay on Criscoed tins and bake in moderate oven
from seven to ten minutes or till light brown. These cookies will keep
fresh two weeks, and if milk is left out, a month.
Sufficient for seventy jumbles.
Boston Brown Bread
1 cupful ryemeal
2 tablespoonfuls Crisco
1 cupful sugar
1 cupful cornmeal
1 cupful graham flour
3/4 tablespoonful baking soda
1/3 teaspoonful salt
3/4 cupful molasses
1-3/4 cupfuls sweet milk
Mix and sift ingredients. Dissolve soda with one tablespoonful hot
water, add to molasses, then add milk and mix with dry ingredients.
Turn into greased mold two-thirds full, grease cover, and steam
steadily three and a half hours. A 6-pound Crisco pail can be used for
a mold.
Sufficient for one loaf.
Bran Gems
1/2 cupful bran
2 tablespoonfuls Crisco
1 tablespoonful whole wheat flour
1/2 cupful white flour
1/2 cupful milk
1 saltspoonful salt
1 egg
2 tablespoonfuls molasses
1 teaspoonful baking powder
Mix Crisco thoroughly with molasses, add egg well beaten, milk, salt,
bran, flours, and baking powder. Divide into well greased gem pans,
and bake in hot oven from eight to ten minutes. These gems are
excellent for constipation.
Sufficient for eight gems.
Brown Nut Bread
4 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco
2 eggs
1 cupful sugar
1 cupful sour milk
2/3 cupful New Orleans molasses
1-1/2 cupfuls flour
1-1/2 cupfuls graham flour
1/2 teaspoonful salt
1 teaspoonful baking soda
1 cupful sultana raisins
1 cupful chopped nut meats
Beat eggs and sugar together for five minutes, then add molasses, soda
mixed with milk, salt, flours, raisins, and nuts. Mix and turn into
Criscoed and floured cake tin and bake in slow oven one and a quarter
hours.
Sufficient for one medium-sized loaf.
Buttermilk Biscuits
1 quart flour
2 tablespoonfuls Crisco
1 tablespoonful sugar
1 teaspoonful salt
1 teaspoonful baking soda
1 teaspoonful baking powder
1 egg
3/4 pint buttermilk
Sift flour, baking powder, sal
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