2 eggs
1 cupful flour
1 cupful chopped nut meats
1/4 teaspoonful salt
1/2 teaspoonful vanilla extract
Cream Crisco and sugar together, add eggs well beaten, molasses,
extract, flour, salt and nuts. Divide into small fancy Criscoed tins,
or bake in Criscoed sheet tin and cut in squares. Bake in moderate
oven half hour. These are a cross between cake and candy.
Sufficient for twelve squares.
Crisco Batter Cakes
3 eggs
1/2 cupful melted Crisco
1 cupful flour
1 cupful buttermilk
1/2 teaspoonful baking soda
1 teaspoonful baking powder
1/2 teaspoonful salt
Beat up yolks of eggs, add milk, Crisco, and flour mixed with salt,
soda, and baking powder and beat till smooth. Fold in whites beaten
to a stiff froth. Drop in large spoonfuls on ungreased skillet or
griddle. Serve hot with butter or maple syrup.
Sufficient for fifteen cakes.
Crisco Milk Bread
3 tablespoonfuls sugar
3 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco
2 tablespoonfuls salt
1 yeast cake
1 quart milk
About 7 pints flour
Mix yeast cake with 1 tablespoonful sugar. Heat milk, add remainder
of sugar, Crisco, and salt. Cool and add yeast and flour to make stiff
dough. Turn out on floured baking board, cut in three pieces, knead
first one piece then others stretching dough; let rise over night or
in warm temperature five hours. Knead lightly and divide into Criscoed
pans. Allow to rise and bake in moderate oven one hour. From same
dough, French bread, breadsticks, horse shoe rolls and French rolls
can be made.
Sufficient for three loaves.
Dessert Biscuits
1 cupful confectioners' sugar
1 cupful Crisco
1 cupful flour
5 whites of eggs
1/2 teaspoonful vanilla extract
1 teaspoonful salt
Cream Crisco and gradually add sugar, mix thoroughly, and incorporate,
one by one, whites of eggs. Now add flour, salt, and vanilla. Mix
well, then place in small, long heaps on a Criscoed tin. Bake in cool
oven to pale brown color.
Sufficient for sixty biscuits.
Entire Wheat Bread
1/4 cupfuls boiling water
2 tablespoonfuls Crisco
1-1/4 cupfuls milk
2 teaspoonfuls salt
2 tablespoonfuls sugar
1 yeast cake
1/4 cupful tepid water
Whole wheat flour
Mix boiling water, milk, sugar, salt, and Crisco together. Add yeast
cake dissolved in tepid water, with 3-1/2 cupfuls whole wheat flour.
Mix and let stand until light. Add more flour until soft dough is
formed, then knead and di
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