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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

Cream Crisco and sugar thoroughly together, add eggs well beaten
and milk. Then stir in slowly dry ingredients which have been sifted
together three times. Divide into greased gem pans and bake in
moderately hot oven twenty-five minutes.

Sufficient for twelve muffins.

Hominy Bread for Breakfast

3 cupfuls cooked hominy
2 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco
1-1/2 cupfuls cornmeal
2 eggs
1 teaspoonful salt
2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
2 cupfuls milk

Beat eggs, add milk and hominy. Sift in cornmeal, add baking powder
and salt; add Crisco. Beat all together three minutes. Pour into deep
Criscoed pan and bake one hour in slow oven. Serve h