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Sufficient for one large loaf.

Health Bread

2 cupfuls flour
3 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco
2 cupfuls whole wheat flour
2 cupfuls bran
1 teaspoonful salt
1/2 cupful sugar
1 egg
2 cupfuls milk
1 cupful molasses
1 cupful stoned chopped dates
2 teaspoonfuls baking soda
1/2 cupful hot water

Mix flours and bran together, add Crisco, salt, sugar, egg well
beaten, milk, molasses, soda dissolved in boiling water, and dates.
Mix well together and turn into two Criscoed and floured tins and bake
in moderate oven one and a quarter hours. This bread is excellent for
constipation.

Sufficient for two loaves.

Honey Doughnuts

3 eggs
1/2 cupful sugar
3 tablespoonfuls Crisco
1-1/2 cupfuls honey
1 cupful sour milk
1 teaspoonful baking soda
1 teaspoonful cream of tartar
1 teaspoonful lemon extract
5-3/4 cupfuls flour
1 teaspoonful salt

Cream Crisco, honey and sugar well together, then add eggs well
beaten, mix well, add milk, lemon extract, flour, salt, soda, and
cream of tartar. Mix and turn out on baking board, roll out and cut
with doughnut cutter. Fry in plenty of hot Crisco. If a piece of
bread browns in hot Crisco in sixty seconds, temperature is right for
doughnuts and fritters.

Sufficient for sixty-five doughnuts.

Hot Cross Buns

1/4 cupful sugar
3 tablespoonfuls Crisco
1 teaspoonful salt
3/4 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon
1 teaspoonful powdered ginger
1 egg
1/2 yeast cake
Flour
1/4 cupful chopped candied citron
1/2 cupful seeded raisins
1 cupful scalded milk
1/4 cupful lukewarm water

Add Crisco, sugar, and salt to milk; when lukewarm, add yeast cake
dissolved in water, spices, egg well beaten, and sufficient flour to
make a stiff-dough. Mix well, add raisins and peel, cover, and let
rise over night. In morning divide into pieces and form into neat
buns; place in Criscoed pan one inch apart, let rise, brush over
with milk or beaten egg, and bake in moderately hot oven twenty-five
minutes. Cool, and with ornamental frosting make a cross on each bun.
The cross may be made by placing strips of paste on buns before they
are baked.

Sufficient for twenty buns.

Imperial Muffins

1/2 cupful scalded milk
1/4 cupful sugar
1/4 cupful Crisco
1 teaspoonful salt
1/3 yeast cake
3/4 cupful lukewarm water
1-3/4 cupfuls flour
1 cupful cornmeal

Add sugar and salt to milk; when lukewarm a