ickness and cut into
small biscuits, prick in center and set in refrigerator an hour before
baking. Place biscuits on Criscoed tins and bake in moderate oven
thirty minutes. Biscuits may be baked in moderate gas oven and gas
turned off when biscuits are golden brown. Allow biscuits to remain
ten minutes in cooling oven to dry out.
Sufficient for sixty small biscuits, a fraction larger than a dollar.
Muffins
1 cupful scalded milk
2 tablespoonfuls Crisco
1 cupful boiling water
1/4 cupful sugar
1-1/2 teaspoonfuls salt
1/2 yeast cake
1 egg
4 cupfuls flour
Add Crisco, salt, and half of sugar to milk and water; when lukewarm
add yeast mixed with remaining sugar, egg well beaten, and flour. Beat
thoroughly, cover, and let rise until light. Put greased muffin rings
on hot griddle greased with Crisco. Fill half full with raised muffin
mixture and cook slowly until well risen and browned underneath. Turn
muffins and rings and brown other side. When muffins are cold, split
open, toast, and serve with marmalade.
Sufficient for sixteen muffins.
Nut Doughnuts
1-1/4 cupfuls sugar
4 tablespoonfuls Crisco
1-1/2 cupfuls milk
2 eggs
4 teaspoonfuls baking powder
1 cupful chopped English walnut meats
1 teaspoonful vanilla extract
1 teaspoonful lemon extract
1/2 teaspoonful salt
Flour to make soft dough
Cream Crisco and sugar together, add eggs well beaten, milk, salt,
extracts, baking powder, nuts, and sufficient flour to make soft
dough. Roll out, cut with cutter and fry in hot Crisco to a golden
color. Drain and sift with sugar.
Sufficient for seventy-five doughnuts.
Oatmeal Cookies
1-1/4 cupfuls sugar
1 cupful Crisco
3 cupfuls rolled oats
2 eggs
1/2 cupful sour milk
1 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon
1 teaspoonful powdered ginger
1 cupful stoned chopped dates
1 teaspoonful baking soda
2 cupfuls flour
1 teaspoonful salt
Cream Crisco and sugar thoroughly together, add eggs well-beaten,
rolled oats, dates, salt, spices, soda dissolved in milk, and flour.
Mix and drop from spoon on Criscoed baking tins. Bake in moderate oven
from ten to twelve minutes.
Sufficient for forty-five cookies.
Oven Scones
4 cupfuls flour
5 tablespoonfuls Crisco
1 tablespoonful sugar
1/2 teaspoonful salt
1 teaspoonful baking soda
2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar
1 egg
Sweet milk
Rub Crisco finely into flour, add sugar, sal
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