LEMON BREAD (A SWEET BREAD)
1/2 c. shortening
1/2 c. milk
1 c. granulated sugar
Rind from 1 lemon
2 eggs
1/2 c. walnuts (chopped)
1 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
1/3 c. sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
Juice from 1 lemon
1 tsp. salt
Cream shortening and sugar together. Add eggs and beat thorougly. Mix flour, baking powder and salt and add alternately with milk. Mix in lemon rind and nuts. Pour into greased and floured bread tins and bake in 350 degree oven for 40 to 45 minutes. Mix lemon juice and 1/3 c. sugar and drizzle over top of bread while the bread is hot.
Makes 1 loaf.
Date Bread
Pit 1 cup dates, cut in halves, add 2 tablespoonfuls sugar and large tablespoonful butter substitute and work into bread dough. Put in pan, let rise and bake in a slow oven. It may be served hot or cold and makes excellent sandwiches with a nut or fig filling.
CREAM TOAST
For 2 slices of well toasted bread take 1/2 pt. milk, 2 teaspoons flour, 2 teaspoons butter. Put the butter and flour in a saucepan and stir gently until the butter melts, let bubble together for a few minutes, then add milk gradually (having been heated) so as to have the sauce perfectly free from lumps. Dip the hot toast into boiling salted milk and place in a covered dish and pour the sauce, salted, over and between the slices.
TOAST
To make toast successfully one should endeavor to convert as much as possible of the starch into dextrine. To do this cut the bread into slices 1/3 inch thick and place on a toaster some distance from the fire, so that the heat may penetrate to the center of the slice before the outside has begun to change color.
Corn Fritters
One cup corn, 1 cup flour, 1 scant teaspoonful salt, 1 egg, beaten; 1/2 cup milk, teaspoonful Royal baking powder. Fry in deep fat, preferably cooking oil. Bananas may be substituted for corn.
Corn Dodgers
1 pt. corn meal
1 pt. sour milk
2 eggs
2 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon Wyandotte soda (or more)
Make batter thicker than pancakes, and fry small in hot lard (not deep lard) in spider.
Pone
One teacup of cooked hominy, the smaller sized hominy. While it is hot stir in 1 tablespoon of melted butter, and 2 eggs beaten very light, stir in 1/2 pt. of sweet milk very gradually, then yellow corn meal enough to make a batter as thick as boiled custard. Add 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder, and less than teaspoon of salt. Bake in a hot oven 3/4 of an hour in a pudding dish.
Hoe Cake
Moisten fresh Indian meal with cold water and add a little salt, kneed your dough well to make it light. Bake on a griddle over a moderate fire, turning it often till well browned on both sides.
Johnny Cake
2 cups flour
1 cup corn meal
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
3 eggs
1/2 cup sweet milk
3 teaspoonfuls baking powder
Mrs. Hazen's Johnny Cake
1 egg
1 cup of buttermilk or sour milk
1 tablespoonful of shortening
1 level teaspoonful of Wyandotte soda
1 salt spoon of salt
2 cups of cornmeal
1 cup of flour
1/2 cup of sugar
Bake 20 minutes to 1/2 hour.