Oatmeal Gems
One heaping cup of rolled oats soaked in 3/4 cup water for an hour or over night
3/4 cup sour milk
Wyandotte soda to sweeten
1 teaspoonful sugar
salt
1 cup flour
Bake in gem pans which are very hot when batter is poured in.
Graham Puffs
One cup graham flour
1/4 cup white flour
1 1/4 cups sweet milk
1 egg
1 tablespoonful melted butter
1 tablespoonful Royal baking powder salt
Graham Gems
One cup sour milk
pinch of salt
1/2 teaspoonful Wyandotte soda
1 heaping tablespoonful white flour
enough unsifted graham to make a good firm batter
Place tins on the stove and heat hot while making the batter. Put in tins and bake on upper grate in hot oven 15 or 20 minutes.
Croutons
Cut stale bread in 1/2-inch slices; cut off crusts, butter and cut in 1/2-inch cubes and brown in oven.
Cranberry Bread
2 Cups Flour
1 1/2 tsp. Baking Powder
1 Cup Sugar
1/2 tsp. soda
1 tsp. salt
2 Tbsp. Salad oil
1 egg beaten
1 Cup raw cranberries sliced or halved
1 Cup broken nut meats
Juice and grated rind of one orange
Sift flour, sugar, Baking Powder, soda and salt. Combine orange juice, rind, oil and enough boiling water to make about 3/4 cup. Add to dry ingredients, add egg. Add cranberries and nuts. Bake in greased loaf pan 9 x 5 for 60 or 70 minutes at 350 degrees.
Passover Bagels
1 1/2 c. water
1/2 c. oil
2 c. matzo meal
2 T. sugar
salt
4 eggs
Boil water and oil together; pour hot mixture into matzo meal. Add sugar and salt and let stand until cool. Beat the eggs and pour over mixture. Mix well and let stand until firm. Make round balls in hand. Press finger into center to make hole. Bake on greased tin at 350° until light brown.
Bran Bread
1 1/2 cups bran. 1 1/2 cups graham flour, 1/3 cup sugar, 1/2 tsp. salt, 1/2 cup dates, 1/2 cup raisins. Mix. 1 1/4 cups buttermilk, 1 tsp. soda, 1/4 cup molasses, 1 egg.
Bake slowly 45 minutes or 1 hour.
Bread Crumb Griddle Cakes
1 1/2 cups bread crumbs (fine), 1 1/4 cups scalded milk, 1 egg (drop in), 1 piece butter. Stir. 1 1/2 cups flour, 5 level tsps. baking powder, generous pinch salt. Mix.
Cream Sauce
Use just half the quantity of sauce that you have of celery
or other vegetables. For 2 cups of celery you will need 1 cup of
milk, or less, and some of the celery water if you like; 2 level
tablespoonfuls butter, 2 level tablespoonfuls flour, 1/2 teaspoonful
salt and a little white pepper, rubbed together and add to milk
when boiling, in a double boiler. Potatoes, string beans, parsnips,
turnips, oysters, left-over fish and meats of different kinds are
creamed in the same manner, adding cracker or bread crumbs to
the meats and fish and baking a few minutes.
Orange Bread
3 cups flour, 2 1/2 tsps. baking powder, 1/2 tsp. salt, 2 tbsps. butter, 1 egg, 1 cup milk, orange peel mixture.
Bake in moderate oven 45-60 minutes. Makes one very large loaf.
Orange Peel Mixture:
Take white lining from peel of 3 large oranges. Cut in small pieces, cover with water. Boil, and pour off water. Cover with water again and boil until tender. Add 1 1/2 cups sugar. Boil down until there are 2 cups of mixture. Cool and add to above.