Excellent Breakfast Cakes
3 cups and 1/2 of flour
1 1/2 cups of milk
2 eggs well beaten
Butter the size of an egg
2 tablespoonfuls of baking powder
1 teaspoonful of salt
Bake in muffin tins or gem pans.
Muffins
Small 1/2 teacup of butter, 1 tablespoon of sugar, mix this light, a little salt, 1 teacup full of milk, 2 eggs very light, 2 big cups of flour, 2 heaping teaspoonfuls of Royal baking powder, put in the last thing before baking. Hot oven.
Binah Muffins
6 eggs
1 qt. of sweet milk
1 light qt. of flour
1 tablespoonful of butter
A little salt
Beat the butter to a cream; as you break your eggs drop the yolk of each into the butter, beating it until very light. Then add in small portions, alternately, the milk and flour and last of all the whites of the eggs, beaten as stiff as possible, and bake immediately.
BROWN BREAD
One cup of molasses, 1 cup of sour milk, 1 teaspoonful of Wyandotte soda, dissolved in a little hot water, 1 teaspoonful of salt. The above to be whipped with an egg beater for a few minutes, then add 1 cup of graham flour, 1 cup of corn meal, 1 cup sifted flour. Put in baking powder cans and steam 2 hours, and then put in oven 10 minutes.
POP-OVERS
One half pt. flour, 1/2 pt. milk, 3 eggs, a pinch of salt. Mix milk and flour carefully, then add eggs after 12 strokes with a whisk.
POP-OVERS
Two eggs, beaten light, 2 cups of milk, 2 cups of flour, a pinch of salt. Bake 40 minutes in hot gem pans in a hot oven.
TAFFY BISCUIT
One qt. of flour, 1 rounding tablespoon butter, 3 rounding teaspoons baking powder, 1 level teaspoon salt, a little less than a pt. of milk. Handle little, soft dough, quick fire. Roll the dough thin and spread with the following: 1/4 cup butter, 3/4 cup brown sugar. Roll like jelly cake. Cut in inch slices and bake.
SWEET POTATO BISCUIT
To 1/2 lb. potatoes, boiled, mashed and strained through a colander, add 1 tablespoonful of butter, 1 teaspoonful of salt, and 1 qt. of flour. Wet these up with as much milk as will make a pliable dough, that will be easily rolled out on a board, When rolled, out your biscuit with a cutter, and bake them in a quick oven.
DROP BISCUITS
Two cups flour, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, butter size of a walnut, little salt, 1 cup of milk. Stir in gradually, have thick enough to drop in pieces from the spoon.
CREAM BAKING POWDER BISCUIT
Sift together, 3 times, 1 qt. flour, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, 1 level teaspoonful salt. Mix to a soft dough with sweet cream. Cut out with a small cutter and bake in a quick oven. Miss Kittie Rosewarne.