Feather Cake
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One cup white sugar,
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One spoonful butter,
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One egg,
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Two even cups sifted flour,
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Two-thirds cup of sour milk or cream,
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Half teaspoon soda.
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One teaspoon cream tartar may be used instead of sour
milk.
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Flavor to taste.
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Vermicelli Soup
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Make a soup of veal, mutton or
fowls;
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Add a quarter of a pound of
vermicelli;
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Boil it fifteen minutes;
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Add a little mace, a cup of
cream
just before taking it up, and
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A small piece of butter;
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Salt and pepper to taste.
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Ginger Cookies
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Take three cups of molasses
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One cup sugar,
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One cup hot water
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One cup butter
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One tablespoonful ginger
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Two teaspoonfuls salaratna
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Add flour enough and knead them
so
that they will roll well,
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And they will be found good.
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Graham Biscuit
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These are quickly made and very
nice
for breakfast.
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Take a quart of graham or
unbolted
flour,
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And mix it to the consistency
of drop
cake, with buttermilk,
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An even teaspoonful of butter,
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And drop the mixture on a
shallow pan;
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Bake in a quick oven fifteen or
twenty minutes.
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Corn Bread
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Take four cups of sour milk,
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One of those partly filled with
cream;
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One egg, a little salt,
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Two even teaspoonfuls
pulverized soda;
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Mix the soda with a very little
corn
meal and
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Stir all together til it foams;
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Then add corn meal till a thin
batter
is obtained;
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And pour into hot tins, oiled,
an
inch deep, and
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Bake in a quick oven.
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Pork Pudding
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One cup chopped pork,
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One cup of molasses with one
teaspoon
soda stirred into it;
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One cup of raisins, three
fourths cup
of sweet milk,
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All kinds of spices;
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Flour enough to make a stiff
batter.
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Steam for four hours.
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For a sauce, take one cup of
white
sugar,
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Put into one cup boiling water,
and
pour upon two well beaten eggs.
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Flavor with lemon and add a
small
piece of butter.
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Hominy Cake
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Mix with cold hominy an equal
amount
of white flour, until perfectly smooth;
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Add a teaspoonful of salt, and
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thin off with buttermilk into
which a
teaspoonful of soda has been dissolved
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When of the consistency of
griddle-cakes, add a dessert spoonful of melted butter, and bake as
usual;
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With maple syrup they are
delicious,
and the absence of eggs will not be missed.
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Rice Pudding
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Take one teacupfull of soft,
boiled
rice,
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One tablespoonful of butter,
mixed
into the rice while hot;
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Add one quart of sweet milk
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One Teacup of sugar,
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The yolks of five eggs,
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Season with lemon;
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Bake until done.
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Beat the whites of the five
eggs to a
stiff froth, and stir in it five heaping tablespoonfuls of powdered
sugar.
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Spread over the custard;
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Return to the oven and bake a
delicate brown.
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Sugar Biscuits
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Dissolve one teacupsful of
white
sugar in a quart of new milk
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Then stir in a pint of lively
yeast
with sifted flour enough to make a stiff sponge;
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Let it rise until very light;
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Then work into a sponge three
quarters of a pound of melted butter,
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With sifted flour enought to
make a
stiff dough;
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Work the dough thoroughly,
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Cut into bisquits
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Let them stand on buttered tins
to
rise;
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Sift sugar upon each, and bake
in a
quick oven.
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