|
Classic
Cook Books
< last page | next page >
page 61
Another Plain Cake.
No. 5. Two quarts milk, three pound of sugar, three pound of shortning, warmed
hot, add a quart of sweet cyder, this curdle, add eighteen eggs, allspice and
orange to your taste, or fennel, carroway or coriander seeds; put to nine pounds
of flour, three pints emptins, and bake well.
Cookies.
One pound sugar boiled slowly in half pint watar, scum well and cool, add two
tea spoons pearl ash dissolved in milk, then two and half pounds flour, rub in
flour ounces butter, and two large spoons of finely powdered coriander seed, wet
with above; make rolls half an inch thick and cut to the shape you please; bake
fifteen or twenty minutes in a slack oven--good three weeks.
Another Christmas Cookey.
To three pound flour, sprinkle a tea cup of fine powdered coriander seed, rub in
one pound butter, and one and half pound sugar, dissolve three tea spoonfuls of
pearl ash in a tea cup of milk, kneed all together well, roll three quarters of
an inch think, and cut or stamp into shape and size you please, bake slowly
fifteen or twenty minutes; though hard and dry at first, if put into an earthen
pot, and dry cellar, or damp room, they will be finer, softer and better when
six months old.
Molasses Gingerbread.
One table spoon of cinnamon, some coriander or allspice, put to four tea spoons
pearl ash, dissolved in half pint water, four pound flour, one quart molasses
four ounces ginger, four ounces butter, (if in summer rub in the butter, if in
winter, warm the butter and molasses and pour to the spiced flour,) knead well
'till stiff, the more the better, the lighter and whiter it will be; bake
< last page | next page >
Classic
Cook Books
|
