Man doth not live by bread alone.—Owen Meredith
—Owen Meredith
1 pint corn meal1 pint flour1 teaspoon soda2 teaspoons cream of tartar1 teaspoon salt1 tablespoon sugar¼ cup melted butter1 pint milk1 egg
Mix the dry ingredients together. Bake in rather quick oven.
1 beaten egg1½ cups sweet milk1 cup light brown sugar1 cup nuts (Chop before measuring)4 cups flour4 teaspoons baking powder
Let rise 30 minutes. Bake one hour.
1 lb. genuine old love7/8lb. common sense¾ lb. generosity½ lb. toleration½ lb. charity1 pinch humor
(always to be taken with a grain of salt.)Good for 365 days in the year.
(always to be taken with a grain of salt.)
Good for 365 days in the year.
1 cup flour2 cups corn meal (yellow)½ cup sugar3 teaspoons baking powder¼ teaspoon salt2 eggs2 cups milk1 tablespoon butter
Sift all dry ingredients—sugar, flour, meal, salt and baking powder.
Beat yolks and add milk, stir into dry materials. Now beat whites stiff and add. Lastly stir in melted butter. Bake in greased pans about twenty to thirty minutes.
1 cup sweet milk½ cup brown sugar1 teaspoon saltGraham flour to make a stiff batter1 cup sour milk½ cup molasses1 small teaspoon baking soda
Bake 1 hour and a quarter in a moderate oven. Stir in soda, dissolved, last thing, beating well. This makes 2 small loaves.
1 quart meal1 teaspoon salt3 eggs1 cup milk1 tablespoon lard and butter
Pour a little boiling water over 1 quart of meal to scald it. Add a little salt and stir in yolks of 3 eggs, 1 cup milk, 1 tablespoon of lard and butter melted. Add the whites last, well beaten.
Bake in a moderate oven till well done—almost an hour.
2 eggs1 quart of milk1 quart of floura little salt1 tablespoon molten butter1 teaspoon sugar
Beat the eggs very light; then gradually mix in the milk, flour and salt; add melted butter.
Pour into the waffle iron and bake at once.
Grease irons well and do not put in too much batter.
Two cupfuls of flour, two heaping teaspoons of baking powder, one-half teaspoon of salt and one cupful of sweet milk. Stir and drop in small spoonfuls into plenty of water, in which meat is boiling. Boil with cover off for fifteen minutes, then put cover on and boil ten minutes longer. These are very fine with either beef or chicken.
STATE OF ARIZONAEXECUTIVE MANSIONSince equal suffrage became effective in Arizona in December, 1912, the many critics of the innovation have been quite effectually silenced by the advantageous manner in which enfranchisement of women has operated. Not only have the women of this state evinced an intelligent and active interest in governmental issues, but in several instances important offices have been conferred upon that element of the electorate which recently acquired the elective franchise. Kindly assure your co-workers in Pennsylvania of my best wishes for their success.W. P. Hunt.Governor.Governor W. P. Hunt
Since equal suffrage became effective in Arizona in December, 1912, the many critics of the innovation have been quite effectually silenced by the advantageous manner in which enfranchisement of women has operated. Not only have the women of this state evinced an intelligent and active interest in governmental issues, but in several instances important offices have been conferred upon that element of the electorate which recently acquired the elective franchise. Kindly assure your co-workers in Pennsylvania of my best wishes for their success.
W. P. Hunt.Governor.
Governor W. P. Hunt
3 eggs3 ounces butter1 quart of flour1 pint sweet milk1 cake yeasta little salt
Beat the eggs very light; melt the butter in the milk; add a little flour and a little milk until all is mixed; then add yeast before all the milk and flour are added.
Make into rolls and bake in a pan.
This should be made up at night and set to rise, and baked the next morning.
3 eggs1 quart of milk1 tablespoon butter¾ cake yeastflour to make a batter stiff enough for a spoon to stand upright.
Make up at night and in morning drop from spoon into pan. Bake in a quick oven.
We'll bring your friends and ours to this large dinner. It works the better eaten before witnesses.—Cartwright.
—Cartwright.
½ cup butter2 eggs1 cup hot water1 teaspoon cloves1 teaspoon soda½ cup sugar1 teacup molasses1 teaspoon cinnamon1 teaspoon ginger2½ cups flour
Dissolve soda in couple teaspoonfuls hot water.
1 cup sugar1 cup molasses2½ cups flour¾ cups lard and butter2 eggs1 dessert spoon soda dissolved in cup cold water1 teaspoon ginger1 teaspoon cloves1 teaspoon cinnamon
Bake in slow oven and leave in pan until cold.
2 eggs, beaten, add¾ cup sugar¾ cup sour milk1 tablespoon ginger¾ cup molasses1 teaspoon cinnamon1½ level teaspoon soda well sifted2 level cups flour
Bake in gem pans. Greatly improved by adding nuts and raisins.
2 eggs½ cup molassesgrated rind of ½ lemon1 teaspoon cinnamon2 cups flour½ cup sugar¾ cup thick sour milk1 saltspoon salt1 tablespoon ginger1½ teaspoons soda (level)
Beat 2 eggs until light, add ½ cup of sugar, ½ cup molasses, ¾ cup thick sour cream, the grated rind of ½ lemon, 1 saltspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 tablespoon ginger, and finally, add 2 cups of well sifted flour mixed with 1½ teaspoons soda (level).
Bake in gem pans. If desired add nuts and raisins which improves them very much.
(With apologies to the English Suffragists)
½ lb. flour½ lb. treacle1 oz. butter½ small spoon soda1 dessert spoon ginger1 dessert spoon mixed spices½ cup sugar
A bit of hot water in which soda is dissolved.
Put flour in a basin, and rub in butter, and dry ingredients; then, soda and water; pour in treacle, and knead to smooth paste. Roll quite thin and cut in oblongs. Bake about ¼ hour.
1 cup sour milk½ cup butter2 eggs2 pints flour1 cup molasses½ cup sugar1½ teaspoons soda2 teaspoons ginger
1 cup boiled rice1 level tablespoon flouryolks of three eggspinch salt
Beat the eggs to a froth, put in the rice and flour, bake on rather hot griddle greased with butter—eat with sugar and cinnamon.
Very good for a dyspeptic.
¼ cup sugar1 egg2 cups flour2 tablespoons melted butter1 cup milk3 teaspoons baking powder
A good breakfast toast is made by dipping the slices of bread in a pint of milk to which a beaten egg and a pinch of salt are added, and frying.
Here is a sour cream filling for cake: Mix equal quantities of thick, sour cream, chopped nuts and raisins. Add a little sugar and lemon juice, enough to give the proper taste, and spread between layers of cake.
Many kinds of cookies can be made with sour milk. Here is the recipe for a good sort: Cream half a cup of butter with a cup of sugar and add a cup of sour milk in which three-quarters of a teaspoon of soda has been dissolved, and two cups or a little more of flour, sifted with half a teaspoon of cloves, half a teaspoon of cinnamon and a teaspoon of salt. Chill the dough before cutting the cookies. It must be rolled thin.
Corn bread can be made with sour milk in this way: Sift a cup of cornmeal with half a cup of flour, half a teaspoon of salt, a tablespoon of shortening (clear chicken fat that has been fried out is a good kind), and then add a cupful ofsour milk and a beaten egg. Lastly, add half a teaspoon of soda. It is well to add the soda last, where a light mixture is desired, as it begins to give off carbon dioxide, the gas that makes the dough rise, as soon as it is moist and comes in contact with the acid of the sour milk.
Graham bread made with sour milk in this way is delicious: Sift together a cup and a half of graham flour and one of white. Add a cup of broken nut meats and a teaspoon of salt. Then stir in half a cup of milk and a cup and a half of sour milk, and, lastly, add a teaspoon of soda. The soda may be sifted into a little of the white flour and added last, if adding it with the flour is easier.
Beat the yolks of four eggs with 1 cup sugar to a cream, to which add 1 tablespoon of mocha extract (Cross and Blackwell's). Beat whites stiff and fold them in with ¾ cup of flour and 1 teaspoon baking powder. Bake in 2 layers in oven.
¾ pint cream well whipped, to which add 1½ tablespoons mocha extract. Sugar to taste. Ice top with boiled icing flavored with one tablespoon of mocha extract.
1 coffee cup sugar2 Eggs2 tablespoons butter2 lemons (juice)
Beat all together and boil until it jellies. For orange cake use oranges instead of lemons.
1 Lemon1 cup Water½ cup Sugar1 tablespoon Corn Starch1 EggGrated lemon rind1 teaspoonful butter
3 cups brown sugar1 cup sweet milk3 large tablespoons butter
Boil until it will make a ball in cold water. Then beat until thick enough to spread on cake. Flavor with vanilla.
3 grated apples1 cup sugar1 egg
Juice and grated rind of an orange or lemon. Let it come to a boil.
Old English Recipe, year 1600
Coffee cup is used for measure.
2 cups of sugar rolled fine or sifted1 cup of butter—creamed together3 cups of flour—sifted 4 times1 cup of cold water4 eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately2 large cups of walnut chopped or rolled2 teaspoons of cream of tartar—level measure
Cream butter and sugar, stir in yolks, beat hard for 5 minutes, add water, then flour, mix the tartar in it—then nuts, then beaten whites of eggs. Bake ¾ of an hour if loaf, or half hour if divided into two portions or layers.
4 cups sugar½ pint hot water4 eggs beatencitric acid about size of peavanilla
Boil water and sugar until it threads. Pour over the beaten whites of 4 eggs. Beat until almost cold then add citric acid dissolved in one teaspoon boiling water, flavor with vanilla and spread between layers and over cake.
This keeps a long time in a locked closet.
Cookery has become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.Burton.
Burton.
½ lb. Butter6 Eggs1 lb. Powdered SugarFlour enough to rollBeat eggs separate
Cream butter; add sugar. Separate eggs; beat and add. Then flour to roll.
7 eggs (whites)1 lb. sugar (pulverized)½ lb. butter1 cocoanut
Grate the cocoanut, beat the butter and sugar to a cream; beat the eggs until very dry and light; mix well together and bake on pie crusts rolled very thin. This amount will make four large tarts.
Suffrage Angel Cake(a la Kennedy)11 eggs1 full cup Swansdown Flour (after sifting)1½ cups granulated sugar1 heaping teaspoon cream of tartar2 teaspoons vanilla1 pinch of saltBeat the eggs until light—not stiff; sift sugar 7 times, add to eggs, beating as little as possible. Sift flour 9 times, using only the cupful, discarding the extra flour; then put in the flour the cream of tartar; add this to the eggs and sugar; now the vanilla. Put in angel cake pan with feet. Put in oven with very little heat. Great care must be used in baking this cake to insure success. Light the oven when you commence preparing material. After the first 10 minutes in oven, increase heat and continue to do so every five minutes until the last 4 or 5 minutes, when strong heat must be used. At thirty minutes remove cake and invert pan allowing to stand thus until cold.Miss Eliza Kennedy.Miss Eliza Kennedy
(a la Kennedy)
11 eggs1 full cup Swansdown Flour (after sifting)1½ cups granulated sugar1 heaping teaspoon cream of tartar2 teaspoons vanilla1 pinch of salt
Beat the eggs until light—not stiff; sift sugar 7 times, add to eggs, beating as little as possible. Sift flour 9 times, using only the cupful, discarding the extra flour; then put in the flour the cream of tartar; add this to the eggs and sugar; now the vanilla. Put in angel cake pan with feet. Put in oven with very little heat. Great care must be used in baking this cake to insure success. Light the oven when you commence preparing material. After the first 10 minutes in oven, increase heat and continue to do so every five minutes until the last 4 or 5 minutes, when strong heat must be used. At thirty minutes remove cake and invert pan allowing to stand thus until cold.
Miss Eliza Kennedy.
Miss Eliza Kennedy
1 cake compressed Yeast¼ lb. Butter1 tablespoon lard1½ cups sugarPinch of Salt1 pint luke warm milkFlour to stiffen
About six o'clock in the evening soak a cake of yeast in a little luke warm water, make sponge with a little flour, water and yeast. Let rise until light, about an hour.
Melt butter and lard and cream with sugar and salt; add luke warm milk and some flour, then stir in sponge and gradually add more flour until stiff, not as stiff as bread dough. Do not knead, simply stiffen.
Let rise until morning, then simply put in square or round cake pans about one and one-half inches thick. Do not roll, just mold with the hands and let rise about an hour.
Cover with little lumps of butter, then sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon and bake twenty minutes. Thin slices of apples can be placed on top, also peaches or almonds, blanched and chipped.
This is the genuine German cinnamon cake, and is excellent.
½ cup shortening2 cups brown sugargrated rind of lemon2 eggs, 3 cups flour1 lb. seeded raisins½ teaspoon cinnamondash of cloves and nutmeg
Boil raisins in 1½ cups water twenty minutes.
Mix shortening, sugar, lemon rind, eggs and spices, add one cup flour then raisins drained but still hot. Then the other two cups flour and ½ cup of the water in which the raisins were boiled to which add 1 teaspoon bi-carbonate soda.
Bake in gem pans in moderate oven. This makes 30 cakes which can be iced with white or chocolate icing.
1 cup butter (creamed)1 cup sugar4 eggs1 cup milk2 teaspoons baking powderFlour to stiffen1 cup walnuts1 teaspoon vanilla
Bake 20 or 30 minutes according to oven.
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Follow Solomon's advice for making good boys, and you will have a good cake.
Proverbs: 23 Ch. 14 Verse.
Governor Hiram JohnstonSTATE OF CALIFORNIAEXECUTIVE MANSIONSince its adoption in October, 1911, equal suffrage in California has been put to the most thorough and severe test. Every conceivable sort of election has been held in the past three years, and women have been called upon to exercise their new privilege and perform their added duty not alone in the usual fashion, but in various primaries, including one for presidential preference, in local option elections, and they have been compelled to pass on laws and governmental policies presented to the electorate by the initiative and referendum.The women have met the test and equal suffrage in California has fully justified itself. In nineteen eleven, by a very narrow margin the amendment carried.Were it to be again submitted, the vote in its favor would be overwhelming.Hiram Johnston,Governor.
Governor Hiram Johnston
Since its adoption in October, 1911, equal suffrage in California has been put to the most thorough and severe test. Every conceivable sort of election has been held in the past three years, and women have been called upon to exercise their new privilege and perform their added duty not alone in the usual fashion, but in various primaries, including one for presidential preference, in local option elections, and they have been compelled to pass on laws and governmental policies presented to the electorate by the initiative and referendum.
The women have met the test and equal suffrage in California has fully justified itself. In nineteen eleven, by a very narrow margin the amendment carried.
Were it to be again submitted, the vote in its favor would be overwhelming.
Hiram Johnston,Governor.
½ lb. butter1 pint milk4 eggs1 cake yeast¾ cup seedless raisins¼ pound blanched almonds (split)1 cup sugar1 pinch salt
Soak yeast in a little warm water and some of the milk 10 minutes, then set a sponge and let it stand about 1 hour (before breakfast); cream butter; add sugar and beat thoroughly; beat the 4 eggs light and add gradually to creamed butter and sugar; now add the other ½ pint of milk.
Beat well and add the raisins, dredge with a little flour; now add sponge and beat all thoroughly for ½ hour till it drops from the spoon a little thicker than a sweet cake.
Grease your pan with butter and take the split almonds and stick them on the side of the pan. Bake nearly an hour.
This makes 2 small cakes or one large one. Very fine German Coffee Cake. You should use a pan with a tube in the center.
½ cup butter1 cup sugarYolks 10 eggs½ cup milk2 cups flour3 teaspoons baking powder2 teaspoons orange extractcream butter
Add sugar gradually and yolks of eggs beaten until thick, add lemon colored extract. Mix and sift flour and baking powder and add alternately with milk to first mixture.
1 egg½ cup butter¾ cup sugar¾ cup milk1½ teaspoons baking powder1½ cups flour
Make in two layers and when ready to serve put grated pineapple on each layer of cake. Whip half a pint of cream, sweeten to taste and put over pineapples.
(Bananas can be used instead of pineapples).
3 lbs. flour1 lb. butter and lard mixed1 lb. brown sugar1 pint molasses1 good sized teaspoon of soda or 2 level ones.
Add ginger to taste—about 4 level teaspoons, also lemon extract or grated rind and juice if preferred.
Put flour, sugar and butter together and rub thoroughly. Make hole in center and pour in the molasses in which the soda has been beaten in. Stir all well together, break off enough to roll out; cut, space in pan and bake in very moderate oven.
These keep well, especially in stone crock. This recipe makes a quantity if cut with small cutter.
1 lb. flour1 lb. pulverized sugarflavoring1 lb. butter10 eggs
Cream butter and sugar to finest possible consistency. Add ¼ of the flour and beat well. Have eggs beaten to a froth. Add a few tablespoons at a time and beat thoroughly after each addition of egg. When eggs are all in, add balance of flour and flavoring and beat.
Bake in a slow oven one and one-half hours.
Hints:—Secret of fine pound cake is in the mixing, much beating being essential.
One-half the recipe serves fifteen persons amply.
A paler yellow cake can be had by substituting the whites of two eggs for every yolk discarded.
In the full recipe not more than four yolks should be discarded.
A very little lemon combined with vanilla or almond, improves the flavor of the cake.
Bake, if possible, in an old-fashioned tin pan with a center tube.
1 cup Sugar2 Eggs2 tablespoons melted butter1 cup sour or butter milk1 small teaspoon sodaFlour enough to make a soft dough1 teaspoon baking powder
Mix eggs, sugar and butter; add sour milk or buttermilk with soda dissolved. Then stir in flour with baking powder added.
Do not roll too thin.
Have lard boiling when you drop in the doughnuts. A slice of raw potato in the lard will prevent the lard taste.
1 Cup Butter1 tablespoon Lard2 cups Sugar1 cup Sweet Milk3 Eggs2 teaspoons Baking Powder1 teaspoon Vanilla1 Quart Flour
(handwriting): "We bear and rear and agonize. Well, if we are fit for that, we are fit to have a voice in the fate of the man we bear. If we can bring forth the man for the nation, we can sit with you in your councils and shape the destiny of the nation and say whether it is for war or peace we give the sons we bear." Joan in "War Brides." NazimovaMme. Nazimova
(handwriting): "We bear and rear and agonize. Well, if we are fit for that, we are fit to have a voice in the fate of the man we bear. If we can bring forth the man for the nation, we can sit with you in your councils and shape the destiny of the nation and say whether it is for war or peace we give the sons we bear." Joan in "War Brides." Nazimova
Mme. Nazimova
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1 cup butter1½ cups sugar3 cups flour1 cup sweet milk1 egg3 teaspoons baking powder1 cup chopped raisins
2 cups brown sugar2 eggs3 cups flour½ cup boiling water½ cup sour cream½ cup butter½ cup grated chocolate1½ teaspoons soda
Dissolve soda in boiling water and pour over chocolate and let cool. Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add the eggs and other things. Bake in layers.
12 eggs (whites)1 small cup butter4 small cups flour2 teaspoons baking powder3 cups sugar1 cup sweet milk½ cup corn starchFlavor to taste
This makes two good sized cakes, or four layers.
1 Cup Sugar½ Cup Butter2 Eggs2 Cups Flour1 heaping teaspoon baking powder1/3cup Milk1 lb. stoned and chopped dates rolled on a portion of the flour
Cream the sugar and butter. Add the well beaten yolks; then the whites; then the flour well sifted with the baking powder. Beat until smooth; add milk, then dates. Beat thoroughly and bake three-quarters of an hour in a steady, but not too hot oven.
1 cup Lard1 cup Butter2 cups Brown Sugar3 Eggs2 teaspoons Annise seed (ground)2 oz. whole coriander seed½ lb. Chopped Almonds½ lb. Mixed Citron6 cups Molasses2 teaspoons Soda1 Quart Flour1 teaspoon Cream of Tartar
1 cup butter1 cup sweet milk1 teaspoon soda1 grated cocoanut3 cups sugar4½ cups flour2 teaspoons cream tartar4 eggs (beaten separately)
In place of the soda and cream of tartar 3 teaspoons of baking powder can be used.
1 cup brown sugar2-3 cup butter and lard3 eggs1 glass of strawberry jam1 teaspoon cloves1 teaspoon cinnamon½ grated nutmeg½ cup sour milk1 teaspoon soda2 cups flour
Bake in a slow oven.
A march before day to dress one's dinner, and a light dinner to prepare one's supper are the best cooks. Alexander.
1 cup sugar½ cup sweet milk3 eggs½ cup butter2 teaspoons baking powderflour to stiffen
One large cup chopped hickory nuts and sprinkle a little salt and flour with them. This makes two layers.
1 cup brown sugar1 egg, not beaten1½ tablespoon flour1 round teaspoon butter1 cup English walnuts chopped
Bake on the underside of a pan in a slow oven. This makes 20 cakes.
"Do not misunderstand me. Woman suffrage is right. It is just. It is expedient. In all moral issues the woman voters make a loyal legion that cannot be betrayed to the forces of evil; and however they are betrayed—as we all are—in campaigns against the Beast, the good that they do in an election is a great gain to a community and a powerful aid to reform. I believe that when the women see the Beast, they will be the first to attack it. I believe that in this our first successful campaign against it, the women saved us."Hon. Ben Lindsay.Hon. Ben Lindsay
"Do not misunderstand me. Woman suffrage is right. It is just. It is expedient. In all moral issues the woman voters make a loyal legion that cannot be betrayed to the forces of evil; and however they are betrayed—as we all are—in campaigns against the Beast, the good that they do in an election is a great gain to a community and a powerful aid to reform. I believe that when the women see the Beast, they will be the first to attack it. I believe that in this our first successful campaign against it, the women saved us."
Hon. Ben Lindsay.
Hon. Ben Lindsay
1 cup sugar1 teaspoon butter2 teaspoons baking powder1 teaspoon vanilla2 eggs2½ cups rolled oats
Cream butter, add sugar and eggs. To this add vanilla and baking powder, and when these are thoroughly mixed, stir in the oats. This should make a stiff batter, and more oats may be added if batter is not stiff enough.
Mold into little cakes with a teaspoon and bake in buttered pans two inches apart, for ten minutes.
Arrange marshmallows on thin, unsweetened round crackers. Make a deep impression in center of each marshmallow, and in each cavity drop ¼ teaspoon butter. Bake until marshmallows spread and nearly cover crackers. After removing from oven insert half a candied cherry in each cavity.
These are excellent with afternoon tea.
½ cup buttera little salt3 cups sifted flour½ teaspoon cloves½ cup nuts1½ cups apple sauce1½ cups sugar½ teaspoon cinnamon1 cup seeded raisins2 scant teaspoons soda dissolved in a little water, boiling.
Bake in a slow oven.
Cream one-fourth of a cupful of butter, three-fourths of a cupful of sugar, one egg; add one cupful of milk, two and one-half cupfuls of flour in which two teaspoons of baking powder have been sifted. Beat smooth, then add as many raisins as desired and bake in two pie tins. When the top has begun to crust over, brush with melted butter and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Bake a golden brown.
One pound of granulated sugar, three-quarters of a pound of butter, one pound of flour, one pound of almonds blanched and split, and three eggs. Cream butter and sugar till very light, add the yolks of the three eggs and the whites of two. Add the flour; roll on the board and cut in oblong or diamond shapes. Beat the white of the remaining egg and bake.