Brown Bread No 1

2 cups Indian meal, 2 cups rye meal, 1 cup flour, 1 cup molasses, 2 teaspoonfuls saleratus and sour milk enough to make it the consistency of Indian cake. Put some of the saleratus in the molasses and stir till it foams. Put the remainder in the sour milk. Boil three hours. Remove from the pan, place on a tin and bake fifteen minutes, to dry off the steam.

Brown Bread No 2

3 cups corn meal, 3 cups of Graham meal, 2/3 cup syrup, 1 teaspoonful soda, and salt to taste. Sufficient milk to make a thin batter. Boil three hours.

Brown Bread No 3

2 cups Indian meal, 1 cup rye meal, 1 cup molasses, 1 cup sour milk, 2 cups sweet milk, pinch of soda, and salt to taste. Steam four hours.

Muffins No 1

2 eggs, well beaten, 2 teaspoonfuls sugar, 2 teaspoonfuls butter, 2 cups milk, 4 cups flour, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, pinch of salt (baking powder and salt sifted with flour). Bake in a quick oven.

Muffins No 2

1-1/2 cups flour, scant cup milk, 1 teaspoon cream of tartar, 1/2 teaspoon soda, 1 tablespoon butter melted, but not oily, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 egg. Add butter the last thing.

Raised Muffins

1 pint milk, scalded, and a small piece of butter. When cool, add a little salt, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1/2 cake compressed yeast, 1 egg, and sufficient flour to make a stiff batter. When raised bake in muffin rings.

English Muffins

4 cups flour, 2 teaspoonfuls sugar, 2 teaspoonfuls butter, 1 cup boiled milk, 1/2 cup liquid yeast. Set to rise over night; in the morning roll out three-fourths of an inch thick; cut with biscuit-cutter, and allow time to rise again; then cook on a griddle on top of stove, turning as hot cakes. It improves them to flour the board with corn meal.

Corn Bread No 1

2-1/2 cups flour, 1/2 cup meal, 1 cup milk, 3 eggs, beaten separately, 2 tablespoons butter before melting, 3 teaspoons baking powder, 2 heaping tablespoons sugar, a little salt.

Corn Bread No 2

1 cup corn meal, 1/2 cup flour, 1 spoon sugar, 1 spoon salt, 1 small spoon soda, 2 small spoons cream of tartar, 1 egg, enough milk to make a thin batter. Add melted butter at the last.

Corn Meal Muffins

1 pint milk, 1/2 pint Indian meal, 4 eggs, 1 tablespoonful butter, salt, and 1 teaspoonful sugar. Pour the milk boiling on the meal. When cool add the butter melted, salt, sugar and yolks of eggs; lastly, the whites, well beaten. Bake in a well-heated oven.

Rice Corn Bread

1 cup of mashed boiled rice, 1 cup of corn meal, 2 eggs, well beaten, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of butter, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, sufficient milk to make a thin batter.

Rice Bread

1 pint rice flour, 1 pint milk, 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons wheat flour, 1-1/2 butter and 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder. Bake in shallow pans from twenty minutes to half-hour.

Breakfast Gems

1 egg, 1 scant cup milk, 1 scant cup flour, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder. Beat the white of the egg to a stiff froth and stir in last. Bake in long gem pans, having them very hot before putting mixture in.

Coffee Cake

2 cups flour, pinch of salt, 1/2 cake compressed yeast. Make a sponge and rise till morning, then add 2 eggs, 1 cup sugar, a little melted butter, 1 cup flour. Set to rise till 11:30 o’clock. Sprinkle sugar and cinnamon on top, and bake.

Parker House Rolls

2 quarts of flour, make a hole in the center, and put in a small teaspoonful of salt, 1 tablespoonful sugar, 1 tablespoonful butter, 1 pint of milk boiled, but cold, 1/2 cup yeast, and let rise over night. In the morning knead fifteen minutes, let rise again, roll thin, cut round, put a little butter on one-half, double over and bake.

French Rolls

1 pint of scalded milk, let cool, then add 2/3 cup of yeast, 1/2 cup sugar, 2 quarts flour, small piece of butter, worked into the flour. Pour the milk into center of flour, and let stand over night; then knead, letting it rise very light; then knead again, and mould, letting it rise again, and bake.

Graham Rolls

2 cups Graham flour, 1 tablespoon white sugar, 1 teaspoon soda and 2 of cream of tartar. Mix all together, and to it add cold water; make thin and bake in a gem baker, which has been already heated and greased. Bake in a hot oven.

Buns

4 cups flour, 1/2 cup sugar, sifted together, pinch of salt; make a hole in flour and drop in 1 egg, 1 cup milk, 1/2 cake compressed yeast, melted butter, the size of an egg. Raise until morning. When mixed over add a handful of currants, and set to rise until 10:30. Roll soft, cut with biscuit-cutter, and raise again till 11:45. After baking ten minutes, rub the top with sugar and water.

Waffles

2 cups sifted flour, 1-1/2 cups milk, 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons melted butter, 1 teaspoon baking powder.

Apple Biscuit

2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 of salt, 1 tablespoon lard, 1 of sugar, 1 egg. Break the egg into the flour. Add sufficient milk to make a stiff batter, and pour into a shallow pan. Pare and slice apples, covering the top of the batter with them. When almost done, sprinkle sugar over them.

Hominy Cake

1 pint cold hominy, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon rice flour, small piece of butter. Bake in pans, like corn cake.

Huckleberry Cake

4 cups flour, 1 of sugar, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon butter, 2 teaspoons yeast powder, 2 scant cups of milk. Stir in as many berries as the batter will hold together, and bake in a pan. Canned berries are very good in this way. Serve hot for lunch. To be eaten with butter.