This section is from the book "The Economy Cook Book", by Edward A. Harris. Also available from Amazon: The Economy Cook Book.
Two cups of flour, 1 cup of corn meal, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon of butter, melted, 1 1/2 cup of sweet milk, 1/4 cup of sugar, 3 teaspoons of baking powder, salt.
Two cups flour, 3/4 cup corn meal, 3/4 cup butter, 1/2 cup white sugar, 2 eggs, well beaten, I cup milk, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 teaspoons of cream tartar or three teaspoons of baking powder. Bake in a hot oven 20 minutes. Use gem tins.
Take 1 cup sifted wheat flour, 1/2 cup corn meal, 2 level teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 rounded tablespoon sugar, 1 cup sweet milk, 1 well beaten egg, 2 tablespoons melted butter. Mix and beat for 5 minutes and bake in a quick oven for 20 minutes.
Take J cup corn meal, l 1/2 cup flour, 1/4 cup sugar, 4 teaspoons salt, 1 cup milk, 1 egg, 1 tablespoon melted butter. Mix ingredients, add milk and egg, well beaten, and butter. Bake in shallow buttered pan 20 minutes in hot oven.
Put into a sieve 1 cup wheat flour, 1 cup corn meal, 2 tablespoons sugar, 2 teaspoons baking powder and a pinch of salt. Sift this into a large bowl and add to it 2 tablespoons melted butter, 1 cup milk. Beat 1 egg in a cup and fill cup with milk., Add this to batter and stir just long enough to mix. Bake 20 to 30 minutes in a shallow pan.
Take 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup white sugar, 1 egg, 1 1/2 cup sour milk, pinch salt, 1 teaspoon soda, 1/4 teaspoon baking powder, 1 1/2 cup graham flour, l 1/2 cup white flour, 1 tablespoon butter, 3 tablespoons ground nuts. Mix and bake.
Mix 3 cups graham flour, 1/2 cup white flour, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup of nut meats, chopped fine, 1/2 cup raisins, 2 cups milk, 2 teaspoons baking powder. Bake in loaf 1/2 hour.
Mix 2 cups graham flour, 1 cup white flour, l 1/2 cup sweet milk, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 cup molasses. Salt to taste and steam 2 1/2 hours.
Make 2 cups graham flour; do not sift; sift in 1 cup white flour with 2 teaspoons of baking powder, 2 tablespoons of sugar, a little salt; rub in a piece of butter the size of an egg; beat 2 or 3 eggs very light; add them and sweet milk enough to make a batter, about 2 cups. Bake quickly in muffin rings or gem pans.
Three cups sour milk, 1 egg, well beaten, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 tablespoon brown sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon melted lard. To the egg add the milk, then the sugar and salt, graham flour with the soda mixed in, together with the lard. Make a stiff batter, so that it will drop and not pour from the spoon. Have gem pans very hot; grease, fill and bake 15 minutes in a hot oven. This recipe will make two pans.
A small tablespoon of butter or lard, 3 tablespoons of sugar, 1 egg, 1 coffee-cup of sour milk, 1 level teaspoon of saleratus, a little salt. Stir in enough graham flour to make a batter as thick as for griddle cakes. Put in buttered gem tins and bake in a quick oven.
Sift 1 quart graham flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 heaping tablespoon baking powder, add 2 ozs. butter, 2 beaten eggs, with milk enough to make a thin batter. Half fill the greased muffin rings and bake in a quick oven.
"Enough's a feast; eat some and pocket up the rest."
Take 1/2 cup sugar, 1 cup molasses, 1/2 cup butter, 1 teaspoon each of cinnamon, ginger and cloves, 2 teaspoons of saleratus in a cup of boiling water, 2 1/2 cups of flour, 2 well beaten eggs, the last thing before baking. 1 cup of seeded raisins may be added, making it extra fine.
One teaspoon soda, dissolved in 1 cup (N. O.) molasses, add 2 tablespoons butter, 1/2 cup sour milk, 1 teaspoon ginger, 1 1/2 cups flour.
One egg, 1 cup molasses, 1 cup sour cream, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon ginger, flour to make a batter that will just drop from the spoon. Good when warm..
Put into a bowl 1 cup of dark brown sugar, 1 cup molasses, 1 cup butter; pour 1 cup boiling water, in which 2 small teaspoons of soda is dissolved, over the sugar, butter and molasses, and stir thoroughly, then put in 2 teaspoons of ginger and 1/4 teaspoon of cloves, the 2 eggs, well beaten, and 5 cups of flour, bake in well greased patty pans in a hot oven.
One cup molasses, 1 cup sour milk, 1 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 cup butter, 3 eggs, 3 cups flour, 1 teaspoon vinegar.
One cup sugar, 1 cup butter and lard, mixed and beaten well, 2 eggs, 1 cup sour milk, 2 tablespoons of (N. O.) molasses, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon ginger, make it thick enough with flour for gem pans.
One cup lard, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup molasses, 3 eggs, 1 large tablespoon ginger, 1 tablespoon soda, dissolved in 1 cup boiling water, 5 cups flour. Drop from spoon or bake in gem pans.
Take 3 eggs, 1 cup of lard, salt, 1 cup of molasses, 1 cup of brown sugar, 1 tablespoon of ginger, cloves and cinnamon, 1 tablespoon of saleratus. Dissolve in a cup of boiling water, 5 cups of unsifted flour. Drop tablespoons of this mixture into a greased dripping pan about 3 inches apart.
 
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