This section is from the book "Mrs. Fryer's Loose-Leaf Cook Book", by Jane Eayre Fryer. Also available from Amazon: Mrs. Fryer's Loose-Leaf Cook Book.
1 tablespoon sugar
1 cup milk, scalded and cooled
1 cup lukewarm water
1 level tablespoon lard or butter
3 cups gluten flour
1 teaspoon salt
Dissolve the yeast and sugar in lukewarm liquid; add lard or butter, then flour, gradually, and salt. Knead thoroughly until smooth and elastic; place in well-greased bowl; cover and set aside in a warm place, free from draft, to rise until light, which should be in about two hours. Mold into loaves; place in greased pans, filling them half full. Cover; let rise again, and when double in bulk, which should be in about one hour, bake in moder-ate oven forty-five minutes.
This will make two one-pound loaves. For diet use all water and omit shortening and sugar.
1 cake compressed yeast 1 cup milk, scalded and cooled 1 tablespoon sugar 3 cups sifted flour
2 level tablespoons lard
1/3 cup sugar
White of 1 egg
3/4 cup chopped walnuts
1/3 teaspoon salt
Dissolve the yeast and one tablespoon of sugar in lukewarm milk; add one and one fourth cups of flour and beat thoroughly. Cover and set aside in warm place fifty minutes, or until light. Add sugar and lard (or butter), creamed, white of egg, beaten stiff, nuts, remainder of flour, or enough to make a dough, and the salt. Knead well; place in greased bowl; cover and set aside for about two and one half hours to rise, or until double in bulk. Mold into a loaf or small finger rolls, and fill well-greased pans half full. Protect from draft and let rise until light - about one hour.
This recipe will make one medium-sized loaf, or one dozen rolls. The loaf should bake forty-five minutes; finger rolls, six to eight minutes.
1 egg
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 tablespoon butter
1/4 pound walnuts
Beat the egg with the sugar; add the sifted flour, baking powder and salt alternately with the milk; last add the butter, melted, and the walnuts. If black walnuts are used do not add the butter. Bake in a deep pan in a slow oven for about forty-five minutes.
11/2 cups corn meal 1/2 cup flour 1/2 tablespoon sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 tablespoon butter 1 1/4 cups milk 1 egg
Sift the dry ingredients together; add milk, beaten egg and butter. Pour into a shallow buttered tin and bake about half an hour.
Follow the recipe for corn muffins with yeast. Bake twenty minutes in well-greased, shallow pan, instead of muffin tins.
1 cup corn meal
1 cup flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 tablespoon butter 1 cup milk 3 eggs
Mix the dry ingredients; add the butter, warmed but not melted, and the milk and beaten eggs. The batter will be stiff. Bake in greased tins; mark into squares; break and serve hot.
 
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