This section is from the book "More Recipes For Fifty", by Frances Lowe Smith. Also available from Amazon: More Recipes For Fifty.
2 quarts rye flour 1 quart pastry flour 2 tablespoons salt
1 cup corn syrup 1 1/2 quarts milk 1/3 cup shortening
10 tablespoons baking powder
Mix and sift dry ingredients together; add milk, syrup, and melted shortening. Beat well. Bake thirty to fortyfive minutes in moderate oven. If sugar is used in place of syrup, add one cup milk or water.
2 quarts rye flour
1 quart pastry flour 1/3 cup baking powder
2 tablespoons salt
1 teaspoon soda
1 cup molasses
1 1/2 quarts milk
5 well-beaten eggs
1/3 cup shortening
Sift dry ingredients together. Beat eggs; add molasses and milk; combine mixtures, add shortening. Beat well. Bake in moderate oven thirty to forty-five minutes.
 
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