This section is from the book "Capital City Recipes", by First Presbyterian Church (Raleigh, N.C.). Woman's Auxiliary. Also available from Amazon: Capital City Cook Book, A Collection Of Practical Tested Receipts By Many Of The Best Housekeepers.
Meal - Tablespoonfuls ....................................7
Eggs ................................................................1
Sweet Milk - Pints ..........................................1/2
Lard - Tablespoonfuls ....................................1
Baking Powder - Teaspoonfuls ...................... 1
Salt - Teaspoonfuls ........................................ 1/2
Mix powder in the meal and milk; add the egg (well beaten), then salt and warm lard. Cook in quick oven.
Take a quart of flour, a teaspoonful of salt, heaping teaspoonful of baking powders, three ounces of lard and make into a pliant dough with sweet milk. Roll out half an inch thick, either long or round, prick all over with a fork; lay in a pan and bake light brown in a quick oven. Split, butter, cut in pieces two inches wide and send to table hot.
Miss Adelaide Boylan
Eggs ........................................... 2
Buttermilk - Cupfuls .................... 2
Meal - Cupfuls ............................. 1
Lard - Tablespoonfuls .................. 1
Salt - Teaspoonfuls ....................... 1
Soda - Even teaspoonfuls .............. 1
Scald the meal with a little boiling water; add the milk, melted lard, salt and eggs (well beaten), and lastly the soda. Bake in a quick oven.
Mrs. Baumann
Meal - Pints ....................................................1
Eggs ................................................................1
Yeast Powder - Teaspoonfuls .........................1
Milk - Tumblerfuls ..........................................1
Lard (melted) - Teaspoonfuls .........................1
Salt - Teaspoonfuls .........................................1
Sugar - Teaspoonfuls ......................................1
Mix and bake on a hot griddle. Pour the batter from the end of the spoon to make round cakes.
"Aunt Matilda."
Flour - Quarts ................................................1
Yeast - Cupfuls ................................................1
Milk - Cupfuls ................................................1
Butter and Lard, mixed - Cupfuls..................1
Sugar - Tablespoonfuls ..................................1
Salt - Scant Teaspoonfuls ..............................1
Eggs .............................................4
Beat eggs separately, then mix; add yeast and sugar; sift salt into flour; melt butter and lard and add to the eggs, yeast and milk before putting in the flour; leave in bowl in which it has been mixed and set it to rise; when well risen beat hard and put in greased pan to rise again before baking. For tea make up at 12 o'clock and keep warm. MRS. W. H. CROW.
 
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