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Page 8

Balls & Dumplings

Noodles

Beat 1 egg with little water,

pinch salt, stir this in flour

until very stiff. Mix with

hands - roll thin and cut.

Pot Pie

Pinch salt, lard (not as rich as

for fries) 1 teaspoon baking 

powder - flour - Mix thoroughly

add water - roll out - cut in

squares.

Pages 9, 10, 11

Muffins, waffles, hotcakes

yeast bread, biscuits, rolls

doughnuts, etc.

Biscuit

1 tblsp lard to 1 c flour

1/2 t salt, 1 t baking powder

mix well, add enough 

milk to make soft dough

roll 1 in. thick, bake very quickly

Corn Bread (spoon bread)

2 c. white corn meal, scald

with boiling water, 1/2 t. salt

little sugar, 1 egg - beat well

1 t baking powder. Melt 2

tblsp lard in pan bread is to be

baked in, pour into batter beat.

add enough milk to make batter

like cake. Put on top of stove, let 

congeal around edges well

then bake till done, about

40 minutes.

Muffins

2 eggs  3 c flour  3 t baking powder

2 c milk  1 t salt  

Beat eggs with salt, milk

mix in flour, Last whip in

baking powder. Have muffin tins hot

and grease bake about 25 min.

White Bread

Cook 2 medium sized

potatoes - mush. Have about pt potato water into

which desolve 1 cake yeast.

Mix in enough flour to make

fairly stiff batter. - Cover

let stand over night - warm place

Morning fill large pan

1/2 full flour - add 1 t. salt

1 tbls lard, small 1/2 sugar to

1 pt. warm water. Mix

till dough does not stick.

Let stand till rises twice

size - Work down. Let stand till rises again.

Break off (working little)

in loaves - let stand.

Bake 1 hour

Clabber biscuit

1 pt flour    1/2 t soda

1 tbls lard    clabber to suit

Corn bread

Scald meal, salt, add egg

little melted lard   1/2 t soda

3 large mixing s. clabber

start cooking on top stove & bake.

Waffles

2 eggs   1 tbls sugar heaping

shortening size egg

1 small qt milk

1 qt flour

3 t baking powder

beat eggs then milk

then flour then melted lard

sometimes a little cornmeal

Ice box rolls

2 c. boiling water

2 tbls lard

1 t salt - 1/4 cup sugar

let mixture cool then mix in

large pan

2 yeast cakes dissolved in

1/4 cup warm water with 1 t sugar

Beat 2 eggs - add

add 4 c. flour beat

  "  4 1/2 c flour

let rise 3 hours - grease

tops before putting in ice box.

Md biscuit

2 qts flour     salt

1 1/2 c lard  little baking powder

beat until bubbles

My notes:

I know a few of you were looking forward to the breads!  I am not sure if the White Bread is the one that Uncle Bill remembered; I hope it is!  I had never heard of clabber, so I googled it.  It is a brand of baking powder.  

I have to keep reminding myself that these recipes were Minnie May's notes.  She knew what her large pans were.  I found it humorous that things were measured in pints and quarts.  And please remember that I am writing this exactly how my grandmother wrote it.  

Growing up, our dumplings were like drop biscuits on top of  the pot pie.  When I moved to PA, I discovered that Pot Pie here had, what my Mom called, slippery noodles.  Since Grandmother was actually from Pennsylvania, this may be a recipe that she liked from PA.

Love to all!!!!!

Connie