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Yeast, Bread, Muffins and Griddle Cakes

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Yeast, Bread, Muffins and Griddle Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. WAFFLES. One pint sour milk, three eggs, melted batter size of an egg, one teaspoonful of soda. Mix about as thick as griddle cakes.

  2. Mrs. C. M. P. CRUMB GRIDDLE CAKES. Soak one pint of dry bread crumbs in sweet milk over night. In the morning, take one cup and a half of sour milk, half a teaspoon of soda, a little salt, and wheat flour to make a thin batter. FLANNEL CAKES. One quart sour milk, sifted flour enough to make a pretty stiff bat- ter, two eggs, a little salt. Just before baking add a small teaspoonful of soda. Mrs. R. A. M.

  3. BUCKWHEAT CAKES. Half a cup of soft yeast, or one cake of bakers' yeast (soaked soft) , equal parts of sweet milk and hot water, salt, make a thick batter. Keep in a cool place. Scald the jar once a week. Every night use equal parts of boiling water and sweet milk, salt and flour. Beat well at night, but do not stir them in the morning. Mrs. A. M. M.

  4. CORN MEAL GRIDDLE CAKES. Two tablespoons ot corn meal mixed up in milk enough to moisten, stand over night. In the morning take one cup of buttermilk, a t.mall half-teaspoon of soda, a little salt, and wheat flour to thicken.

  5. Mrs. A. M. M. RICE GRIDDLE CAKES. One cup boiled rice, one pint of flour, one teaspoonful salt, two eggs beaten light, milk to make an ordinarily thick batter.

  6. Mrs. A. A. J.

  7. Breakfast Dishes.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1163Calories
42 gProtein
24 gFat
194 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Sour Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Cakenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Towanda, Pa. Christ church. Young ladies society. [from old catalog]. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Corn + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together933 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Milk + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Buttermilk + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,721 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Milk + corntop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  5. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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