A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes

2 eggs 1% cupfuls graham flour 1 cupful sugar ¥% teaspoonful salt 1 cupful sour milk 1 teaspoonful baking soda 24 cupful New Orleans molasses __1 cupful sultana raisins 1 cupful chopped nut meats Beat eggs and sugar together for five minutes, then add molasses, soda mixed with milk, salt, flours, raisins, and nuts. Mix and turn into Criscoed and floured cake tin and bake in slow oven one and a quarter hours. Sufficient for one medium-sized loaf. Buttermilk Biscuits 1 quart flour 1 teaspoonful baking soda 2 tablespoonfuls Crisco 1 teaspoonful baking powder 1 tablespoonful sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoonful salt 34 pint buttermilk __ Sift flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar together, then rub in Crisco with finger tips, add egg well beaten, and soda mixed with milk. Dough 28 Breads, etc. should be soft and little more milk can be added if needed. Roll out lightly and handle as little as possible. Cut with biscuit cutter, lay on Criscoed tins and bake in hot oven ten minutes. Sufficient for thirty biscuits. Chocolate Brownies 1 cupful sugar % cupful flour 6 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco 1 cupful chopped English 2 eggs walnut meats 2 squares chocolate 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract ¥\% teaspoonful salt 3 tablespoonfuls boiling water Cream Crisco and sugar together, add eggs well beaten, chocolate dissolved in boiling water, salt, flour, vanilla, and nuts. Divide and spread thin in 2 Criscoed square pans and bake in slow oven from twenty to twenty-five minutes. Cutin strips and serve with ice cream. ‘These are a cross between cookies and heavy cake. Sufficient for fifty brownies. Chocolate Wafers 1 cupful sugar 2 eggs 5 tablespoonfuls Crisco 1% teaspoonful baking soda 2 cupfuls flour ¥ teaspoonful vanilla extract 4 cake chocolate Y% teaspoonful salt Cream Crisco and sugar together, add chocolate melted, eggs well beaten, vanilla extract, flour, salt, and soda. Mix and turn out on to floured baking board. Roll out thin, and cut with small cutter. Lay on Criscoed tin and bake from seven to ten minutes in moderate oven. Sufficient for forty-six wafers. Citron Buns 1 yeast cake 1 teaspoonful lemon extract 6 tablespoonfuls sugar 1 cupful scalded milk 34 cupful Crisco 1 egg ¥% cupful raisins 5% cupfuls flour 1% cupful chopped citron peel Y% cupful lukewarm water 1 teaspoonful salt Scald milk, add half of sugar and salt; when lukewarm add yeast dissolved in water and 1% cupfuls flour. Mix, cover, and let rise till light; then add Crisco, remainder of sugar and flour, raisins, peel, and extract. Knead lightly, cover, and let rise. Divide into small pieces, let rise on greased tins, brush over with beaten egg and bake in hot oven twenty minutes. Sufficient for twenty-two buns. Coffee Bread 34 cupful milk 1 cupful sugar Y% cupful melted Crisco 1 teaspoonful lemon extract 1% cake compressed yeast 14 cupful chopped English 1 teaspoonful salt walnut meats 2 eggs Flour _ Heat milk slightly, then add flour to make batter and yeast dissolved in little lukewarm water. Allow to rise until light, then add Crisco, eggs 99 Breads, etc. ; well beaten, sugar, lemon, salt, and enough flour to make stiff dough. Knead ten minutes and let rise until light. Place in Criscoed pan and let rise again. Spread with melted Crisco and sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon and nuts. Bake in hot oven half an hour. Sufficient for one large loaf. Columbia Muffins 3 tablespoonfuls sugar 1% cupfuls milk 3 tablespoonfuls Crisco 1 teaspoonful salt 1 egg 31% teaspoonfuls baking powder 3% cupfuls sifted flour Sift flour, salt, and baking powder together. Cream Crisco and sugar, add egg well beaten, then milk and flour mixture. Divide into Criscoed and floured gem pans and bake twenty-five minutes in hot oven. Sufficient for twenty muffins. Corn Bread 1 cupful cornmeal 1 cupful sour cream 2 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco 2 eggs