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For syrup. Boil sugar and water for almost forty-five minutes, then add lemon juice. Soak cake with syrup and when cold serve with cream in center. Sufficient for one savarin. Breads, ete. Shortbread Cookies 2% cupfuls flour % teaspoonful salt ¥% cupful Crisco 1 egg Y% cupful sugar 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract Beat Crisco, sugar, and salt tocream. Add gradually egg well beaten, flour, and flavoring. Knead lightly on floured baking board, then roll out one-fourth inch thick and cut into small rounds. Mark them with fork, lay on Criscoed tins and bake in moderate oven from ten to fifteen minutes. Sufficient for forty cookies. Soda Beaten Biscuit 1 quart flour 1 teaspoonful salt 3 tablespoonfuls Crisco % teaspoonful baking soda Buttermilk Sift flour with soda and salt, then rub in Crisco thoroughly with finger tips, and mix to stiff dough with buttermilk. Beat with rolling-pin or hammer until dough blisters. Roll out one-third inch in thickness, cut with round cutter, and lay on Criscoed tins. Bake in moderate oven from thirty to forty minutes. Sufficient for forty biscuits. Sour Milk Biscuits (Kate B. Vaughn) 2 cupfuls flour 1 teaspoonful salt 3 tablespoonfuls Crisco 1% teaspoonful baking soda 1 cupful sour milk Sift flour and salt into basin, rub Crisco lightly into them. Stir soda into milk until it effervesces and then add to flour. Turn out on floured baking board, knead lightly until smooth, roll out quarter of an inch thick, cut with biscuit cutter, place on greased tin and bake twelve to fifteen minutes in hot oven. Sufficient to make twelve biscuits. Sour Milk Griddle Cakes 2 cupfuls flour Y% teaspoonful salt 1 tablespoonful melted Crisco 1 teaspoonful baking soda 2 cupfuls sour milk 1 egg 1 tablespoonful sugar Sift dry ingredients, add milk, well beaten egg, and melted Crisco. » Drop byspoonfuls on hot griddle, greased with Crisco. Cook until browned, then turn and cook on other side. Serve hot with syrup. Sufficient for eighteen cakes. Breads, etc. Sour Milk Tea Cakes 1 cupful cornmeal 2 cupfuls flour 4 tablespoonfuls Crisco 34 cupful sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoonful baking soda 1% cupfuls sour milk 1 teaspoonful salt ‘1 teaspoonful lemon extract Beat up the eggs, add meal and milk and mix well, add flour, sugar, soda, and salt sifted together. Now add extract and Crisco, melted, and beat two minutes. Divide into Criscoed and floured gem pans and bake in moderate oven fifteen minutes. Sufficient for sixteen cakes. Steamed Nut Bread ¥y pint graham flour Y% teaspoonful salt 1% cupful Crisco 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder ¥% cupful white flour 1 cupful milk 1 cupful chopped English 1 cupful sugar walnut meats 1 egg Cream Crisco and sugar together, add egg well beaten, milk, salt, flours, baking powder, and nuts. Mix and turn into Criscoed mold, cover with greased paper and steam two hours. This nut bread 1s delicious served hot with butter. It may be served as a pudding with cream or liquid sauce. Sufficient for one loaf. Southern Spoon Bread 3 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco 1 quart milk 2 cupfuls cornmeal 1 teaspoonful salt 3 eggs Heat milk to boiling point, then stir in meal and salt; add Crisco and cook five minutes. Cool mixture, add yolks of eggs well beaten, then beat whites of eggs to stiff froth and fold in. Pour batter into Criscoed twoquart pan and bake in moderate oven forty minutes. Serve while hot, using a spoon with which to serve it. This is especially good served with roast pork. Sufficient for one large pan of bread. Spice Cookies 3 eggs 1 teaspoonful salt 1% cupfuls brown sugar 1 teaspoonful powdered 1 cupful Crisco cinnamon 1 cupful molasses 1 teaspoonful powdered ginger Y% cupful sour milk 1 teaspoonful powdered cloves 2 teaspoonfuls baking soda 1 teaspoonful grated nutmeg 1% teaspoonful black pepper ¥% teaspoonful baking powder