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1886

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Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
2 large cups milk or water. 2-cent cake compressed yeast. 5^ cup melted butter or lard. 4 or 5 eggs, or yolks left over. Salt. Dissolve the yeast in the milk (or water) lukewarm ; stir up_ all to a thick batter i and beat it well with a large egg whip or I spoon. Let rise in a moderately warm place about 4 hours, beat up again half an hour before baking time. If you use potato yeast a cupful will be required. If mixed at 2 o'clock in summer the bat- ter will be ready to bake at 6. Anyone who has made muffins out of the roll dough as at No. 582; can take the same advantage making waffle batter, using about 4 cups of roll dough, warm milk to thin it down like batter cakes and the enriching ingredients the same as in this receipt. It will be ready to bake in an hour after, if warm. Any kind of batter cake mixture can be baked in waffle irons if they are in good order and not burnt, and waffles can be made without eggs if the same as batter cakes, but when they stick to the irons the remedy is to add an egg or two, and waffles without eggs cannot be baked in much haste but must have time and dry out of the irons. Syrup or sugar in the^ batter causes them to bake brown. It is a vast improvement and prevents sticking to beat the batter very thor- oughly. Make the waffle irons hot, put in a tea- spoonful of melted lard and turn over, pour batter in each compartment, shut up and bake both sides. Waflies are known only by the name of wafers in some places. 680— Cocoanut Cookies without bggs. The same as No. 64 «; ; but, before al! SAN FRANCISCO HOTEL GAZETTE'S 72 the flour is in add a cup (4 oz.) of com- mon bulk, or new grated cocoanutCocoanut Cookies without Eggs. 681— Good Fruit Cake without Eggs. 1 small cup sugar — 6 ounces. Yt, cup butter — 4 ounces. 2 cups milk or water — a pint. 2 heaped teaspoons baking powder. S cups flour — ij^ pounds. 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon. I teaspoon each cloves and allspice. I or 2 cups raisins and the same of cur- ranGood Fruit Cake without Eggsts. Cut the raisins in halves, dust them and currants with flour. Mix up the cake the usual way by stirring butter, sugar and milk together first. Frost over when baked with frosting made without eggs, No. 635. towel before frying, although it has been done at some places of great repute. Breakfast. July 19. ^ Raspberries and cherries (2 qts, 18 cents.) Cracked wheat (2 cups, 3 cents.) Beefsteak (9 orders, 1]/^ lbs, net, 20 cents.) Mutton chops (6 orders, i lb, 13 cents.) Liver and bacon (11 orders, ij^ lbs, 15 cents.) Ham and eggs (6 orders, 12 egg 15, 12 oz, ham, net 15 — 30 cents.) Potatoes, Saratoga chips and baked (7 cents.) Corn bread (with 3 cups meal, 2 eggs, 2 yolks, etc., 18 orders, 12 cents.) French rolls (30 rolls, 13 cents.) Butter 20 oz, 25, syrup 5, bread 6. Cream 3 pts, 30, milk, buttermilk 2 gallons 24. Coflee 12, tea 3, sugar 12. Total, $2 48 ; 34 persons ; little over 7 cents a plate. 682— Saratoga C»:ip Potatoes. Shave raw potatoes into the thinnest possible slices, drop a a few at a time mto a saucepan of hot lard and let fry to a deep yellow color. Drain them well, keep hot in a colander set in a pan, sprinkle with fine salt. They curl up like shavings if sliced thin enough. Not really necessary to dry each slice on a