Scald with boiling water one cup of corn meal and then make
quite thin with butter milk. Add salt and soda, one-half teaspoon of
each, two tablespoons of melted butter and one well beaten egg✪ Southern Corn Meal Spoon Bread.
Cook in greased pudding dish for twenty minutes. A favorite dish in
the South for breakfast, eaten with butter or steak gravy.
Mrs. Mary Comfort Leonard (one of Delta Gamma's Founders).
Scotch Short Bread
]/2 pound butter 3^ cup powdered sugar
2 cups sifted flour✪ Scotch Short Bread
Cream butter and sugar. Add one cup flour and stir until
flour is all worked into the butter and sugar. Take the bread
board and put the second cup of flour on the board and work this
into the dough.
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When the flour is all worked in sprinkle a little additional flour on
the board and roll the dough into a sheet about one-half inch thick.
Cut with a cookie cutter or leave in sheet, marking off squares
with a fork.
Bake on the bottom of a dripping pan or cookie sheet, first putting "
a piece of unbuttered white paper on the pan. Bake in a slow oven
for thirty minutes, but do not brown. Should be almost white or
butter colored. When done sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Rae Goodnow Hensel, (Lambda Nu).
Rolls
Cinnamon Rolls
2 cups flour 2 tablespoons lard
2 heaping teaspoons baking powder
1 beaten egg added to 3^ cup milk✪ Cinnamon Rolls
Roll out and spread with melted butter, sugar and cinnamon,
then roll up and cut into pieces the desired thickness.
Miriam Starrett (Kappa).
French Rolls
Prepare dough as for bread and work in one-fourth pound butter
and one-fourth pound sugar. Add four well beaten eggs✪ French Rolls, form into
rolls and put in buttered baking pan. Let them rise half an hour,
brush top with beaten egg and bake.
Mrs. J. C. Elhott King (Lambda).
Hot Cross Buns
1 cup scalded milk
14, cup sugar ^ teaspoon cinnamon
3/^ yeast cake dissolved in 3^ cup luke warm water
2 tablespoons butter 3 cups flour
}/2 teaspoon salt 1 egg
14: cup cut up raisins or currants✪ Hot Cross Buns
Mix butter, sugar, salt and milk. When luke warm add dis-
solved yeast cake, cinnamon, flour, and egg (well beaten). When
thoroughly mixed add raisins and cover. Let rise over night. In
morning shape and form into large biscuits. Place in greased pans
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one inch apart. Let rise, brush over with beaten egg. Let bake
twenty minutes (sprinkle with a Httle sugar and cinnamon after
brushed with egg).
Mildred Lawrence (Alpha Delta).
Light Rolls
Make a sponge of one cake compressed yeast, one-half cup warm
milk and flour enough for stiff batter. Let rise until double its size,
add: 2 eggs, whites beaten
34 scant cup sugar 3^ cup lard
Yi teaspoon salt 13^ cups warm milk
Add more flour to make stiff and let rise again. Form into
rolls, let rise and bake. These require no kneading.
Breta Bills (Kappa).
Luncheon Rolls
Add one-fourth cup butter, one and one-half tablespoons of
sugar and one-half teaspoon salt to one cup of scalded milk. When
mixture is lukewarm add one cake of yeast, dissolved in one-fourth
cup of lukewarm water, the white of one egg well beaten and three
and three-fourths cups sifted flour✪ Luncheon Rolls. Knead, let rise. Shape by
cutting with large biscuit cutter, spread with melted butter, fold over.
Let these rise and then bake in a moderate oven for about twenty
minutes. This makes two dozen rolls.
Beulah Guthrie Rice (Phi Omega).
Parker House Corn Rolls ✪ Parker House Corn Rolls
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Scald with boiling water one cup of corn meal and then make
quite thin with butter milk. Add salt and soda, one-half teaspoon of
each, two tablespoons of melted butter and one well beaten egg.
Cook in greased pudding dish for twenty minutes. A favorite dish in
the South for breakfast, eaten with butter or steak gravy.
Mrs. Mary Comfort Leonard (one of Delta Gamma's Founders).
Scotch Short Bread
]/2 pound butter 3^ cup powdered sugar
2 cups sifted flour
Cream butter and sugar. Add one cup flour and stir until
flour is all worked into the butter and sugar. Take the bread
board and put the second cup of flour on the board and work this
into the dough.
BREADS 123
When the flour is all worked in sprinkle a little additional flour on
the board and roll the dough into a sheet about one-half inch thick.
Cut with a cookie cutter or leave in sheet, marking off squares
with a fork.
Bake on the bottom of a dripping pan or cookie sheet, first putting "
a piece of unbuttered white paper on the pan. Bake in a slow oven
for thirty minutes, but do not brown. Should be almost white or
butter colored. When done sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Rae Goodnow Hensel, (Lambda Nu).
Rolls
Cinnamon Rolls
2 cups flour 2 tablespoons lard
2 heaping teaspoons baking powder
1 beaten egg added to 3^ cup milk
Roll out and spread with melted butter, sugar and cinnamon,
then roll up and cut into pieces the desired thickness.
Miriam Starrett (Kappa).
French Rolls
Prepare dough as for bread and work in one-fourth pound butter
and one-fourth pound sugar. Add four well beaten eggs, form into
rolls and put in buttered baking pan. Let them rise half an hour,
brush top with beaten egg and bake.
Mrs. J. C. Elhott King (Lambda).
Hot Cross Buns
1 cup scalded milk
14, cup sugar ^ teaspoon cinnamon
3/^ yeast cake dissolved in 3^ cup luke warm water
2 tablespoons butter 3 cups flour
}/2 teaspoon salt 1 egg
14: cup cut up raisins or currants
Mix butter, sugar, salt and milk. When luke warm add dis-
solved yeast cake, cinnamon, flour, and egg (well beaten). When
thoroughly mixed add raisins and cover. Let rise over night. In
morning shape and form into large biscuits. Place in greased pans
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one inch apart. Let rise, brush over with beaten egg. Let bake
twenty minutes (sprinkle with a Httle sugar and cinnamon after
brushed with egg).
Mildred Lawrence (Alpha Delta).
Light Rolls
Make a sponge of one cake compressed yeast, one-half cup warm
milk and flour enough for stiff batter. Let rise until double its size,
add: 2 eggs, whites beaten
34 scant cup sugar 3^ cup lard
Yi teaspoon salt 13^ cups warm milk
Add more flour to make stiff and let rise again. Form into
rolls, let rise and bake. These require no kneading.
Breta Bills (Kappa).
Luncheon Rolls
Add one-fourth cup butter, one and one-half tablespoons of
sugar and one-half teaspoon salt to one cup of scalded milk. When
mixture is lukewarm add one cake of yeast, dissolved in one-fourth
cup of lukewarm water, the white of one egg well beaten and three
and three-fourths cups sifted flour. Knead, let rise. Shape by
cutting with large biscuit cutter, spread with melted butter, fold over.
Let these rise and then bake in a moderate oven for about twenty
minutes. This makes two dozen rolls.
Beulah Guthrie Rice (Phi Omega).
Parker House Corn Rolls