The farm cook & rule book

Omit the fat in the recipe for Baking Powder Biscuits and use either milk or chicken broth for the liquid. Meat stock may be used instead of the chicken broth. Biscuit Pies Cover the bottom of a casserole with dried fruit, cooked and seasoned with spices. The fruit should be sweetened to taste. Cover with a layer of Baking Powder Biscuit dough and bake in a hot oven. Serve with a pudding sauce which may be made from the fruit juice, thickening it with cornstarch or flour. Hot Cross Buns 2% cupfuls flour 1 egg 4 teaspoonfuls baking powder 4 tablespoonfuls lard % teaspoonful salt % cupful raisins 2 tablespoonfuls sugar milk Sift together 2 cupfuls of the flour, the baking powder, salt and sugar. Work in the lard with the tips of the fingers. Break the egg into a cup and beat it until light with a fork. Fill the cup with sweet milk and pour this on the flour mixture. Mix thoroughly, add the raisins which have been stirred into the % cupful of flour, turn on a floured board, roll I/2 iiich thick and cut in circles. Place in an oiled pan and bake. When almost baked, brush the tops with slightly beaten egg white. When the buns are cool, make a frosting by beating powdered sugar into the white of 1 egg, adding sufficient sugar to make a frosting of the right consistency to spread. Either top these buns with the frosting or make a cross of it on top of every one. To make the cross, a piece of stiff paper may be rolled to form a cone and this is filled half-full with the frosting which is pressed out at the small end. Scones 1 cupful flour 1 teaspoonful salt 3 cupfuls oatmeal 2 cupfuls milk 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 2 tablespoonfuls butter 1 tablespoonful sugar Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt; add the oatmeal. Heat the milk to the boiling point and add the butter and sugar to it. Make a hollow in the sifted flour and add the milk gradually. Turn out on a floured board, roll into a thin sheet, cut with a biscuit cutter and bake on a hot griddle. Cornbread 1 cupful cornmeal 1 cupful sour milk 1 cupful flour 1 tablespoonful butter 4 tablespoonfuls sugar 1 egg y^ teaspoonful salt 1 teaspoonful soda Sift the soda and flour together and mix with the dry ingredients. Beat egg and add it to the sour milk and the melted butter. Beat in the dry ingredients, pour into an oiled tin and bake in a hot oven about 25 minutes. Bran Bread 2 cupfuls sour milk 1 teaspoonful soda 3 eggs 2 cupfuls Graham flour 2 cupfuls bran 1 teaspoonful salt 1 cupful raisins % cupful sugar Add the sugar and salt to the milk, beat the eggs thoroughly and add them. Then stir in the other ingredients and bake 1 hour in a moderate oven. Chopped dates may be used instead of the raisins if one wishes. Lucy's Walnut Bread 3 cupfuls Graham flour 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 3 cupfuls white flour 1 cupful molasses 1 teaspoonful salt 1 teaspoonful soda 1 cupful walnut meats 3 cupfuls milk Sift the dry ingredients together. Add the molasses in which the soda has been stirred. Then add the crushed and floured walnut meats and sufficient milk to make a drop batter. Pour in oiled bread pans and bake 45 minutes in a moderate oven. Serve with jelly and butter. Nut Bread 3% cupfuls white flour 1 cupful nuts, ground 3^ teaspoonfuls baking powder 1 egg