No. 23. STEAMED BROWN BREAD
1 cup flour 2 cups Graham flour 2 cups corn meal |
1 cup molasses 3½ cups sour milk 1 teaspoon baking soda |
½ teaspoon salt
Mix molasses with the flour, cornmeal and salt; add the soda to the sour milk and stir in well; divide into buttered baking powder cans and steam for 4 hours; serve hot with butter.
No. 24. PUMPKIN PIE
1 quart can pumpkin 1 cup milk ½ cup sugar |
½ teaspoon cinnamon ¼ teaspoon cloves 2 teaspoons baking powder |
¼ teaspoon of salt
Put the pumpkin in a mixing bowl; stir in the sugar, spices, salt and baking powder; add the milk and bake in one bottom crust in hot oven.
No. 25. DATE PIE
2 cups stoned dates 1 lemon |
3 tablespoons sugar 2 tablespoons milk |
Cut the dates into bits; add to them the juice and grated rind of the lemon, the sugar and milk; fill lower crust with this mixture; sprinkle lightly with flour and dot with butter; lay on upper crust and bake.
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