Manuscript Cookbook 222

Chocolate Fudge

put in a saucepan 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup milk piece if butter size of walnut + 1 square of chocolate cool untill it almost threads then add vanilla to taste add 1 cup walnuts chopped if desired. take off stove and stir till quite thick + turn in buttered pan Cornelia Fisher G.R.

Strawberry Sherbet

1 qt water 2 cups sugar boiled together 20 minutes when cold add of lemon juice and 2 cups strawberry juice, or use crushed strawberries with out straining freeze

Plain Ice

take juice of 3 oranges + 2 lemons, mix with 2 cups granulated sugar and let stand one hour [heat?] beat with one qt milk + freeze

Sponge Brown Bread

2 teacups of white sponge when light enough to mould in loaves, 1/2 cup of mollases 1 cup very warm water 2 tablespoons melted 1 teaspoon level full of soda disolved in hot water salt mix + stir in graham flour untill the dough drops heavy from spoon let rise about 3/4 hour untill light bake slowly one hour

White Candy

2 cups sugar 1/2 cup water 2 tablespoons vinegar - 1 large teaspoon butter. add tablespoon vanilla. do not move or stir it. when brittle in ice water pour in tins + [p]ull C. Seymour

Tea Biscuit

Scald 1 pint of milk when cool add salt table spoon sugar + 3 cups flour Beat well. add 1/2 cup yeast or 1/2 a compressed yeast cake disolved in half cup luke warm water, cover and stand in warm place for 3 hours. When light add 2 even tablespoons of soft butter. add sufficient flour to make a dough knead well and let it get light to double its size then make in small biscuit let stand aside for 3/4 hour + bake 15 minutes, this will make 30

Butter Scotch

2 cups brown sugar 1/2 cup butter 2 tablespoon[s] vinegar. 2 tablespoons wat[er] flavor with vanilla Margaret Palmen Grand R

Raisen Bread

1 pint of bread sponge 1 egg beaten with 1/2 cup sugar butter size of an egg 1 cup raisens stir flour in with a spoon as for soft brown bread, and let it get light. 15 bake

Rusk

1 pint milk 1/2 yeast cake. make a sponge and let it rise, then add 1/2 cup sugar 3 eggs 1/2 cup butter, and spice to taste mold and and let rise again when baked cover the tops with sugar disolved in milk Mrs [P]. B. Wallen

Corn Meal Muffens

heat 1 pint milk to the boiling point and pour it boiling hot over 1/2 pint of corn meal, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1 of salt butter size of walnut, yolks of 4 eggs, beat on (the [milt?rne?] then add the whites of 2 well beaten eggs, bake in small muffin tins one half hour in moderate oven

English Muffins

1 large cup of flour 1 large teaspoon of bakeing powder, 2 tablespoons of sugar, sift together + add 1 large tablespoon of butter 1 cup milk 1 egg pinch of salt

Raisens cut with a scissors instead of chopping will not stick together