Just
before serving, you can stir in a cup of sweet milk, if you wish.
When cold, slice, and fry same as corn mush.
OAT MEAL CRACKERS. JENNIE L. HARRINGTON.
Two cups oat meal (rolled oats is best), three cups flour, one cup
shortening, one cup sugar, one cup water, one teaspoonful salt, three
teaspoonfuls baking powder; roll very thin.
LEMON CRACKERS. MRS. E. S. JORDAN.
Two and three-fourths cups of granulated sugar, one cup of butter, one
pint of sweet milk, one cup of lard, three eggs, five cents worth of
lemon oil, five cents worth carbonate of ammonia, a pinch of salt.
Mix stiff, and roll thin; stick with a fork, and bake in a quick oven.
MILK TOAST. MISS H. W.
Boil one quart of milk; stir into it two tablespoonfuls butter, mixed
with one tablespoonful flour, and a saltspoonful salt. Let the whole
boil five minutes. Have ready a dish of toasted bread; pour the milk
over it, and serve hot. Nice for breakfast.
FRITTERS.
Separate four eggs; beat the yolks until light; add to them one quart
of sweet milk, a little salt. Beat the whites very stiff; stir in one
quart of flour, and the whites, half and half, with one teaspoonful of
baking powder. In a tablespoonful of batter, place a slice of nice
sour apple; drop into hot lard, and fry nice brown on both sides.
Serve hot, with butter and syrup.
Make oyster fritters the same way, using fine large oysters in place
of apples.
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