Old Virginia Shortcake - Recipe of the day

Sift the flour and then fill a quart measure, using a tablespoon to lift the flour. Care should be taken not to shake or pack the flour down, as the quart of flour should weigh just one pound. Place in a bowl and add

Three level tablespoons of baking powder,
One teaspoon of salt,
Three-quarters cup of sugar.

Sift again to mix and then rub in one-half cup of shortening. Place one and one-half cups of buttermilk in a pitcher and add one teaspoon of baking soda. Stir to thoroughly dissolve the soda and then use this to mix the flour to a dough. Knead well in the bowl with a spoon and then turn on a slightly floured board and roll or pat out one inch thick. Cut with a large biscuit cutter and brush the top with shortening and bake in a hot oven for eighteen minutes.

Old recipe from an old cookbook.  Old fashioned way to make old Virginia shortcake.

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• 2 cups flour
• 3 teaspoons Dr. Price's Baking Powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• ¾ cup milk
• 2 eggs
• 1 tablespoon shortening
• 1 cup berries

Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar; add milk slowly, well-beaten eggs and melted shortening; mix well and add berries, which have been carefully picked over and floured. Grease muffin tins; drop one spoonful into each. Bake about 30 minutes in moderate oven.

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English: A chocolate cake decorated with icing, strawberries, and silvery sugar beads. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Beat half a cupful of butter to a cream, and gradually beat into it one cupful of sugar. When this is light, beat in half a cupful of milk, a little at a time, and one teaspoonful of vanilla. Beat the whites of six eggs to a stiff froth. Mix half a teaspoonful of baking powder with two scant cupfuls of sifted flour. Stir the flour and whites of eggs alternately into the mixture. Have three deep tin plates well buttered, and spread two-thirds of the batter in two of them.


Into the remaining batter stir one ounce of  Chocolate, melted, and spread this batter in the third plate. Bake the cakes in a moderate oven for about twenty minutes. Put a layer of white cake on a large plate, and spread with white icing. Put the dark cake on this, and also spread with white icing. On this put the third cake. Spread with chocolate icing.


TO MAKE THE ICING. Put into a granite-ware saucepan two gills of sugar and one of water, and boil gently until bubbles begin to come from the bottom—say, about five minutes. Take from the fire instantly. Do not stir or shake the sugar while it is cooking. Pour the hot syrup in a thin stream into the whites of two eggs that have been beaten to a stiff froth, beating the mixture all the time. Continue to beat until the icing is thick. Flavor with one teaspoonful of vanilla. Use two-thirds of this as a white icing, and to the remaining third add one ounce of melted chocolate. To melt the chocolate, shave it fine and put in a cup, which is then to be placed in a pan of boiling water.

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WELSH CHEESE PUDDING - Recipe Of The Day

Five ounces of grated cheese,

One cup of bread crumbs,

One cup of flour,

One and one-half teaspoons of salt,

One teaspoon of white pepper,

One teaspoon of paprika,

One tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce,

One tablespoon of baking powder,

Four tablespoons of grated onions,

One egg,

One cup of milk.

Beat to thoroughly mix and then pour in moulds or prepared pudding cloth and boil for one and three-quarters hours. Serve either hot or cold. To serve hot, use the following sauce:

Place in a saucepan

One cup of milk,

Two tablespoons of cornstarch.

Dissolve the starch in the milk and bring to a boil. Cook for five minutes and then add

One well-beaten egg,

One teaspoon of salt,

Two teaspoons of paprika,

Juice of one-half lemon.

Beat hard to mix and then serve. This dish will replace meat and be sufficient for a family of four or five.

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Three cakes of commercially produced palm sugar, in a decorative seashell shape. Photo taken in Kent, Ohio with a Panasonic Lumix digital camera (model DMC-LS75). Palm sugar purchased in a Cleveland, Ohio Vietnamese grocery store. Palm sugar produced in Thailand, and distributed by Gusto Food, Inc. of Maspeth, New York. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Cloves, and Mace of each one ounce finely searsed, two pound of butter,
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board, cut them round with a glass, then lay them on papers, and set
them in an Oven, be sure your Oven be not too hot, so let them stand
till they be coloured enough.

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The Bing cherry owes its development to the Chinese-American horticulturalist Ah Bing. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Sift two cups of pastry flour with four level teaspoons of baking powder and a saltspoon of salt. Mix with
three-quarters cup of milk or enough to make a soft dough. Butter some
cups well, put a tablespoon of dough in each, then a large tablespoon of
stoned cherries and another tablespoon of dough. Set in a steamer or set
the cups in a pan of hot water and into the oven to cook half an hour.
Serve with a sweet liquid sauce.

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Recipe of the day - BROWN SUGAR BUNS

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2 cups flour
4 teaspoons Dr. Price's Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon shortening
1/2 cup milk
1 tablespoon butter
1 cup brown sugar

Sift together flour, baking powder and salt; add shortening and rub in
very lightly; add milk slowly to make a soft dough; roll out 1/4 inch
thick. Have butter soft and spread over dough; cover with brown sugar.
Roll same as jelly roll; cut into 2-inch pieces; and place with cut
edges up on well greased pan. Bake in moderate oven about 30 minutes;
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