Excerpt from Choice Recipes: Members of the Eastern Star of Sacramento
Artichoke Ring
(Zella Whitford Samson, W. G. M.)
Twelve artichokes
One cup cream
One cup milk
Six eggs
One cup bread crumb (fresh).
Boil artichokes until they can be rubbed through a colander. Add cream, milk, bread crumbs, and well-beaten yolks of eggs, and when mixed fold in the stiffly-beaten whites. Pour in greased ring, set in pan of hot water, and bake in moderate oven until firm.
Filling
One pound sweetbreads
Two calves' brain
One can button mushrooms
One pint cream
Four tablespoons butter
Four tablespoons flour.
To the melted butter, add flour and cook until foamy, add cream, stir until thick and creamy, add salt; add mushrooms and blanched sweetbreads and brains, cut in dice.
To blanch sweetbreads and brains, soak one hour in cold water, drain, cover with cold water, add one tablespoon lemon juice or vinegar, two or three cloves, dash of pepper, and a tiny piece of bay leaf, simmer about fifteen minutes; drain and remove fibers.
Spice Cake
(Maud E. Bowes, P. G. M.)
One cup light brown sugar
One-half cup white sugar
Two eggs
Two-thirds cup milk
Three teaspoons baking powder
Two cups flour
One teaspoon each cinnamon and nutmeg
One-half teaspoon cloves
Cream butter and sugar. Add egg yolks, well beaten, sift together flour, baking powder and spices and add alternately with the milk. Fold in the beaten egg whites and add one teaspoon lemon juice. Bake in flat pan in moderate oven.
Prune Cake
(Maud Dezell Bradley, P. G. M.)
One large cup prunes (cooked and cut up in small pieces)
One cup walnuts (cut with sharp knife)
One cup sugar
One cup butter
One and one-half cups flour
One teaspoon soda
One teaspoon baking powder
Six tablespoons sour milk
One-fourth teaspoon salt
One teaspoon cinnamon
One-half teaspoon cloves
One-half teaspoon nutmeg
One teaspoon lemon extract
One whole egg
Two yolks.
Cream butter and sugar. Add prunes, eggs well beaten, milk, flour, spices, walnuts, and last the soda and baking powder. Bake in three layers (moderate oven). Put together with boiled icing.
Gingerbread
(My Mother's Recipe)
(Guy Woodham Brundage, P. G. P.)
One-half cup sugar, one-half cup malasses, tablespoon shortening, mix thoroughly. Add one teaspoon soda, one teaspoon baking powder, two cups flour, one cup milk (sweet or sour), one-fourth teaspoon ginger, one-fourth teaspoon of cinnamon. Cook until done.
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