2 tablespoons shortening
2 eggs
1/3 cup milk
Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar; add shortening and mix in very lightly. Beat eggs until light; add milk to eggs and add slowly to mixture. Roll out 1/2-inch thick on floured board; cut into pieces 3 inches square and fold over, making them three-cornered; brush with milk; dust with sugar. Bake about 25 minutes in hot oven.
Currant Tea Cakes
2 cups flour
3 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder
1/2 cup sugar
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3/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
1 egg
2 tablespoons shortening
1/2 cup currants
Sift together flour, baking powder, sugar and salt; add beaten egg and melted shortening to milk and add to dry ingredients; add currants which have been washed, dried and floured; mix well. The batter should be stiff. Grease hot muffin tins and fill half full. Bake about 20 minutes in hot oven.
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Popovers
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
2 cups milk
Sift together flour and salt. Make a well in flour, break eggs into well, add milk and stir until smooth. Pour into hot greased gem pans and bake 25 to 35 minutes in very hot oven. If taken out of oven too soon they will fall.
Graham Gems
1 cup graham flour
1 cup flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
4 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder
1 cup milk
1 egg
2 tablespoons molasses or sugar
3 tablespoons shortening
Mix together dry ingredients; add milk, beaten egg, molasses and melted shortening. Bake in greased gem pans in hot oven about 25
minutes.
Green Corn Gems
2 cups green corn put through food chopper
1/4 cup milk, or 1/2 cup if corn is dry
2 eggs
2 cups flour
3 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
To the corn add milk and well-beaten eggs; add flour, baking powder, salt and pepper which have been sifted together; mix well. Drop into hot greased gem pans. Bake in hot oven 20 to 25 minutes.
Fig Envelopes
2 cups flour
3 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons shortening
2/3 cup milk
1 cup chopped figs
1 egg
Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar; add shortening and mix in very lightly; add slowly enough milk to form soft dough. Dust board with flour and roll out dough 1/4-inch thick, cut into squares and on each piece put one tablespoon of fig; brush edges with cold milk; fold like an envelope, and press edges together. Brush tops with egg beaten with one tablespoon milk and one tea-
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spoon sugar. Bake about 20 minutes in hot oven. Sally Lunn
2 cups flour
3 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
3/4 cup milk
2 eggs
2 tablespoons shortening
Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar; add milk, well-beaten eggs and melted shortening; mix well. Bake in greased shallow pan or muffin tins in moderate oven about 25 minutes.
Griddle Cakes and Waffles
Griddle cakes, as made today with Royal Baking Powder have become most popular. Properly made they are delicious, healthful, ap-
petizing and nutritious.
The batter must be thin. The cakes should be small and not top thick--about one-eighth inch when baked.
An iron frying pan may be used instead of griddle. In any case grease only enough to keep the cakes from sticking. Turn only once. Royal Hot Griddle Cakes
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
5 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder
1-1/2 cups milk
2 tablespoons shortening
Mix and sift dry ingredients; add milk and melted shortening; beat well. Bake on slightly greased hot griddle. Griddle Cakes with Eggs
1-3/4 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons Royal Baing Powder
1-1/2 cups milk
1 tablespoon shortening
Mix and sift dry ingredients; add beaten eggs, milk and melted shortening; mix well. Bake on slightly greased hot griddle turning only
once.
Buckwheat Cakes
2 cups buckwheat flour
1 cup flour
6 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder
1-1/2 teaspoons salt
2-1/2 cups milk or milk and water
1 tablespoon molasses
1 tablespoon melted shortening
Sift together flours, baking powder and salt; add molasses and shortening to liquid; beat well. Bake on hot slightly greased griddle
turning only once.
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Corn Meal Griddle Cakes
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1-1/3 cups corn meal
1-1/2 cups boiling water
1 tablespoon shortening
3/4 cup milk
1 tablespoon molasses
2/3 cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
4 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder
Scald corn meal with boiling water; add shortening, milk and molasses; add flour, salt and baking powder which have been sifted together; mix well. Bake on hot, slightly greased griddle turning once.
Rice Griddle Cakes
1 cup boiled rice
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon shortening
1 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 cup flour
2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder
Mix rice, milk, melted shortening, salt and well-beaten egg; stir in flour and baking powder which have been sifted together; mix well. Bake on hot, slightly greased griddle turning only once.
French Pancakes
1 cup flour
2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 tablespoon sugar
2 cups milk