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The progress meatless cook book

Chapter 49: OATMEAL CAKES
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This work provides a comprehensive collection of meatless recipes alongside practical household tips aimed at simplifying domestic life. It includes sections on breakfast dishes, soups, salads, desserts, and various cleaning methods for household items. The author emphasizes the importance of efficient meal preparation to alleviate the burdens of daily cooking, encouraging a balanced approach to household management. The text advocates for a sensible lifestyle that minimizes waste and promotes enjoyment in cooking and home care, making it suitable for both novice and experienced housekeepers.

GRIDDLE CAKES

BAKING POWDER GRIDDLE CAKES

2 cupfuls sweet milk
2 eggs
flour
butter, size of egg
½ teaspoonful salt
2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
1 teaspoonful sugar

Add the beaten egg to the milk, stir in the salt, sugar and softened butter, and sift in the flour in which the baking powder has been mixed. Use enough flour to make a batter like that of cake.

Corn meal with part flour, buckwheat or graham flour, may be substituted.

In berry season, huckleberries, blueberries or raspberries added to the above griddle cake batter, are delicious.

Cold boiled rice and left over cereals may be stirred in almost any recipe for griddle cakes.

A little vinegar added to the sour milk batter of griddle cakes just before frying, is good.

BUCKWHEAT GRIDDLE CAKES No. 1

1 quart buckwheat flour
warm water
1 yeast cake
1 tablespoonful molasses
1 teaspoonful salt

Mix at night.

To the yeast dissolved in a little lukewarm water add the salt, molasses, a little warm water, a little flour, continuing to add flour and water till you have a thin batter. Keep in a warm place till morning, add a pinch of soda, fry and serve with butter and syrup, maple or sugar syrup.

SUGAR SYRUP FOR HOT CAKES

Into one cupful of cold water in a quart basin, stir all the granulated sugar that will dissolve. More sugar and water can be added as necessary to keep the syrup the right consistency.

This syrup never becomes hard.

BUCKWHEAT GRIDDLE CAKES No. 2

2 cupfuls scalded milk
⅓ cupful bread crumbs
¾ of a yeast cake
buckwheat flour
½ teaspoonful salt
¼ teaspoonful soda
1 tablespoonful molasses

Mix at night.

Pour the hot milk over the crumbs and when the mixture is just lukewarm, add the yeast dissolved in a little warm water, salt, and enough buckwheat flour to make a batter about like that of cake. Keep in a warm place till morning, add the soda dissolved in a little warm water, and the molasses. Fry, and serve as desired. If about one cupful of the batter is set aside, it can be used instead of yeast for the next making.

OATMEAL CAKES

1 cupful oatmeal
1 cupful sour milk
½ cupful sugar
flour
½ teaspoonful salt
1 teaspoonful soda
1 egg

Mix at night.

Stir the oatmeal into the milk and let stand in a not too cold place over night. In the morning, add the sugar, salt, soda dissolved in a little warm water, and flour enough to make a batter like that of cake. Fry on a buttered griddle and serve with butter and syrup.

SOUR MILK GRIDDLE CAKES

2 cupfuls sour milk
1 egg
flour, either graham, wheat flour or buckwheat
butter, size of egg
½ teaspoonful salt
1 teaspoonful soda
1 teaspoonful sugar

Add the beaten egg to the sour milk, then stir in the salt, sugar, soda dissolved in a little water, the softened butter and enough flour to make a batter like that of cake. Fry and serve as prepared.

Bread crumbs or even corn meal with part flour may be used instead of all flour, or buckwheat, or graham flour may be substituted.

FRENCH PANCAKES WITH JELLY

2 cupfuls flour
2 cupfuls milk
3 eggs
½ teaspoonful salt
1 tablespoonful sugar

Stir the flour into the beaten eggs, add the sugar, salt and milk. Stir thoroughly, fry, spread with jelly, and roll.