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Raised Hominy Waffles

The small hominy is best for these. To a coffee cup of boiled hominy add one pint boiled milk and one tablespoonful of butter, one pint of flour, one half teaspoonful salt, one tablespoonful sugar and a scant half teacup yeast. Beat well, cover, set in a warm place over night. In the morning add two well beaten eggs, yolks and whites separately
Bake in waffle irons. This recipe answers as well for muffins if it is not convenient to make waffles. Circa 1910

Pousse Café

1 oz. raspberry sirup

1 oz. maraschino

1 oz. vanilla

1 oz. curacao

1 oz. yellow chartreuse

1 oz. brandy or cognac

Pour ingredients, one at a time, into a glass. Use extreme care so that they will not mix

but remain in layers Circa-1940

Queen Victoria's Favorite Soup

1 c minced cold chicken - 1 quart chicken stock - 1 c top cream - 1 tbl. butter 1 tbl. flour - 2 hard cooked egg yolks - salt Add the chicken to the broth and heat. Stir in the top cream and when boiling thicken with the egg yolks, mashed with the butter and flour. Season to taste. Cook until creamy.Serve plain or sprinkled with a little parsley. Circa 1932

Peas Pudding

Soak four cups split peas over night. In the morning put them with a small onion into a farina kettle, with just enough water to cover, and boil until soft. Drain and rub through a colander. Beat in a tablespoonful of butter, pepper and salt and three eggs. Boil in a buttered mold or floured cloth one hour.Turn out and cut in slices at the table. Eat as a vegetable. Circa - 1902.

Lebkuchen

4 eggs - 3 c brown sugar - 2 1/2 c flour - 1 tsp. cinnamon - 1/2 tsp. cloves - 1 c finely chopped almonds Cream eggs and sugar thoroughly. Sift flour and measure.Sift again with spices and add to creamed mixture. Add almonds last. Spread dough 1/4 inch thick in well greased and floured pans. Bake in moderate oven, 350 degrees, for 20 minutes. Remove from oven, and while hot spread lightly with a simple frosting of 1 c powdered sugar mixed with 1/4 c water. When cold cut in finger length strips. 8 doz. Circa -1932

Ladies Cabbage

Boil a firm white cabbage fifteen minutes. Drain and cover with fresh boiling water Boil until tender, drain and set aside until perfectly cold. Chop fine and add two beaten eggs, a tablespoonful of butter, pepper, salt, three tablespoonfuls of rich milk or cream. Stir all well together, and bake in a buttered pudding dish until brown. Serve very hot. This dish resembles cauliflower and is very digestible and palatable. Circa - 1885

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