Traditional Recipes and Ideas for Meals

ICE-CREAM CAKE.

One cup butter rubbed with two cups white sugar to a cream, one cup sweet milk, three and one-half cups flour, three level teaspoons baking powder, and whites of eight eggs.

Bake in jelly tins, and put together with boiled icing flavored with orange.

MUFFINS. .

One cup sweet milk, one-half cup butter, one egg, one tablespoonful sugar, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, two and one-half cups flour, a pinch salt.

MUFFINS.

To each cup of flour, add two teaspoons of baking powder, large pinch of salt; moisten with sweet milk to the consistency of drop dough.

Have muffin pans hot, with a teaspoonful of butter in each. Bake ten minutes in hot oven.

CORN MUFFINS.

Make just as you do wheat muffins, using one-half wheat flour, and one-half corn meal.

Graham muffins are made in the same manner, using equal parts wheat and graham flour.

These traditional recipes in this section date back a hundred years or more and we hope that you can adapt them to your modern needs. However we also have recipes for refreshments suitable if you’re hosting a a baby shower, party, a weddding shower or a barbeque or would just like an idea for drinks for a get-together with family and friends we have a selection of beverages suitable for any occasion.
Everyday snacks for parties and special occasions. The recipes in this section range from being easy to make.