Sour Cream Rasisin Pie

Line a pie tin with rich pie crust and fill with the following mixture:

1 cup chopped raisins
1 cup sugar
3 egg yolks
1 cup sour cream
pinch of salt
1 tsp. cinnamon

Bake slowly. Use the egg whites for meringue.

This makes an excellent pie!

Pumpkin Pie

2 cups pumpkin
2 cups milk
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. ginger
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1 tsp. cinnamon
2 eggs

Beat eggs into sugar and spices, mix all together; bake in moderate oven about 45 minutes.

Squash pie is made in exactly the same way.

This recipe makes 2 pies.

Rhubarb Pie

Grandma always made a good rhubarb pie. It had the right level of tartiness without making you pucker up - too much. When my grandparents lived along the river, grandma grew a couple plants of rhubarb - enough to bake a number of pies.

1 cup sugar
1 cup rhubarb, cut up in 1 inch pieces
1 Tbsp. flour
1 egg
orange flavoring

Cook rhubarb seperately, then add sugar and flour, which have been mixed together; then add 1 egg beaten and flavoring to taste. Bake between two rich crusts.

Cream, Banana, or Coconut Pie

Line a pie dish with a rich crust, pinch here and there, and bake in a hot oven.

Mix together 1/3 cup flour with 3/4 cup sugar and a pinch of salt. Add 1 pt. scalded milk and 3 Tbsp. butter. Cook 5 minutes; add beaten yolk of 2 eggs gradually to thicken milk. Cook a few minutes stirring constantly. Set aside to cool; add 1 tsp. orange extract and fill prepared crust.

Make a meringue of the egg whites whipped very stiff with 1/4 cup sugar. Spread on pie and set in a slow oven to brown.

For banana pie add 3 bananas to the mixture.

For cocoanut pie add 1/2 cup shredded cocoanut.

Delicious!

Doughnuts

1 cup sugar
1 cup milk
2 eggs
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla
enough flour to handle

Mix all together and roll out, not too thin. These are especially good.

Drop Molasses Cookies

This is the last of the cookie recipes in the notebook. There are 10 blank pages after this, so I'm sure grandma planned to put in more recipes.

1 cup sugar
1 cup molasses
1 egg
1 cup lard or butter
3/4 cup water
1 tsp. soda

Use enough flour to form soft dough. Drop on greased cookie tin.

Snickerdoodles

2 cups sugar
2/3 cup shortening
1 cup sour milk
4 cups flour
2 eggs
4 cups baking powder

Drop on greased cookie pans and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon.

Oatmeal Drop Cookies

1 cup oatmeal
1 cup buttermilk
1 egg
2 cups flour
1 1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup shortening
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. soda

It is better to soak the oatmeal overnight in the buttermilk. Raisins or nuts may be added if liked.

Drop Cocoanut Cookies

2 cups brown sugar
1 cup butter
4 cups flour
1/4 cup raisins
2/3 cup buttermilk
1 tsp. soda (mixed in the buttermilk)
3/4 cup cocoanut
1 tsp. lemon

The mixture should be quite stiff and dropped by small spoon on baking sheet.

Molasses Cookies

1/2 cup molasses
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup shortening
4 Tbsp. cold water
2 tsp. soda

Sugar Cookies

Whenever company would show up grandma would whip up a cake. That's why those recipes took prominence in her handwritten cookbook I'm sure. But what I remember most on those weekends when I'd visit was her cookies. I'd sit on a tall stool and watch her work at her baking cupboard. And the second section of this notebook of handwritten recipes is indeed cookies. She starts with one of her all-time favorites - sugar cookies. As with other recipes that were most used - what is given is merely a list of ingredients with just a hint of instruction.

1 1/2 cup sugar
1 cup lard or butter
2 eggs
pinch of salt

Beat to a cream then add:

1 cup buttermilk or sour cream
1 tsp. soda
3 tsp. baking powder
flavoring
flour to handle nicely

Do not roll out too thin.

Cream Cake Filling

1 cup milk
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 Tbsp. flour
butter size of walnut

Mix sugar, flour and egg together well, then add milk and coo in double boiler until it begins to thicken. Take from fire and add butter and flavoring.

Layer Cake Filling

Mash 1 ripe banana, add 1 cup sugar beaten to a froth with the white of 1 egg. Mix well and spread between cake layers.

1 cup of grated apple or 1 cup of any type of berries may be substituted for the banana.

Mocha Frosting

1 Tbsp. butter
1 cup 4x sugar
1 Tbsp. cocoa
2 Tbsp. strong coffee

Cream butter and sugar; add cocoa, coffee and pinch of salt and stir until smooth. If it's dry add more coffee.

The cocoa or coffee may be omitted, using milk in place of coffee.

Boiled Icing

1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup water
1 egg white
1/2 tsp. flavoring
1 tsp. baking powder

Boil sugar and water without stirring until syrup spins a thread; pour very slowly over stiffly beaten egg white and beat until smooth; add flavoring and baking powder. Allow to stand a few minutes before spreading.

1/2 tsp. of cream tartar may be added instead of the baking powder.

Tapioca Cream

Heat one pint of milk in a double boiler, when hot stir in 2 level Tablespoons of tapioca and cook five minutes, stirring occassionally, then add the yolk of two eggs, well beaten with two Tablespoons of sugar and a pinch of salt. Stir constantly and cook about 2 minutes. Beat the egg whites stiff and put in pudding with a cutting, folding motion. Add one spoonful of vanilla and turn at once into dish for serving. This may be varied by making carmel of the 2 Tbsp. sugar, melt it until it is as brown as desired.

Pineapple Tapioca

Drain juice from one large can of pineapple into measuring cup. Add equal amount of water and put juice and water in double boiler. After hot add 1/2 cup of minute tapioca. Let it cook until tapioca is dissolved. Remove from double boiler and add 3/4 cup sugar. When cool add diced pineapple and just before serving fold in 1/2 pint whipped cream.

Fruit Batter Pudding

1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
2 tsp. baking powder
butter the size of egg
1 cup sweet milk
1/2 or 1 cup of fruit
flour to make batter like cake

Steam one hour.

Grandma notes that she uses 1/2 of the recipe and steam in top of double boiler. She also notes that this is very good.

Apple Dessert

Butter a pie tin and put in 2 cups apples, sliced. Cover with a batter made of:

1 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder
pinch salt
enough sweet milk to make a thick batter or dough

Bake 20 minutes or until apples are tender. Serve hot with sugar, nutmeg, and milk.

Soft Molasses Cake

This is the last recipe in the cake section of grandma's notebook.

1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup molasses
2 cups flour
3 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. allspice
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. soda
1/2 cup milk

Cream shortening, add sugar slowly, beating continually; add egg and molasees; sift together flour, baking powder, salt and spices; add 1/2 of flour mixture to creamed ingredients; add milk and remainder of dry ingredients. Mix well. Bake in greased shallow pan in moderate oven about 40 minutes.

Sour MIlk Chocolate Cake

3 Tbsp. cocoa
4 Tbsp. butter (1/4 cup)
1 cup sugar
1 egg yolk
1 cup sour milk
1 1/4 cup flour
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. vanilla

Dissolve cocoa in melted butter; add yolk of egg and sugar, beating well; add part of milk, flour sifted with soda, then rest of milk and vanilla. Bake in a moderate oven.

Mrs. Mallory's Sour Milk Cake

I don't know who Mrs. Mallory is, but this is the type of recipe that drives those of us who need exact measurements crazy. Of course grandma wouldn't have thought twice about it - everything was a pinch of this, dash of that.

1 cup sugar
1 cup sour milk
1 Tbsp. shortening
1 egg
1 tsp. soda
vanilla

Add enough flour to make quite thick. Bake in a moderate overn.

Chocolate Cake

1 cup sugar
1 Tbsp. butter
1 egg yolk
pinch of salt
2 squares melted chocolate in 1 cup boiling water
1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp. baking powder

Cream sugar, butter and egg, then add other ingredients. Beat well and add another 1/2 cup warm water with 1/2 tsp. soda dissolved in it. Then add 1 tsp. vanilla. Bake in a moderate oven.

Sour Cream Cake

Mix and sift 2 1/2 cups flour, 2 tsp. baking powder, 1 tsp. cinnamon, 1 tsp. nutmeg, and a pinch of salt. Add 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup nut meats broken into bits, 1 cup raisins, chopped or cut into halves. Then stir in 1 cup sour cream to which has been added 1/2 tsp. soda and 2 Tbsp. softened butter. If the cream is very rich the butter may be dispensed with. The last thing before baking add 2 eggs well beaten. Bake in a loaf tin. This is an excellent cake.

Layer Cake with Banana Filling

Cake:
Into your sifter put 1 cup sugar, 1 1/2 cups flour, 1 tsp. baking powder and a pinch of salt; sift several times. Into a measuring cup put 1/4 cup of melted butter, break in 1 egg, and fill the cup with milk, turn into the dry ingredients, beat well and flavor as liked. Lemon preferably. Bake in two layers.

Filling:
Mash one ripe banana, add 1 cup sugar beaten to a froth with the white of 1 egg. Mix well and spread between the layers.

You may also use a grated apple, sweetened and beaten stiff with the white of 1 egg (which may be reserved from the cake).

3 Egg Angel Cake

3 egg whites
1/2 cup flour
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. cream tarter
pinch of salt
3/4 tsp. vanilla

(There is no soda in this cake)

Sift flour 4 times with cream of tarter. Beat egg whites stiff, add vanilla, beat again, fold in flour, sugar, and salt lightly. Bake in small angel cake tin for 40 minutes.

Chocolate Cake without eggs

1 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter, melted
1/4 cup thick sour milk
1 tsp. vanilla
2 Tbsp. cocoa
1/2 cup water, boiling
1 tsp. soda
2 cups pastry flour

Cream 1 cup sugar, 1/4 cup melted butter together; add 1/4 cup thick sour milk, 1 tsp. vanilla, 2 Tbsp. cocoa dissolved in 1/2 cup boiling water, 1 tsp. soda sifted with 2 scant cups pastry flour. Mix all ingredients well and bake in a moderate oven until done.

Applesauce Cake

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup melted fat
1 1/2 cups unsweetened applesauce
1 Tbsp. cinnamon
1/2 Tbsp. cloves
2 tsp. soda
1 cup raisins
2 1/2 cups flour

Mix sugar, cinnamon, and cloves. Stir the soda into the applesauce and let if foam over into the mixing bowl. Add flour, melted fat and raisins. Bake in a loaf tin or muffin pans in a moderate oven.

Cocoa Loaf Cake

The notebook that I'm taking these new recipes from is very brittle so I'm taking the recipes in order. I apologize that there will be quite a few days of cakes, but if I jump around to make it more interesting I'm afraid that pages will be lost before I can get them transcribed. Today's recipe is like a lot of grandma's recipes - a list of ingredients. I'm sure that grandma felt that any good baker would know exactly what to do with the list.

1 cup sugar
1 egg
2 Tbsp. butter
1/2 cup cocoa
1 cup sour milk
1 tsp. soda
1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp. vanilla