Food History

I had completely forgotten I was creating this collection when I was looking for a post yesterday.

This is the year of the eleciton is so many countries. Some elections are good, some are bizarre, some are tragic. Women’s suffrage, though, is always good, so I got these recipes from a US women’s suffrage cookbook. In fact, they’re from the 2nd edition of The Woman Suffrage Cook Book, by Mrs. Hattie A. Burr, 1890.

Tea Biscuits
One quart flour, one-half cup butter and lard mixed, two teaspoons baking powder, one teaspoon salt and two of sugar. Use enough sweet milk to make the usual biscuit dough; then knead just as you do yeast bread and set away for four or five hours in a cool place. Roll out and bake.
MRS. W. L. THOMPSON, Seattle.

Biscuit
Pint of flour, heaping teaspoon baking powder, work in tablespoon of cotosuet or butter. Mix with sweet milk as soft as can be handled. Roll out and bake in very hot oven.
This is an excellent recipe for shortcake if you double the amount of shortening.
MRS. HELEN J. BERRY, Bellingham.

Sour Milk Biscuit
One cup milk (sour), one-third teaspoon soda, two tablespoons melted lard, one teaspoon baking powder in the flour.
Mix with a spoon and roll out. This makes them much lighter than with soda alone and will not be yellow.
MRS. CHAS. HARRIS, Bellingham.

Beaten Biscuit
Mix one quart of flour with one iron spoon or two tablespoons of lard and one full teaspoon of salt. Make into a stiff dough with ice water. Work on a kneader or beat with a mallet until smooth and glossy. Roll, cut into shape, pierce with a fork and bake about twenty or twenty-five minutes.
MRS. LOUISA BERRY, Lexington, Ky.

Cookie, No. 1
Four cups of flour, one cup of butter, one and one-half cups sugar, four eggs, two heaping teaspoons baking powder, three tablespoons milk, lemon and nutmeg. Rub butter and flour together, add sugar, beaten eggs, milk and flavoring.

Cookies, No. 2
Two cups sugar, one full cup butter, one cup buttermilk, two eggs, one teaspoon soda, vanilla, flour to stiffen.
MRS. B. R. McCLELLAND, Olympia.

Soda Scones
Ingredients.
2 lbs. flour.
1 1/2 pints fresh milk or water.
2 dessertspoonfuls baking powder.
1/2 teaspoonful carbonate of soda.
1 teaspoonful salt.

Method: Mix together the flour, salt, baking powder and carbonate of soda. Add the milk or water gradually until sufficient to make a light dough. Handle it as little as
possible, and roll out into a large round cake. Mark it deeply into four, brush over with egg, prick with a fork, and place in a hot oven as soon as possible. Time, twenty minutes.

Cookies
One-half pound flour, one-third pound butter, one-half pound sugar, one whole egg, one yolk, grated rind of one lemon, one tablespoonful sweet cream, small cup finely cut almonds. Chop the ingredients together in chopping bowl, not mixing with the hands. When blended turn out on board and roll about one-quarter inch thick and bake.