Professor Walter's Recipes of Yesteryear

Muff Bread ~ 1908

1 Pint Milk
1 Tablespoon Butter
6 Tablespoons Flour
4 Eggs, beaten separately
1 Salt Spoon of Salt

Let the milk get warm enough to melt the butter, but not hot. Mix flour carefully into the milk that it may not lump. Add yolks of eggs, the rest of the milk, and last the whites whipped stiff. Beat the air well in and bake quickly in pie plates about one third full of batter.

Maryland Biscuit ~ 1908

1 Quart Flour
1 Tablespoon Lard
1 Cup Cold Water & Salt

Knead well and beat ten minutes, and bake quickly.

Delicious Corn Muffins ~ 1908

1 Pint Corn Meal
1 1/2 Pint Milk
A Little Salt
3 Eggs (Yolks and Whites beaten separately)

Scald the meal with the milk the night before using for breakfast. One tablespoon melted butter. Add the yolks first, and when ready to bake add the whites. Bake in thin pans.

Muffins ~ 1908

4 Eggs Beaten Separately
1 Quart Sweet Milk
Enough flour for a stiff batter
1 Compressed Yeast Cake
Butter the size of an egg
Pinch of Salt

Bake slowly on a griddle over a good fire. Use muffin rings. Delicious toasted the day after baked.

Rice Waffles ~ 1908

1 Cup Boiled Rice
3 Cups Flour
2 Eggs Well Beaten
1 Teaspoon Soda
Milk enough to make it proper consistency

Bake in very hot, well-greased waffle irons.

Rye Bread ~ 1908

5 Pints of Flour
1 Teaspoon of Salt
1 Quart of Warm Water
1 Cup of Yeast

Mix well and work well with plenty of flour, then place in well greased pans. Let rinse and bake in oven 1 1/2 hours. Never set at night but work as soon as mixed.

Corn Muffins ~ 1908

3 Eggs, 1 Cup of Meal
1 Heaping Tablespoon of Butter
1 1/2 Cups of Buttermilk

Beat the eggs very light, then add 1 cup buttermilk, then meal and butter, then 1/2 tea cup of buttermilk, stirring in 1/2 teaspoon soda and 1 salt spoon salt. Grease your tins and bake quickly.

Batter Cakes ~ 1908

2 Eggs
1 Cup of Meal
1 Salt Spoon of Salt
1 Cup of Milk

Make in a thin batter, adding more milk if necessary, and bake on hot griddle. A tablespoon of melted butter is an improvement.

Thin Biscuit ~ 1908

To one pound flour, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 tea cup cream a little sour, 1 salt spoon of salt, 1 teaspoon soda. Make dough as soft as possible, roll very thin, cut out and bake quickly in hot oven about 5 minutes.

Waffles ~ 1908

1 Pint Sour Cream
2 Pints Flour2 Eggs
1 Teaspoon of Soda
3 Tablespoons of Melted Lard
A little salt

Beat the eggs separately, put flour and sour cream in the yellows, thin the batter very thin with sweet milk. Add lard, then soda dissolved in a little milk, and lastly the whites. Bake quickly in very hot irons.