This section is from the book "A Treatise On Flour, Yeast, Fermentation And Baking Together With RecipesFor Bread And Cakes", by Julius Emil Wihlfahrt. Also available from Amazon: A treatise on flour, yeast, fermentation and baking, together with recipes for bread and cakes.
Ingredients used:
4 ounces sugar.
1 pint molasses.
1 1/4 pints lard or butter.
12 eggs.
1 1/2 quarts milk.
2 ounces Fleischmann's Yeast.
1/2 ounce salt.
2 pounds white flour.
2 pounds graham flour.
Set sponge, using all the milk and flour; allow to rest until it breaks. Cream the lard and sugar, then add the eggs one by one, and last, the molasses; add this, together with salt, to the sponge. Then proceed the same as for wheat gems.
Same as graham gems, but omit the graham flour and use in all 4 lbs. white flour and add 1 oz. finely-ground ginger and 1/2 oz. ground cinnamon to mixture.
Ingredients used:
1/2 pint molasses.
2 ounces sugar.
1 3/4 pounds lard or butter.
12 eggs.
2 quarts milk.
2 ounces Fleischmann's Yeast.
1/2 ounce salt.
2 pounds graham flour.
2 1/2 pounds white flour.
Proceed exactly the same as for Graham Gems.
This will make 175 medium-size muffins.
 
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