This section is from the book "Tested And Tried Recipes Of Azusa And Vicinity Housekeepers", by The Azusa Woman's Club. Also available from Amazon: The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl.
Four cups flour, 4 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, sifted together. Beat 2 eggs thoroughly, add 2 cups sweet milk, then flour mixture, and last, large cup of walnut meats chopped medium size. Let rise 20 minutes and bake 30 or 35 minutes in medium hot oven.
- Mrs. F. C. Silent.
One cup corn meal. 1 cup white flour, 1 cup of milk, 1 tablespoon of butter, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, 1 teaspoon of salt. 3 tablespoons of sugar.
- Mrs. Helen Mitchell.
Four cups flour, ½ cup sugar, 4 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 cup chopped nuts, 1 egg beaten added to 1¼ cups sweet milk. Mix, let stand ½ hour, then bake ¾ hour. - Mrs. Harry Raney.
Two cups white flour, 2 cups graham flour. 2 cups milk, (sweet or sour), ½ cup cane syrup, 1 full teaspoon soda sifted with the flour, 2-3 cup of nuts, 1-3 cup of raisins. Bake in moderate oven. - Mrs. W. P. Taylor.
Two pounds honey, 2 pounds flour, ¼ pound butter or lard, grated peel of 1 lemon, ½ teaspoonful of ground cloves, 1 teaspoonful annis seed, 1 ounce soda. Heat honey and butter together. Take from the fire, mix, spices and soda, which has been previously dissolved in a little warm water together. Let cool. Then add flour little by little. If dough runs, add more flour till stiff enough to roll out. Bake in medium heated oven. - Mrs. Robert Oscar.
Take 6 good-sized potatoes, boil and grate them. Add 1 cup of bread crumbs, 1 small onion, 1 slice fat bacon, ½ grated nutmeg, salt to taste, 1 good-sized slice of bread cut in bits the size of a. bean. Cut up the bacon the same as the bread and fry a light brown. Take the bacon out of the grease and fry the bread the same as the bacon. Put the grated potatoes in a deep dish, add the above ingredients. Last of all add 2 eggs. Mix all well together. Put the dough on a floured board and form into balls of medium size. Press firmly together and boil in slightly salted water.
- Mrs. Robt. Oscar.
Six eggs. Separate. Beat ½ teaspoon salt with yolks. Add 1 pint of milk and flour enough to make stiff batter. Add beaten white of egg and fry in hot lard.
- Mrs. Roht. F. Thaxter.
Two eggs, yolks and whites beaten separately, 1 cup sweet milk, saltspoon of salt, 2 teaspoons baking powder and flour enough to make a little thicker than pan-cake batter. Drop by spoonfuls in hot fat. Serve with maple syrup.
- Mrs. W. J. Cox.
One cup dry rolled oats, 1 cup flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 teaspoon salt. Mix and rub in 1 large tablespoon of good beef fat, lard or butter. Moisten with V2 cup of sweet milk, forming a rather stiff dough, drop in small biscuits and bake 20 minutes in a hot oven.
- Mrs. John E. Hill.
Beat 3 eggs very light, add to the yolks ½ pint milk, 1 pint stiff cold mush, ½ pint of flour, ½ teaspoon salt, 1 large dessertspoon of melted butter or lard. Just before frying add the well beaten whites of the eggs. - Miss Metcalfe.
Two cups sweet milk, 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoon melted butter. Beat eggs very light, add the milk, salt and butter. Add this to the flour slowly to prevent its being lumpy. Fill well buttered gem pans half full and bake in quick oven about 25 minutes. - Mrs. C. H. Lee.
One cup water, 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder, ½ level teaspoon salt, 1 well beaten egg, 2 cups Globe graham flour. Have gem pans hot and well greased. Bake in hot oven.
- Mrs. J. H. Anderson.
One cup of flour, a little salt, 1½ teaspoons of baking powder and enough sweet milk to make a stiff batter. Drop into the stew by the tablespoonful, cover and boil 15 minutes, never lifting the cover until done. - Mrs. James J. Ayres.
One tablespoon melted butter, ½ teacup water, a pinch of salt, 2 heaping teaspoons baking powder in a bit of flour, 1 cup of flour, 1 egg. Mix butter and water and salt and flour to stiffen batter. Now break in the egg and beat hard, now add the baking powder mixed with a bit of flour. Drop into the kettle with boiling soup and cook 20 minutes with closed cover. - Mrs. T. W. La Fetra.
 
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