War-Time Breads and Cakes

By Amy L. Handy

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Nov 29, 2019
• ISBN: 4057664589231

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Amy L. Handy

War-Time Breads and Cakes

Published by Good Press, 2022

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EAN 4057664589231

Table of Contents

FOREWORD

YEASTS

Buttermilk Dry Yeast

Potato and Hop Dry Yeast

Continental Dry Yeast

Liquid Yeast

SUGGESTIONS FOR THE MAKING OF BREAD WITHOUT WHITE FLOUR

SPONGES

Whole Wheat Sponge

Potato Sponge

Corn Meal Sponge

Oat Flour Sponge

Oatmeal Sponge

Four Varieties of Bread from one Potato Sponge

BREADS AND BISCUITS MADE WITH YEAST

Whole Wheat Bread

Graham Bread

Whole Wheat and Apple Sauce Bread

Nut and Fruit Loaf

Nut Loaf

Rye Flour Bread

Rye Meal Bread

Rye and Corn Meal Bread

Raised Cinnamon Roll

Rye and Squash Bread

Cooked Oatmeal Bread

Oatmeal Bread (1)

Oatmeal Bread (2)

Rice Flour Bread

Rice Flour Bread (one loaf)

Cooked Rice Bread (1)

Cooked Rice Bread (2)

English Rice Muffins

Sweet Potato Bread

Quick Whole Wheat Bread

STRAIGHT DOUGH BREADS

Potato Bread

Raised Corn Bread

Corn Rolls

Corn Meal Mush Bread

Rye and Indian Bread

Oatmeal Bread

Raisin Bread

Bath Buns

Ohio Coffee Bread

Coffee Rolls

Date Roll

Date or Fig Biscuit

Coffee Cake

Apple Cake

Squash Biscuit

Whole Wheat Vienna Rolls

Whole Wheat Vienna Crescents

Biscuits

Potato Rolls

Supper Rolls

Corn Rolls

Raised Oatmeal Muffins

English Muffins

Plain Coffee Cake

Apple Cake

Peach Cake

Cheese Cake

Rye Crumpets (1)

Crumpets (2)

BREADS AND BISCUITS MADE WITHOUT YEAST

My Favorite Corn Bread

White Corn Muffins

Afternoon Tea Muffins

Luncheon Corn Bread

Corn Meal Muffins

New England Spider Corn Bread

Cereal and Corn Bread

Corn Meal Drop Biscuit

Corn Meal Biscuit

Barley Biscuit

Oatmeal Muffins

Blueberry Cake

Rye and Indian Puffs

Old-Fashioned Scalt Cake

Corn Dodgers (1)

Corn Dodgers (2)

Whole Wheat Biscuit

Whole Wheat Popovers

Whole Wheat Muffins (1)

Whole Wheat Muffins (2)

Oatmeal Gems

Oatmeal Muffins (1)

Oatmeal Muffins (2)

Oatmeal and Rye Muffins

Rye Muffins

Rye Popovers

Graham Muffins

Rice Flour Biscuit

Sweet Potato Biscuits

Potato Cakes

Whole Wheat Shortcake

PANCAKES

Potato Pancakes (1)

Potato Pancakes (2)

Corn Meal Griddle Cakes (1)

Corn Meal Griddle Cakes (2)

Rice Griddle Cakes

Bread Griddle Cakes

Corn Meal Puffs (for dessert)

Pulled Bread

Deviled Toast

Hominy Crisps

Girdle Cakes

A Paste to put on Buns when half baked

CAKES AND GINGERBREADS

Whole Wheat Gingerbread

Rye Gingerbread

Cape Cod Fruit Cake

Chocolate Cake

Doughnuts

Raised Bread Cake

FOREWORD

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For

the last twenty years the housewives of our country have been more and more depending upon the bakers for the bread used in the homes. In some of our cities the home-baked loaf is hardly known.

Although the commercial bread has been of great variety and of excellent quality, it has never been an economical method of serving the family with the staff of life.

By depending upon ready-baked bread we have come to consider it a difficult process to make good yeast bread and almost a hardship to try to have home-made bread.

I had fallen into the habit of buying my bread; my family was so small that it hardly seemed necessary to insist that bread should be made in my kitchen when good bread could be bought at a reasonable price. The result was that when the call came to conserve the wheat, I resorted almost entirely to quick breads made with baking powder or with sour milk and soda. However, the experiments that