Lowney's Cook Book / Illustrated in Colors

by Maria Willett Howard

• 1½ cups Indian meal
  1½ cups flour
  1 teaspoon salt
  2 tablespoons sugar
  4 tablespoons butter
  ½ yeast cake dissolved in one quarter cup lukewarm water
  3 cups scalded milk

Scald meal with milk; add butter, and when lukewarm, add remaining ingredients; let mixture rise over night. In the morning cook as Griddle Cakes.

Waffles

• 2 cups flour
  2 teaspoons baking powder
  1 teaspoon salt
  3 tablespoons melted butter
  1⅓ cups milk
  3 eggs

Sift dry ingredients; add yolks well beaten, milk, butter and stiffly beaten whites. Beat well and cook on hot waffle iron. The waffle iron should be heated fifteen or twenty minutes before using and greased thoroughly with salt pork fat.

New England Fried Bread

• 2 cups raised bread dough
  1 teaspoon cinnamon

Roll dough to one half inch in thickness, sprinkle with cinnamon, cut in diamonds; raise; fry in deep fat; serve with sirup.

German Pancakes

• 4 eggs
  4 tablespoons flour
  ⅛ teaspoon salt
  4 tablespoons milk