RAISIN BREAD
- 1½ pints (3 cups) yellow corn meal
- ¾ pint (1½ cups) Graham flour
- ¾ pint (1½ cups) white flour
- ½ pint (1 cup) molasses
- 1 teaspoonful baking soda
- 1 gill (½ cup) hot water
- 1 teaspoonful salt
- ¾ pint (1½ cups) Sultana raisins
- Sour milk
Put the corn meal into a basin, add the flours, raisins, salt, the soda mixed with the molasses and water; make into a soft batter with the sour milk.
Fill a buttered casserole half full with the mixture, cover, and steam for three hours.
PICKLE RECIPES
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APPLE RELISH
- 7 lbs. apples
- 2 lbs. Sultana raisins
- 1 pint (2 cups) vinegar
- 3½ lbs. sugar
- 3 lemons
- 2 tablespoonfuls orange flower water
- 1 teaspoonful powdered cloves
- 2 teaspoonfuls powdered cinnamon
Clean the raisins and put them into an earthenware pan with the orange flower water, the strained lemon juice, sugar, vinegar, spices, and apples chopped.
Cook steadily for thirty minutes. Divide into jars and cover.