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If you enjoy our show, please write a review on the Apple Podcasts app or if you don't have an Apple device at potchaser.com slash snoozecast. That's P-O-D-C-H-A-S-E-R..com slash snoozecast. This episode is brought to you by Malassas and Cinnamon. Tonight, we'll read selections about baking breads and cakes from a Charlotte Sunshine Cookbook published in 1906. This episode starts with a long-form poem about baking bread, then into bread recipes. If you stay awake for the second half, you will hear cake recipes including several using hickory nuts. A relative of walnuts and pecans, there are many varieties of hickory tree nuts, and not all of them are edible or palatable to humans. But if you forage for wild hickory nuts of the right time, they are supposed to be one of the most delicious nuts and can't even grow. Let's get cozy. Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a lukewarm quart, my son or daughter, one half of milk, one half of water. To this please add two cakes of yeast or the liquid kind if preferred in the least. Next, stir in a teaspoon full of nice clear salt. If this bread isn't good, it won't be our fault. Now add the sugar, table spoonfuls three. Mix well together, for dissolved they must be. Pour the whole mixture into an earthen bowl. A pan's just as good if it hasn't a whole. It's the cook and the flour, not the bowl or the pan that makes the bread that makes the man. Some people like a little shortening power. If this is your choice, just add to the flower two tablespoons of lard and jumble it about till the flower and lard are mixed without doubt. Next, stir the flower into the mixture that stood, waiting to play its part to make the bread good. Mix it up thoroughly, but not too thick. Some flowers make bread that's more like a brick. Now grease well a bowl and put the dough in.

Don't fill the bowl full. That would be a sin. For the dough is alright and it's going to rise until you will declare that it's twice the old size. Brush the dough with melted butter. Has the recipes say? Cover with a bread towel. Set it in a warm place to stay two hours or more to rise until light. When you see it grow, you'll know it's all right. As soon as it's light, place again on the board. Need it well this time. Here is knowledge to hoard. Now back in the bowl once more it must go. And set again to rise for an hour or so. the dough into loaves when light and place place it in bread pans greased just right. Shape each loaf you make to half fill the pan. This bread will be good enough for any young man. Next, let it rise to the level of pans no more. Have the temperature right? Don't set near a door. We must be careful about drafts. It isn't made to freeze. the rules good and warm. Say 72 degrees. Now put it in the oven. It's ready to bake. Keep uniformed fire. Great results are at stake. One hour more of waiting, and you'll be repaid. By bread, that is worthy of being made. Potato bread. Cook three medium-sized potatoes and mash fine. Put two tablespoons of flour in a crock and two tablespoons granulated sugar, two tablespoons salt. Mix this in a thin paste with cold water. Then add two quarts boiling water, add mashed potatoes, stir in the yeast or starter.

Cover. Add two quarts boiling water. Add mashed potatoes. Stir in yeast or starter. Cover and let stand until morning. In the morning, add as much warm water, not boiling, as desired. Stir in flour to make a thick batter. Let rise two or three hours. Mix stiff. Grease your pan. Let rise 10 or 15 minutes. Mix down. Don't mix too much. Let rise and mold into loaves. Let rise and then bake in a moderate oven. Salt rising bread. One pint warm water. Pinch of salt. One teaspoon of soda. Mix very very thin batter with flour. Set where it will stay warm. In the morning, warm some flour in the mixing pan. Warm one quart of milk. Add butter the size of walnut. Put emptying and milk in flour and stir until it is a thick batter. Add salt. Let's set a couple of hours. Mix not as stiff as other bread. Let's stand until it rises. Then put in pans. Bake for one hour. A quick way to make bread. Thirly mix a cake of compressed yeast and a pinch of salt in one quart of lukewarm milk. Stir in flour as long as it can be stirred with a spoon. Now put in baking pans. In three or four hours it is ready to bake. It is said to be better than bread, laboriously needed by hand. Gram loaf. One cup sweet milk 1 cup sugar

2 eggs Scant cup sour milk 1 cup molasses 1 teaspoon salt and soda each Beat eggs and soda in sour milk milk. Mix all other ingredients and sift in enough gram flour to make a stiff batter. Steam 2 hours and bake for 1 half hour. Austin Brown Bread. Boston, brown, bread, two cups cornmeal, two cups rye flour, one cup molasses, one some teaspoonful soda, salt, Sour Milk, To Mix,

Put into cans

and steam 2.5 or 3 hours. Graham bread, one quart water, one yeast cake, a large tablespoonful salt, make a stiff batter with pure graham meal and let it rise overnight in cold weather.

When light add a teaspoon soda,

two or three cup sugar,

and a tablespoonful of melted butter.

Stir and beat thoroughly.

Mold into soft loaves with white flour. Raised biscuit. Dissolve one tablespoonful butter in one pint hot water. When lukewarm, stir in one quart flour. Add one beaten egg. Add a little salt, one cup of yeast. Work into dough till smooth. In winter, set in a warm place to rise. In summer, set in a cool place. In the morning, work softly and roll out one inch thick and cut into biscuits. Place in pans and set to rise for 30 minutes. Bake. These are delicious. Baking powder biscuits. Sift one quart flour and three teaspoons baking powder. Rub in two tablespoons of lard or butter or half an half. Wet with nearly one pint of sweet milk. Roll about one inch thick on well-floured board. for 15 or 20 minutes in a hot oven. Can use more butter and water instead of milk. Soft gingerbread, half cup sugar. One cup molasses. One cup butter. One teaspoon each of ginger, cinnamon and cloves. Two teaspoons soda dissolved in one cup boiling water. Two cups of flour. Add two well-been eggs, the last thing before baking. This is excellent. Whole wheat bread. Boil one quart sour milk. Strain. Let the way cool until the milk is warm. Add one tablespoon of salt. One tablespoon full sugar. One cake compressed yeast. And a whole wheat flour enough to make a stiff batter. Beat well. Let rise until light. Add flour enough to mix. Need until soft and elastic. Make into small loaves. In light, bake for 45 minutes in a quick oven. Steamed Boston brown bread. Three and a half pints of gram flour. One pint of hot water. 1 pint of molasses,

and 1 pint of buttermilk.

1 cup seeded raisins,

1 teaspoonful soda,

sprinkled in dry after batter is mixed.

Steam 3 hours,

then put in the oven for about 20 or 30 minutes to brown. Cinnamon buns, leave out enough bread dough for one loaf, then work into that about one cup of lard and one cup of sugar. Let raise nicely after needing insufficient flour to make its stiff. When light, roll out, have bready some butter and sugar rub together. Spread thinly over. Sprinkle cinnamon over and roll up as you would a jelly cake. Slice off about half inch slices. Then lay in pans and set them to rise again. When nearly ready for the oven, spread on plenty of butter and sugar and sprinkle on more cinnamon. Bake for about 20 minutes. Steamed cornbread, one cup of sour milk, one cup molasses, scant cup of raisins, teaspoon full of soda, 1 cup of cornmeal, 1 cup of flour, a little salt, steam for 2 and a half hours. Cakes with weights and measures just and true, oven of even heat, well-buttered tins and quiet nerves, success will be complete. White layer cake, two cups of sugar, one cup butter, cream the butter and sugar, one cup sweet milk, four cups of flour, whites of five eggs, two teaspoons baking powder, filling yolks of five eggs, one cup sugar beaten together, two tablespoons of milk, butter the size of a walnut, one teaspoon of flour, three cups of baker's chocolate, favorite black cake, One cup molasses. One cup sugar. One egg. Butter the size of an egg. Salt and spices. One cup of boiling water. Add fruit and stir all together. Two and a half cups of flour. Coffee cake, one cup sugar, one cup molasses, one egg, One teaspoon full, soda.

One cup shortening, one cup cold coffee, one cup raisins, one teaspoonful allspice, one teaspoonful cloves, One teaspoonful cinnamon,

Three cups of flour to make a stiff batter. Snowball cake, two cup sugar, One cup butter, white of 4 eggs, 1 cup sweet milk, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 3 cups of flour, Flavor to suit taste. Every day fruit cakes. One pound sugar. One cup butter. One cup sour milk. Four eggs. One pound raisins. One pound English currents. One poundrons 1 nutmeg 1 teaspoonful cloves and cinnamon and 1 teaspoonful soda Eastcake One cup bread sponge One cup sugar Scant cup of butter or lard One egg Scant teaspoon of soda two teaspoons teaspoons of ground cinnamon, and enough flour to thicken. K-Kroll, one and one-third cups of sugar, three eggs, one cup of sweet milk, two cups of flour, teaspoonful each of cream tartar and soda, bake quick and roll with jelly as soon as taken from the oven. Eggless fruit cake, one cup of sugar, one cup buttermilk, six tablespoons of butter, one teaspoon of soda, one cup chopped raisins, all kinds of spices, one teaspoon lemon, flour raisins, flour until stiff enough that it will not run from the spoon. Angel cake. Sift one teaspoonful cream tartar six times with one cup of flour. Whip the whites of six eggs until they stand alone, Then gradually stir into them a scant cup of granulated sugar and sifted flour. Beat very hard. Turn into a clear, lightly greased pan with a funnel in the center. Bake in a steady oven. Then turn the pan upside down upon a clean towel and as the cake cools it will slip out of the tin. When cold ice the bottom inside of the loaf, tried and very good. Hickory nut cake, one cup of butter, two cups of granulated sugar, three cups of flour, cup of sweet milk Whites of 7 and yolks of 2 eggs 2 teaspoons of baking powder 1 point of hickory nut meats rolled and sprinkled with flour Rich Rich and excellent. White fruit cake. One cup of butter beat into a cream. Add two cups of sugar, three of flour, in which two teaspoons of baking powder have been sifted, and the stiffly be in whites of six eggs. Bake in jelly tins, and while hot, put between the layers the following. Chop fine, a pound each, a figs, seeded raisins, citron, blanched almonds, and stir them into three whites of eggs beaten stiff, a tea cup of granulated sugar, and the juice of a lemon. and put this between the layers and frost. A most delicious cake.

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