[621] in Humor
HUMOR: Recipes of the past
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Sat Dec 17 20:53:48 1994
From: abennett@MIT.EDU
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 1994 20:51:29 EST
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 94 15:10:03 PST
From: Connie_Kleinjans@Novell.COM (Connie Kleinjans)
Lard: one of the four basic food groups. Mmm-mmm! (How times
have changed.)
From: "Peter Fraser" <Peter_Fraser@macmail.lbl.gov>
HUMOR: Recipes of the past
fun recipes from an 1882 book...get out that lard and start cookin'!!!
>Bologna Sausages- Take equal quantities of bacon fat and lean beef,
>veal, pork and beef suet; chop them small, season with pepper, salt,
>&c., with sweet herbs and sage rubbed fine. Have well washed
>intestines, fill, and prick them; boil gently for an hour, and lay
>on straw to dry.
>
>Pound Cake- Break up and well mix 1 lb. of fresh butter with 1 lb. of
>powdered sugar; add 10 eggs, a few at a time, beating up lightly; add 1
>lb of flour; a very litle soda; mix all so as to make the flour smooth;
>bake in a slow oven.
>
>Ginger Snaps- Put 2 qts. molasses, 1 1/2 lbs. of lard; 3 ozs. of ground
>ginger; 2 ozs. of soda, and 1 pt. water, into a bowl. Mix all together;
>add flour enough to make a stiff dough; then work in 2 lbs. sugar; roll
>thin; cut in long strips in rolls on the table; cut them off with a
>knife or cutter the desired size; put on buttered tins; flatten them
>down a little with the hand, and bake in a slow oven.
>
>Succotash- Take 1 doz. ears of corn, cut the grains from the cob, add 1
>qt. of Lima beans, and mix with the corn; put it on to boil in 3 qts. of
>water with 1 lb. of pork cut; add black pepper and salt to taste. When
>the water has boiled away to 1/2 the original quanity, serve in a tureen
>as soup.
>--
