Part 7

One quart of milk, 3 cups of flour, ½ teaspoonful of salt, 2 eggs, 3 teaspoonfuls of baking powder.

Mix the baking powder thoroughly with the flour, add the flour to the milk, add the salt then the eggs, well beaten. Fry on a hot griddle in large cakes. Butter and spread with maple sugar in layers until you have a plate four or five inches high. Cut in pie shape and serve hot.

Maple Sugar Cream Cake.

One cup of maple sugar, 1 egg, ½ teaspoonful of salt, 1 cup sour cream, 1½ cup of flour, 1 teaspoonful soda.

Add the soda to the cream; when it foams add the egg well beaten; next, the sugar and salt, last the flour. Bake in a quick oven.

Maple Fruit Cake.

One cup sugar, 1 cup each of butter and sour milk, 1 cup of chopped raisins, nutmeg and cinnamon, 1 egg, 1 teaspoonful soda, 2 cups flour, 2 cups butter, 4 eggs, 2 cups maple sugar, 1 cup maple syrup, 1 cup sweet milk, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon all kinds of spices, 1 pound raisins, 1 pound currants, ½ pound citron, nearly 6 cups of flour.

Maple Sugar Frosting.

One-half cup maple sugar, ½ cup granulated sugar, ½ cup of water. Boil until it will hair from a spoon. Stir briskly into the beaten white of an egg. Beat until cool enough to spread.

Ginger Snaps.

1. Two cups maple sugar, 1 cup sour cream, 1 teaspoonful soda, flour enough to make a stiff paste, 1 cup butter, 2 eggs, 2 tablespoonfuls ginger.

Roll thin and bake quick.

2. One cup maple molasses, 1 teaspoonful each of soda and ginger, ⅔ cup butter, mix hard and roll thin.

Maple Sugar Cookies.

Two cups of maple syrup, 1 cup of sweet milk, flour enough to roll—about 5 cups, 1 cup of butter, 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder. 4 eggs.

Beat the sugar and butter to a cream, add the eggs well beaten, add the milk, next the flour in which the baking powder has been well mixed. Roll and cut in any form to suit the taste. Bake in a moderate oven.

Maple Sugar Ginger Bread.

One cup of maple syrup, 2 cups of flour, ½ teaspoonful salt, 1 teaspoonful soda, 1 cup of sour cream, 1 egg, 1 teaspoonful ginger.

Add the soda to the cream; when it foams add the egg well beaten, then the maple syrup, salt and ginger; last add the flour. Bake in a quick oven.

Maple Syrup Made From Sugar.

One pound maple sugar, 1 pint of water, boil ten minutes, skim and cool.

Maple Sugar Ice Cream.

One quart cream, 2 cups maple sugar, 2 eggs, 1 pint of milk, ½ cup of flour, scant.

Let the milk come to a boil. Beat one cup of sugar, flour and eggs until the mixture is light and creamy, then stir into the boiling milk; cook until the flour is thoroughly cooked. Set away to cool. When cold whip the cream, add the other cup of sugar and turn into the cooked mixture and freeze.

Mince Meat. (Very Nice.)

One quart of chopped beef, ½ pound of suet, 1 cup of butter, 1 pint of molasses, 2 quarts of chopped apples, 2 cups of raisins, 2 pounds of maple sugar, 1 tablespoonful each of cloves, allspice and cinnamon.

Boil slowly in 2 quarts of sweet cider two or three hours, being careful not to let it burn.

Maple Sweet Pickles.