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Article: Dr. Chase's crackers & bread.(The homestead kitchen)(Recipe)
- Article from:
- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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We always enjoy old recipes, in part to rediscover long-forgotten little snippets of information and lore of value to homesteaders. These are from a book published in 1866.
Dr. Chase's crackers: Butter, 1 cup; salt, 1 teaspoon; flour, 2 quarts.
Rub thoroughly together with the hand, and wet up with cold water; beat well, and beat in flour to make quite brittle and hard; then pinch off pieces and roll out each cracker by itself if you with them to resemble bakers' crackers.
Sugar crackers: Flour, 4 lbs.; loaf sugar and butter, of each 1/2 lb.; water, 1-1/2 pints. Make as above.
Naples biscuit: White sugar, eggs, and flour, of each 1 lb. ...