HTHS Recipes

WELSH GRIDDLE CAKES
AS BAKED AT THE ‘SUMMER KITCHEN’ OF NITRE HALL

1 cup brown sugar
½ cup sweet butter
1 egg
1 ½ cups flour

½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ cup raisins

Cream sugar and butter in medium size bowl. 

Beat egg in small bowl and add to butter and sugar mixture.

Measure and combine dry ingredients, and then add a small amount at a time to sugar, butter and egg, mixing well.

With lightly floured hands pat small pieces of dough into cookies about ¾ inch thick. 

Cook on well-seasoned or lightly greased griddle on top of stove, in the manner of pancakes.  Turn once. 

Recipe makes about 30 cookies.

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LAWRENCE CABIN OPEN HEARTH CORN BREAD
Baked in a “Dutch Oven,” close to a roaring fire. At home, try a 350 degree oven.

1 cup yellow corn meal
1 cup flour
2 generous tablespoons sugar
4 teaspoons baking powder

½ teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 cup buttermilk
¼ cup unsalted butter

Measure butter into 8” square cake tin and melt in oven.

Measure dry ingredients and combine in a large bowl.

Break egg into small bowl, beat lightly and add buttermilk.

Add this mixture to dry ingredients along with melted butter poured from cake tin.

(Before pouring in the melted butter, swirl it in the pan to coat.)

Mix all well.

Spread batter in cake tin and bake about 40 minutes.

This will yield 16 small pieces.

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SWEET POTATO BREAD
This is the newest addition to the meal at Colonial Living and is baked in an 8” square pan in a wood stove c.1840.  At home try a 350 degree oven.

¼ cup sweet butter
2 eggs
1½ cups flour
¼ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 cup sugar
1 ¼ cups mashed, cooked yams*
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon nutmeg
¼ cup buttermilk

Melt butter in pan. This may be done in the pre-heated oven. Watch that it doesn’t brown.

Cream sugar and eggs in a medium bowl.

Swirl butter in pan to coat and pour the remaining butter into sugar and egg mixture.

Blend in yams (*canned sweet potatoes, with liquid well-pressed out).

Combine dry ingredients and add gradually to sugar-egg-butter-yam mixture.

Add buttermilk and mix well.

Pour batter into pan and bake till done or approximately 35 minutes.