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Kitchen Poetry

10/7/2016

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It's always fun to try out new recipes and this one is no exception.  This recipe for Graham Cake is from an 1884 cookbook and is written in the form of a poem.  You can use whole wheat pastry flour if graham flour is not available.

Any reader of this book would like a graham cake,
I give you here a recipe which I quite often make.

First take one cup of sugar white, and butter one half cup,
Together mix, then add an egg, and lightly beat it up.

Then take one cup of pure sweet milk, and well dissolve therein
A teaspoon full of soda so its trace cannot be seen.

Then scatter in a little salt, and flavor it with spice,
A little nutmeg, if you please, or lemon peel is nice.

And then of flour you may put in three even teacups full,
And when you’ve stirred it well around, then quickly pour the whole.

 Into your buttered pan, my dear, which ready stands the while,
Then, if you give it a good bake,‘twill be so nice you’ll smile.

 
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