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Dessert Recipes from the Moore Home Kitchen

4/28/2020

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Inez had a sweet tooth this morning and was up early looking for a treat in the Moore Home kitchen -- and she found a bunch of great vintage recipes to try! Want to join her? Happy baking!
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Apple Pie

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  • 5 sour apples
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon butter
  • 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice
  • 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
  • Few gratings lemon rind
Line pie plate with paste. Pare, core and cut apples and fill the pie. Mix the dry ingredients and lemon juice, and sprinkle over apples. Dot over with butter. Wet edges of under crust, cover with upper crust, pressing the edges close together. Bake in a hot oven 40 to 45 minutes or until fruit is cooked.

Sand Tarts

These crisp cookies are all-time favorites at the home of Master Farmer and Mrs. W.A. Meadows, Bleckley County, Ga.
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
Sift flour with baking powder. Cream butter thoroughly and add sugar. Cream until light and fluffy. Add egg and flour. Blend, and chill until firm enough to roll. Roll 1/4 inch thick. Cut with doughnut cutter. Brush with egg white and sprinkle with mixture of sugar and cinnamon.
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Pound Cake

A tasting-test kitchen endorsed recipe
  • 3 cups cake flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon mace
  • 1/2 pound butter
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 6  egg yolks
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 6 egg whites
Sift flour, measure, and resift 3 times with baking powder and mace. Cream butter, gradually blend in 1 cup of the sugar, add the egg yolks, and beat vigorously until fluffy and stiff. Add flour mixture and milk, to which vanilla has been added, alternately in small portions, beating well after each addition.
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Beat egg whites until fluffy but not dry, gradually add remaining sugar, and continue beating until stiff and smooth. Fold lightly but thoroly [sic] into batter. Turn batter into buttered loaf pan or ring mold, and bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) 60 to 70 minutes, or until done.

Date Bread Crumb Pudding

Tempting the Jaded Appetite
By Mary Lee Swann, The Well-Known Writer and Lecturer on Cooking


Beat 3 egg whites until stiff. Add 3 well-beaten egg yolks. Add 1 cup dry bread crumbs, 1 cup chopped dates, 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder and a few drops vanilla. Bake in a buttered baking dish in a moderate oven about 25 minutes. Serve with whipped cream.
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