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Ingredients: potato, almost size of shucked walnut
1 pint boiling water
½ cake yeast foam
1½ cup sugar
1 big cup lard
a little salt
1 egg
1 pint squash, salted, mashed through potato ricer
yeast
1 good big cup of warm water
flour to make a medium batter
1 teaspoon soda
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Directions: |
Directions: Tuesday evening
Dear Louise,
Bert brought a letter from you mother last eve, seems I'm so slow, am always late with everything.
She said you wanted to try your luck with Squash Biscuits. This morning, right after breakfast I worked up potatoes for yeast.
I took a teaspoon of bread flour, 2 of sugar and 2 of salt, potato almost size of shucked walnuts, added 1 pt. of boiling water, when cool, 1/2 cake of yeast foam into it and sit where it will be just warm to raise.
'Twas light after dinner so I creamed 1 1/2 c. sugar, 1 big c. lard, a little salt, then add 1 egg and 1 pt. squash (more if watery), the yeast and a good big c. of warm water and flour to make a medium batter. This will be light if kept warm so that by bedtime I'll put into loaf and then in morning it will be ready for biscuits. Let them get pretty light before baking and not too hot as they burn very easy.
I forgot to add a tsp. of soda in flour when I put it into loaf. I always salt the squash when I mash it. I put mine through a potato ricer so to be sure no chunks, even then I do often find one.
Hope you have good luck; am sure you will if you try a time or so. I started since Sunday had orders for yesterday and today. Then set more today for orders tomorrow, can keep the loaf several days. Hope this finds you well and enjoying the spring sunshine.
Lovingly,
Mabel Blauvelt (a great-grand relative of Granny's) |
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Notes: Judy loved this version of the recipe, verbatim from Granny's letter from Mabel. Sandy was also a contributor of this version. The first time Jody followed this version (it was the first time she ever made them), she ended up adding 11(!) cups of flour. The dough was very soft, and the rolls were delicious! But it makes very big batch, something like four or five dozen rolls!
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