[Jasmine_xoxo]

I found a newspaper clipping of a recipe for Pioneer Bread in a diary of collected recipes in a box in the garage on our homestead farm.

Who knows when this was published, but the other recipes in the book are dated late '30s & early '40s so I assume this is from the same era. The yellowing of all the paper is about the same.

I'll scan it at work and post it here too, but my scanner is broken at home so you'll have to bear with me.

"Old Recipe Trots Back"

Here is a letter and a wonderful recipe from a reader, Jane Littell, that we thought everyone would enjoy.
"This is a recipe for Mountain Bread that I got out of Narcissus Whitman's diary that you won't believe until you try it.
You make dough of flour and water (quite a stiff dough) adding nothing else, not even salt. Roll it out thin, like noodles. Cut it in 2 inch squares and fry in beef suet until crisp. Do not use deep fat but just enough for a generous amount in a cast iron skillet. Salt afterward if you like, but salt is unnecessary.
It is marvelous with cocktails. Mrs. Whitman says this is what the pioneers used for bread when there was no fuel or time for large fires."

Personal note - any typos are purely mine, and I do not know about the cocktails part...

 

[Reality Czech]

More proof that anything goes "marvelous" with cocktails.
Just kidding,..... :

My czech grandmother had a similar recipe that I remembered I liked.
It was basically the same, except more flavored.

Copied from her recipe:
Celestial Favors

2 cups flour
2 tbs sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbs butter or lard
1 egg yolk
1/2 tsp grated lemon peel
2 tbs rum

Sift dry ingredients, crumble in butter, and mix in egg yolk, rum and lemon peel.
Kneed till smooth.
Roll out 1/8" thick, cut into shapes(stars, diamonds,squares, etc), prick with fork, and fry in shortening.
Drain.
Dust with vanilla sugar.

 

[Jasmine_xoxo]

More proof that anything goes "marvelous" with cocktails.
Just kidding,..... :

My czech grandmother had a similar recipe that I remembered I liked.
It was basically the same, except more flavored.

Copied from her recipe:
Celestial Favors

2 cups flour
2 tbs sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbs butter or lard
1 egg yolk
1/2 tsp grated lemon peel
2 tbs rum

Sift dry ingredients, crumble in butter, and mix in egg yolk, rum and lemon peel.
Kneed till smooth.
Roll out 1/8" thick, cut into shapes(stars, diamonds,squares, etc), prick with fork, and fry in shortening.
Drain.
Dust with vanilla sugar.

Dahling, yours sounds mahvelous with cocktails!! hehe

 

[zanedclark]

i'll have to try this.

 

[wingless93]

Sounds like fritter Bread. Us dirt poor folks from the blue ridge been eating that stuff for years. Hell I didn't know bread came any other way until I was at least 5. Beans,Taters and fritter bread. ( that brings back some memories). And no before anyone asks I'm not that old.:

Some people called it trail bread. You could take a piece and put it in your poket and it could be eaten later in the day. My mom used to cook hers in some left over bacon grease and leave some in the oven. We kids would snack on it all day long.

 

[bridgierapa]

Sounds a bit like deep fried Maori bread. Maori bread is to die for... they don't deep fry it any more, too many people were getting killed in the rush lol.

Another one that leaves you gasping (for air after you've consumed the whole loaf) is billy bread.

 

[bridgierapa]

Sorry - double post somehow.

 

[adobewalls]

The recipe looks very similar to the different breads made by the American Indians as "Fry Breads". Its also strikingly similar to some "Hard Tacks".

Sounds like it is basically a "cracker" recipe (as in Saltine Crackers).

 

[Jasmine_xoxo]

Hmm I never scanned this and then I put it away so I wouldn't lose it.

It's lost.

Sigh.