Recipe from Miss Josie Taunton (Peirce City, MO); 1895.

Delicate Cake, page 159

Two cups sugar, 1 cup sweet milk, 3/4 cup butter, 3 cups flour, whites of 8 eggs, 3 small teaspoonfuls baking powder. Flavor with lemon or vanilla.


Mt. Vernon Cook Book, Second Edition, 1908, Thompson Company Printers, Carthage, Mo.


Recipe from Miss Levira Taunton (Peirce City, MO); 1895.

Nut Cake, page 180

One cup of sugar, 1/2 cup butter, whites of 3 eggs, 1/2 cup of sweet milk, 2 cups flour, 1 heaping teaspoonful of baking powder. Bake in layer in a hot oven. Between layers use whites of 2 eggs, 1 table-spoonful of powdered sugar, 1 egg, 1 cup chopped hickory nuts, or any other
preferred nuts. Frost the top with plain frosting and lay on whole nuts.


Mt. Vernon Cook Book, Second Edition, 1908, Thompson Company Printers, Carthage, Mo.


Recipe from Mrs. M. A. Taunton (Peirce City, MO); 1895.

Roast Turkey to Avoid Burning, page 42

Having dressed the turkey carefully, rub inside well with salt. Then wipe the crop dry with napkin just as your dressing is ready to put in. Fill the crop with dressing and sew up, then the body and sew also. the dressing may be fine bread crumbs, season with salt and pepper and a little butter, moisten with water and add a little sage. Tie the legs to the body so that they will not sprall {sic} by the heat. Now put in the pan and fill half full of water, with a little salt added to the water. Cover with another pan, turn the turkey and baste often. Cook three or four hours according to size. For gravy, rub flour smooth in a little cold water, stir in the pan and season to taste.


Mt. Vernon Cook Book, Second Edition, 1908, Thompson Company Printers, Carthage, Mo.


Return to: Cook Book Index