Plain Muffins

Ingredients

• Flour
• Yeast
• Warm Water
• Warm Milk
• 4 eggs

Directions

1. Mix the flour and yeast in a bowl
2. Add warm water to the mixture to make a stiff batter and leave it overnight
3. Add little warm milk and the eggs to the mix the next morning
4. Add a little flour
5. Mix it well to make it suffciently stiff and bake

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Nirjala Parajuli
Louisiana Anthology
June 07, 2020

Plain Muffins

Ingredients

• Flour
• Yeast
• Warm Water
• Warm Milk
• 4 eggs

Directions

1. Mix the flour and yeast in a bowl
2. Add warm water to the mixture to make a stiff batter and leave it overnight
3. Add little warm milk and the eggs to the mix the next morning
4. Add a little flour
5. Mix it well to make it suffciently stiff and bake

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Nirjala Parajuli
Louisiana Anthology
June 07, 2020

Indian Muffins

Ingredients

• 1 quart of boiling water
• Cornmeal
• Flour
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• 1/2 a wineglass of yeast
• Fresh Butter

Directions

1. Stir cornmeal into the boiling water to make it a nice batter
2. When warm, pit in as much flour as will make a stiff batter
3. Add salt and yeast
4. Set it to rise
5. When risen, pour it into muffin rings and bake slowly in an oven
6. Serve them with butter

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Nirjala Parajuli
Louisiana Anthology
July 16, 2019

Indian Muffins

Ingredients

• 1 quart of boiling water
• Cornmeal
• Flour
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• 1/2 a wineglass of yeast
• Fresh Butter

Directions

1. Stir cornmeal into the boiling water to make it a nice batter
2. When warm, pit in as much flour as will make a stiff batter
3. Add salt and yeast
4. Set it to rise
5. When risen, pour it into muffin rings and bake slowly in an oven
6. Serve them with butter

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Nirjala Parajuli
Louisiana Anthology
July 16, 2019

French Cake

Ingredients

• 6 ounces of sweet almonds
• 3 ounces of bitter almonds
• 3 ounces of sifted flour
• 14 eggs
• 1 lb of powdered sugar
• Vanilla/Orange flower water

Directions

1. Dry the sweet almonds, bitter almonds and sifted flour near the fire
2. Add the dried sifted flour to a mixing bowl
3. Add the eggs, powdered sugar and flavor it with vanilla or orange flower water
4. Mix until just combined
5. Add both dried sweet and bitter almonds
6. Fold the almonds into the batter carefully and bake the cake

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Nirjala Parajuli
Louisiana Anthology
July 16, 2019

French Cake

Ingredients

• 6 ounces of sweet almonds
• 3 ounces of bitter almonds
• 3 ounces of sifted flour
• 14 eggs
• 1 lb of powdered sugar
• Vanilla/Orange flower water

Directions

1. Dry the sweet almonds, bitter almonds and sifted flour near the fire
2. Add the dried sifted flour to a mixing bowl
3. Add the eggs, powdered sugar and flavor it with vanilla or orange flower water
4. Mix until just combined
5. Add both dried sweet and bitter almonds
6. Fold the almonds into the batter carefully and bake the cake

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Nirjala Parajuli
Louisiana Anthology
July 16, 2019

Spiced Beef

Ingredients

• Round steak
• 1 ounce of sodium nitrate
• 1 pound of brown sugar
• Salt
• 1 tablespoon of allspice
• 2 tablespoons of black pepper
• 2 teaspoons of cloves
• 1 teaspoon of mace

Directions

1. Rub both sides of the round well with the sodium nitrate.
2. Rub in the brown sugar.
3. Mix the allspice, black pepper, cloves, and mace with salt.
4. Rub all with the salt mixture.
5. Let it stand for 30 days.
6. Turn it every other day, bathing it in the liquor that runs from it.

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Sean Tilmon
Louisiana Anthology
June 7, 2020