Peter Stines
Sergeant
- Joined
- Apr 10, 2007
- Location
- Gulf Coast of Texas
Here's a recipe written by Wilhelmina Wilborn to her brother Karl. It's date June, 1862. The original letter is in the Stengler/Hankamer Collection at the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. It has been published in the book CHAMBERS COUNTY TEXAS IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES by the late Kevin Ladd. Gateway Press. To the best of my knowledge it has NOT been published anywhere else. These are some of my relatives. So there!
"Your bread which you sent us to sample was real good.....When you make some again scald a little corn meal, add salt then finish it with cold water. Let it stand for 1 1/2 or 2 days, stir it good. Then make your biscuits with the corn meal mixture, add a little baking soda, then they were turn out much lighter and more digestible. Then you take a little of that dough and save it to start your next bread dough....."
Sorry there weren't more precise times or measurements but that's 'the way it war written...'
"Your bread which you sent us to sample was real good.....When you make some again scald a little corn meal, add salt then finish it with cold water. Let it stand for 1 1/2 or 2 days, stir it good. Then make your biscuits with the corn meal mixture, add a little baking soda, then they were turn out much lighter and more digestible. Then you take a little of that dough and save it to start your next bread dough....."
Sorry there weren't more precise times or measurements but that's 'the way it war written...'