Peach Delights
From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922.
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Ingredients
Method
Sift flour, salt, sugar, and baking powder together, then rub Crisco lightly into them with fingertips.
Add lemon extract, the egg, and enough milk to make a soft dough.
Drop mixture into greased gem pans.
Place half a peach on each one and fill the cavities with sugar.
Bake in a hot oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 25 minutes.
Serve with whipped and sweetened cream.
Original recipe, verbatim
Peach Delights
1 quart flour Milk
3 teaspoonfuls baking powder 1 egg
2 tablespoonfuls sugar 1 teaspoonful lemon extract
J^ cupful Crisco Peaches, fresh or canned
}4 teaspoonful salt Whipped cream
Sift flour, salt, sugar, and baking powder together, then rub Crisco lightly into them with finger tips; add lemon extract and enough milk to make soft dough. Drop mixture into Criscoed gem pans; place K peach on each one; fill cavities with sugar and bake in hot oven twenty-five minutes. Serve with whipped and sweetened cream.
Sufficient for twenty delights.
Transcribed as printed in A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922. Spelling and punctuation are left as in the source scan.
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