Recipes From Eula's Kitchen
From Trail End Notes, July 2004
According
to Eula Kendrick herself, she did not like to cook, wasn't very good at it, and
didn't want to become very good at it. Her only desire was to be good enough so that,
if she had to be the one doing the cooking, the cowboys wouldn't leave the ranch
in search of better grub!
Even so, like every good housewife of
the age, Eula had a collection of recipes that she preferred. Thanks to a generous
gift from Eula's granddaughter, Eula Harmon Hoff, Trail End is in possession of a most interesting book:
Eula Wulfjen Kendrick's handwritten recipe book. In it are forty recipes,
most without accurate measurements or even complete procedures. Some only provide
a list of ingredients – the cook is expected to know what to do with them.
In addition to foods, the book also
contains recipes for various homemade cleaners.
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INDIAN
MEAL PUDDING
1 quart new
milk, boiling
1 cup molasses
A pinch of soda
4 tablespoons corn meal
1 lump butter, walnut
sized
2 eggs (3 when plentiful)
¾ teaspoon salt
Bake overnight or from 3 to 5 hours.
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GINGERSNAPS
Note
the absence of flour measurement in this cookie recipe; it is assumed that the cook knows
to add flour!
1 cup molasses
½ cup sugar
1 cup butter
1 teaspoon alum
dissolved in
½ cup boiling
water
2 tsp soda
1 tsp ginger
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CREAM TOMATO SOUP
Boil soup bone well; put lump
of butter size of an egg in pan til it boils; stir in 1 half cup of flour; let it brown.
Strain in 1 can of tomatoes; add a little sweet cream then the juice from the meat.
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FIG PUDDING
½ pound figs, chopped
1 teacup grated bread
crumbs
½ cup sugar
1 teacup melted butter or
suet
1 cup water
5 ounces candied
orange peel and citron
¼ teaspoon soda
1 nutmeg, grated
5 eggs,
well-beaten
Spices to suit taste
Steam four hours and serve
with following sauce.
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SAUCE FOR FIG PUDDING
1 cup sugar
1 egg
Lump butter, walnut size
1 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons cold water
Beat all together and pour into:
½ pint milk or boiling water
Flavor with wine or brandy.
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SILVER CLEANER
2 tablespoons sal soda
2 tablespoons alcohol
2 tablespoons ammonia
2 tablespoons whiting
1 quart water
Boil twenty minutes.
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WASHING FLUID
1 cup gasoline
4 tablespoons strongest
ammonia
1 lump borax, walnut size
1 bar soap, shaved fine
7 quarts water
Add soap to water; stir until
dissolved; add borax to soap while in kettle. After cooling a little go into yard and add
gasoline and ammonia.
One cup of mixture with ¾ bar of soap
put into boiler of water makes a cleansing fluid to put clothes to boil out dirt, then
into machine and finish.
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