human
Can you write a poem for me in the style of Burt L. Standish?
assistant
Sure, here's a poem in the style of Burt L. Standish:
  A little Book
for A little Cook
lightly scrape off from top of cup or spoon until material is
even with the edges.
recipe.
put on table all the materials and tools needed in making that
particular recipe.
_A Little Book for a Little Cook_ was originally published by
Pillsbury in 1905. This new reproduction has all of the recipes
from the original softcover edition, but is being reissued with
the modern reader in mind. The collector will note some small
departures from the original book, but the little cook will no
doubt find what is here to be fun to cook, delicious, and warmly
nostalgic.
For best results, we recommend the following recipe changes
when preparing these old-fashioned recipes. When using
Pillsbury BEST® Flour, there is no need to sift the flour.
Just lightly spoon the flour into the measuring cup and
level it off. When combining the flour with other dry
ingredients, stir the ingredients together with a fork.
Bread: Soak 1 (.6 oz.) cake compressed yeast or 1 pkg.
active dry yeast and 1 tablespoon sugar in 2 tablespoons
lukewarm (105-110°F.) water for 2 minutes. Knead dough 5 to
double in size_. Grease, bottom only, 8×4 or 9×5-inch loaf
pan. Bake at 375°F. for 35 to 40 minutes or until light
golden brown.
Biscuits: Bake on a lightly greased cookie sheet at 425°F.
for 9 to 11 minutes.
Ginger Bread: Bake in a greased 13x9-inch pan at 350°F. for
Sponge Cake: Bake in a greased and floured 9-inch square or
Muffins: Bake in a greased 12-cup muffin pan at 400°F. for
Creamed Potatoes: If a double boiler is unavailable, cook in
a heavy saucepan over medium heat until mixture thickens,
about 5 minutes.
Fudge: Cook in a small heavy saucepan; pour mixture into a
buttered 9x5 or 8x4-inch pan.
Chocolate Cake: Bake in a greased and floured 8-inch square
pan at 350°F. for 23 to 27 minutes or until toothpick
inserted in center comes out clean.
Johnny Cake: Bake in a greased 8-inch square pan at 400°F.
for 15 to 20 minutes.
Soak yeast in 2 tablespoons cold water. Pour 1/2 cup boiling
water into 1/2 cup milk. _Let cool to lukewarm._ Stir in
dissolved yeast and salt. Add 3 cups Pillsbury's Best. Turn onto
a kneading board. Knead until smooth. Let rise until three times
the original size. Knead slightly, put into a well greased pan.
Let rise until double its bulk and bake 25 or 30 minutes in
moderate oven. It will be well to consult some experienced person
Sift flour, salt and baking powder twice. Chop butter in with a
knife until mealy. Add milk for a soft dough. Place on a board
with a little flour. Knead gently until smooth. Roll out to
one-half inch thickness. Use small cutter and place biscuits in
greased pan. Bake in a hot oven until nicely browned.
Put molasses in a bowl. Add sugar, melted butter, cinnamon and
ginger. Put soda and salt in a cup and fill with hot water. Stir
into first mixture. Add flour, then well beaten egg. Beat hard.
Bake for thirty minutes in a well greased pan. Watch oven
closely, as ginger bread burns easily. This makes a good sized
cake.
Which was baked in the baker's pan;
Cloves for his eyes and paste for his tie,--
Wondering whether the price is high."
pinch of salt
Separate eggs, beating whites to a stiff froth. Set them aside.
Beat yolks until thick. Add sugar gradually, then water, salt,
flour and baking powder. Beat thoroughly. Fold in whites and add
vanilla. Bake twenty minutes in a buttered and floured shallow
pan in moderate oven.
Beat butter, sugar and egg until creamy. Add milk little at a
time, stirring in gradually flour sifted with salt and baking
powder. Grease muffin pan, heat slightly, put in mixture and bake
Pare potatoes, cut into dice, wash in cold water. Cover with
boiling water, salt and place on range. Boil until tender, but
not mealy. Have ready the cream dressing. This is made by rubbing
lightly into dressing. Serve hot.
Melt butter in a granite pan. Add sugar, milk and molasses,
stirring gently until sugar is dissolved. Boil slowly without
stirring for five minutes. Add chocolate square and stir until
melted. Boil again until a little of mixture dropped in cold
water seems brittle. Take from range, add vanilla, beat until it
begins to thicken, then pour into a buttered pan. Cool and mark
into squares.
Stir butter, egg and sugar until creamy. Add milk little at a
time, stirring in gradually flour, sifted with baking powder. Now
minutes in a greased shallow pan.
"This world is so full of a number of things,
I am sure we should all be as happy as kings."
Sift cornmeal, flour, baking powder, sugar and salt together. Add
hot oven.
The table around which the household gathers three times a day
furnishes the chief opportunity for showing the results of good
training, whether received in school or home. We show our
unselfishness in preferring one another, anticipating one
another's wants.
On the table is shown the result of the unselfish thought and
care of the chief home-maker. The labor connected with the
preparation of the meal is either a burden or a pleasure as one's
We get the best training for active life, in other than household
We like to do what we do well. If we learn early, we learn easily
Beginners should master the little recipes included in this book.
success.
This is the tale that was told to me
By a loaf of home-made bread, you see,
As it sat one night on the pantry shelf--
A loaf on each side of it--just like itself,
While grouped around stood the pies and cakes,
The good old kind like mother makes,
And one and all then and there confessed
That they owed their existence to Pillsbury's Best.
I seem to trace through the distant haze
My byegone life in the good old days;
I see in my vision a field of wheat--
I knew I was there that the world might eat--
I drank of the showers and the morning dew;
In the noonday sun I throve and grew--
Grew on the verge of a sunny crest,
Just as fast as I could for Pillsbury's Best.
And when I had grown both tall and strong
The reapers came--a merry throng--
And through the fields they wend their way,
Just to and fro through the livelong day.
Perhaps they were rude--for they cut me dead--
But what if they did?--I kept my head
And turned on my back and laughed in glee
At the thought of the good, good flour I'd be.
I know I was good, yet the day came at last
When they said I'd be better if soundly thrashed.
Please pardon me here--I can't dwell on this much,
The subject is painful--my feelings are such.
Oh my! but the straw, it flew high in the air
And the chaff chaffed unceasing, but I didn't care,
My laughter rang forth with increased vim and zest,
My chastisement I knew--just meant Pillsbury's Best.
And then came the time when I journeyed away
To the mills where the "Roller Mills" roll all day,
And all of them smiled with a happy grin
And welcomed us poor little wheatlets in;
Oh! the grind of life--I was grasped and seized,
I really can't say I was very much pleased;
But to say the least, I was much impressed,
And when I got through I was Pillsbury's Best.
And now in the latest fashions gay
In the big round world I have my say,
For in this most becoming sack,
Please note the hang--both front and back,
I journey far from the land of my birth
To feed the hungry hordes of Earth;
For those who know ne'er fail to say
That Pillsbury's flour o'er the world holds sway.
To the kitchen I go--to the bakers who bake
The bread and the cookies, the pies and the cake;
It was there that I met the package of yeast
Who raised the dough for the coming feast,
And that's why I sit and talk to-night,
For to-morrow I know I'll be out of sight;
So I'll toast myself ere this tale I close,
To Pillsbury's Best, the flour one knows.
_This is the tale of the loaf on the shelf.
As told to me by the loaf itself._