The name Massachusetts
comes from Algonquian Indian words that mean “the great mountain’, some
feel they refer to the Blue Hills.
Nickname: Bay State
Statehood: February 6,
1788
State Song: Hail Massachusetts
State Motto: “By the Sword
We Seek Peace, But Peace Only Under Liberty”
State Flower: Mayflower
State Tree: American Elm
State Bird: Black-capped
Chickadee
State Fish: Cod
State Insect: Ladybug
Recipes
Boston
Cream Cake
1/3 cup butter
1-3/4 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
4 eggs, well beaten
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup milk
2 tsp baking powder
Cream butter, add half the
sugar gradually, and beat until light . Add remaining sugar to well beaten
eggs. Combine mixtures. Mix and sift flour, baking powder, and salt and
add alternately with milk to first mixture. Beat thoroughly and add vanilla.
Bake in round layer pans. For 30-40 minutes in moderate 375 degree oven.
When cool , remove from pan. (If using one large layer pan, split into
2 layers.)
For the filling:
1 cup whipping cream
1 egg white, beaten until
stiff
1/4 cup powdered sugar
1/2 tsp of vanilla
Beat cream until stiff,
add sugar slowly; fold in egg white and vanilla.
For the Frosting:
1-1/2 square chocolate
1 egg yolk
1/3 cup scalded milk
1/2 tsp melted butter
Few grains of salt
Confectioners’ sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
Melt chocolate over hot
water, add cream gradually, salt, egg yolk, and butter. Stir in sugar until
right consistency to spread.
Boston
Brown Bread
1 cup flour
1 tsp salt
1 cup corn meal
3/4 tsp molasses
1 cup wheat flour
2 cups sour milk or 1-3/4
cups sweet milk
3/4 tbsp baking soda
Mix and sift dry ingredients,
add molasses and milk, stir until well mixed, and fill well greased bread
pan not more than 2/3 full. Cover tightly and place on trivet in kettle
containing boiling water, allowing water to come halfway up around pan.
Steam 3-1/2 hours, keeping water at boiling point. Add more boiling water
as needed. Take from water, remove cover, and set in slow oven 300 degrees
for 15 minutes to dry off. Remove from pan. Cut with string while
hot, by drawing string around bread, crossing, and pulling ends. Makes
2 loves.
