Recipe: Grandperes (Grandfathers)

Grandperes (Grandfathers)
From Women's Day Encyclopedia of Cookery

2 cups pure maple syrup
2 cups water
2 cups sifted flour
4 Teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 Tablespoons shortening or butter
1 cup milk

Combine maple syrup and water in a wide saucepan with tight-fitting lid. Bring to the boilijng point.

Sift and measure flour, sift again with baking powder and salt and cut in shortening. Add milk all at once, mix rapidly and drop by Tablespoonfuls into the boiling syrup.

Cover pan and cook over slightly lowered heat for about 15 minutes. Serve at once.

Makes 6 servings.