CAKES
Hints for making cakes. The flour should always be very dry and well sifted. White sugar is purer and sweeter for cakes and pastries than the brown sugar. If the butter is very hard soften but do not melt it when soda is used dissolve it before adding to the ground mixture. Fruit should be thoroughly dry if added to the other ingredients damp, cakes will be liable to be heavy. Dust your fruit with a little of the flour to be used for the cake and stir into the other ingredients just before putting in the rest of the flour. The ingredients should be well beaten before mixing in the flour except in a few plain cakes that are beaten all together. All cakes bake nicer if the pan used is lined with buttered paper.
Beat the whites of 3 eggs, dry and the yolks until thick into the yolks gradually beat 1 cup of sugar then 1 tablespoon of lemon juice and 2 tablespoons of cold water, fold in part of the whites then add 1 cup of sifted flour and the rest of the whites. Bake in a tube pan from 30 to 40 minutes.
1¹⁄₂ cups sugar, ¹⁄₂ cup of butter, 2 eggs, 1 cup of jam, 3 tablespoons sour milk, ¹⁄₂ teaspoon of soda, 1¹⁄₂ cups of flour.
1 cup of sugar, ¹⁄₂ cup water, ¹⁄₂ cup chopped raisins white of 1 egg, boil all but egg until waxy add beaten white.
1 cup sugar, butter size of an egg, whites of 2 eggs, ²⁄₃ cup of sweet milk, 2 cups of flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder.
1 cup of chopped nuts, ²⁄₃ cups of sour cream, pinch of soda, 1 cup of sugar boil until it begins to thicken, let cool before putting in the cake.
3 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 2 tablespoons sweet milk, salt, sift baking powder with flour last add beaten whites and flavor. Bake in dripping pan, turn out on a towel, spread with jelly and roll while warm.
¹⁄₂ cup sugar, ¹⁄₂ cup of molasses, ¹⁄₂ cup lard, ¹⁄₂ cup sour milk, 2 eggs beaten with sugar, 1 teaspoon of ginger, 1 teaspoon of soda, 2¹⁄₂ cups of flour.
4 tablespoons shortening, 1 cup of good N. O. molasses, 1 teaspoon ginger, teaspoon soda, 4 tablespoons of boiling water, just a little salt, put 2 tablespoons of hot water on 1 teaspoon alum and 2 on soda, mix the same as for cookies, divide in four parts, roll out the size of your tin and mark the top with a knife.
Grate ¹⁄₂ cube of Bakers Chocolate, yolk of 1 egg, 1 cup of sugar, ¹⁄₂ cup of sweet milk, mix together put on the stove and heat, cool before adding other ingredients. 1 cup of sugar, ¹⁄₂ cup of butter, 2 eggs (stir to a cream), ¹⁄₂ cup of sweet milk, 2 cups of flour, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, 2 teaspoons of vanilla. Stir in the chocolate, bake in layers and put together with icing or make a loaf cake.
Grate ¹⁄₂ cake of chocolate, yolk of 1 egg, 1 cup of sugar, ¹⁄₂ cup of sweet milk, mix together put on the stove and heat all together. Cool before adding the other ingredients. 1 cup sugar, ¹⁄₂ cup butter, 2 eggs (stir to a cream) ¹⁄₂ cup of sweet milk, 2 cups of flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 2 teaspoons of vanilla. Stir in the chocolate bake in a loaf cake or layers and put together with icing.
1 cup of sugar, ¹⁄₂ cup of molasses, ¹⁄₂ cup of butter, ¹⁄₂ cup sour milk, ¹⁄₂ cup cold coffee, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon cloves, 1 tablespoon grated chocolate, 2 cups of flour, bake in two layers making filling of 1 cup chopped raisins and boiled frosting.
1 cup of butter, 1¹⁄₂ cups of sugar, 2 eggs, 4 tablespoons sweet milk, 2 cups of oatmeal (uncooked), 2 cups of flour, ¹⁄₂ teaspoon baking powder, 1 cup of raisins (seeded) cut and flavored with 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, a little nutmeg. Cream the butter and sugar together add the eggs well beaten then the milk and oatmeal. Sift the baking powder in the flour and add the raisins nutmeg last. The batter should be very thick and is dropped on well greased tins in small circles and baked for 15 or 20 minutes.
¹⁄₂ cup of butter, 1 cup of sugar, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon of milk or cream, 2¹⁄₂ cups of flour, 1¹⁄₂ teaspoon lemon extract, ¹⁄₂ teaspoon of grated nutmeg. Cream the butter and sugar together, add the eggs, milk and flavoring sifted flour and baking powder in last. Small bits of citron look well on top of these cookies.
2 cups brown sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 cups of hot water, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 2 tablespoons lard, 1 teaspoon cloves, 1 box of seedless raisins. Boil these ingredients 5 minutes let mixture get cold add 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in 1 teaspoon of hot water. Stir in 3 cups of flour. This makes 2 loaves. Bake 45 minutes in moderate oven.
1 cup of sugar, ¹⁄₂ cup of butter, ¹⁄₂ cup of flour, 1 cup of chopped walnuts, 2 eggs, 2 squares of chocolate. Cream butter and sugar together. Beat whites of eggs stiff beat yolk thoroughly and add to butter and sugar. Add the flour chocolate melted and the walnuts. Stir until well mixed and turn in buttered cake tins. Bake 20 minutes in a moderate oven.
¹⁄₂ cup of sugar, 1 cup of molasses, ¹⁄₂ cup of shortening, ²⁄₃ cups of hot water, 1 level teaspoon of soda, 1 heaping tablespoon of cocoa, flavor with vanilla, 2 cups of sifted flour, 1 teaspoon salt. Beat well sprinkle sugar on top. Can be dropped from spoon in greased pan a few inches apart or in small tins, (very nice).
Melt ¹⁄₂ cup of butter in 1 cup hot water and while boiling beat in 1 cup of flour, when cold, stir in 3 eggs without first beating. Drop the mixture in tins in small spoonsful and bake in moderate oven when done they are hollow and should be filled with the following custard.
CUSTARD:—1¹⁄₂ cups of milk, 2 eggs, 4 tablespoons of flour, 2 tablespoons sugar, cook in double boiler, stirring constantly, cool and flavor with whatever you wish then fill the puffs.
Boiled frosting with whites of 2 eggs, 1 cup of sugar, ¹⁄₃ cup of water. Add 1 cup finely chopped nut meats. Take unsalted wafers, cover with the icing, bake in a slow oven till a delicate brown.
Whites of 3 eggs, 1 yolk, 1 cup of sugar, ¹⁄₂ cup of butter, ¹⁄₂ cup sweet milk, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, 2 cups of flour, bake in layers. Filling 2 squares of chocolate melted, ¹⁄₂ cup of sugar, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon of butter, 2 tablespoons of sweet milk, cook until thick and spread between the layers, 1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring.
Whites of 11 eggs, 1 and ¹⁄₂ cups of granulated sugar, 1 cup of flour after once sifted, 1 teaspoon cream tartar, 1 teaspoon vanilla, sift the flour and cream of tartar, 6 times, beat the eggs not stiff, then beat in the sugar thoroughly. Add vanilla and flour stirring lightly but thoroughly bake in an ungreased tin in a moderate oven 40 minutes. Be careful about jarring the oven.
3 eggs, 1¹⁄₂ cups of sugar, 1 cup of butter, 1 cup of chopped raisins, 1 cup of currants, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, 1 teaspoon nutmeg, 1 teaspoon soda, ¹⁄₂ cup of sour milk, flour to make stiff and drop a teaspoon on a buttered tin.