Ebook - Recipes Tried And True (1894 Cookbook).txt

chocolate on bottom and top of layers, and put the cream icing

between.

CREAM CAKE. MRS. JOSIE YAGER.

One cup sugar, three eggs, one and one-half cups flour, three

tablespoons water, two teaspoons baking powder, flavoring to taste.

Bake in about three layers and put between them this--

CREAM.--Three-quarters pint milk, one egg, two tablespoons corn

starch, three tablespoons sugar. Put milk on to boil; mix other

ingredients together; put in milk, and boil until it thickens. Flavor

to taste when cool.

CREAM CAKE. MRS. FENTON FISH.

Two tablespoons butter, two teacups sugar, three eggs, one-half teacup

sweet milk, two tablespoons cold water, two teacups flour, two

teaspoons baking powder. Bake quickly in three or four round tins.

CREAM.--One-half pint milk, one-half teacup sugar, a small piece

butter, one egg, one tablespoon corn starch, boil until very thick.

When nearly cold, flavor with vanilla. When the cakes are cool, put

them together with it.

CREAM CAKE. MRS. NED THATCHER.

Two cups white sugar, one-half cup butter, one cup sweet milk, one cup

corn starch, two cups flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, whites of

seven eggs, beaten and added last.

FILLING.--Whip one pint cream; sweeten and flavor to taste, and spread

between layers.

CREAM CAKE. MRS. G. H. WRIGHT.

Two cups granulated sugar, three-fourths cup butter, one cup sweet

milk, three cups sifted flour, three teaspoons baking powder sifted in

the flour, the well beaten whites of eight eggs. Bake in three

layers.

One pint rich sweet cream, whipped with one small teacup sugar.

Flavor to taste, and put between layers.

CUSTARD CAKE. MISS ANN THOMPSON.

Four eggs, one and one-half cups sugar, two tablespoons water, two

cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder.

FILLING.--One egg, one-half pint sweet milk, one-half cup sugar, two

tablespoons flour, butter size of hickory nut. Flavor to taste.

LEMON CREAM CAKE. MRS. C. H.

One-half cup butter, two cups sugar, one cup sweet milk, three eggs

(

yolks and whites beaten separately), three cups flour, three

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