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

FROSTING.--One-half cup maple syrup or sugar; boil to a taffy; pour

over the beaten white of one egg.

VANITY CAKE. MRS. JOHN LANDON.

One and a half cups sugar, half cup butter, half cup sweet milk, one

and one-half cups flour, half cup corn starch, teaspoonful baking

powder, whites of six eggs; bake in two cakes, putting a frosting

between and on top. Grate cocoanut all over.

DEVILS FOOD CAKE. MRS. FENTON FISH.

Two cups darkest brown sugar, one-half cup butter, two eggs, one-half

cup sour milk, three cups flour, one pinch salt; mix thoroughly

together. Take one-half cup boiling water; stir into this one

teaspoon soda, and one-half cup grated Baker's chocolate; stir into

batter.

FILLING.--Two cups dark brown sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup

sweet milk or cream. Cook until it threads.

DEVILS FOOD CAKE. MRS. G. H. WRIGHT.

PART I.--One cup brown sugar, three quarters of a cup butter, one-half

cup sour milk, two and one-half cups sifted flour, one level teaspoon

soda, yolks of three eggs, whites of two. Stir this together, and

then add--

PART II.--One cup brown sugar, one-half cup sweet milk, one cup grated

chocolate, put this on the stove, let it dissolve, and add while still

warm to Part I. Bake in two layers, and put icing between.

DELMONICO'S CAKE. MRS. M. S. LEONARD.

One-half cup of butter, two cups of sugar, two teaspoonfuls of baking

powder, two-thirds of a cup of sweet milk, three cups of sifted flour,

the whites of eight eggs, beaten stiff. Cream the butter and sugar;

add the milk; then the flour; beat thoroughly; then add the eggs; and

flour, with vanilla.

FILLING.--Two cups of maple or brown-sugar, one cup of milk, a lump of

butter the size of a walnut, a tablespoonful of vanilla, or any

flavor. Boil till it gets like candy; beat to a cream.

ENGLISH WALNUT CAKE. MRS. MARY W. WHITMARSH.

One and one-half cups of sugar, one-half cup of butter, one-half cup

of water, one and one-half cups of flour, one-half cup of corn starch,

two teaspoons of baking powder, the whites of six eggs. Flavor with

lemon. Bake in layers.

FILLING.--Two cups of light brown sugar, one-half cup of water. Boil

until it threads, and stir in the whites of two eggs, beating until it

creams; them stir in one pound of English walnuts, chopped fine.

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