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

COLUMBIA CAKE. OZELLA SEFFNER.

Two cups of coffee A sugar and one cup of butter creamed together; add

slowly one cup of sweet milk, three full cups of flour, in which three

teaspoons of baking powder have been stirred, and the whites of eight

eggs. Flavor to suit taste. Bake in layers, and put together with

boiled frosting and chocolate creams, or stir into the frosting one

pound of seeded raisins, or a glass of currant jelly. Any one of

these will make a delicious cake.

FAVORITE SNOW CAKE. MRS. CARRIE OWENS.

Beat one cup butter to a cream; add one and one-half cups flour, and

stir thoroughly together; then add one cup corn starch, and one cup

sweet milk, in which three teaspoons baking powder have been

dissolved; lastly, add the whites of eight eggs, and two cups sugar,

beaten together. Flavor to taste. Bake in sheets, and put together

with icing.

ORANGE CAKE. MRS. CARRIE OWENS.

Two-thirds cup butter, two small cups sugar, one cup milk, three

teaspoons baking powder, the yolks of five eggs, three small cups

flour. Bake in jelly tins.

FILLING.--Whites of three eggs, beaten to a stiff froth, juice and

grated rind of one orange, sugar to give the right consistency to

spread between the layers; put white frosting on the top.

TEA CAKE. MRS. GEO. TURNER.

One egg, one cup sour cream, one-half teaspoon soda in one pint flour,

butter the size of half an egg, one cup sugar.

CARAMEL DRESSING.--One pint light brown sugar, butter the size of an

egg, one-half cup sweet milk. Cream the butter and sugar; then add

milk, and cook until it hardens in water like taffy; beat until cool

enough to spread smoothly.

RIBBON CAKE. MRS. LIZZIE MARTIN.

One small half cup of butter, one cup of sugar, two eggs, two-thirds

cup of water, two cups of flour, two teaspoons of baking powder. Take

out two layers in tins; leave enough for a third layer, and put in it

one teaspoon of cinnamon, and one teaspoon of cloves. Bake; put dark

layer in middle, and icing between all.

JELLY CAKE. MRS. ELIZABETH McCURDY.

One cup sugar, two tablespoons butter, five tablespoons sweet milk,

three eggs, one teaspoon soda, two teaspoons cream tartar. Flavor

with lemon. Bake in layers, and spread with jelly.

ALMOND JELLY CAKE. MRS. GEORGE KLING.

Three coffee-cups sugar, one heaping coffee-cup butter, and the yolks

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