The Aunts' Cook Book

1 lb. maple sugar 1 cup of cream Break sugar in pieces and pour over it the cream. Put on stove and bring to boil. Boil until it forms a soft ball when dropped in cold water. Take from stove and beat with a wooden spoon for 15 minutes. Aunt Elinor's White Cake "Lady Cake'* ^ cup butter ]/i teaspoon soda \yi cup powdered sugar J^ lemon (juice) 2 cups flour 6 eggs (whites) Sift soda with flour three times. Cream butter and beat flour in thoroughly. Beat eggs very stifi^ and add sugar; beat gradually into butter and flour mixture; add lemon juice. Bake at about 400°. Especially good with chocolate marshmallow icing. 114 Cakes and Cookies Aunt Elinor's Orange Cake 4 eggs 2 oranges (juice and rind) 1 teaspoon baking powder Weigh eggs and take equal weights of butter, sugar and flour. Cream butter and sugar, break in eggs (whole) one by one. Add flour sifted with baking powder, orange juice and rind. Bake in little cakes or in layer cake pans at about 3 75® to 400**. Icing Yolks of 2 eggs About 2 cups confectioner's Rind of 2 oranges grated sugar Orange juice Stir eggs, sugar and grated rind together and thin with orange juice until right consistency to spread. Aunt DelPs Orange Cake 2 cups granulated sugar 2 teaspoonsful baking powder 1 cup butter Yolks of 5 eggs J^ cup milk Whites of 5 eggs 2H cups flour Juice and rind of 1 orange Cream butter and sugar, yolks of eggs well beaten and milk. Then add flour sifted with baking powder, lastly beaten whites and orange juice and rind. Bake in two layers and fill with orange filling, and spread with orange frosting. Frost top with plain white icing made with white of one egg well beaten, one cup granulated sugar and orange flavoring. Boil sugar in J^ cup water till it threads when dropped from a spoon. Pour over beaten white of egg, beat until the right consistency to spread. Cakes and Cookies 115 Orange Filling J^ cup sugar ^ tablespoonful lemon juice 2 J^ tablespoonsful flour 1 egg slightly beaten Grated rind of J^ orange 1 teaspoonful butter ^ cup orange juice Mix ingredients in order given. Cook 10 minutes in double boiler, stirring constantly. Cool before serving. Aunt Virginia's Pound Cake 1 lb. of flour 1 lb. of sugar 1 lb. of butter 1 lb. of eggs If 8 will not weigh a lb., 9 will. Wet the bowl with water, and with the hands work all the water out of the butter, then put in the sugar, beating to a cream. Beat the yolks and add the sugar and butter, J^ teaspoonful baking powder rubbed into the flour. If all the flour cannot be put in, add a small quantity of whites until all is in. Last put in the whites and beat well. Add a little salt. Aunt Virginia's Spice Cake 1 cup of butter 3 eggs, beaten separately 2 cups of sugar 2 teaspoons of baking powder 1 cup of milk 1 tablespoon of lemon juice 3 cups of flour To 3^ of the batter add a heaping teaspoon of cinnamon, and 1 teaspoon of cloves. 3^ teaspoon of allspice. }/^ teaspoon of nutmeg. 116 Cakes and Cookies Aunt DelPs Spice Cake 1^ cups brown sugar 1 cup seeded raisins ^ cup butter 1 teaspoonful soda in a little 2 cups flour hot water 1 cup sour milk J^ teaspoon each of cinnamon 1 egg and doves (ground) Cream butter and sugar, add beaten egg, then flour and sour milk, raisins, cinnamon and cloves and lastly soda in water. Bake in a moderate oven 1 hour. Aunt Virginia's Fruit Cake 4 lbs. sifted flour 8 lbs. currants 4 lbs. butter 1 oz. ground cloves 8 lbs. seeded raisins 4 oz. ground cinnamon 4 sweet oranges, chopped very fine, with rind, being careful to take out the seeds first 3 dozen eggs 1 quart of best brandy 2 teaspoons of black molasses