The universal cookery book

“One quart of flour, one pint of best Orleans molasses, one cupful of sugar, tablespoonful and a half of ginger, two small teaspoonfuls of soda, half a cupful of sour cream, and a heaping tablespoonful of lard. Sift the flour first, and then sprinkle the ginger well through it ; add the sugar and molasses, putting in lastly the soda dissolved in the cream. Obtain from a tinner a cutter shaped like a horse, for cutting out the cakes.” Rock Cakes. Mix well together four ounces each of butter and sugar (cost twelve cents) ; add four ounces of wellwashed currants (cost three cents), one pound of our (cost four cents), and three eggs (cost three ROCK CAKES. 188 cents) ; beat all these ingredients thoroughly ; roll them into little balls, or rocks, and bake them on a buttered baking-pan. A good supply will cost about twenty-two cents. — Twenty-five-Cent Dinners: Miss Juliet Corson. O.Judd Co., Pubs. (By per) CHAPTER XVI. CAKES, DESSERTS, ICE-CREAMS, TEA, COFFEE, CHOCOLATE. CAKES , DESSERTS, ICE-CREAMS, TEA, COFFEE, CHOCOLATE. THE PARTY. Donald and Dorry joined the merry line, wondering what was about to happen — when, to their great surprise (ah, that sly Uncle George, and that innocent Liddy !), the double doors leading into the dining-room were flung open, and there, sparkling in the light of a hundred wax candles, was a collation fit for Cinderella and all her royal court. I shall not attempt to describe it, for fear of forgetting to name some of the good things. Imagine what you will, and I do believe there was something just like it, or quite as good, upon that delightful table, 'so beautiful with its airy, fairy-like structures of candied fruits, frostings, and flowers; its jagged rock of ice where chickens and turtles, made of ice-cream, were resting on every peak and cranny; its gold-tinted jellies, and its snowy temples. ... At this very moment, Gory Danby, quite unconscious of the feast upstairs, was having his own private table in the kitchen. Having grown hungry for his usual supper of bread and milk, he had stolen in upon Norah, and begged for it so charmingly, that she was unable to resist him. Imagine his surprise when, drowsily taking his last mouthful, he saw Fandy rush into the room with a plate of white grapes. “Gory Danby! ” exclaimed that disgusted brother, “I’m ’shamed of you! What you stuffin’ yourse’f with common supper for when there’s a party upstairs ? Splendid things, all made of sugar ! Pull off that bib now, an’ come along ! ” — Donald and Dorothy • Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge. Roberts Bros., Pubs. [By per.) Angel Cake. The whites of eleven eggs, one and a half cupfuls of granulated sugar ; one cupful of pastry-flour, measured after being sifted four times ; one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, one of vanilla extract. Sift the flour and cream of tartar together. Beat the whites to a stiff froth. Beat the sugar into the SILVER CAKE. eggs, and add the seasoning and flour, stirring quickly and lightly. Beat until ready to put the mixture in the oven. Use a pan that has little legs at the top corners, so that when the pan is turned upside down on the table, after the baking, a current of air will pass under and over it. Bake for forty minutes in a moderate oven. Do not grease the pan. — New Cook-Book: Miss Maria Parloa. Estes & Lauriat, Pubs. {By per.) Silver Cake.