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Capital city recipes

1900

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Presented as published in 1900. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
CARAMEL CAKE, NO. 2. Flour, Sugar, Butter, Eggs, . : ; Baking Powder, . Milk, ; : Lemon Flavoring. CARAMEL. Nice Light-brown Water, , 4 Butter, : ‘ ; Flavor with Vanilla. Sugar, Mix the cake as usual and bake in layers. 1 pound. 1 pound. ¥% pound. 6 1 heaping teaspoonful. 1 small cupful. 2 pounds. ¥% pint. 2 tablespoonfuls. For the caramel boil the sugar and water until it ropes, but not enough to pull. Pour over the butter, stir smooth, and when cool enough place between the layers of cake and on top and sides for an icing. cer er, Mrs. A. BAUMANN, CREAM CAKE. Eggs (whites), Powdered Sugar, . Flour, . ; : Cream of Tartar, 10 1% gobletfuls. 1 gobletful. 1 teaspoonful. CAKES. FILLING. Milk, Sugar, . ‘ Corn Starch, . Eggs (yolks), , ‘ : Almonds blanched (in shell) Flavor with Vanilla. COCOANUT CAKE. Eggs (whites) Sugar, . é Butter, Flour, . : Mak": : ; Flavor with Lemon. FILLING. Eggs (whites), Powdered Sugar, . Cocoanuts (grated), : 41 1 pint. ¥% cupful. : teaspoonfuls, ¥% pound. Mrs. BELVIN. 8 4 cupfuls. 1 cupful. 6 cupfuls. 2 cupfuls. 4 1 pound. 2 Beat the whites of the eggs with the sugar ; add the cocoanuts, leaving out enough to sprinkle on top and sides of the cake. Put on a thin icing and sprinkle the cocoanut on while the icing is wet. Mrs. LEo. D. HEARTY. ———-—— EIGHT O0’CLOCK CLUB CAKE. Egg, 1 Milk, ¥% cupful. Sugar, 1 cupful. Chocolate, Y pound. Beat the egg without separating; add the milk, sugar and chocolate. Cook until thoroughly hot, then let stand to cool while making the cake. Eggs, . : ‘ , is . 3 Milk, : ¥% cupful. Butter, . ¥% cupful. Sugar, ¥% cupful. Flour, 2 cupfuls. Baking Powder, Add to the yolks the butter and sugar, creamed; then the whites (well beaten) and the flour, with baking powder sifted into it ; 1 teaspoonful. 42 CAKES. when the chocolate is cold mix with this batter. Bake in layers and put together with icing with either almonds or English walnuts chopped and stirred into it. Mrs. STRUDWICK (Hillsboro). RIBBON CAKE. Eggs (whites), . 4 : NUL) Sifted Flour, : : d : 5 cupfuls. Sugar, . : : E : 3 cupfuls. Butter, : , : 1 cupful. Milky rh , ! f ; 1 cupful. Royal Baking Powder, , : 2 teaspoonfuls. Sift the baking powder well in the flour. Cream butter and — sugar very light, add milk, lastly the beaten whites and flour — alternately. Divide this batter into four equal parts, flavor one part with bitter almond, for the white layer, another part color a delicate pink with chochiveal and flavor with rose water. Beat the yolks of two eggs very light, and add to the third part, fla- vor with extract of lemon, this makes the yellow layer. Mix one tablespoonful of Baker’s chocolate with a little water, and stir in the fourth part, for the dark layer, and flavor with vanilla. ICING. 1% pounds of sugar dissolved and boiled in 134 teacups of wa- ter until it ropes. Pour it gradually into the whites of three eggs which have been beaten to a stiff froth, beat it hard till cool and flavor with vanilla. Stir into this two grated cocoanuts. Spread the icing between each layer and on the top and sides of the cake. Place the chocolate layer at the bottom, then the yel- low layer, then the pink and the white. Mrs. K. D. WALKER. ROLLED JELLY CAKE. Eggs, . ; ! Q i Bea al b' Pulverized Sugar, : : 1 pound. Flour, . ! : i 3% pound.