Council cook book

Cream one cup butter with two cups sugar. /Add the beaten yolks of seven eggs and one whole egg, one-eighth teaspoon salt. Mix four teaspoons yeast powder with three and three-fourths cups flour and add alternately with three-fourths cup milk to the [illustration: Advertisement] 2036-2054 O'FARRELL ST. ^-*V^# m^ egg mixture. Add the beaten whites and one teaspoon flavoring. Bake in buttered layer-cake pans twenty minutes. Filling. — Boil two cups sugar and one-half cup boiling water until it is thread-like. Pour it onto the beaten whites of two eggs, add one tablespoon flavoring, and, beat until creamy. Then add one cup chopped walnuts and one cup chopped cherries. Uncooked Icing, One-half cup powdered sugar, wet with a teaspoon vanilla and a little milk. Mix into a paste and spread on cake. Plain Frosting. One cup confectioners' sugar; to this add some liquid, either milk or water, to make it the right consistency; flavor with vanilla. Instead of the water or milk, orange juice can be used. A little of the rind must be added. Lemon juice can be substituted in place of vanilla. Chocolate melted over hot water and added to the sugar and water makes a nice chocolate icing; flavor with vanilla. Boiled Icing. One cup sugar, one-third cup boiling water, white of one egg beaten stiff. Pour water on sugar until dissolved, heat slowly to boiling point without stirring, boil until, syrup will thread when dropped from tip of spoon ; as soon as it threads, pour slowly [illustration: Advertisement] over beaten white, then beat with heavy wire spoon until proper consistency to spread. Flavor. Caramel Frosting. Two-thirds cup sugar, two-thirds cup milk, one teaspoon butter, two squares chocolate, one-half teaspoon vanilla. Mix the sugar, milk, and butter. Place on the, stove, and when the mixture begins to boil add the melted chocolate. Boil fifteen minutes. Marshmallow Paste. Boil for six minutes three-fourths cup sugar with one-fourth cup milk, melt four ounces marshmallows with two tablespoons hot water, combine the two mixtures, and add one-half teaspoon vanilla; beat until stiff enough to spread. Cream Filling. In a double boiler put one and one-half cups milk; when it boils, add two teaspoons corn starch which has been dissolved in one-half cup milk, one egg, one tablespoon sugar; let all come to a boil. When cool, flavor with one teaspoon vanilla. \ Maple Filling. One cup maple sugar, one cup white sugar, onehalf cup water; boil until it will form into stiff drops when tested in cold water; cool until slightly warm and add two stiffly beaten whites. [illustration: Advertisement] Mocha Filling. One-half pound sweet butter, one-fourth- pound sugar, creamed. ' Add slowly the yolks of two eggs and four tablespoons strong, black coffee. Nut Filling. Boil ten minutes one cup chopped nuts, threefourths cup milk, yolk of one egg. Thicken with little corn starch; flavor with wine, brandy, or rum. [illustration: Advertisement] COOKIES "Never eat till you have leisure to digest." — Oswald. My Mother's Cookies. One pound of butter and two cups of sugar, rubbed to a cream; four whole eggs. and one white, flour to make a stiff dough, and two teaspoons yeast i powder, a little whiskey. Roll out thin and cut in any shape desired. Yolk of an egg mixed with a little milk put on top of each cooky, and sugar and chopped almonds added. Bake in moderate oven ' until brown, cool, and then place in a closed tin box. Plain Cookies.