1 cup white sugar 1 teaspoon (^iimainon
1 cup brown sugar 1 teaspoon allspice
1 teaspoon cloves
4 cups flour (or enough for stiff batter)
142
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Enough ground sweet chocolate to make the color of dark fruit
cake.
Bake in single loaf bread pans in slow oven forty-five to sixty
minutes.
This makes two large loaves, but is a delicious and splendid keeper.
May Elliott Bostwick (Beta Sigma).
Blackberry Jam Cake
1 cup sugar 3 eggs
13^ teaspoons baking powder Ij^ cups flour
3^ teaspoon cloves 3 teaspoons cream
1 teaspoon cinnamon✪ Chocolate Apple Sauce Cake 1 cup blackberry jam
K cup butter ^^.^ jy g Robertson (Phi Omega).
Burnt Leather Cake
13/^ cups sugar 1 cup cold water
3^ cup butter 23^ cui)s flour
yolks 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla
2 teaspoons baking powder whites 3 eggs
3 or 4 tablespoons ])urnt sugar syrup
Burnt sugar: Take two cups sugar, put in a pan and set on stove
until brown, stirring all the time, then add about three-fourths cup
of water and let (!ook up like a syrup.
Kathleen Rogers (Gamma).
Cherry and Cocoanut Cake
1 cup sugar 1 cup pastry flour
3^ cup butter 1 cup cocoanut
14 cup milk whites 4 eggs
2 teaspoons baking powder
Cream butter and sugar. Add milk, then flour in which baking
powder has been sifted. Add cocoanut and well beaten eggs. Add
one-half teaspoon flavoring.
For frosting, whip one cup cream and add one-fourth cup sugar
and on(>-lialf cup candicnl cherries, chopped fine. This cake is best
if served the day it is iuad(^
Eleanor Dickinson Tate (Lambda Nu).
144 DELTA GAMMA COOK BOOK
Chocolate Cake
1 tablespoon butter or Crisco 1 cup sugar
2 eggs (save 1 white for frosting)
1 square chocolate
% cup milk 1 cup flour
1 heaping teaspoon baking powder
Bake in long pan. JuUa B. Gould (Lambda).
Chocolate Cake No. 1
2 eggs vanilla
cream 1 cup flour
1 cup sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder
}/2 teaspoon salt 2 squares chocolate
)4: cup hot water
Break eggs into measuring cup, fill the cup with cream. Add
other ingredients, and lastly, the chocolate, dissolved in hot water.
This is a very good plain cake without the chocolate.
Grace Conners Nelson (Lambda Nu).
Chocolate Cake No. 2
^ cup butter
11^ cups sugar 2 cups flour ✪ Burnt Leather Cake
1 cup sweet milk 2 teaspoons baking powder
whites of 4 eggs (in chocolate cake 2 whole eggs may be used)
3^ cake chocolate, melted
Cream butter and sugar, add milk, mix flour and baking powder
before adding to mixture. Beat whites, then add to mixture. Add
chocolate last. This makes good white cake if chocolate is omitted.
Grace Conners Nelson (Lambda Nu).
Chocolate Cake
1 cup sugar 1 square chocolate
1 egg 1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup milk 1 teaspoon soda
1 tablespoon butter 1 cup flour
Cream sugar and egg, beaten, add cup of milk. Then add flour,
baking powder and soda sifted together. While mixing cake, melt
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butter and chocolate together. Add this to batter. Bake about
twenty minutes.
Frosting :
6 tablespoons sugar 6 tablespoons cream
13^ squares chocolate
Boil for seven minutes. Stir until smooth. Pour over cake.
Corn Starch Cake
1 cup flour Yi teaspoon soda
1 cup cornstarch Flavor with lemon or van-
whites of 4 eggs ilia
1 cup sugar
Y2 cup butter
Yi cup sweet milk
Y2 teaspoon cream of tartar (Pi).
Corn Starch Cake
whites of 2 eggs, beaten to a froth
Y2 cup butter 1 cup flour
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1 cup white sugar 1 teaspoon (^iimainon
1 cup brown sugar 1 teaspoon allspice
1 teaspoon cloves
4 cups flour (or enough for stiff batter)
142
CAKES 143
Enough ground sweet chocolate to make the color of dark fruit
cake.
Bake in single loaf bread pans in slow oven forty-five to sixty
minutes.
This makes two large loaves, but is a delicious and splendid keeper.
May Elliott Bostwick (Beta Sigma).
Blackberry Jam Cake
1 cup sugar 3 eggs
13^ teaspoons baking powder Ij^ cups flour
3^ teaspoon cloves 3 teaspoons cream
1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 cup blackberry jam
K cup butter ^^.^ jy g Robertson (Phi Omega).
Burnt Leather Cake
13/^ cups sugar 1 cup cold water
3^ cup butter 23^ cui)s flour
yolks 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla
2 teaspoons baking powder whites 3 eggs
3 or 4 tablespoons ])urnt sugar syrup
Burnt sugar: Take two cups sugar, put in a pan and set on stove
until brown, stirring all the time, then add about three-fourths cup
of water and let (!ook up like a syrup.
Kathleen Rogers (Gamma).
Cherry and Cocoanut Cake
1 cup sugar 1 cup pastry flour
3^ cup butter 1 cup cocoanut
14 cup milk whites 4 eggs
2 teaspoons baking powder
Cream butter and sugar. Add milk, then flour in which baking
powder has been sifted. Add cocoanut and well beaten eggs. Add
one-half teaspoon flavoring.
For frosting, whip one cup cream and add one-fourth cup sugar
and on(>-lialf cup candicnl cherries, chopped fine. This cake is best
if served the day it is iuad(^
Eleanor Dickinson Tate (Lambda Nu).
144 DELTA GAMMA COOK BOOK
Chocolate Cake
1 tablespoon butter or Crisco 1 cup sugar
2 eggs (save 1 white for frosting)
1 square chocolate
% cup milk 1 cup flour
1 heaping teaspoon baking powder
Bake in long pan. JuUa B. Gould (Lambda).
Chocolate Cake No. 1
2 eggs vanilla
cream 1 cup flour
1 cup sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder
}/2 teaspoon salt 2 squares chocolate
)4: cup hot water
Break eggs into measuring cup, fill the cup with cream. Add
other ingredients, and lastly, the chocolate, dissolved in hot water.
This is a very good plain cake without the chocolate.
Grace Conners Nelson (Lambda Nu).
Chocolate Cake No. 2
^ cup butter
11^ cups sugar 2 cups flour
1 cup sweet milk 2 teaspoons baking powder
whites of 4 eggs (in chocolate cake 2 whole eggs may be used)
3^ cake chocolate, melted
Cream butter and sugar, add milk, mix flour and baking powder
before adding to mixture. Beat whites, then add to mixture. Add
chocolate last. This makes good white cake if chocolate is omitted.
Grace Conners Nelson (Lambda Nu).
Chocolate Cake
1 cup sugar 1 square chocolate
1 egg 1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup milk 1 teaspoon soda
1 tablespoon butter 1 cup flour
Cream sugar and egg, beaten, add cup of milk. Then add flour,
baking powder and soda sifted together. While mixing cake, melt
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butter and chocolate together. Add this to batter. Bake about
twenty minutes.
Frosting :
6 tablespoons sugar 6 tablespoons cream
13^ squares chocolate
Boil for seven minutes. Stir until smooth. Pour over cake.
Corn Starch Cake
1 cup flour Yi teaspoon soda
1 cup cornstarch Flavor with lemon or van-
whites of 4 eggs ilia
1 cup sugar
Y2 cup butter
Yi cup sweet milk
Y2 teaspoon cream of tartar (Pi).
Corn Starch Cake
whites of 2 eggs, beaten to a froth
Y2 cup butter 1 cup flour