1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup sweet milk flavor with lemon
Yi cup cornstarch
(Pi).
Date Cake
\Yi pounds dates, stoned
Y2 pound walnuts 1 cup flour
2 rounding teaspoons baking powder
Y teaspoon salt V16 teaspoon cloves
1 cup sugar 4 eggs
1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon vanilla✪ Date Cake
Leave dates and walnuts as near whole as possible. Sift dry
ingredients over dates and nuts. Separate eggs, beat yolks very light,
add to mixture, then add whites, beaten very light. Add last the
vanilla. Let stand for few days before serving. Cut in very thin
slices and cover with powdered sugar. A good cake for reserve.
Adelaide Miller (Omega).
146 DELTA GAMMA COOK BOOK
Date Cake
1 cup dates, picked in pieces 1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon soda 1 egg
1 cup boiling water 13^ cups flour
1 tablespoon butter ^ cup walnut meats
Sprinkle soda over dates and add hot water. Let them stand
while mixing the remainder of cake and add last.
Jo Pierce (Alpha Zeta).
Devil's Food
1 egg, beaten 1 cup thick sour cream
1 cup sugar * 1}^ cups flour
2 squares chocolate, dissolved in
3/^ cup boiUng water
1 even teaspoon soda, added to cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
Gail H. Luther (Lambda).
Devil's Food Cake
2 cups brown sugar 1 teaspoon soda
1 cup butter 2 cups flour
3 eggs 1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup sour milk 3^ cup chocolate
Cream butter and sugar, then the beaten eggs, add the sour milk
and soda alternately with the flour. Then at the last add the melted
chocolate. Bake in loaf. Ruth Wortman (Eta).
Devil's Food Cake
3^ cake grated chocolate
1 teaspoon soda
}/2 cup hot water
Mix well and let stand until cake is mixed.
2 cups brown sugar 2 eggs, beaten together
3^ cup butter, creamed well ^ cup sour milk
1 teaspoon each ground cinnamon, allspice and cloves
23^ cups flour
Bake in layers. Louise Riggs (Theta).
CAKES 147
Devil's Food Cake with Black Walnuts
6 tablespoons chocolate, dissolved in 5 tablespoons boiling
water
4 eggs beaten separately 3^ cup butter
114, cups sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder
2 cups flour 1 teaspoon vanilla
3/2 cup sweet milk
Cream butter, add sugar, add egg yolks, stir in chocolate, add milk,
then flour and whites of eggs alternately, sifting in baking powder
with teaspoon flour, add vanilla and a cup of black walnut meats.
Bake in layers put together with:
Mocha Icing
cream butter size of egg 2 tablespoons cocoa
2 cups powdered sugar
Mix well, then moisten with hot or cold clear coffee until of a
consistency to spread.
Margaret Jayne (Tau).
Eggless Cake
1 cup sugar 1 cup sour milk
1 tablespoon lard 1 teaspoon soda
little salt 2 scant cups flour
1 cup raisins, or half nuts and raisins
1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon nutmeg
Frances Firkins (Lambda).
Easy White Cake
Place the unbeaten whites of two eggs in a measuring cup.
Fill to one-half with melted butter, then fill to the top with milk. Add
114 cups flour
1 heaping teaspoon baking powder
1 cup sugar
Beat all these together for five minutes or more, as the success
of this cake depends upon the beating.
Dorette John (Iota).
'1M DIOI/rA (JAMMA OOOK HOOK
Fruit Cake
1 cup Hutr^nr 1 (uip buUnr
1 (!up iri<)lnws(^M 4 c^KS ✪ Date Cake
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup sweet milk flavor with lemon
Yi cup cornstarch
(Pi).
Date Cake
\Yi pounds dates, stoned
Y2 pound walnuts 1 cup flour
2 rounding teaspoons baking powder
Y teaspoon salt V16 teaspoon cloves
1 cup sugar 4 eggs
1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon vanilla
Leave dates and walnuts as near whole as possible. Sift dry ingredients over dates and nuts. Separate eggs, beat yolks very light, add to mixture, then add whites, beaten very light. Add last the vanilla. Let stand for few days before serving. Cut in very thin slices and cover with powdered sugar. A good cake for reserve.
Adelaide Miller (Omega).
Date Cake 1 cup dates, picked in pieces 1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon soda 1 egg
1 cup boiling water 13^ cups flour
1 tablespoon butter ^ cup walnut meats
Sprinkle soda over dates and add hot water. Let them stand while mixing the remainder of cake and add last.
Jo Pierce (Alpha Zeta).
Devil's Food
1 egg, beaten 1 cup thick sour cream
1 cup sugar * 1}^ cups flour
2 squares chocolate, dissolved in 3/^ cup boiUng water
1 even teaspoon soda, added to cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
Gail H. Luther (Lambda).
Devil's Food Cake
2 cups brown sugar 1 teaspoon soda 1 cup butter 2 cups flour
3 eggs 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 cup sour milk 3^ cup chocolate
Cream butter and sugar, then the beaten eggs, add the sour milk and soda alternately with the flour. Then at the last add the melted chocolate. Bake in loaf. Ruth Wortman (Eta).
Devil's Food Cake
3^ cake grated chocolate
1 teaspoon soda }/2 cup hot water
Mix well and let stand until cake is mixed.
2 cups brown sugar 2 eggs, beaten together 3^ cup butter, creamed well ^ cup sour milk
1 teaspoon each ground cinnamon, allspice and cloves 23^ cups flour Bake in layers. Louise Riggs (Theta).
Devil's Food Cake with Black Walnuts
6 tablespoons chocolate, dissolved in 5 tablespoons boiling
water 4 eggs beaten separately 3^ cup butter
114, cups sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder
2 cups flour 1 teaspoon vanilla
3/2 cup sweet milk Cream butter, add sugar, add egg yolks, stir in chocolate, add milk, then flour and whites of eggs alternately, sifting in baking powder with teaspoon flour, add vanilla and a cup of black walnut meats. Bake in layers put together with:
Mocha Icing
cream butter size of egg 2 tablespoons cocoa
2 cups powdered sugar Mix well, then moisten with hot or cold clear coffee until of a consistency to spread.
Margaret Jayne (Tau).
Eggless Cake
1 cup sugar 1 cup sour milk
1 tablespoon lard 1 teaspoon soda
little salt 2 scant cups flour
1 cup raisins, or half nuts and raisins 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon nutmeg
Frances Firkins (Lambda).
Easy White Cake
Place the unbeaten whites of two eggs in a measuring cup. Fill to one-half with melted butter, then fill to the top with milk. Add 114 cups flour
1 heaping teaspoon baking powder 1 cup sugar Beat all these together for five minutes or more, as the success of this cake depends upon the beating.
Dorette John (Iota).
'1M DIOI/rA (JAMMA OOOK HOOK
Fruit Cake
1 cup butter 1 cup butter
1 cup molasses 4 eggs
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Date CakeFruit CakeDate CakeDevil's Food CakeDevil's Food Cake with Black WalnutsEggless CakeEasy White Cake