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Delta Gamma cook book

1922

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Presented as published in 1922. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
dark part use the eight yellows left from whites, adding one whole egg; beat until light and add two cups sugar thoroughly creamed with one full cup of butter, four cups of sifted flour having added two teaspoons baking powder, and three-fourths cup water. To this batter add one-fourth pound citron, one cup chopped pecans, one teaspoon each powdered cloves, cinnamon and allspice, lemon and vanilla extract✪ Ribbon Cake. Bake in layers and put together with white layers with boiled icing. Eva Webb Dodd (One of Founders of Delta Gamma). Sponge Cake 3 eggs 1 teaspoon cream of tartar 1 cup sugar 3^ teaspoon soda 13^ cups flour y^ cup cold water✪ Sponge Cake Beat sugar and yolks of eggs until hght. Add water and flour, cream of tartar sifted in flour, soda in water. Beat until very hght. Lastly add whites beaten stiff. Bake twenty minutes. Grace Conners Nelson (Lambda Nu). Sponge Cake 4 eggs, separate and beat the yolks with 1 cup sugar until very light add 3 tablespoons cold water Take measuring cup and put in 34 teaspoon salt, V/i teaspoons baking powder and 13^2 tablespoons cornstarch. Fill up cup with flour well sifted. Stir all together, add the beaten whites and one teaspoon vanilla. Absolutely rehable for roll jelly cake or with any frosting desired. Bake very slowly. Nina Winans (Sigma). Hot Water Sponge Cake 2 eggs 1 cup flour 1 cup sugar 3^ cup boiling water 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder flavoring, preferably almond✪ Hot Water Sponge Cake Bake about one-half hour, in a medium oven. Juhette Gates (Sigma). 156 DELTA GAMMA COOK BOOK White Cake 1)4, cups sugar 1 cup milk }/2 cup butter whites 4 eggs 3 cups flour, sifted before measuring \]/2 teaspoons baking powder Margaret Banta (Theta). White Cake 1 packed cup butter 3^ cups flour 1 scant cup sugar whites 8 eggs 2 teaspoons Royal baking powder, rounding Sift flour and measure. Add baking powder and sift three times. Cream butter and sugar thoroughly. Beat whites lightly but not to a stiff froth. Mix in flour and eggs and then water. Flavor with one teaspoon lemon and one teaspoon vanilla. If baked in loaf, have oven warmer to begin with and gradually increase heat. It takes one hour. This will make three or four layers. Eva Webb Dodd (A Founder of Delta Gamma). White Cake H cup sugar U^.^^. ^^^u i^ cup sugar 14: cup butter J '' Y2 cup milk add 2 unbeaten eggs and beat again \yi cups pastry flour measured after sifting 3 level teaspoons baking powder vanilla Bake in shallow pan twenty-five minutes. Grace T. Adams (Lambda). Drop Cakes Cocoa Tea Cakes 1 cup sugar Y2 cup cornstarch 3^ cup butter }/i cup cocoa 2 eggs 2 teaspoons baking powder Y2 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Y2 cup flour✪ Drop Cakes - Cocoa Tea Cakes Sprinkle with nuts and bake in gem pans. (Pi). CAKES 157 Ginger Cakes ^ cup butter or lard Yi cup molasses }/2 cup sugar and 1 egg 2 cups flour 3^ cup sour milk or buttermilk 1 teaspoon soda, good measure✪ Ginger Cakes Bake in shallow tin and cut in squares. Sprinkle with sugar before baking. Gertrude Willard Phisterer (Chi Upsilon). Mary Anns 2 eggs, beaten ^ cup flour 1 cup brown sugar small cup walnuts yi teaspoon baking powder✪ Mary Anns Spread very thin and bake in gem pans. Half a walnut on top of each improves cakes. Margaret Denfeld Hudson (Lambda). Mocha Tart V/i cups sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder 3/2 cup butter 3^ cup milk 4 eggs 6 teaspoons coffee extract 2 cups flour✪ Mocha Tart