Dora's cook book

Mix thoroughly while dry one cup flour, one teaspoon baking powder, and sift them, add one cup sugar, four eggs, and one tablespoonful cold water.. Bake quickly in long shallow tins, and as soon as it is ready to slip from the pans spread jelly on the bottom and roll up; then roll a towel tight around it until cooled. DORA’S CHOCOLATE CAKE, One cup butter, two cups sugar, yolks of six eggs, and whites of two, one cup milk. Mix two teaspoons of baking powder with three and one-half cups flour, while dry, Then mix all together and bake in jelly tins. THE FILLING. Whites of three eggs, one and one-half cups sugar, three tablespoonfuls grated chocolate flavored to taste. Beat together and spread between the layers and on the top. KISSES CAKE. The whites of six eggs, two cups sugar, two cups flour, two tablespoons butter, two tablespoons baking powder, one cup sweet cream. AUNT DEARIE’S ORANGE CAKE. One cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup cold water, three eggs (reserving the whites for frosting), — a i ‘ sa 902 - DORA’S COOK BOOK. A Seen: site two even cups sifted flour, two teaspoons baking powder, juice and pulp of one orange. Bake in three jelly-tins. Make a frosting of the whites of the eggs, one small cup od white sugar, and grated peel of the orange. Spread on each layer. : CINNAMON DROPS. Fd One egg, one cup sugar, one cup molasses, one-half cup butter, one cup water, one tablespoon cinnamon, one tea- spoon soda, five cups of flour. Bake in cups. HICKORY NUT CREAM CAKE. Four eggs, two cups sugar, one-half cup cream, two ~ and one-half cups flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder. Bake in jelly-tins, and between the layers spread the following cream: -One pint of boiling milk, one cup of chopped hickory nut meats, and two tablespoonfuls of corn-starch, COCOANUT LAYER CAKE. The yolks of three eggs, two cups sugar, one-half cup butter, one cup sweet milk, three cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder. Bake in jelly tins, and use the whites for frosting each cake. Sprinkle each layer thick-~ ly with cocoanut. ORANGE CAKE. One cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup sweet milk, two cups flour, three eggs, one and a half teaspoons baking powder. Bake in jelly tins and spread orange icing between the layers. * s CAKES. as 203 Bhat SUNFLOWER CAKE. The yolks of eight eggs, one cup sugar, three-fourths cup butter, one-half cup sweet milk, one and one-half cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder. Flavor with almond. EXCELLENT CORN-STARCH CAKE, Three cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup milk, three cups flour, one cup corn-starch, whites of twelve eggs beaten stiff, two teaspoons baking powder. Beat sugar and butter to a cream, dissolve the starch in the milk, add then the flour and whites. The powder should be sifted with the flour. Bake in a moderate oven. DANDY LEMON CAKE. One cup of sugar, whites of four eggs, one-half cup butter, two teaspoons baking powder, one-half cup flour. Frosting : whites of two eggs, two cups of sugar, one lemon and one teaspoon lemon essence. — SCOTCH CAKE. Take six ounces of butter, two ounces of sugar, to twelve ounces of flour. Roll one quarter of an inch thick and bake in a quick oven, add a little carraway seed. PINK AND WHITE LAYER CAKE. One cup butter, two cups sugar, beat to a cream ; one cup milk, one cup corn-starch, two cups flour, two tea- spoons baking powder well sifted dry with the flour ; whites of six egos beaten stiff; stir all together. ‘This will make five layers; separate enough to make two layers, and add to it one teaspoon fruit coloring. THE FILLING AND FROSTING.