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The Edwardsville cook book

1906

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Presented as published in 1906. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Put on back of stove, when hot mix with Second Part : — 1 cup brown sugar. 1’ yolks of eggs. Vy, cup butter. 2 whites of eggs. Vz cup sweet milk. 3 teaspoon soda. 2 scant cups flour. Add first part; bake in moderate oven. ‘‘COFFEE” CAKE. Mrs. H. O. Isensee. 2 cups dark brown sugar. % cup butter. 4 eggs. 41/2 to 5 cups flour. 2 lbs. seeded raisins. 34 lb. citron. 1 cup molasses. 1 cup liquid coffee. 1 teaspoon soda in the flour. 1 tablespoon cinnamon. 1 tablespoon cloves. Soften the butter, beat with the sugar, ad ! the cg<s, s iices, molasses, coffee, flour and lastly the fruit, dredged with, e 1 ttle flour. Bake same as fruit cake. CAKES. 123 CHOCOLATE CAKE. 2 oz. chocolate. 1% cups flour. IV2 cups sugar. Y2 cup butter. 4 eggs. Beat butter to a cream, acid g-radtially the sugar, then the beaten yolks, beat again, then add milk, then chocolate, melted in 5 tablespoons of boiling water, then the flour. Give the whole a vigorous beating. Now beat whites to a stiff froth and stir in carefully ; add vanilla and baking powder and bake in a moderate oven 45 minutes. CHOCOLATE GLACE CAKE. Mrs. Clare Prickett Jones. 1 cup butter. 1 oz. Baker’s chocolate, melted. 1 cup granulated sugar. 1 cup sweet milk. 2 eggs. 1 generous teaspoon baking 1V2 cups flour. powder. Beat the butter to a cream, and gradually beat into it the sugar, add melted chocolate, also the eggs, unbeaten. Beat this vigorously 5 minutes, then add milk, and the flour sifted with baking powder. Flavor with vanilla and bake Jd hovir in moderate oven. Use boiled icing. Miss Josephine S])ringer. Y2 cup milk. 1 teaspoon vanilla. 2 rounded teaspoons baking powder. BLACK CAKE. Mrs. H. 1 lb. butter. 1 lb. sugar. 1 lb. eggs, in shell. 5 lb. raisins. 3 lb. currants. 1 lb. citron. 1 cup molasses. Bake four hours. L. Barnes. 1 small cup strong coffee. 1 wine glass brandy, or mo^’e. 1 wine glass wine or more. Cinnamon, cloves and niitme to taste. Flour to make quite stiff. 124 THE EDWARDS VI LLE COOK BOOK. CHOCOLATE CAKE. Mrs. D. A. 2 cups sugar. 1 cup butter. 5 yolks of eggs. 2 whites of eggs. Filling for Cake : — cups sugar. 5 tablespoons grated chocolate. Lynch. 1 cup milk. 2 teaspoons yeast powder in 3% cups flour, while dry. 4 whites of eggs. 1 teaspoon vanilla CHOCOLATE CAKE. Mrs. R. F. Tunnell. 2 oz. chocolate. 4 eggs. Y2 cup milk. 2 level cups flour. 1 teaspoon vanilla. V2 cup butter. IV2 cups sugar. 1 heaping teaspoon yeast pow- der. Dissolve chocolate in 5 tablespoons boiling water, cream but- ter and sugar, add eggs and beat until light ; then add milk, melted chocolate and flour, giving whole a good beating. Add vanilla and baking powder. BLACK CHOCOLATE CAKE. Mrs. Charles Pauly. Cake Part : — 1% cups sugar. V2 cup butter. V2 cup sour milkBrown Stone Front Cake. 2 eggs well beaten together. 1Y2 cups flour. 1 level teaspoon soda dissolved in the milk. This batter will be thin. Filling: — 1-3 cake Baker’s Chocolate. 1 yolk of egg. y2 cup cold water. 1 teaspoon vanilla. % cup sugar. Boil until thick; add flavoring; let cool and stir into cake part. CAKES. 123 CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE. Mrs. M. P. Linn, St. Louis. 1V2 cups sugar. V2 cup butter. 4 eggs. 1/^ cup milk. 2 cups flour. 1-3 cake chocolate. 2 teaspoon baking powder Icing : — 2 cups sugar. 1 tablespoon butter. Y2 cup milk. 1-3 cake chocolate. FIG CAKE. Mrs. Cullens. Fig Cake