The Elm City cook book

Mix together half pound pulverized sugar, one quarter pound butter, add six well beaten eggs, then beat whole very light, stirring into it as much sifted flour as will make the batter rather stiff, a nutmeg, a teaspoonful cinnamon and one tablespoonful rose water. The batter must be very smooth, and without a single lump. Heat your wafer irons but do not allow them to get too hot, grease with butter. They should be colored a light brown. Take out carefully, sprinkle with powdered sugar, roll while warm around a smooth stick. COOKIES. Beat to a cream three quarters pound soft white sugar, half pound butter, then stir in six well beaten eggs, one glass wine, one wineglass rose water, one grated nutmeg, and sifted flour enough to make a stiff dough. Roll the dough thin, cut into strips with a jagging iron, slip them into boiling lard a few at a time, and fry to a handsome brown. Take up with a perforated skimmer, dry, and sift over with pulverized sugar. [illustration: EVERYTHING FOR CORNS AND BUNIONS, AT BRADHAWM'S.] GINGER WAFERS.S. One cup butter, two of sugar, one of milk, four of flour, three fourths teaspoonful soda, one tablespoonful ginger, one teaspoonful cinnamon. Beat butter to a cream, add sugar gradually; when very light the ginger, then milk in which soda has been dissolved and finally the flour. Turn baking tins upside down, wipe the bottoms very clean, butter them and spread the mixture very thin on them. While hot cut into squares with an ease knife, and slip from the pans. Keep in tight tin box. Prescriptions Filled Accurately and Promptly at Davis’ Pharmacy. MOLASSES CAKES. PORK CAKE. One pound fat pork chopped very fine, half pint boiling water, two cups molasses, one cup sugar, one teaspoonful each of cloves, cinnamon and soda, a small nutmeg, one pound raisins, half pound currants, flour enough to make a very stiff batter. Bake'one hour and a half in slow oven. DRIED APPLE CAKE. Soak one cup dried apples over night in lukewarm water, in the morning draw off water, chop apples fine, cook them a little in one cup molasses, and when cold add them with one cup chopped raisins to this batter. One cup brown sugar, two eggs, one half cup butter, one half cup sour milk, three cups flour, one teaspoonful soda, half teaspoonful cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg. Bake in moderate oven two and half hours. SOFT GINGER BREAD. Mix together four cups flour, one sour milk, two molasses, one sugar, three fourths cup butter or lard, one teaspoon each ginger, cinnamon and soda, three eggs. SOFT GINGER BREAD. One cup sugar, one cup butter, one cup molasses, four cups flour, three eggs, two tablespoonfuls ginger, one teaspoonful cloves, one cup boiling water added last, after which sift in one tablespoonful soda. GINGER PUFFS. One cup sugar, one cup molasses, one half cnp butter, one cup sour milk, four cups flour, one level tablespoonful each, ginger, cinnamon and soda, a little salt. Bake in gem pans. GINGER SNAPS. One cup sugar, one of mixed butter and lard, one cup molasses, half cup sour milk, teaspoonful soda, one tablespoonful ginger and cinnamon. Flour enough to roll. Roll thin, cut with a round cutter and bake quickly. FLEISCHMANN'S Wedtallyred a = I I ANTE SeSese5eseSesrocococe riAS NO B@iwrs For a Good Cause? ‘It has come a time when every household should know what is wholesome, and especially in x * MBRATS. * X We do not buy any stock that we don’t see alive. We slaughter all meats we handle, and as the public knows, we handle nothing but the very finest Stall Fed Beef, Veal, Pork, Mutton, Lamb, Poultry, —S2OAND THE FINEST SAUSAGE IN THE CITY.C92— Thanking the public for past patronage and asking for a continuance of the same, Very Respectfully, SAM’L COHN & SON, SS Bliddie St. "Phome 46.