The farm cook & rule book

2^ cupfuls flour ^ teaspoonful flavoring Cream the butter, add the sugar gradually and beat until light and creamy. Mix the dry ingredients together and add them alternately with the milk. Add the flavoring and fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites. Bake as a loaf. White Layer Cake % cupful butter 4 teaspoonfuls baking powder IVs cupfuls sugar 4 egg whites 1 cupful milk V4: teaspoonful salt 3 cupfuls flour 1^ teaspoonfuls vanilla Cream the butter, add the sugar and beat until the mixture is light. Then add a tablespoonful or two of the dry ingredients which have been sifted together, then a little milk. Add these alternately until all are used, add the vanilla and then fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites. Bake in three medium-sized layer cake tins about 35 minutes. Jelly Roll 4 eggs 1 tablespoonful cornstarch 1 cupful sugar 1 cupful flour 3 tablespoonfuls cold water 1 teaspoonful baking powder 14 teaspoonful flavoring Separate the eggs and beat the yolks until they are a light lemon color. Add the sugar gradually and then stir in the cold water. Mix the flour, baking powder and cornstarch and add to the cake mixture. Stir in the flavoring and fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour in a pan lined with buttered paper, spreading the batter in about % of an inch thick. Bake in a moderate oven. When baked, turn out on oiled paper sprinkled with powdered sugar and remove the paper on which it was cooked. Cut thin slices from the edges of the cake, spread with jam or jelly and roll tightly. The work must be done very rapidly or the cake will not roll neatly. Wrap the oiled paper about the cake so it will not unroll. Gold Cake 3 eggs % teaspoonful salt 1 cupful sugar V2 teaspoonful flavoring 4 tablespoonfuls cold water 1 cupful pastry flour or 1 teaspoonful baking powder % to % cupful bread flour 4 tablespoonfuls melted butter Beat the eggs without separating until light and foamy. Stir in the sugar and beat thoroughly, then add the cold water and beat again. Sift together the pastry or bread flour, baking powder and salt. Add this to the cake mixture and beat again. When light pour in the melted butter and flavoring and bake in a moderate oven. Feather Cake Break 2 large eggs into a cup and then fill the cup with cream. Beat this mixture thoroughly and then beat in 1 cupful of granulated sugar and 11/4 cupfuls of flour sifted with 3 teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Flavor with % teaspoonful of flavoring extract. Bake in a slightly hotter oven than one uses for butter cakes. Rachel's Dark Cake % cupful grated chocolate 1 cupful brown sugar % cupful milk Combine these ingredients and cook together until thick and smooth. Set away to cool. Part Two 1 cupful brown sugar 1 cupful sweet milk % cupful butter 2 cupfuls flour 2 eggs 1 scant teaspoonful soda Cream the butter, add the sugar and beat until light and creamy. Add the well beaten egg yolks. Sift the flour and soda together and add this mixture alternately with the milk. Then stir in the cooled chocolate mixture, fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites and bake as a loaf or in layers in a moderate oven. Aunt Nellie's Cake cupful drippings 1 teaspoonful salt cupful sugar 1 teaspoonful cinnamon % cupful molasses 1 egg ^ cupful sour milk % teaspoonful cloves