The Federation cook book

Four cups sugar boiled until it candies. Pour while boiling, over the well-beaten whites of four eggs. Whip until cool. Add one teaspoon citric acid and two teaspoons extract of vanilla. Spread filling same thickness as cake. — MRS. CHARLES WILLIAMS, 396 South Pasadena Ave. White Cake 1 cup sugar One-half cup milk Whites of 4 eggs One and two-thirds cups sifted flour 1 rounded teaspoonful baking powder Cream butter and sugar and sift baking powder and flour 3 times. Add to butter and sugar a little flour and eggs before the milk then the remaining whites and flour gradually. Thoroughly mix and flavor. Double receipt if wished. Bake in moderate oven. — Miss F. WEBSTER, 238 W. Third St., Hanford. Metropolitan Cake 2 cups granulated sugar 1 cup sweet milk Whites 8 eggs Lemon flavoring 1 cup butter Nearly 4 cups flour 3 teaspoons baking powder Bake a little more than three-fifths of the mixture in jelly tins; to the remaining batter add, 1 teaspoon cloves, one-fourth of a Ib. sliced citron; one-fourth Ib. of chopped raisins. Bake in jelly tins. Put together with boiled icing. — MRS. BERTHA L. TURNER. O. K. Cake Whites of 11 eggs 1 cup butter 1 cup milk Two and a half cups sugar 4 cups flour 4 teaspoons baking powder Flavor to taste. Bake in a loaf. — SELECTED. Fruit Cake 10 eggs 12 ounces of butter One and one-half Ib. raisins 1 Ib. flour 1 nutmeg 1 Ib. sugar One and one-half Ib. currants Half Ib. citron 1 teaspoon each allspice and cinnamon One-half teaspoon cloves Juice and rind of one orange Juice and rind of one lemon Beat eggs all together till light. Beat butter to a cream, add sugar. Beat again. Add the eggs, then the flour, then the spices. Beat well. Steam and seed raisins, clean, wash and dry the currants. Cut the citron into shreds. Mix the fruit and flour it well, then add it to the cake.- Add orange and lemon. Stir all together, use greased paper in two pans. Bake four hours. This will make two four- Ib. cakes. — MRS. CHAS. WILLIAMS, Pasadena. Egg Cake 1 cup butter Two and a half cups flour 1 cup eggs, whites and yolks together One and one-half cups sugar 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder 1 heaping teaspoon vanilla extract Beat eggs until light; add sugar, cream, butter and flour together, then add eggs, sugar, baking powder and extract. If directions are followed no milk is needed, but if dough is too stiff one-half cup of milk may be added. — MRS. SUSIE HALL, Bakersfield. Scripture Cake 1 cup of butter (Judges 5th chap., 25th verse) 2 cups of sugar (Jeremiah 6th chap. 20th verse) 3J/2 cups of prepared flour (1 Kings 4th chap., 22d verse) 2 cups of raisins (1 Samuel, 90th chap., 12th verse). 1 cup of almonds (Genesis, 43rd chap., 1th varse) 1 cup of water (Genesis, 24th chap., 20th verse) 6 eggs (Isaiah, 10th chap. 14th verse) A pinch of salt (Leriticus, 2nd chap. 13th verse) FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS Glasscock's Flower Shop Both Phones 227 130 East Colorado Street Telephones 54 Charles W. Woodbury GROCER Staple and Fancy Groceries Fruits and Provisions 24 East Colorado Street Both Phones 847 Table Furnishings for Rent Florence P. Weimar WAITING and CATERING 143 S. Vernon Ave., Pasadena, Cal. First-Class Colored Prompt Attention Waiters and Waitresses Given All Calls