The Federation cook book

Mix in order, bake in sheet, ice with chocolate or boiled icing. — MISS ETHEL BRADSHAW, Pasadena. White Mountain Cake NO. 1 1 teacupful butter I pint sifted flour 1 teaspoon ful nutmeg 1 pint sour cream or milk 3 teacupsful sugar 1 Ib. seeded raisins 1 teaspoon powdered cinnamon 1 teaspoon ful soda Beat or whip butter and sugar; when quite light stir in flour; add raisins chopped fine. Mix flour and spices and add sour cream or sour milk in which soda has been dissolved. Bake in buttered tins immediately, 1 hour, in a moderate oven. — MRS. MOLLIE LANE, Hanforcl. Potato Cake 1 cup of chopped raisins 1 cup of chopped walnuts 1 cup of grated chocolate 4 eggs 2 cups of sugar 2|/2 cups of flour 2 teaspoons of baking powder 1 teaspoon of allspice 1 teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 cup butter 1 cup mashed potato Very good. — MRS. R. H. HUNTER, Elevado Drive, Pasadena, Cal. Sponge Cake 1 cup of sugar 3 teaspoons cold water 2 teaspoons baking powder 4 eggs 1 cup flour 1 teaspoon lemon juice One-fourth teaspoon salt Separate yolks from whites of eggs. Beat yolks till creamy and whites till stiff. Add sugar to yolks, then flour, water, salt, baking powder and lemon juice. Beat well then fold in whites of eggs carefully. Bake in moderate oven. — Miss RUTH PRINCE, 384 N. Vernon Ave., Pasadena. Cal. Velvet Cake "A WILDERNESS OF SWEETS" One-half cup butter Yolks 4 eggs One and one-half cups flour 4 teaspoons baking powder One-third cup almonds blanched One and one-half cups sugar One-half cup cold water One-half cup corn starch Whites of 4 eggs Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, yolks of eggs well beaten and water. Mix and sift flour, corn starch and baking powder and add to first mixture, then add whites of eggs beaten until stiff. After putting in pan, cover with almonds and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Bake forty minutes in a moderate oven. — MRS. A. SHAW, 200 Glorietta St., Pasadena, California. 0- (L^ctfisi^ / Q^ru V ' A Lf JL0a~>, , /L djx ni.M ^ . i o L> &4) &LS </ QoJLt •/*• /^ \jff/J'~ yfe*>v W " £/ ^ /L4£ c <-" cbu . ^ ^ ^ CAsV~ ^^ h ' i i r~ J / /? Cookies and Small Cakes Cream Cookies (Excellent) 1 cup thick sour cream Butter size of an egg 1 teaspoonful soda Or cocoanut 1 cup sugar, 1 egg 1 half teaspoonful of salt 3 fourths cup of walnuts 1 half cup of seeded raisins chopped fine 1 half teaspoonful cinnamon Cream sugar and butter, beat eggs with sugar and butter until light. Mix soda into sour cream and stir altogether. Add all the other ingredients and enough flour to make a very soft dough. Roll thin and bake ^in a quick oven. — MRS. JULIA ROBERTS. Sugar Cookies 8 tablespoonfuls sugar 7 tablespoonfuls milk 3 eggs and flour enough to thicken 6 melted butter 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder Stir butter into sugar Beat eggs light and add them to the butter and sugar stirring well, then add milk, sift powder with a little flour then roll thin cut like biscuits, grease pan with a little lard and bake in a quick oven. — Miss F. WELCH ER, 228 W. Third St., Hanford. Russian Rock Cookies 1 1-2 cup of browfa sugar 3-4 of cup of butter