Fish, Flesh and Fowl: A Cook Book of Valuable Recipes, All of which Have ...

Henry. One-half cup of butter, two cups sugar, one cup milk, three and a half cups flour, three eggs, one teaspoon cream tartar, one-half teaspoon soda, one cup chopped walnuts, one cup currants. Flavor with lemon. Hartford Election. Two and a half pounds butter, three pounds sugar, four and a half pounds flour, three pounds raisins, four eggs, one pint yeast, one quart milk, mix the butter and sugar as for pound cake; take one-half thus beaten and mix with flour, milk and yeast, and set it to rise over night. In the morning add the other half of sugar and butter, eggs, raisins and spices and let it rise again. Put in pans and let stand an hour before baking. Hermits. One cup butter, one and a half cups sugar, one cup raisins, three eggs, teaspoon soda dissolved in a little milk, all kinds spice, flour to roll out. Hickory-Nut. One cup butter, four cups flour, three cups sugar, one cup sweet milk, four eggs, teaspoon soda, one pint hickory nut meat, half pint raisins. Ice Cream. Two cups coffee A sugar, one scant cup butter (melted just enough to make it soft), one cup milk, whites of eight eggs, three cups flour, three heaping teaspoons baking powder; sift your flour, roll your sugar; cream the sugar and butter, then add milk; then add one-third of eggs and one cup flour, then another one-third of eggs and cup flour, then last onethird eggs and last cup flour, then add baking powder last of all. After the dough is thoroughly mixed, if it runs off the spoon add another one-half cup flour. Grease your pans well, put two layers of paper in the bottom of the pans. Bake in three layers. When nearly cold trim all the brown part off, then ice. Icing: — Whites of three eggs, well beaten, nearly three cups powdered sugar (or one pound), three-fourths cup water; mix sugar and water, boil until the syrup will collect in the bottom of a cup of cold water; have the eggs in a dish and pour the hot syrup upon them slowly; stir constantly until nearly cold then add a teaspoon of vanilla. If the icing seems too hard add a little hot water, and if it sticks to the knife dip the knife in hot water. Very nice. Imperial. One pound butter, one pound sugar, one pound chopped raisins, one-quarter pound citron, one pound flour, half pound blanched almonds put in whole, eight eggs, mace, and one glass of wine. Jelly. Two and one-half cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup milk, four cups flour, three eggs, one teaspoon cream tartar, half teaspoon soda. Jumbles. Three cups butter, three cups sugar, six eggs, one-third cup milk, half teaspoon soda, flour to roll easily. Scatter on sugar, cut in fancy shapes. This makes many and will keep well. Nice. 2. Soft. Two cups sugar, one cup butter, three eggs, two-thirds cup sour milk, half teaspoon soda, four heaping cupfuls flour. Drop them on a tin with a spoon some distance apart; if too thin add a little more flour. Julia. One cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup sweet milk, two eggs, two cups flour, teaspoon cream tartar, half teaspoon soda, vanilla. Lady. One-half cup butter creamed, add giadually one cup sugar, one-half cup milk, one-half cup corn starch, one cup flour, one even teaspoon baking powder, whites of four eggs. Flavor with almond and a drop of lemon. Lemon Snaps. One cup butter, two cups sugar, onethird cup milk, three eggs, teaspoon soda, two teaspoons lemon. Magic. One cup sugar, half cup butter, one and a half cups flour, three eggs, three tablespoons milk, half teaspoon soda, teaspoon cream tartar. Flavor with vanilla or nutmeg.