Granite City cook book

Use a large coffee cup for measuring. MRS. J. C. ROLLINGS WORTH. FRIED CAKES. 2 coffee cups of sugar, butter the size of an egg. 3 small eggs. 1 cap of milk 3 tea spoonfuls of baking powder. 1 teaspoonful salt. A little nutmeg. Flour enough to make a soft dough as you can roll out. Cut with a tin cutter and fry in boiling hot lard, when done, sprinkle with fine white sugar. MRS. STONE. Wilmington. N. C 1-2-3-4 CAKE. 1 cup sweet milk. 2 cups sugar. 3 cups flour. 4 eggs. 1.-2 cup corn starch. 2 teaspoonsful baking powder. Cream sugar and butter together, add milk together with little of the flour, and add egg and flour alternately after the eggs have been v ell beaten. Bake in layer and use any flavoring desired DELICIOUS SPONGE CAKE, 3 eggs. 1-2 teaspoonful salt. 1 1-2. cups flour. 1 1-2 cups sugar. 1 1-2 teaspoons baking powder. 1 teaspoon vanilla or lemon. Beat whites stiff, yolks slightly, then beat together and add sugar. Then mix flour with baking powder, and add with also 1-2 cup hot water and lastly salt and extract desired. MRS.' JOHN ASHBY. BLACKBERRY CAKE. 1-2 cup of butter. 1 cap sugar. 3 tablespoonfuls of sour cream. 3 eggs beaten separately. 2 cups of flour. 1 teaspoonful of soda. 2 teaspoonfuls of cinnamon. 1 teaspoonful of cloves, 1-2 teaspoonful of spice. 1 nutmeg. ! cup of blackberry jam. Pul together with icing. MRS. A. E. SMITH, FRUIT DROP COOKIES. 1-3 cup of snowdrift 1-2 cup sugar. 1 egg or 1 egg, 2 teaspoonfuls spice, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 cup of flour. 1-2 teaspoon salt. 1-2 cup chopped walnuts, 1-4 cup each currants arid raisins. Drop by teaspoonfuls on oiled tin. Bake in quick oven. MRS. E. P. BAILEY. Wilmington, N. C. PALMETTO CAKE. 1 1-4 lbs sugar, 1 ?b butter, 1 lb flour, 1 lb citron cut very thin. 2 grated cocoanuts, 1 dozen eggs, Beat eggs separate. Mix yellows of eggs well with sugar, add the butter well creamed, then add flour, then whites and fruits, and 1-2 glass wine and brandy, a tablespoon spices. Bake 2 1-2 hours. This makes a large cake. MRS P ADDISON. WATER-MELON CAKE. '•White Part." 2 cups of white sugar. I cup of sweet milk. 1 cup of butter. 3 1-2 cups flour. 8 eggs (whites only.) 2 teaspoons of Royal Baking Powder. "Red Part." 1 cup of red sugar. 1-2 cup of butter. 1-3 cup of sweet milk. 2 cups of flour. 4 eggs (whites only.) 1 teaspoon of Royal Baking Powder. 1 tea cup of raisins. Be careful to keep the red part around the tube of the pan. MRS .C. E. GALLAWAY. DEVIL'S CAKE. 3-4 cup grated chocolate. 1-2 cup of sweet milk. 1-2 cup brown sugar. Boil in double boiler and let cool. 1-2 cup of butter 1 cup brown sugar. 1-2 cup of sweet milk. 2 well beaten eggs. 1 scant teaspoon soda dissolved in warm water. 2 cops of flour. 1 teaspoonful vanilla. Add first part when cool and bake in Three layers. ICING. 3 caps sugar 3-4 cup of water. Boil until it will thread then add beaten whites of two eggs and nuts if desired. Flavor with vanilla and beat until stiff. STRAWBERRY SHORT-TAKE. 2 cups sugar. 1-2 cup butter. 1 cup sweet milk. 4 eggs leaving out the whites of two. 3 1-2 cups of flour. 1 teaspoons cream of tartar. 1 spoon of soda. Bake in two layers, butter while warm and put together with one quart of strawberries, sweetened.