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The household cook book

1902

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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
3 eggs. 1 teaspoon baking powder. 2 tablespoons milk✪ Rolled Jelly Cake. i teaspoon lemon extract. Bake in a long tin, and while warm spread with jelly or jam. (raspberry is best) and roll thus; spread a towel on the table, lay on the cake, and roll, keeping towel over it to prevent its cracking. Do not take off towel until the cake is cold. MINNEHAHA CAKE. 1 cup butter. 3 cups flour. 2 cups sugar. 2 teaspoons baking powder. 1 cup milk. Flavor with lemon. 8 whites of eggs. Filling.— Use 1 cup blanched almonds, and 2 cups seeded raisins✪ Minnehaha Cake, chopped fine; mix these with a boiled frosting, and flavor with lemon. Put blanched almonds in halves in the frosting on top. NUT LAYER CAKE. i cup butter. 2 cups flour. 1 cup sugar. li teaspoons baking pow- i cup sweet milk. der. 2 eggs. 1 teaspoon vanilla. Use the " Nut Filling " given among our fillings. ORANGE CAKE. 1 cup butter. 2 cups flour. 2 cups sugar. 2 teaspoons baking powder. h cup water. 1 orange, juice and grated 5 yolks of eggs. rind. 3 whites of eggs✪ Orange Cake. Use the orange filling No. 1 given among our fill- ings. CORNSTARCH JELLY CAKE. 1 cup butter. 1 cup flour. 2 cups sugar. 7 whites of eggs. 1 cup sweet milk. 1 teaspoon cream tartar. 1 cup corn=starch. i teaspoon soda.✪ Jelly Cake Bake in layers. Spread any good jelly between layers for filling. LAYER CAKES 869 ORIENTAL CAKE. WHITE AND PINK LAYERS. i cup butter. h cup corn=starch. 1 cup granulaied sugar. li cups flour. i cup milk. 1 heaping teaspoon baking 3 whites of eggs. powder. Beat butter and sugar to cream, add milk and corn=starch, first stirring them together, then the flour and baking powder, and last the whites of eggs beaten light. Divide the mixture in two, and into i put as much pink coloring as you like, the object being to form different colored layers. YELLOW AND BEOWN PAETS. i cup butter. 1 whole egg. 1 cup sugar. If cups flour. i cup sweet milk. li teaspoons baking powder. 4 yolks of eggs, beaten light. After mixing divide into 2 parts, and to 1 part add: 1 oz. grated chocolate, 1 tablespoon of water, 3 tea- spoons of sugar and i teaspoon of vanilla, which should be stirred until smooth over a hot fire. Bake all the layers in jelly=pans in" a moderate oven — it should bake in about 20 minutes. For filling use 1 cup powdered sugar, and whites of 2 eggs, beaten light. Use the brown cake for the bot- tom layer, spread over it a thin coating of the filling and cover with a layer of thin slices of figs placed close together; next the yellow cake with icing and sliced oranges free from seeds and rind; next, whites with icing and cocoanut; finish with the pink layer spread with a firm, white icing, decorated with almonds and candies. It is best eaten fresh. This makes a deli- cious cake. If desired, you can leave out all the filling except the icing. '^^ 370 LAYER CAKES POLONAISE CAKE. 1 cup butter (scant). 3 cups flour. 2 cups pulverized sugar. H teaspoons baking powder. 1 cup milk✪ Oriental Cake. Bake in 4 layers. 7 whites of eggs.