The household cook book

Time to Bake. — Thin cakes will bake well in 15 to 20 minutes; thicker cakes require 30 to 40 minutes; and very thick ones will require about 1 hour. Fruit cake will require from 2 to 3 hours. Do not take cakes out of the oven too soon. Let delicate cakes cool a little in the pans as they are apt to fall if taken out of them hot, but do not let cakes stay in the pans till moist. Let the air circulate around cakes freely to cool them, and have them thoroughly cold before putting them away. Keep them in a tin box or stone jar tightly closed. Any cake made with yeast is best eaten quite fresh. Cakes which are to be long kept, like wedding, black and fruit cakes, can be wrapped in waxed paper to advantage. Any cake can have powdered sugar dusted on it while warm; if it melts, more can be added after it cools. Use a warm knife if you cut cake while it is warm. ALMOND CAKE, i cup butter. 2 cups flour. li cups sugar. 2 teaspoons baking powder. i cup milk. 1 cup blanched almonds. 3 eggs. Blanch the almonds, split them lengthwise, dry them, and mix with the cake last. APPLE CAKE. h cup butter and 2 eggs, i cup lard — melt these 4 teaspoons baking powder, together. Flour enough to make i cup sugar. rather soft. 2i cups milk. Pare and slice 7 or 8 apples and set them down into the top of the dough, close together, when it is in the pan. Sprinkle A cup sugar and some cinnamon on top of all. Bake slowly, and when the apples are done the cake is done. This makes a dripping pan full. APPLE CAKE No. 2. i cup butter. 2 cups preserved apples. 1 cup brown sugar. 2 teaspoons cinnamon. 1 cup molasses. 1 nutmeg. 1 cup boiling water. 1 teaspoon soda. After these are well mixed together add 2 well= beaten eggs and 4 cups flour. To preserve the apples, take 1 quart of chopped apples and stew slowly in li cups molasses 4 or 5 hours, or until reduced to 1 pint. Bake in a moderate oven. AVill keep several weeks. DRIED APPLE CAKE. 1 cup butter or cream. 1 teaspoon soda. 1 cup sweet milk. Spice to taste. 3 cups flour. Soak 2 cups dried apples over night; in the morning boil them 1 hour (or till soft) in 1 cup sugar and 1 cup molasses; when cold, add the above ingredients and bake. ANGEL'S FOOD. Take 1 tumbler of flour aand put into it 1 teaspoon of cream of tartar and sift the whole 4 times; beat the whites of 11 eggs to a stiff froth and then beat in Ih tumblers of pulverized sugar, a teaspoon of vanilla, and a pinch of salt; then add the flour and beat thoroughly but lightly; bake in a bright imgreased pan 40 to 45 minutes. When done, turn it over to cool, placing something under the corner of the pan so that the air will circulate underneath and assist the cooling; cut it out when cool. BLACK CAKE. H cups butter. 2 cups brown sugar. 2 cups sweet milk. 2 tablespoons molasses. 6 eggs beaten separate. »3 cups browned flour. 2 teaspoons cream tartar. 1 teaspoon soda. 1 teaspoon mace or nutmeg. 1 teaspoon cinnamon. 1 teaspoon cloves. 4 cups currants. 1 cup citron. 4 cups raisins. Bake 3 hours. BLUEBERRY OR HUCKLEBERRY CAKE. 1 tablespoon (rounding). 1 cup sugar, f cup milk. 2 eggs. butter 2 cups flour. 2 teaspoons baking powder (scant). 1 cup berries, added last.