Kentucky receipt book

of brown sugar rolled fine, beating all the while. Mix 2 tablespoons of Imperial Granum and a pinch of salt, add to the first mixture, together with 1 cup of walnut meats chopped fine. Bake 1 minute; and if not stiff enough add a little more Granum. The batter should drop easily from a spoon. Drop a spoonful on greased tins, bake 5 minutes in a hot oven. Chopped almonds, peanuts or butternuts may be used if preferred. Egg Kisses. Put the unbeaten whites of 3 eggs in a bowl and add 1% teacups granulated sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat until very stiff, then drop a spoonful at a time on greased paper placed on top of stove pan. Set in a moderate oven to bake. Hickory Nut Cake. Three-fourths of a cup of butter, 1% cups of granulated sugar, % cup of sweet milk, 3 coffee cups of flour, 11/4 teaspoons baking powder, whites of 4 eggs, 1 coffee cup of hickory nut meats ; mix and put in a greased mold. Bake in moderate oven. Doughnuts. Ten ounces of sugar, 3 ounces of butter or lard, 3 eggs, % teaspoon extract of lemon, 2^ pounds of flour, 1 ounce of baking powder, a pinch of salt, 1 pint of milk. Mix all together. Put in flour last. When done sprinkle with powdered sugar. Soft Ginger Bread. One cup of molasses, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 tablespoon boiling water, 2 to 3 cups of flour as required, 1 teaspoon giQger, 1 teaspoon cloves, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 eggs, ^ saltspoon salt. Add the melted butter to molasses, then spices. Dissolve soda in boiling water and stir it into molasses. Add flour enough for a very soft dough, too soft to roll. Bake in biscuit pan lined with paper in moderate oven 35 minutes. It must be mixed quicKy and put at once into oven. Lemon Cookies. Two and one-half cups of sugar, 1 cup lard and butter mixed, ] 1 eggy 1 pint of sweet milk, 2 ounces carbonate ammonia, flavor with lemon extract, flour enough for a tolerably stiff dough. Out with cutter and bake quickly. One-Egg Cake. Half cup of butter, 1 cup of granulated sugar, 2 cups of flour, 1 egg, 1 cup of sweet milk, 2 light teaspoons bakiQg powder. Mix well and bake in a loaf or in muffin rings. Ice with white icing. Date Cake. One-fourth pound of dates, 1 cup of seeded raisins, 2^ cups of flour, % cup butter, % tumbler currant or blackberry jelly, 1 dessertspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon allspice, % nutmeg grated, 1% cups brown sugar, 1 cup sour cream, 4 eggs, 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in 2 tablespoons warm water. Seed dates and chop a little, flour fruit and add just before putting in soda. Put in greased pan and bake in a slow oven 1^ hours. Marshmallow Cake. Three cups granulated sugar, 1 cup butter, 5 cups flour, 1 cup sweet milk, 2 heaping teaspoons baking powder, whites of 8 eggs, 1 dessertspoon of vanilla. Cream butter and sugar. Have whites beaten to a froth, add half of them to butter and sugar, with half of flour, milk, % baking powder and vanilla ; continue beating hard and add rest of flour and eggs ; stir well. Bake in 2 square jelly cake tins. Ice when cold. Marshmallow Cake. One cup of butter, 2% cups granulated sugar, 4^4 cups flour, 1 cup of water, whites of 8 eggs, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 tea* spoon vanilla. Mix as in preceding recipe. Sunshine Cake. One and one-fourth cups granulated sugar, 1 cup flour, 1-3 teaspoon cream of tartar, whites of 7 eggs, yolks of 5 eggs. Sift flour and sugar, whip whites stiff, add cream of tartar and sugar to the whites and beat hard; then yolks and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Stir in flour lightly. Put in greased mold and bake in a slow oven. Nut Cake. r