Machias Cook Book

This is made almost exactly like angel cake. Have the whites of 1 1 eggs and the yolks of 6, i )^ cupfuls of granulated sugar measured after one sifting, i cupful of flour measured after sifting, I teaspoonful cream of tartar and i of orange extract. Beat the whites to a stiff froth and gradually beat in the sugar. Beat the yolks in a similar manner and add to them the whites and sugar and flavor. Finally, stir in the flour. Mix quickly and well. Bake for 50 minutes in a slow oven, using a pan like that for angel cake. DOUGHNUTS. RAISED DOUGHNUTS. At noon take i pint of warm milk, i cup of sugar, 1/2 cup of yeast, a little salt, and set a sponge, making it rather thick and quite warm. Let it rise till night, then add i cup sugar, nearly Yz cup lard, 2 eggs, ^ teaspoon soda, nutmeg, flour to knead into a soft dough. Let it rise until morning, then make up into small balls and rise till light, fry and roll in sugar. Julia Thaxter. DOUGHNUTS. 2 cups sugar, 3 eggs, 3 tablespoonfuls sour cream, 2 teaspoonfuls soda, 2 cups sour milk, nutmeg, salt, butter yi size of an egg. Emily Heaton. MAINE DOUGHNUTS. 2 eggs, 2 cups sugar, 5 tablespoonfuls shortening, 2 cups sour milk, 2 teaspoonfuls soda, ^ teaspoonful salt, nutmeg and lemon, just flour enough to roll. Fry in boiling lard, turn often. Roll when cold in powdered sugar. MOLASSES DOUGHNUTS. 2 cups molasses, 2 cups sour milk, 2 eggs, 2 teaspoonfuls soda, 4 teaspoonfuls lard, ^ teaspoonful ginger and cinnamon. Mrs. L. a. Albee. DOUGHNUTS. 29 MOLASSES DOUGHNUTS. 2 cups molasses, 2 cups cold water, i teaspoonful cassia and i of salt, I tablespoonful melted lard. Flour to roll. Mrs. C. E. Preble. MOLASSES DOUGHNUTS. 3 eggs, 2 cups molasses, J^ cup sugar, 2 cups buttermilk, 2 teaspoonfuls soda, 3 large spoonfuls melted lard, salt and nutmeg. Bertha Hanscom. OUR MOLASSES DOUGHNUTS. I cup molasses, stir in i teaspoon soda, i egg, 2 tablespoonfuls melted lard, i cup sour milk, ginger and flour. PAN CAKES. I cup sugar, 3 eggs, ^ cup sour milk, y^ cup sour cream, i teaspoon each soda, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon, flour enough to make quite stiff, drop in hot fat. Use raspberry shrub poured over them for a sauce. An old fashioned Fast Day dessert. Lucy T. Ames. AROOSTOOK EGGS. 3 eggs, I pint sweet milk, little salt, make a stiff batter, drop i tablespoonful in hot lard at a time, and cook same as doughnuts. COOKIES. SUGAR COOKIES No. i. 2 cups sugar, i cup butter, Yz cup milk, 2 eggs, i even teaspoonful of soda, the same of cream tartar, nutmeg, mix soft. Mrs. J. U. Chandler. SUGAR COOKIES No. 2. 2 cups sugar, i cup butter, ^3 cup sour milk, i teaspoonful soda, 2 eg?s, salt and seeds. SUGAR COOKIES, No. 3. I cup sugar, J^ cup butter, 2 eggs, 3 tablespoonfuls sour cream, J^ teaspoonful soda, 4 cups flour, cream, butter and sugar, add eggs well beaten then the cream with soda dissolved in i teaspoonful hot water. Emily Hayes. VANILLA COOKIES. 1 cup of sugar, ^ cup butter, beat sugar and butter together ; I teaspoon of cream tartar, and ^ teaspoon soda in flour, J4 cup of sweet milk, 2 teaspoonfuls vanilla, flour enough to roll out thin. Julia Thaxter. COOKIES. 31 BOSTON COOKIES. ij^ cups sugar, 3 eggs, i cup butter, 2^ cups flour, ij^ teaspoons of soda, dissolved in a little kot water, flavor with nutmeg, I Yi coflee cups flne chopped raisins. When baked dust pulverized sugar over them. (Will keep some time.) Mrs. S. a. Chask, National Ave., Campbells, Santa Clara Co., California. CREAM COOKIES, No. i. 1)4 cups sugar, ^ cup melted butter, ^3 cup cream, i egg, i teaspoonful soda, ginger, mix soft. Mrs. Mary W. Si one. CREAM COOKIES, No. 2. 1 cup cream, i cup sugar, i teaspoonful salt, i teaspoonful soda, seeds and flour. Mrs. W. K. Pennell. COCOANUT COOKIES.