The Memorial Hall cook book

EXCLUSIVE FIRST SHOWING OF PARAMOUNT AND FIRST NATIONAL PRODUCTIONS EVERY EVENING— 7 and 9 O'CLOCK MATINEE EVERY SATURDAY— 2.30 ADDITIONAL CAKES Shellbark Wafers Two eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup nuts, 6 tblspns. flour, a little salt. Mrs. Edward Carl. Vanilla Wafers One cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 2 egg whites (not beaten), IV2 cups flour, % tspn. vanilla. Cream butter and sugar, add the egg whites and mix until light. Add flour and flavoring. Drop by V2 teaspoonfuls on buttered tin and pat until thin. — Harriet Paxson. Vanilla Wafers Mix 2 level tblspns. shortening and 2 level tblspns. sugar, and add 1 egg, 1 tspn. vanilla, V2 cup flour. Drop by V2 tspns. on pan and bake about 10 minutes. — Mrs. Harold S. Cassidy. Nannie Z's Ginger Bread One cup New Orleans molasses, 1 cup lard (melted), IV2 cups sugar, yolks of 4 eggs, 1 tblsp. of cinnamon, 2 tblsps. of ginger, 1 cup of boiling water, and 1 tblsp. of soda in a very little warm water. Work in 4 cups of flour (measured before sifting), and add the beaten whites of the eggs last. — Mrs. J. Dyre Moyer. Velvet Cake One lb. flour, 2 tsps. Rumford baking powder, % lb. butter, 1 cup water, 1 lb. sugar, 4 eggs, salt and flavoring. — Mrs. W. R. Pugh. Nell's Rochester Cake Two cups sugar, V2 cup butter, 4 eggs, 1 cup sweet milk, 3 cups flour, 1 cup seeded raisins, 2 tsps. Rumford baking powder, 1 nutmeg, 1 tsp. cinnamon, Y2 tsp. ground cloves. Use white icing. — Mrs. J. Dyre Moyer. Scripture Cake One cup butter, Judges 5-25 ; 3 cups of flour, I Kings 4-22 ; 3 cups of sugar, Jeremiah 6-20 ; 2 cups of raisins, I Samuel 30-12 ; 2 cups of figs, I Samuel 30-12; 1 cup of water, Genesis 43-11; 6 eggs, Isaiah 10-14; 1 tblsp. of honey, Exodus 16-21; 1 pinch of salt, Leviticus 2-13; spices to taste, 1 Kings 10-10; 2 tblsps. Rumford baking powder, Corinthians 5-6.— Mrs. E. M. D. Angel Cake Whites of eleven eggs, IV2 cups granulated sugar sifted once, 1 cup flour sifted with 1 tsp. cream of tartar four times, 1 tsp. vanilla. Bake in an ungreased pan 40 minutes. When done invert pan on two cups and let stand until cake is cold. — Mrs. E. S. Roberts. Cakes One-half cup of butter, V2 cup of cream, 1 cup of sugar, 1 egg, 1 tspful. of baking soda (not heaped), a little nutmeg and enough flour to roll. Cut like wafers or any shape desired. — Mrs. Raymond Slight. J. DYRE MOYER, York Road, Willow Grove All kinds of Lumber, Building Material, Coal and Feed — Bell Phone, 103 Sunshine Cake White of six eggs, yolks of six eggs, 1% cups granulated sugar, 1 cup flour, scant % tsp. cream of tartar. Beat yolks to a stiff froth, add pinch of salt to whites of eggs and beat to a foam. Add cream of tartar and beat stiff. Add sugar to whites of eggs and beat, add yolks and beat, then 1 tsp. vanilla. Fold flour in lightly and bake 30 to 40 minutes in a moderate oven. — Mrs. L. F. Pearson. Ginger Bread Mix % or % cup sugar with V2 cup lard, add 1 egg and beat light. Mix % cup boiling water and 1 tsp. baking soda, and add with % or 1 cup New Orleans molasses. Sift 2 cups flour, scant % tsp. ginger, x/z tsp. cinnamon, 1 tsp. cocoa together, and pour in batter. Bake about 30 minutes in moderate oven. — Mrs. E. S. Roberts. Spiced Ginger Bread