Mother's Cook Book: Containing Recipes for Every Day in the Week, Including ..

On beaten whites of ten eggs sift one and a half goblets pulverized sugar, and a goblet of flour, through which has been stirred a heaping teaspoon cream tartar; etir very gently and do not heat it; bake in jelly-pans. For cream, take a half pint of sweet cream, yolks of three eggs, tablespoon pulverized sugar, teaspoon corn starch; dissolve starch smoothly with a little milk, beat yolks and sugar together with this, boil the cream, and stir these ingredients in as for any cream cake filling, only make a little thicker; blanch and chop fine a half pound almonds and stir into the cream. Put together like jelly cakes while icing is soft, and stick in a half pound of almonds, split in two. ICE-CRKAM CAKE. Make good sponge cake, bake half an inoh thick in jellypans, and let them get perfectly cold; take a pint thickest sweet cream, beat until it looks like ice-cream, make very sweet, and flavor with vanilla; blanch and chop a pound Mothek's Cook Book. 191 almonds, stir into cream, and pat very thick between each layer. This is the queen of all cakes. ECONOMICAL CAKE. One pound of flour, one-quarter pound of sugar, onequarter pound of butter or lard, one-half pound of currants, one teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, the whites of four eggs, one-half pint of milk. In making many sweet dishes, the whites of eggs are not required, and if well beaten and added to the above ingredients, make an excellent cake, with or without currants. Beat the butter to a cream, well whisk the whites of the eggs, and stir all the ingredients together but the soda, which must not be added until all is well mixed, and the cake is ready to be put into the oven. When the mixture has been well beaten, stir in the soda, put the cake into a buttered mold, and bake it in a moderate oven for one and a half hours. DELICATE CAKE. Three caps of floor, two of sugar, throe-fourths cup of sweet milk, whites of six eggs, half cup butter, teaspoon cream tartar, half teaspoon of soda. Flavor with lemon. ORANGE CAKE. One cap of sugar, half a cup of butter, half a cup of sweet milk, two cups of flour, three eggs, one and a half teaspoonfuls of baking powder; bake in jelly-tins. Orange Frosting for Same. — One orange, grate off the outside, and mix with juice, and add sugar until quite stiff, and make like jelly cake; make four layers of the cake. 192 Mother's Cook Book. FRIED CAKES. One cup of sugar, two eggs, half a cup of shortening, one teaspoon of soda, one cup of sour milk, cut in rings; have jour lard very hot, in which place a peeled potato to keep lard from burning, and drop in jour cakes; the; will come to the top of lard when light; fry a dark brown; when taken oat sprinkle sugar over them. JELLY KISSES. Kisses to be served for dessert at a large dinner, with other suitable confectionery, may be varied in this way: Having made the kisses, put them in a moderate oven, nn- ~ til the outside is a little hardened; then take one off carefully, as before directed; take out the soft inside with the handle of a spoon, and put it back with the mixture, to make more; then lay the shell down. Take another, and prepare it likewise; fill the shells with currant jelly, or jam; join two together, cementing them with some of the mixture; bo continue until you have enough. Make kisses, coeoanut drops, and such like, the day before they are wanted. COCOANUT KISSES. Make a kiss mixture; add to it half of a cocoanut, grated (the white meat only); finish as directed for kisses. FIG CAKE. Silver Part— Two cups sugar, two-thirds cup butter, not quite two-thirds onp sweet milk, whites of eight eggs, three heaping teaspoons baking powder, thoroughly sifted, with three cups flour; stir sugar and butter to a cream, add milk and flour, and last whites of eggs. Chid Part. — One cap sugar, three-fourths cup butter, half Mother's Cook Book. 193