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

Two eggs, one cup of sugar, one cup of cream, two cups of flour, one teaspoonfol of cream of tartar, and one teaspoonful of soda. DOUGHNUTS. One cup of sugar, two eggs, two tablespoons of melted butter, two-thirds cup of milk, two even teaspoons of cream tartar, one even teaspoon of soda, flour enough to roll, salt and nutmeg. SPONGE CAKE. One pound sugar, one of floor, ten eggs. Stir yolks of eggs and sugar till perfectly light; beat whites of eggs and add them with the flour after beating together lightly; flavor with lemon. Three teaspoons baking powder in the floor will add to its lightness, but it never fails without. Bake in a moderate oven. . Mother's Coos Book. COFFEE CAKE. Two cups brown sugar, one of butter, one of milk, one of strong coffee as prepared for the table, four eggs, one teaspoon saleratus, two of cinnamon, two of cloves, one of grated nutmeg, pound raisins, one of currants, four eups Sour. SOFT GINGERBREAD. Six cupfuls of flour, three of molasses, one of cream, one of lard or butter, two eggs, one teaspoonful of saleratus, and two of ginger. This is excellent SPICE CAKE. One and one-h&lf cups of sugar, half cap butter, half of sour milk, two caps of raisins chopped, three eggs, half a nutmeg, one teaspoon cinnamon, one of cloves, one saleratus; mix rather stiff; bake in loaf tins in moderate oven. SWEET STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE. Three eggs, one cupful sugar, two of flour, one tableapoonful of butter, a teaapoonful, heaped, of baking powder. Beat the butter and sugar together, and add the eggs wellbeaten. Stir in the flour and baking powder well sifted together. Bake in deep tin plates. This quantity will fill four plates. With three pints of strawberries mix a cupful of sugar. Spread the fruit between the layers of cake. The tog layer of strawberries may be covered with a meringue made with the white of an egg and a tablespoonful of powdered sugar. GINGER NUTS. One and three-quarter pounds of syrup, one pound of moist sugar, one pound of butter, two and three-quarter Mo-thee's Cook Boos. 197 pounds of flour, one and a half ounces of ground ginger, one and a half ounces of allspice, one and a half ounces of coriander seed, sal volatile size of a bean, a little Cayenne, flour enough to roll out,, bat not thin, cat with a wineglass or roll between your hands into small balls, and pinch. RIBBON CAKE. Two cupfuls of sugar, one of butter, one of milk, four of flour (rather scant), four eggs, half a teaspoonful of soda, one of cream of tartar. Beat the butter to a cream. Add the sugar gradually, beating all the while; then the flavoring (lemon or nutmeg). Beat the eggs very light. Add them and the milk. Measure the flour after it has been sifted. Return it to the sieve, and mix the soda and cream of tartar with it. Sift this into the bowl of beaten ingredients. Beat quickly and vigorously, to thoroughly mix, and then stop. Take three sheet pans of the same size, and in each of two pat one-third of the mixture, and bake. To the other third add four'teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, a cupful of currants (tad about an eighth of a pound of citron, oat fine. Bake this in the remaining pan. 'When done, take out of the pans. Spread the light cake with a thin layer of jelly, while warm. Place on this the dark cake, and spread with jelly. Place the other sheet of light cake on this. Lay a paper over all, and then a thin sheet, on which pat two irons. The cake will press in about two hours. JELLY ROLL. Make the sponge cake mixture as for lady-fingers, and bake in one shallow pan twenty minutes. While it is yet warm oat off the edges, and spread the cake with any kind of jelly. Boll up, and pin a towel around it. Put in a cool place until serving time. Cat in slices with a sharp knife. 198 Mother's Cock Bool DELICATE CRULLERS.