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The new Annie Dennis cook book

1905

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Presented as published in 1905. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth and mix with the other cupful of sugar, then beat in the milk and the flour, into which the baking powder has been stirred. Flavor with vanilla. This makes a very delicate, nice cake. 242 THE NEW ANNIE DENNIS COOK BOOK ANGEL FOOD CAKE Angel's Food Cake 11 eggs (whites) 1^/^ cupfuls granulated sugar 1 cupful flour 1 teaspoonful vanillaAngel's Food Cake or I teaspoonful cream of almond tartar Measure the flour after sifting once, mix with cream of tartar and sift four times. Beat the whites of the eggs until stiff and flaky. Add the sugar and beat again; add vanilla or almond, then mix in flour quickly and lightly. Line the bottom and funnel of a cakepan with paper not greased, pour in the mixture and bake about forty minutes. When done loosen the cake around the edges and turn out. Ange! Food II eggs 1 teaspoonful vanilla 1^/2 tumblerfuls granulated 1 teaspoonful cream of sugar tartar 1 tumblerful sifted flour Sift the flour four times, add cream of tartar and sift again. Sift the sugar and measure it; beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, on a large platter; on the same platter, add the sugar lightly. Then add the flour gently, then the vanilla. Don't stop beating until you put it in the pan. Bake forty minutes in a moderate oven, try with a straw, and if too soft, let it remain a few minutes longer. Don't open the oven until the cake has been in fifteen minutes. Turn the pan upside down to cool, and when cold, take out by loosening around the sides with a knife ; then ice. Use a pan that has never been greased. Cup Cake 1 cupful flour 1 cupful milk or water 2 cupfuls sugar 2 teaspoonfuls baking 4 cupfuls flour powder 5 eggs (leave out three of the whites for icing) THE NEW ANNIE DENNIS COOK BOOK 243 Feather Cake 3 eggs V2 teacupful sweet milk 2 teacupfuls flour 1 teaspoonful baking % teacupful butter powder 1 teacupful sugar Beat the eggs separately ; sift the baking powder in the flour ; add the milk last. Used for a pudding with sauce, or cold for tea. SPONGE CAKE Sponge Cake, No. 1 2 cupfuls powdered sugar 4 eggs 2 cupfuls flour (sifted) % teacupful boiling water 2 teaspoonful baking Pinch of salt powder Lemon or vanilla to taste Beat the whites and the yolks of the eggs sepa- rately ; add the boiling water after all the other ingre- dients have been mixed, and bake in a moderate oven. Sponge Cake, No. 2 6 eggs 2 teaspoonfuls baking 2 cupfuls sugar powder 2 cupfuls flour Flavoring to taste 10 tablespoonfuls boiling water Beat the yolks of the eggs and the sugar together and add the beaten whites. Add to this one cupful of flour and ten tablespoonfuls of boiling water. Then add the rest of the flour and the baking powder. Fla- vor to taste ; bake in a moderate oven. . Croton Sponge Cake 1 teacupful sweet milk (a little warm) 2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartarAngel Food Cake 1 teaspoonful soda Sift the cream of tartar in the flour, dissolve the soda in the sweet milk and bake in a moderately quick oven. 1 lb flour 1 lb sugar lb butter 6 eggs 244 THE NEW ANNIE DENNIS COOK BOOK White Sponge Cake 5 eggs (whites) 1 teacupful sugar 1 teacupful flour 1 teaspoonful baking powder White Sponge Cake