The New century cook book

Filling for Layer Cake. — Whites of two eggs with the usual amount of sugar, well beaten, three tablespoonfuls of thick sour cream, flavor with vanilla; add one pound of blanched almonds, chopped fine. Mary Field Boyle. New Century Cook Book. Yolk Cake. One cup butter, two cups sugar, three cups flour, one cup sweet milk, three teaspoons baking powder, yolks of ten eggs. - one teaspoon vanilla, cream, butter and sugar; sift in flour and baking powder mixed, adding milk at intervals; add well beaten eggs and the vanilla. Bake in square shallow pans; when cool frost with chocolate frosting and cut into squares or diamonds. Frances S. Lane. Apple Cream Cake. One-half cup sugar, one-half cup milk, one egg, one-third cup melted butter, one teaspoon essence of lemon, one and onehalf teaspoon baking powder mixed with flour to make a smooth batter. Mix well. Make three layers. Filling between layers and on top. — Grate one large apple, add one cup sugar, the beaten white of one egg. and one teaspoon flavoring. Beat all together with egg beater till light and creamy. Washington Cake. One cup of butter, three cups brown sugar, one cup of milk, four eggs, one teaspoon each of extract of cinnamon and nutmeg, one teaspoon ground allspice, one cup of seeded raisins, three cups of flour and two teaspoons of baking powder. Layer Cake. Two cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup sour milk, three cups flour, whites of five eggs, one even teaspoonful soda. Rub butter and sugar to a white light cream, then stir the milk in slowly, then add the flour, to which the soda has been mixed and sifted while dry. Lastly, add the well-beaten whites of the eggs. Bake in three or four layers in jelly cake pans, from five to ten minutes in a well heated oven. A delicious white layer cake to be used with any kind of filling. Mary E. Work. Blackberry Cake. One cup sugar, three-fourths cup butter, four tablespoonfuls sour milk or buttermilk, three eggs, one and one-third cups flour, one cup blackberry jam. one even teaspoonful soda, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one teaspoonful allspice, one teaspoonful nutmeg. Bake in layers and spread with blackberry jam or plum jelly, or bake in pan and cut in squares, with plain frosting, English walnuts placed on top. Lillian M. Cessna. New Century Cook Book. Layer Cake. One cup white sugar, one-half cup butter, one cup sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, whites of four eggs. Mrs. A. J. Schoonhoven. Bonbury Cakes. Stone and chop one cupful of fine raisins, chop also equal parts of lemon, citron and candied orange peels; to make half a small cupful add the juice and grated peel of one large lemon, one egg beaten light, and two-thirds cupful of granulated sugar; mix these together very thoroughly, make a firm but flakey pie crust and roll it out as thin as possible on a floured board and score in diamond shape or squares. Spread the smooth side with the mince and cover with another square in the manner of a sandwich, making the edges even and bake a light brown, powdering with sugar before serving; very good. Mrs. Ella Carlisle. English Pound Cake.