Perfection in baking

Lemon Twist. Mix well, dry, two pounds of hard butter with two and threefourth pounds of cake flour, twenty ounces of sugar, and lemon flavor; add twelve eggs and the juice of four lemons; mix very light to a stiff dough. Set in ice box to harden. Roll in long, thin strips and twist them. Cut in slices, wash with eggwash, dip in coarse sugar and bake in a good heat. Orange Slices. The moulds for these can be bought from any supply house. They are not to be greased, but the slices cut loose with a sharp knife from the moulds. Beat very stiff three-fourths of a pint of egg whites ; add by handfuls one-half pound sugar; then twelve egg yolks, and last, nine ounces of cake flour. Orange flavor. Lay out witli bag and tube; bake medium warm. When cold, ice with orange water icing — 100 — Alelons. Same mixture as for orange slices. Set slices together with jelly. Cover all over with yellow or green icing, stick a slice of green citron in the top for stem. Stork Nests (Ribbon Czike). Sift two pounds of strong flour in a bowl, make a dent in center in which you break four eggs and two yolks, a pinch of baking soda, one-fourth ounce ammonia, one-half pint milk, salt, three ounces powdered sugar, a little mace, one-half pound melted butter, and one glass of brandy or rum. Make all into a stiff dough as for noodles. Set away in a cool place for about one hour, covered with a damp cloth. Then roll out very thin about four feet long and two feet wide; cut with pie jigger in strips one inch wide. Wet the strips on ends and in center with egg. Take about five strips up at a time, press the ends so they will hold together; sling around in different directions and bring the ends on bottom so that all make a loose ball. Set on a dusted board; let stand a while, then cook in hot cruller grease to a fawn color, not too brown. Break the bottoms out of some tin cans and set in the kettle to fry the balls in; this is done to hold the balls together. When cool dust with cinnamon sugar. Apple Snow Cake. Bake regular layers and fill with this filling: Grate a hard, sour apple (peeled) in a deep plate; add one-half pound of fine sugar and then one egg white. Beat all up well about fifteen minutes with silver work or small beater. When almost done you can add onefourth ounce of dissolved gelatin. Fill the layers with it and cover top also. Belgrade Almond Slices. Five and one-half pounds of brown sugar, three and one-half pounds of butter, one quart of eggs, three-eighths of an ounce of ammonia, three-eighths of an ounce of soda, one-half pint of milk, three and one-fourth pounds sifted cake crumbs, one pound of raw almonds, six and one-fourth pounds soft flour, one-half pound fine desiccated cocoanut. Flavor with cinnamon and allspice. Make stiff dough. Roll in one and one-half inch thick rolls. Set on greased pans, press flat, wash with egg, and bake medium warm. Cut in slices one inch wide. — 101 — Fig Cake.