The Rural cook book

Election Cake. — Rub into half a pound of sifted flour five ounces of butter, add a saltspoonful of salt, one cupful of sugar; mix. Scald two cupfuls of milk, and when lukewarm add one yeast cake dissolved, and two eggs well beaten. Make a hole in the center of the flour, pour in the milk mixture, stir in a little of the flour; cover and stand aside for three hours. Then beat in all the flour, add the juice of three oranges, a tablespoonful of cinnamon and half a nutmeg grated; turn into a greased round pan and, when very light, bake in a moderate oven for one hour. Eggless Cake. — Beat one cupful of sugar and half a cupful of butter to a cream; add a cupful of milk, measure two cupfuls of sifted flour, add three teaspoontuls of baking powder, a level teaspoonful of cinnamon, half a teaspoonful of grated nutmeg and a pinch of cloves. Sift several times until the flour is light and fluffy, then stir into the other materials, add cupful seeded floured raisins. Bake in moderate oven. Eggless Cake with Oil. — Cream one-half cup oil and one cupful sugar, one cupful sour milk, one teaspoonful soda, one teaspoonful each of cassia and cloves, one-half cupl'ul chopped raisins (if desired) one-half teaspoonful salt, two cupfuls warmed flour. Be sure not to forget the salt, as the oil contains none. This must always he remembered; in using the oil add twice as much salt as common. Eggless Fruit Cake.— One cup of sugar, one cup of butter, one cup of buttermilk, two cups of sifted flour, one cup of raisins (seeded and chopped), one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful of cloves, cne-half teaspoonful of nutmeg. Beat the sugar and butter to a cream; dissolve the soda in a little hot water and stir it into the milk, and add next the spices. Flour the raisins and add them last. Bake in a well-buttered tin, on the bottom of which place a clean white paper, also well buttered. Layer Cake Without Eggs. — one cupful of sugar, quarter of a cupful of butter, one cupful of sweet milk, one teaspoonful of soda, tivo of cream of tartar, one tablespoonful ot cornstarch made smooth in a little milk, two cupfuls of flour. Bake in thin sheets and put together with boiled sugar frosting, jelly, cocoanut or any other rich filling desired, finish the top with the boiled sugar frosting made by boiling together a cupful of sugar and one of water until it will turn creamy white and thick on being stirred. This is quite as delicious as the frosting made from the whites of eggs. Noel Fruit Cake.— This contains neither butter nor eggs. One pound fat salt pork chopped tine, one cupful brown sugar, one cupful New Orleans molasses in which is dissolved one teaspoonful of soda, one pound each of raisins, currants and figs chopped fine, one-fourth pound of citron chopped fine, one wineglass of coffee (substituted for brandy), 2 1/2 cupfuls of flour well browned. This will make one large loaf or two small ones. The longer kept the better it is. This may be iced or not A boiled milk frosting is good while eggs are high. Eggless Waffles. — Mix at night a batter with sour milk if you hart it ; if not, sweet will answer. To each quart of milk, with flour for batter, add one tablespoonful each of butter and sugar, one-half teaspoonful salt. If sweet milk is used add small quantity yeast or one-quarter compressed yeast cake. In the morning add enough baking soda to correct acidity — you will have to try baking a little to get it right.