Statesmen's dishes; and how to cook them

GERMAN ALMOND RINGS. BY MKS. WM. WINDOM. (Wife of Secretary of the Treasury.) ONE-HALF pound blanched almonds, one-half pound pulverized sugar, one-half pound puffpaste, whites of six eggs. Roll the paste very thin and cut out with a tumbler or tin biscuit-cutter. From each cut a smaller one from the center so that the ring will be three-fourths of an inch wide. Beat the whites to a stiff froth; then add the sugar and stir with the dish in boiling water until the meringue is quite thick. Into this stir the almonds, which have been previously sliced very thin. Cool. Then with a small silver knife place this mixture on the rings. Bake in an oven at the temperature proper for cake. Can be kept for two or three weeks. SHAKSPERE CAKE. BY MBS. WM. WINDOM. (Wife of Secretary of the Treasury.) ONE coffeecup of sugar creamed with one-half cup of butter; add three beaten eggs and beat thoroughly ; add two cups of flour, into which one teaspoonful of cream tartar has been mixed, and at the same time, without stirring in the flour, three-fourths cup of milk into which one-half teaspoon of soda has been dissolved. Mix well. Lastly, add one-half pound English walnuts which have been cut fine. Bake in sheets a cake which shall be an inch thick when done. When partly cool frost with an icing made with the white of one egg and one cup of pulverized sugar, beaten ten minutes, and adding the juice of half a small lemon. When the icing has begun to harden a little, mark it in squares with the back of a silver knife, and lay in each square half of an English walnut. <&LSr4fc /Z^&£o-z>v<_J ANGELS'-FOOD CAKE. BY MRS. JERE. M. RUSK. (Wife of the Secretary of Agriculture) TAKE whites of twelve eggs, one and a half cups pulverized sugar sifted three times, one cup flour, one teaspoonful of cream tartar. Sift flour and cream tartar together three times. Mix well with the sugar and stir into the beaten whites. One teaspoonful of flavoring. HARRISON FRUIT CAKE. BY MRS. JOHN J. INGAIXS. (Wife of Senator from Kansas, and President pro tern, of the Senate.) ONE pound of butter, one pound of flour, one-quarter of a pound of sugar (fine granulated), one dozen eggs, two pounds of citron, two small cocoanuts (grated), two pounds blanched almonds, one wineglassful of wine, one wineglassful of brandy, one teaspoonful of ground cinnamon, one grated nutmeg, one teaspoonful of ground mace, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, cream, butter and sugar and eggs, thoroughly beaten, but not separated. Mix baking powder with flour; then add, and lastly throw in fruit thoroughly chopped and floured. Bake in a slow oven. When done the cake will leave the sides of the pan. cSY- -2? d^ v£-4>* DELICATE CAKE. BY MBS. JOHN SHERMAN. (Wife of Senator from Ohio.) ONE pound of sugar (light weight), one pound of flour (light weight), a little more than half a pound of butter, whites of sixteen eggs beaten to a stiff froth ; beat butter and sugar to a cream and add the flour and eggs alternately until all are used; flavor with peach or lemon. Bake in a moderately quick oven. No baking powder. BERWICK SPONGE CAKE. BY MRS. WM. P. FRYE. (Wife of Senator from Maine.)