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Table Talk's illustrated cook book

1906

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Presented as published in 1906. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
CUT A FRIED CAKE UIXTUIB IN SMALL ROUND DISKS, THEN DROP INTO HOT FAT AND FRY A DELICATE BROWN. DRAIN ON PAPER AND WHEN COOL ROLL IN BOILED COCOA ICING, FORMING THE FEATURES WITH SMALL CANDIES. TOP WITH TINY AUTOMOBILE CAPS AND SERVE AT CHILDREN'S PARTY. BY USING RED CANDIES FOR THE LIPS AND NOSTRILS, AND VIOLET, PINK, GREEN AND YELLOW FOR THE BYB8 A COMICAU EXPRESSION IS SSCURXD. I40 TABLE TALK'S ILLUSTRATED COOK BOOK "SHIPS AT SEA." FOR A child's party A SHEET OF SPONGE CAKS IS CUT INTO SMALL OBLONGS; THEN ROUGHLY ICBD WITH PISTACHIO ICING. A TINY RIGGED BOAT IS PLACED ON TOP OP EACH, AND THE NAME OP BACH GUEST COULD BE WRITTEN IN GOLD PAINT ON THE SAIL. FANCY CAKES FOR CHILDREN'S PARTY. WATERMELON CAKE. Fill the cake pan one-third full with a well-made white or silver cake batter, then fill the two-thirds with the same batter colored pink with fruit coloring, putting in near the top currants which have been washed and dried. Bake in a moderate oven. Ice when done with white icing clouded and streaked with spinach green. Flavor with vanilla✪ Watermelon Cake. Make the pink batter rather deep in color, like ripe, red-meated watermelon. When sliced this cake shows the white edge, red meat and seed of watermelon. Currants may be washed, dried and dredged with pulverized sugar before going into the batter. This makes a very nice, fancy cake for any social func- tion where appearances ^re of as much consideration as palatable qualities. CAKES 141 DOVER CAKE. Cream thoroughly together one-quarter of a cupful of butter and one-half of a cupful of sugar, add the well-beaten yolks of two eggs and beat again, then one-half of a teaspoonful of rose-water, one teaspoonful of vanilla and one drop of almond extract. Add alternately one cupful of flour and three tablespoon- fuls of milk and beat well. Stir in the stiffly whipped whites of the eggs, a pinch of salt and one scant teaspoonful of baking powder✪ Dover Cake, beat well for a moment, turn into a buttered loaf pan and bake in a moderate oven. RABBIT CAKES. FOR A CRILOKZN's rARTY. CHOCOLATE COOKIES ARE CUT OBLONG. ON THE ICED ONES PUT A RABBIT CUT FROM CITRON OR OUTLINE WITH CHOCOLATE XCINC; ON THE UN-ICEO ONES PLACE RABBITS FORMED OF FONDANT OR ICING. 142 TABLE TALK'S ILLUSTRATED COOK BOOK CAKE ROSETTES. PRETTY FANCY CAKES FOR AFTERNOON TEAS ARE IfAOE BY ^LICING POUND CAKE, CUTTING IT INTO CIRCLES OR ROSETTES, SPREADING WITH MARMALADE, THEN WITH MERINGUE, WHICH IS DUSTED WITII POWDERED SUGAR AND CRUSTED IN A SLOW OVEN. WHEN ARRANGED ON A PLATE, THESE ARE GARNISHED WITH LEAVES. " ORANGE FLIP CAKE. Make a sponge cake, flavoring with orange, using any recipe preferred and baking in a round loaf. When cold cut out the centre, leaving bottom and sides fully an inch and a half thick. Prepare a fondant icing by boiling together one cupful of sugar and one-half of a cupful of water to the soft ball degree, setting aside until partly cooled, then stirring until very thick, when it must be well worked with the hands until soft and creamy. Place this in a bowl with the grated rind of an orange or a teaspoonful of orange extract and a little yellow CAKES 143 ✪ Orange Flip Cake