Trinity cook book

Knox Hats grated nutmeg, one cup of strawberry jam, mix jam with one-half cup of whiskey or brandy. Mix sugar and butter, then add cream with the soda. Beat eggs into this, add flour with one teaspoonful of baking powder, put in jam last. This cake is fine eaten hot with sauce. FRUIT CAKE Ten eggs, yolks and whites beaten separately, five cups of brown sugar, one-half pint of molasses, one-half teaspoon of soda, three cups of butter, one quart of swansdown flour, one pound each of candied lemon and orange peel sliced thin, two pounds of citron sliced thin, three pounds of raisins, one pound each of figs and dates cut in small pieces, two pounds of almonds cut in half, two pounds of currants, one cup of French brandy, one cup of sherry wine, one tumbler of dark jelly, one apple chopped fine, one-fourth cake of chocolate grated, one teaspoon of all kinds of spices. Flour all the fruit before mixing and bake three or four hours. This makes two large cakes or three small ones. ( 61 ) SMALL CAKES 'Sweet cakes and short cakes Ginger cakes and honey cakes, And the whole family of cakes.' NOTHINGS Beat three eggs thoroughly. Add flour, containing pinch of soda, till the dough is quite stiff. Roll as thin as possible. Cut out with a large saucer or teaplate. Fry, without browning, in a flat pan containing boiling hot lard sufficient to float the "Nothings" as they fluff up, keeping all the brownish scum which may form skimmed clear. Drain each "Nothing" from the lard, upon a napkin. When cool, pile into a stack, sifting pulverized sugar and cinnamon over the cake. A beautiful and good dish for tea. DROP GINGER COOKIES Two eggs well beaten, one cupful of white sugar, one cupful of butter, one cupful of molasses, one cupful of hot water in which is dissolved one tablespoonful of soda, five cupfuls of swansdown flour, one teaspoonful of cloves, two teaspoonsful of ginger, a pinch of salt. Heat pans and grease, then drop in by spoonsful a little distance apart and bake. DOUGHNUTS Six eggs beaten light, one pound of sugar, one-half pound of butter, one-half pint of sour cream, one teaspoonful of soda, swansdown flour for a soft dough. Have lard boiling and dust doughnuts with powdered sugar while hot. NUT SQUARES Beat one egg with one cupful of brown sugar, a pinch of salt, and onefourth saltspoonful of soda, add one cupful of hickory or other nuts chopped fine and five tablespoonsful of swansdown flour. Spread out in a flat pan and bake twenty minutes, then cut in squares. The squares should be one inch thick when cut. CREAM CAKES Cream together two-thirds cupful of butter and two cupfuls of sugar. Add the well-beaten yolks of four eggs and one cupful of milk. Sift three and one-half cupfuls of sifted swansdown pastry flour and add it gradually to this mixture, mixing with the last half cupful three and a half level teaspoonsful of baking powder, ( 62 ) CRYSTAL SPRING LAUNDRY GO. Incorporated 720 Franklin Road, Roanoke, Va. D. W. Howell, Secretary L. H. Weld, Manager Phones 828-829 OATMEAL COOKIES