(or substitute) 1 teaspoon Royal baking powder
3 eggs 3%, teaspoon grated nutmeg
1 cup sour milk 1 teaspoon salt✪ Doughnuts—No. 2
Beat eggs, add sugar and melted shortening. Sift three cups flour with
dry ingredients; add alternately with milk; add more flour to roll. Roll
1-3 dough at one time. Cut and fry in deep fat until brown. Note: Do
not get dough too stiff.
“CAKE SECRETS.”
88 THE WILSON CooK Book
Canadian Tea Cakes
Y% cup butter 1 cup flour (full)
Cream butter, add flour, blend well and press down on bottom of pan
514 by 10 inches. Bake in slow oven 15 or 20 minutes. While it is
baking, beat 2 eggs well, add
14%, cups brown sugar 14% cups cocoanut, or 1 can
2 tablespoons flour moist yellow label cocoanut
144 teaspoon baking powder % cup nuts
% teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla✪ Canadian Tea Cakes
Take pastry out of oven and pour filling over it, and return it to oven
and cook about 15 minutes, or until done (a golden brown). When it is
cool, cut in blocks.
Icing
2 tablespoons butter 1% box sugar
Cream butter, add sifted sugar, cream, then add a little vanilla.
Mrs. FRANK H. LEE.
“‘Blind” taste-tests show
it’s the best Devil’s Food yet!
it’s made with Swans Down,
by the new, “‘popular poll’’ recipe
on the new Swans Down package
Not only is this Devil’s Food better
than you can possibly make with or-
dinary flour, but it’s been taste-tested
against Devil’s Food made with other
cake flours, and other recipes — and
this cake topped them all!
Judged for texture, flavor and gen-
eral deliciousness, Swans
Down Devil’s Food won out
in a series of “blind” tests.
And no wonder! For
Swans Down is a very spe-
cial flour. It’s made from
special wheat—soft winter
wheat. It’s specially and
skillfully milled and sifted
so that only the finest first part of the
milling goes into Swans Down. Its
gluten is special gluten — delicately
responsive to the rising action of egg
whites and to gentle cake leavenings.
Try this Swans Down Devil's Food
for yourself. Take the bows for the
most wonderfully even tex-
tured, delicately moist, fluffy
yet rich Devil’s Food you've
ever made.
Soget Swans Down from
your grocer today and sur-
prise your family with the
best Devil’s Food yet. The
recipe is on the package.
ALMOND DEVIL’S FOOD CAKE
Bake Devil’s Food Cake (recipe on
Swans Down Cake Flour package) in
two greased 9-inch layer pans in mod-
erate oven (@350-5b.jaZo to130emin:
Spread with Almond Fudge Frosting.
To decorate, melt % square Baker’s
Unsweetened Chocolate and % tea-
spoon butter; cool to thicken. Dip
ends of toasted almonds in chocolate ;
cool on waxed paper; place on cake.
ALMOND FUDGE FROSTING
3 cups sugar 1 cup milk
lg teaspoon salt
Combine sugar, salt, and milk in
saucepan. Bring quickly to a_ boil,
stirring only until sugar is dissolved.
Boil, without stirring, until a small
amount of mixture forms a very soft
ball in cold water (234° F.). Remove
2 tablespoons butter
14 teaspocn vanilla
14 teaspoon almond extract
from fire. Add butter and flavoring.
Cool™to lukewarme (11053 F pe Beat
until of right consistency to spread.
If necessary, place over hot water to
keep soft while spreading. Makes
enough for two 9-inch layers.
FROSTED ANGEL FOOD CAKE
Bake Swans Down Angel Food (reci-
pe on Swans Down Cake Flour pack-
age). Invert, gently rub off crust, and
spread thinly with Orange Icing.
ORANGE ICING
2 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar
34 teaspoon grated orange rind
Dash of salt
Add sugar, orange rind, and salt to
fruit, mixing well. Then add lemon
3 tablespoons orange juice and pulp
2 teaspoons lemon juice (about)
juice until of consistency to spread
thinly on cake.
All measurements are level
BARGAIN! Get this 9- eee de luxe Swans Down Cake Set!
GENERAL FOODS, Department CMT
Ueeo.
Battle Creek, Michigan
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(or substitute) 1 teaspoon Royal baking powder
3 eggs 3%, teaspoon grated nutmeg
1 cup sour milk 1 teaspoon salt
Beat eggs, add sugar and melted shortening. Sift three cups flour with
dry ingredients; add alternately with milk; add more flour to roll. Roll
1-3 dough at one time. Cut and fry in deep fat until brown. Note: Do
not get dough too stiff.
“CAKE SECRETS.”
88 THE WILSON CooK Book
Canadian Tea Cakes
Y% cup butter 1 cup flour (full)
Cream butter, add flour, blend well and press down on bottom of pan
514 by 10 inches. Bake in slow oven 15 or 20 minutes. While it is
baking, beat 2 eggs well, add
14%, cups brown sugar 14% cups cocoanut, or 1 can
2 tablespoons flour moist yellow label cocoanut
144 teaspoon baking powder % cup nuts
% teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla
Take pastry out of oven and pour filling over it, and return it to oven
and cook about 15 minutes, or until done (a golden brown). When it is
cool, cut in blocks.
Icing
2 tablespoons butter 1% box sugar
Cream butter, add sifted sugar, cream, then add a little vanilla.
Mrs. FRANK H. LEE.
“‘Blind” taste-tests show
it’s the best Devil’s Food yet!
it’s made with Swans Down,
by the new, “‘popular poll’’ recipe
on the new Swans Down package
Not only is this Devil’s Food better
than you can possibly make with or-
dinary flour, but it’s been taste-tested
against Devil’s Food made with other
cake flours, and other recipes — and
this cake topped them all!
Judged for texture, flavor and gen-
eral deliciousness, Swans
Down Devil’s Food won out
in a series of “blind” tests.
And no wonder! For
Swans Down is a very spe-
cial flour. It’s made from
special wheat—soft winter
wheat. It’s specially and
skillfully milled and sifted
so that only the finest first part of the
milling goes into Swans Down. Its
gluten is special gluten — delicately
responsive to the rising action of egg
whites and to gentle cake leavenings.
Try this Swans Down Devil's Food
for yourself. Take the bows for the
most wonderfully even tex-
tured, delicately moist, fluffy
yet rich Devil’s Food you've
ever made.
Soget Swans Down from
your grocer today and sur-
prise your family with the
best Devil’s Food yet. The
recipe is on the package.
ALMOND DEVIL’S FOOD CAKE
Bake Devil’s Food Cake (recipe on
Swans Down Cake Flour package) in
two greased 9-inch layer pans in mod-
erate oven (@350-5b.jaZo to130emin:
Spread with Almond Fudge Frosting.
To decorate, melt % square Baker’s
Unsweetened Chocolate and % tea-
spoon butter; cool to thicken. Dip
ends of toasted almonds in chocolate ;
cool on waxed paper; place on cake.
ALMOND FUDGE FROSTING
3 cups sugar 1 cup milk
lg teaspoon salt
Combine sugar, salt, and milk in
saucepan. Bring quickly to a_ boil,
stirring only until sugar is dissolved.
Boil, without stirring, until a small
amount of mixture forms a very soft
ball in cold water (234° F.). Remove
2 tablespoons butter
14 teaspocn vanilla
14 teaspoon almond extract
from fire. Add butter and flavoring.
Cool™to lukewarme (11053 F pe Beat
until of right consistency to spread.
If necessary, place over hot water to
keep soft while spreading. Makes
enough for two 9-inch layers.
FROSTED ANGEL FOOD CAKE
Bake Swans Down Angel Food (reci-
pe on Swans Down Cake Flour pack-
age). Invert, gently rub off crust, and
spread thinly with Orange Icing.
ORANGE ICING
2 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar
34 teaspoon grated orange rind
Dash of salt
Add sugar, orange rind, and salt to
fruit, mixing well. Then add lemon
3 tablespoons orange juice and pulp
2 teaspoons lemon juice (about)
juice until of consistency to spread
thinly on cake.
All measurements are level
BARGAIN! Get this 9- eee de luxe Swans Down Cake Set!
GENERAL FOODS, Department CMT
Ueeo.
Battle Creek, Michigan