Banana Cake

Ingredients

• One cup butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 cups flour
• 1 cup sweet milk
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• whites of 8 eggs

Method

1. 1

   Beat eggs stiff.

2. 2

   Cream sugar and butter; then add the milk and flour sifted with baking powder, and toward the last, the whites of eggs.

3. 3

   Bake in five layers.

4. 4

   For filling, beat the whites of two eggs stiff, add 1 cup sugar, and put between layers.

5. 5

   Slice ripe bananas and place carefully all over between layers.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Times cook book, no. 2 (1905) by Los Angeles Times, page 166. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

One cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 2 cups flour, 1 cup sweet milk, 2 tea- spoons baking powder, whites of 8 eggs. Beat eggs stiff. Cream sugar and butter; then add the milk and flour, sifted with baking powder, and toward the last whites of eggs. Bake in five layers. For filling, beat the COOKING AND OTHER RECIPES. 99 whites of two eggs stiff, add 1 cup sugar (pul- verized is best,) put between layers. Slice ripe bananas and place carefully all over between layers. FOR MEAT. A chicken 4 months old (Light Brahma preferred,) clean, cut up, wash and salt or pepper, roll in flour and fry in hot lard and butter of cotto suet; fry a nice brown. Add cheese, olives, pickles, jelly or good jam, 12 deviled eggs, potato chips, 1 loaf Vienna bread, home-made butter, fruit — ap- ples, bananas, etc. MARY E. PALMER. No. 330 South State Street. NO. 8— A PICNIC LUNCHEON. DEVILED EGGS. Boil 6 eggs hard, drop them into cold water for a minute, and then carefully remove the shells; cut them in half with a sharp knife, and gently remove the yolks; mash and mix them with a dash of pepper salt, a tablespoonful of olive oil, a teaspoonful of vinegar and a little chopped pickle or parsley. Mold this mixture into balls and replace in the whites. Put the two halves of the egg together and tie with baby ribbon. HAM SANDWICHES. Two 'pounds cold boiled ham, cut slices of bread quite thin and cut off the crust, butter, and lay a slice of ham on each piece; spread with mustard and lay another slice of bread upon the top. CHICKEN SANDWICHES. Chop cold chicken and celery together, mix with a little salad dressing, and spread on thin, buttered bread. CREAM PUFFS. Boil 1 cupful hot water and y2 cupful of butter together, and while boiling stir in 1 cup of dry sifted flour. Take from the fire and stir to a thin paste, and after this cools stir in 3 eggs. Stir 5 minutes. Drop in tablespoonfuls on a buttered tin, and bake in a quick oven 25 minutes. CREAM FOR ABOVE. One cup milk, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, 3 tablespoonfuls flour, va- nilla to flavor; stir the flour in a little of the milk; boil the rest; stir this in, and stir until the whole thickens; when both this and the puffs are cool, open the puffs with a sharp knife, and fill them with the cream. SARATOGA POTATOES. Slice the potatoes very thin into cold water, drain them thor- oughly. Drop into boiling lard and fry a few at a time. Drain, salt and put them in a dry place. FRUIT. Oranges, apples, peaches, pears and plums are nice to take on a picnic. PACKING. The basket must be packed very carefully, especially the cream puffs. EDNA S: CHAPIN. No. 418 Dora street. NO. 9— PICNIC LUNCH. ADAPTED TO A FAMILY OF SIX. The first essential is something to eat; be- sides this, we will need something to carry It in; plenty of paper napkins, paper dishes and drinking utensils. After neatly lining my telescope with a lunch cloth, I place therein my 18 cheese and egg sandwiches. Boil at low temperature 9 or 10 eggs for from 1 to 4 hours; remove to cold water. When thor- oughly cold, or the following day, prepare by first removing the yolks. Chop whites as fine as meal, and place with yolks in a bowl; add about 1 teaspoon butter to each yolk, salt, pepper and celery seed to taste, and, if liked, some lemon juice— 1 lemon to 3 eggs. Mix and blend all this to a smooth paste. After spreading each slice of bread with softened butter, spread each alternate slice with the egg mixture, and scatter thickly over it finely- grated cheese. Cover with a buttered slice, press together, and cut in size to suit your- self. One egg will cover two slices baker's 5-cent loaf. Now butter half as many slice* as before, to eat with. CORN-BEEF SALAD. Chop fine 1 pound corn beef, add 2-3 cup of vinegar, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 beaten egg, mustard to taste. Beat all well together, place in stew pan and let thoroughly heat, stirring all the while. Pour into dish or mold, let get thoroughly cold, then slice. CRULLERS. Six eggs, 6 tabeso oons soft- ened butter, 6 tablespoons sugar, 1 tablespoon milk or water, 2 teaspoons baking powder

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