Burnt Leather Cake

Ingredients

• 1.5 cups sugar
• 1 cup cold water
• 0.5 cup butter
• 2.5 cups flour
• 2 yolks eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3 whites eggs
• 3 or 4 tablespoons burnt sugar syrup

Method

1. 1

   Prepare burnt sugar by taking two cups of sugar, put in a pan and set on stove until brown, stirring all the time.

2. 2

   Then add about three-fourths cup of water and let cook up like a syrup.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Delta Gamma cook book (1922), page 59. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Burnt Leather Cake 13/^ cups sugar 1 cup cold water 3^ cup butter 23^ cui)s flour yolks 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 teaspoons baking powder whites 3 eggs 3 or 4 tablespoons ])urnt sugar syrup Burnt sugar: Take two cups sugar, put in a pan and set on stove until brown, stirring all the time, then add about three-fourths cup of water and let (!ook up like a syrup. Kathleen Rogers (Gamma). Cherry and Cocoanut Cake 1 cup sugar 1 cup pastry flour 3^ cup butter 1 cup cocoanut 14 cup milk whites 4 eggs 2 teaspoons baking powder Cream butter and sugar. Add milk, then flour in which baking powder has been sifted. Add cocoanut and well beaten eggs. Add one-half teaspoon flavoring. For frosting, whip one cup cream and add one-fourth cup sugar and on(>-lialf cup candicnl cherries, chopped fine. This cake is best if served the day it is iuad(^ Eleanor Dickinson Tate (Lambda Nu). 144 DELTA GAMMA COOK BOOK Chocolate Cake 1 tablespoon butter or Crisco 1 cup sugar 2 eggs (save 1 white for frosting) 1 square chocolate % cup milk 1 cup flour 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder Bake in long pan. JuUa B. Gould (Lambda). Chocolate Cake No. 1 2 eggs vanilla cream 1 cup flour 1 cup sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder }/2 teaspoon salt 2 squares chocolate )4: cup hot water Break eggs into measuring cup, fill the cup with cream. Add other ingredients, and lastly, the chocolate, dissolved in hot water. This is a very good plain cake without the chocolate. Grace Conners Nelson (Lambda Nu). Chocolate Cake No. 2 ^ cup butter 11^ cups sugar 2 cups flour

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