Chapter L: R. B

NUT COOKIES.

1 pint of nuts, any kind, 1 pint of flour, 1 pint of sugar, 4 eggs, 1 teaspoonful of baking powder, 1 tablespoonful of cinnamon. Drop in spoonsful a little apart in greased pan and bake in quick oven.

Mrs. L. L. Arnold.

“NOTHINGS.”

3 well-beaten eggs, 1 tablespoonful of sugar, salt and flour enough for a very stiff dough. Roll and cut into very thin small round cakes and fry them in lard. When they rise to surface and are turned over they are done. Drain on a sieve and put two together with jam or jelly between.

Miss Rhein.

NUT CAKES.

½ pound of sugar, whites of 3 eggs. Beat sugar and eggs together to a stiff froth and add 1 pint nuts and 4 tablespoonsful of flour. Drop on buttered tins and bake.

SCOTCH CAKES.

1 pound of brown sugar, ½ pound of butter, 2 eggs, 1 pound of flour, ½ tablespoonful of cinnamon. To be rolled quite thin.

WALNUT MACAROONS.

1 pint of sugar, 1 pint of flour, 1 pint of walnuts, 4 eggs, 2 teaspoonsful of baking powder, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg to taste. Drop very small in large pan and bake.

Miss Rhein.

APRICOT CAKE.

¼ cake of chocolate, grated, ½ cup of milk, yolks of 2 eggs. Boil until thick and then let it cool. 1 tablespoonful of melted butter, ½ cupful of milk, 1 cupful of sugar, 1 teaspoonful of vanilla, 1½ cupsful of flour and 1 teaspoonful of soda. Put soda in flour. Put stewed apricots between layers and frosting on top.

Mrs. W. G. Mercer.

BOSTON NUT CAKE.

3 eggs, 2 cupsful of sugar, 1 cupful of butter, 1 cupful of milk, 4 cupsful of flour, 2 teaspoonsful of baking powder, 1 large cup of hickory-nut kernels, 1 large cup of raisins.

Miss Rhein.

CARAMEL CAKE.

1 cupful of butter, 2 cupsful of sugar, 3 small cupsful of flour, whites of 8 eggs, 1 cupful of milk, 2 teaspoonsful of baking powder. Flavor with vanilla. Bake in layers.

Filling for Same.—2 cupsful of dark brown sugar, 1 cupful of cream. Boil together until the mixture becomes sticky, but not candy. Spread between layers.

K. E. R.

CUP CAKE.

1 cupful of butter, 2 cupsful of sugar, 2½ cupsful of flour, 4 eggs, ½ cupful of sweet milk, 1 small nutmeg, 1 teaspoonful of baking powder. Mix as you would for any cake. Butter and sugar creamed very light and the eggs beaten together instead of separately. Bake in small tins or one large one, as you fancy.

K. E. R.

CARAMEL FROSTING.

2 cupsful of brown sugar, ½ cupful of butter, ½ cupful of cream. Cook all together and add a little vanilla before putting on the cake.

Mrs. C. P. Squires.

CHOCOLATE CAKE.

Whites of 6 eggs, 1½ cupsful of sugar, ½ cupful of flour, ½ cupful of corn starch, ½ cupful of butter, ½ cupful of milk, 1 heaping teaspoonful of baking powder, or 1 teaspoonful of cream tartar, ½ teaspoonful of soda.

Frosting.—Whites of 3 eggs, 1½ cupsful of pulverized sugar, 1 teaspoonful of vanilla, 9 tablespoonsful of grated chocolate. Stir eggs and chocolate together in a bowl over a boiling teakettle until perfectly smooth, then add sugar and vanilla.

French Loaf Cake.

2½ cupsful of powdered sugar, 1½ cupsful of fresh butter, 1 cupful of milk, 3 eggs, 5 cupsful of flour, 1 wineglassful of wine, 1½ nutmegs, ½ teaspoonful of soda (scant), ½ pound stewed raisins, 2 ounces of citron. Stir sugar and butter to a cream, then add part of the flour with the milk, a little warm, and the beaten yolks of the eggs. Then add with the rest of the flour the whites of eggs, well beaten, the spice, wine and soda. Mix all thoroughly and add the fruit as you put it in the oven, stirring in the raisins, dredged with a little of the flour, and putting the citron, cut into small strips, into the loaves after they are put into the pans.

S. S. G.

Fruit Cake.

1 pound of butter, 1 pound of sugar, 1 pound of flour, 3 pounds of raisins, 2½ pounds of currants, 1½ pounds of citron, 1 glass of preserves, ½ teacupful of molasses, 1 wineglassful of brandy or wine, tablespoonful each of cinnamon, allspice and cloves, and 3 teaspoonsful of baking powder.

Ginger Cake.

¼ cupful of butter, ½ cupful brown sugar, ½ cupful of molasses, ½ cupful of boiling water poured onto 1 even teaspoonful of soda, 1 egg, 1 heaping teaspoonful of ginger, flour for a thin batter. Bake in a slow oven.

Mrs. H. C. Schramm.

Hickory Nut Cake.

Whites of 9 eggs, 5 cupsful of flour, 1 cupful of butter, 3 cupsful of sugar, 1 cupful of milk, 2 teaspoonsful of baking powder, 1 teaspoonful of vanilla or 2 tablespoonsful of brandy, 1 pint of nuts.

E. G. R.

Hot Water Sponge Cake.

1½ cupsful of sugar, 1½ cupsful of flour, 3 eggs, ⅔ cupful of boiling water, 2 teaspoonsful of baking powder; flavor with lemon. The water is added the last thing.

Mrs. W. G. Mercer.

Hickory Nut Cake.

2 cupsful of sugar, 1 cupful of butter, ⅔ cupful of milk, 3 cupsful of flour, whites of 6 eggs, 2 teaspoonsful of baking powder, 1 cupful of fine chopped nut meats.

Mrs. W. G. Mercer.

ICE CREAM CAKE.

2 cupsful of pulverized sugar and 1 cupful of butter well beaten together, 1 cupful of sweet milk, 3 cupsful of flour, 2 teaspoonsful of baking powder, whites of 8 eggs beaten stiff. Bake in layers.

FILLING—4 cupsful of sugar and a small cupful of boiling water, let them boil in a pan until clear and candied, then pour it onto the whites of 4 eggs, which have already been beaten to a froth. Beat until cold, flavor with vanilla. Spread between each layer and on top.

E. G. R.

ICE CREAM CAKE.

Make any nice white cake or sponge cake. Bake an inch thick in jelly pans and let them get perfectly cold. Take 1 pint of thickest sweet cream, make very sweet with powdered sugar and flavor with vanilla. Blanche 1 pound of almonds and chop fine, stir into cream and put very thick between layers.

E. G. R.

MAPLE SUGAR ICING.

For a three-layer cake, take 3 cupsful of maple sugar scraped fine and 1 cupful of cream. Boil till crisp in water. Beat until thick enough to spread. Add hickory nuts or butter nuts, as desired.

Mrs. Seymour H. Jones.

Sponge Cake.

12 eggs beaten separately, 1 pound of granulated sugar, ½ pound of flour sifted two or three times, 1 teaspoonful of lemon extract or juice and grated rind of a lemon. Beat yolks light, add sugar, beat again; add beaten whites and extract, and lastly flour stirred in very gently until all covered by the batter. Bake in 2 well greased bread pans filled but half full, from 45 minutes to an hour.

Mrs. Wallace Campbell.

“MAUD’S” CAKE.

CAKE PART—1½ cupsful of brown sugar, ½ cupful (scant) of butter, 3 eggs, ½ cupful of milk, ½ cupful of flour, then stir in chocolate custard which is made as follows:

CHOCOLATE CUSTARD—8 tablespoonsful of grated chocolate, 5 tablespoonsful of granulated sugar, ½ cupful of milk. Boil until it thickens a little, beat until cool, then stir into the cake; add 1½ cupsful of flour and 2 teaspoonsful of baking powder.

ICING—2 cupsful of white sugar and 1 cupful of water, boil until quite stiff, or till it candies or strings. Have the whites of 2 eggs beaten stiff, then add syrup, beating constantly. Flavor with vanilla. Bake the cake in three layers in a moderately hot oven.

Ella G. Rhoads.

NUT CAKE, (Layer Cake).

¾ cupful of butter, 2 cupsful of sugar, 1 cupful of milk, 1 cupful of corn starch, 2 cupsful of flour, 1½ teaspoonsful of baking powder. Mix corn starch, flour and baking powder together, add to the butter and sugar, alternately with the milk; lastly add the whites of 7 eggs.

FILLING—Whites of 3 eggs beaten to a stiff froth, 1 large cupful of granulated, or confectioners’ A sugar moistened with 4 tablespoonsful of hot water. Boil sugar and water briskly until it “ropes” or threads when dropped from the end of the spoon. Then pour the boiling syrup upon the beaten eggs in a small stream, beating hard all the time. Add cupful of hickory nut meats chopped fine.

SPONGE CAKE, (Hot Water).

4 eggs, 1½ cupsful of sugar, 2 cupsful of flour, 1 cupful of boiling water, 1 teaspoonful of soda, 2 cream tartars. Beat eggs, sugar and flour together and add hot water last.

GINGER BREAD.

2 tablespoonsful of butter, 2 tablespoonsful of sugar, 1 cupful of N. O. molasses, 1 cupful of butter milk, 1 teaspoonful soda in milk, 1 teaspoonful each of ginger and salt, 2 tablespoonsful of cinnamon, scant ½ teaspoonful of cloves, 3 cupsful of flour.

RIBBON CAKE.

2½ cupsful of sugar, 1 of butter, 1 of sweet milk, teaspoonful of cream tartar, ½ teaspoonful of soda, 4 cupsful of flour, 4 eggs. Reserve a third of this mixture and bake the rest in 2 tins of the same size. Add to the third reserved, 1 cupful of seeded raisins, ¼ pound of citron, a cupful of currants, 2 tablespoonsful of molasses, teaspoonful each of all kinds of spice; bake in a tin the same size as other loaves; put the three loaves together with a little icing, placing the fruit layer in the middle. Frost the top and sides.

Mrs. R. Crapo.

SPICE CAKE.

1 scant cupful of butter, 1½ cupsful of sugar, 3 eggs beaten separately, 1 cupful of milk, 3 cupsful of flour, 1 teaspoonful of cream tartar, ½ teaspoonful of soda. Mace, cinnamon and cloves, 1 teaspoonful of vanilla.

Mrs. G. V. Phillips.

ORANGE CAKE.

Beat the yolks of 12 eggs with 1 pound of pulverized sugar, grate the peel of 1 orange and 1 lemon, add the juice of both, then add the beaten whites of 8 eggs and ½ pound sifted flour.

ICING—To the beaten whites of 2 eggs add a little confectioners’ sugar, grate the peel of 1 large orange, adding the juice of same alternately with sugar until quite stiff. It takes nearly 1½ pounds of sugar.

Frances H. Potter.

“Snow Flake.”

1 cupful of butter, 1 cupful of milk, 1 cupful of corn starch, 1½ cupful of sugar, 2 cupsful of flour, 3 spoonsful of baking powder, whites of 4 eggs. This makes two loaf cakes.

Miss Rhein.

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JELLIES AND JAMS.

Orange Jelly.

12 fine oranges, 1 package of Coxe’s gelatine dissolved in 1 cupful of cold water, 3 cupsful of fine sugar, juice of oranges grated rind of 3, 2 cupsful of boiling water, ½ teaspoonful of cinnamon, soak gelatine 3 hours in water, cut from top of orange small round piece, clean out all pulp carefully, put empty orange skins in cold water, strain juice, stir until thick, add spice, pour boiling water upon gelatine, stir over fire until well dissolved, add juice and sugar, stir all together, strain into pitcher, when clear fill oranges.

Orange Marmalade.

Take equal weights of oranges and sugar, (white), grate the yellow rind from ¼ of the oranges, cut all the fruit in halves, take out the pulp—throwing away the rinds and seeds. Drain off all of the juice you can, and put it on to boil with the sugar. Let it come to a boil, skim it and let it simmer for 15 minutes, then put in the pulp and grated rind and boil 15 minutes longer. Put in jelly tumblers.

Mrs. E. L. Stone.

Raspberry Jam.

1 pint of raspberries, 1 pint of white currant juice, 1 pint of sugar, cook all together and boil down to the consistency of jam, it is better to make a little at a time.

Ella G. Roads.

Calves Foot Jelly.

Take 4 fresh well cleaned calves feet, put in 3 quarts of cold water. Bring to a gentle boil, skim well, draw pan to side of stove covered, let boil gently 5 hours, strain off stock through hair sieve, set in a cold place till next day when it should be a stiff jelly. Scrape off all fat, take a piece of muslin dipped in hot water scrape all remaining fat. Put stock in perfectly clean stew pan, with 1 pound of loaf sugar, juice of 5 large lemons, chopped peeling of same, piece of cinnamon two inches long, 8 cloves, 8 whites of eggs whipped stiff. Bring mixture gently to boil, simmer for 15 minutes, strain through jelly bag, add 2 wine-glassesful of brandy, let in mold till stiff. Turn out and use.

Mrs. J. A. Gregg.

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