1 cup brown sugar. I tablespoonful lard. 1 cup cold water. Pinch of salt. 2 cups raisins. 1/2 teaspoonful cloves. 1 teaspoonful cinnamon. Boil all together three minutes, cool, then add 1 teaspoonful of soda and 1/2 teaspoonful of baking powder sifted with 2 cups of flour.
Place one-half cup of sugar in pan over fire. Stir until liquid smokes and burns brown. Add one-half cup of boiling water and cook into syrup. Take one cup butter, one and one-half cups of sugar, yolks of two eggs, over one cup of water and two cups of flour. Beat all thoroughly. Add enough …
1-1/2 cups pulverized sugar, 1 cup of butter, 2 cups flour, 1/2 cup of corn starch, 2 teaspoons of baking powder sifted through flour and corn starch, 1 cup of milk, the whites of 4 eggs. Mix like ordinary cake. Bake as a loaf cake. Ice top the following: 1 cup of light brown sugar, …
Cook together 2 cups of granulated sugar, 1-1/4 cups of water a little less than 12 minutes. Just before it reaches the soft ball stage, beat in quickly 25 marshmallows; when dissolved and a thick, creamy mass, spread between layers and on top of cake. This is a delicious creamy icing when made according to …
Place in a mixing bowl Three-quarters cup of white corn syrup, Yolk of one egg, Four tablespoons of water, One cup of sifted flour, Three level teaspoons of baking powder, One level teaspoon of flavoring. Beat to mix thoroughly and then add two tablespoons of melted shortening, folding in carefully. When thoroughly mixed, cut and …
A recipe for making buttermilk cakes. – 2 lbs. wholemeal flour, 1 pint buttermilk, 1 teaspoonful salt. Mix the meal well with the salt, add the buttermilk and pour on the flour; beat well together, roll it out, cut into cakes, and bake for from 15 to 20 minutes in a quick oven.
Scald and then rinse out with cold water a large stone crock. Pour in one cupful of scalded and cooled milk and One and one-half cupfuls of water, 80 degrees Fahrenheit, Two tablespoonfuls of sugar. Crumble in one-half of an yeast cake and stir until dissolved, then add three cupfuls of the prepared buckwheat flour. …
One cup of brown sugar, Five tablespoons of shortening. Cream well and then add One-half cup of cocoa, Two cups of sifted flour, Four level teaspoons baking powder, One well-beaten egg, One cup of milk, One teaspoon of cinnamon, One teaspoon vanilla, One cup of finely chopped nuts. Peanuts or any other variety selected will …
1/2 lb. Pastry. 1 oz. Currants 1 oz. Raisins Half a Lemon Half an Orange. 1 oz. Cake or Bread Crumbs. 1 oz. Sugar. Time–20 Minutes. Stone the raisins and chop them lightly, put them into a basin with the currants cleaned, the sugar, and the cake or bread crumbs. Mix together, grate over the …
One-half cup of sugar, Four tablespoons of shortening, One egg. Place in a mixing bowl and then cream well, then add One and one-quarter cups of sifted flour, Three level teaspoons of baking powder, One level teaspoon of vanilla extract, One-half cup of water. Beat to mix and pour into well-greased and floured oblong baking …
Cream three-fourths cup of sugar with a piece of butter the size of an egg, beat together; then add two eggs, one-half cup of milk (scant), one and one-half cups of flour, one teaspoon of vanilla and two teaspoons of baking-powder. Put cinnamon, flour, sugar and a few drops of water together and form in …
One-half cup of sugar, Four tablespoons of shortening, Yolk of one egg. Cream until light and frothy, and then add Four tablespoons of water, One cup of flour, Two level teaspoons of baking powder. Beat to thoroughly mix and then pour into well-greased layer cake pan. Bake for twenty minutes in a moderate oven. Split …
A recipe for making apple jelly cake – Rub one cup of butter and two cups of sugar to a cream, add four eggs, whites beaten separately, one cup of milk, two teaspoons of baking-powder and three and one-half cups of flour. Bake in layer tins. Filling.–Pare and grate three large apples (“Greenings” preferred), the …
A recipe for making apple cake – Place in a bowl Two cups of flour, and then add One-half teaspoon of salt, Three teaspoons of baking powder, One and one-half teaspoons of nutmeg. Sift twice to blend and then rub in five tablespoons of shortening. Break an egg into a cup and then fill cup …
A recipe for making apple cake (kuchen) – After the pan is greased with butter, roll out a piece of dough quite thin, lay it in the pan, press a rim out of the dough all around the pan and let it rise for about ten minutes. Pare five large apples, core and quarter them, …
Sift One cup of flour, Three-quarters cup of sugar, One level teaspoon of cream tartar. Sift five times and then beat the whites of five eggs stiff and cut, and fold in the sugar and flour mixture. Turn into a greased tube pan and bake for forty minutes in a moderate oven.
A recipe for making an inexpensive dark chocolate layer cake – 1 cup sugar. 1/2 cup butter. 2 eggs. 1/2 cup sweet milk. 2 cups flour sifted with 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder. 1/2 cup chocolate. Grate the chocolate, mix with 1/4 cup of milk and yolk of 1 egg, sweeten to taste; cook the chocolate; …
This is a decidedly good cake and no eggs are required. Cream together 1 cup brown sugar, 1/4 cup butter. Add 1 cup of sour milk, 1-3/4 cups flour, then sift over 1-1/2 tablespoonfuls of cocoa. Add 1 level teaspoonful saleratus, dissolved in a little of the sour milk, and 1 teaspoonful vanilla. Bake in …
No. 2 Take one-fourth pound of sweet almonds and one-eighth pound of bitter ones mixed. Blanch them the day previous to using and then grate or pound them as fine as powder. Beat until light the yolks of nine eggs with eight tablespoons of granulated sugar. Add the grated peel of one lemon and one-half …
No. 1 Take one-half pound of almonds and blanch by pouring boiling water over them, and pound in a mortar or grate on grater (the latter is best). Beat yolks of eight eggs vigorously with one cup of sugar, add one-half lemon, grated peel and juice, one tablespoon of brandy, and four lady-fingers grated, the …