A recipe for making cup cake – Cream one cup of butter with two cups of sugar and add gradually the yolks of four eggs, one at a time. Sift three cups of flour, measure again after sifting, and add two teaspoons of baking-powder in the last sifting. Add alternately the sifted flour and one …
A recipe for making croquante cakes (small cakes) – Blanch and cut in halves three-fourths pound of shelled almonds, and slice one-half pound of citron; mix well together and roll in a little flour; add to them three-fourths pound of sugar, then six eggs well beaten, and last the rest of the flour (three-fourths pound). …
A recipe for making covered cheese cake – Cream one cup of sugar with butter the size of an egg, add two eggs well beaten and one cup of water alternately with two and one-half cups of flour in which has been sifted two teaspoons of baking-powder. Filling.–Beat two eggs with one-half cup of sugar, …
A recipe for making cinnamon cake – You can use part of the dough for cinnamon cake. Cut the dough into pieces and then roll out three-fourths of an inch thick. Place in pans, stretching and rolling the dough to fit pan. Brush with shortening and then cover with crumbs, made as follows: Six tablespoonfuls …
A recipe for making chocolate layer cake – Stir one scant half cup of butter to a cream with one cup of sugar. Add alternately one-half cup of sweet milk, yolks of two eggs which you have previously beaten until quite light, add whites of two, and one-half cup of sifted flour. Make a custard …
A recipe for making chocolate icing for molasses cake. – Boil 1 scant half cup water with 1 cup sugar until it spins a thread, or forms a soft, firm ball in cold water. Pour slowly over the stiffly beaten white of egg, beating while it is being poured. Melt 2 squares or 2 ounces …
A recipe for making cheap fruit cake – Place in a saucepan One cup of syrup, One cup of coffee, One-half cup of shortening, One-half cup of cocoa, One-half cup of brown sugar, One package of raisins, One and one-half cups of finely chopped peanuts, Two teaspoons of cinnamon, One-half teaspoon of nutmeg, One-half teaspoon …
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.
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, …
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; …