The Twentieth Century Home Cook Book

Practical recipes and household wisdom from 1906 — when the icebox was high technology and dinner had nine courses.

Cake-Making

34 recipes in this part of 20th Century Cook Book.

Ice-Cream Icing for Cake

This is used for white cake: Take two cups of white sugar boiled to a thick syrup; add three teaspoonfuls of vanilla, and when cool, the…

Turk'S-Head Cake-Mould

VII. Fruit Cake-Dark. THE quantity of fruit is according to how rich the cake is to be made. The proportions for a rich, dark cake may be…

Roll Jelly Cake

Take one cupful of white sugar, one-half teacupful of sweet milk, two eggs, one cupful of flour, two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar…

Sponge Cake

Take one pound of granulated sugar beaten with the yolks of ten eggs. Grate into this the yellow rind of two lemons, and add the juice of…

French Cream Cake

Take three eggs, one cupful of sugar, one and a half cupfuls of flour, one teaspoonful of baking powder, and two tablespoonfuls of cold…

Delicate Cake

Take one and one-half cupfuls of white sugar, half a cupful of butter; rub these to a cream. Add half a cupful of sweet milk, in which…

Marble Cake

The white part is made with one-half cupful of white sugar, one-half cupful of butter, half a cupful of sweet milk; whites of four eggs…

Orange Cake

Use one cupful of butter, one of sweet milk, two of sugar, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, five eggs, reserving the whites of three, to…

Lady Fingers

Beat the yolks of four eggs with a quarter of a pound of sugar until smooth and light; whisk the whites of the eggs and add to these, and…

Newport Cake

Sift one quart of flour; add three eggs, three tablespoonfuls of white sugar, three of butter, two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar, one of…

Scotch Cake

Take one pound of fine flour, a half-pound of fresh butter, a half-pound of finely sifted loaf sugar; mix well in a paste, roll out an inch…

Rice Cake

Take about four ounces of rice flour, sift three ounces of wheat flour into it, add eight ounces of granulated sugar, the rind of a lemon…

Cake-Cutter

Tea Cake. Break one egg into a teacup. Fill the cup with sweet milk. One cupful of sugar, one-half cupful of butter, a little nutmeg, one…

Christmas Cake

Two eggs, one-half cupful of butter, one cupful of molasses, one cupful of raisins, two cupfuls of Mix and bake in a rather brisk oven…

Taylor Cake

Two and one-half cupfuls of flour, one and one-half cupfuls of sugar, one-half cupful of butter, one-half cupful of milk, one egg, one-half…

Spice Cake

One cupful of sugar, one cupful of sour milk, one cupful of raisins, one egg, a nutmeg, one teaspoonful of cloves, two teaspoonfuls of…

Hickory-Nut Cake

Take a half cupful of butter, two cupfuls of sugar and four eggs beaten separately; then three cupfuls of flour, one-half cupful of sweet…

Ginger Snaps

One cupful of brown sugar, one cupful of molasses, one cupful of lard, two eggs, a small teacup half full of boiling water, two…

Ginger Cookies

One cupful of molasses, one-half cupful of sugar, two-thirds cupful of butter, one-half cupful of water, one egg, two teaspoonfuls of…

Sponge Gingerbread

Sift two teaspoonfuls of soda and a dessert-spoonful of ginger, in two cupfuls of molasses. Stir thoroughly, and add four well-beaten eggs…

Soft Gingerbread

Take one cupful of molasses, one cupful of sugar, one cupful of sour milk, half a cupful of butter, five cupfuls of sifted flour, and…

Ginger Cake

Two cupfuls molasses, one cupful butter, one and a half cupfuls sour milk, three and a half cupfuls flour, three eggs, two teaspoonfuls…

Cookies

One cupful of white sugar, rolled fine, and mixed with a half-cupful of butter; a half cupful of sour cream, mixed with a half teaspoonful…

Custard Cake

Two cupfuls powdered sugar, one-half cupful sweet milk, six tablespoonfuls melted butter, one teaspoonful baking powder, two and one-half…

Drop Johnnies

One cupful sugar and two eggs well beaten together, one cupful cream, three cupfuls buttermilk, one large heaping teaspoonful of saleratus…

Virginia Apple Cake

One cupful of bread dough, one and a half cupfuls of sugar. When ready, roll an inch thick, put it in a long pan, then slice good baking…

Pork Cake

Chop one pound fat pork very fine. Stone and chop one pound raisins. Pour a pint of boiling water over the pork. Use one cupful of…

Yankee Doughnuts, Raised

Heat a pint of milk just lukewarm, and stir into it a small cupful of melted lard, and sifted flour until it is a thick batter; add a small…

Fried Cakes

Take four cupfuls of white sugar, four of buttermilk, one of butter, two eggs, two teaspoonfuls of soda. Season with cinnamon, mix quite…

Coffee Cake

One teacupful of brown sugar, one of molasses, one of lukewarm strong coffee, one egg, one cupful of butter, one teaspoonful of soda, one…

PURE WATER AS A BEVERAGE

I. TEA AND COFFEE. II. HOW TO MAKE TEA. - IV. THE

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VIII. SUMMER DRINKS. - IX. TOMATO BEER. X. ICE CREAM AND WATER ICES. -XI. CANDY-MAKING. -XII. CANDIED FRUIT. N I. Pure Water as a Beverage.

Impurities in Well-Water

The water of a well may be bright, sparkling and most pleasant to the taste, and yet contain the deadly typhus and noxious germs, bringing…

Tea Leaves, Natural Size

give some of the more innocent and pleasant of the artificial beverages. II. Tea and Coffee. TEA, to be good, must be fresh, unadulterated…

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