Cake-Making
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
ING DRINKS
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…