Buckeye Cookery

Tried and approved: the great American housekeeping bible of 1880.

Layer-Cakes

34 recipes in this part of Buckeye Cookery.

Almond Cream Cake

On beaten whites of ten eggs, sift one and a half goblets pulverized sugar, and a goblet flour through which…

Boston Cream Puffs

Put half pint hot water and two-thirds cup butter over the fire; when boiling, stir in one and a half cups…

Buckeye Cream Puffs

Five eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately, one and a half cups each of white sugar and sifted flour, two…

Caramel Cake (One and a half cups sugar)

One and a half cups sugar, three-fourths cup butter, half cup milk, two and a fourth cups flour, three eggs,…

Chocolate Cake (One cup butter two of sugar)

One cup butter, two of sugar, one of milk, five eggs, leaving out the whites of three, four cups sifted…

Cocoa-Nut Cake (To the well-beaten yolks)

To the well-beaten yolks of six eggs, add two cups powdered white sugar, three-fourths cups butter, one of…

Cream for Inside

Take one pint milk, place one-half in a tin pail and set in boiling water; reserve from the other half two…

Cup Cake

Three cups sugar, one of butter, six of flour, two-thirds pint sour cream, seven eggs (leaving out the whites…

Delicious Chocolate Cake

The whites of eight eggs, two cups sugar, one of butter, three full cups flour, one of sweet milk, three…

Dominoes

Make "Mrs. Jennison's sponge cake," bake in long pie-tins (two such tins will make twelve dominoes, and if no…

Favorite Snow-Cake

Beat one cup butter to a cream, add one and a half cups flour and stir very thoroughly together; then add one…

French Cream Cake

Three eggs, one cup granulated sugar, one and a half cups flour, two table-spoons cold water, tea-spoon…

Golden Cream Cake

Cream one cup sugar and one-fourth cup butter, add half cup sweet milk, the well beaten whites of three eggs,…

Hard-Times Cake

Half a cup of butter, two of sugar, one of sour cream, three of flour, three eggs, half tea-spoon of soda;…

Hickory-Nut Custard Cake

Cream one pound sugar and half pound butter; add five eggs beaten separately, one cup sweet milk, one pound…

Ice-Cream Cake (Make good sponge-cake bake)

Make good sponge-cake, bake half an inch thick in jelly-pans, and let them get perfectly cold; take a pint…

Ice-Cream Cake (One-fourth pound each butter)

One-fourth pound each butter and powdered sugar, half pint milk, half pound flour, six eggs, one glass wine,…

Kelly Island Cake

One cup butter, two of sugar, three of flour, four eggs, half cup. milk, three tea-spoons baking-powder; bake…

Lady'S Fingers

One and one-eighth pound of flour, one of powdered sugar, ten eggs; beat eggs and sugar as light as for…

Lemon Cake (One and one-half cups sugar)

One and one-half cups sugar, one of butter, two and one-half of flour, five eggs beaten separately, four…

Metropolitan Cake

Two cups sugar, one of butter, one of milk, nearly four cups flour, whites of eight eggs, three tea-spoons…

Minnehahaa Cake

MINNEHAHA CAKE. five- One and a half cups granulated sugar, half cup butter stirred to a cream, whites of six…

Neapolitan Cake

Black Part. One cup brown sugar, two eggs, half cup butter, half cup molasses, half cup strong coffee, two…

Orange Cake (One cup butter one of water)

One cup butter, one of water, two of sugar, four of flour, three eggs, three tea-spoons baking powder; bake…

Orange Cake (Two cups sugar half cup butter)

Two cups sugar, half cup butter, three and a half cups sifted flour, half cup sweet milk, three eggs beaten…

Orange Cake (Two-thirds cup butter two)

Two-thirds cup butter, two small cups sugar, one cup milk, three tea-spoons baking-powder, the yolks of five…

Peach Cake

Bake three sheets of sponge-cake as for jelly cake; cut peaches in thin slices, prepare cream by whipping,…

Ribbon Cake

Two and a half cups sugar, one of butter, one of sweet milk, tea-spoon cream tartar, half tea-spoon soda,…

Rolled Jelly Cake

Beat twelve eggs and one pound pulverized sugar together very lightly, then stir in three-fourths pound of…

Silver Part (Two cups sugar two-thirds cup)

Two cups sugar, two-thirds cup butter, not quite two-thirds cup sweet milk, whites of eight eggs, three…

Thanksgiving Cake

Make batter as for cocoa-nut cake (Miss Nettie Miller's). Bake five layers in jelly-tins; make frosting of…

Vanity Cake

One and a half cups sugar, half cup butter, half cup sweet milk, * one and a half cups flour, half cup corn…

Velvet Sponge Cake

Two cups sugar, six eggs leaving out the whites of three, one cup boiling hot water, two and one half cups…

White Mountain Cake

Two cups pulverized sugar, half cup butter beaten to a cream; add half cup sweet milk, two and a half cups…

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