Cakes
E give below a few recipes for cakes. Your own favorite recipe may be used. Different cakes require different heats. For instance, a batter with butter in it requires more heat than a light batter without butter. Use ordinary cake pans, placing same in bread and pastry rack and using two radiators. Always use pastry flour for it contains more starch and less gluten. If it is necessary to use bread flour use two tablespoons less to each cup than recipe calls for.
Economy Fruit Cake (Eggless-Milkless-Butterless) Boil together for 5 minutes: 2 cups white sugar, 2 cups water, 2 heaping tablespoons drippings, 1 pound seeded raisins. When cool add: 1 heaping teaspoon soda, 1 heaping teaspoon salt, 1 level teaspoon each cloves, cin- 2 level teaspoons soda, pinch of salt.
Cream sugar, molasses, shortening together, add beaten eggs and spices, then flour with 2 level teaspoons of soda and salt; lastly 1 cup of boiling water. Bake in fireless 45 minutes, with two radiators heated 400 degrees. namon and nutmeg, 3 cups flour. Eggless Cake Bake 1 hour between two radiators heated 400 degrees.
To 1 scant cup of sugar and 1/4 cup of butter, add 3/4 cup of sweet milk, 1/2 cups of sifted flour, with 2 Delicious Ginger Bread teaspoons of baking powder. Add Two eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup molasses, 1 teaspoon each of cloves, mixed spices and ginger, 3 cups flour, flour and milk alternately. Pour into greased pan. Bake in fireless 45 minutes, using two radiators heated 400 Angel Cake Whites of 8 large or 9 medium eggs, 1/4 cup granulated sugar, 1 cup flour, 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar.
A pinch of salt added to eggs before whipping. Flavor to taste. Sift, apple sauce, mix baking powder with flour, add apple sauce to butter and sugar and flour with other ingredients. Bake 50 minutes between two radiators heated 400 degrees. measure and set aside sugar and flour, Hot Water Sponge Cake whip eggs to foam, add cream of tartar and whip until very stiff; add sugar and fold in, always using a spoon to mix cakes with; then flavor and fold in; then flour and fold in lightly. Bake at 350 degrees in a tube cake pan for 45 minutes, using two radiators. Do not grease cake pan for angel food.
Chocolate Cake Yolks of 2 eggs, white of 1 egg, 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup sour milk, 1 teaspoon soda sifted with 2 cups flour, ½ cup cocoa and 1/2 cup sugar dissolved in 1 tablespoon hot water, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Bake in fireless 50 minutes, using two radiators heated 400 degrees. Use the extra white of egg for frosting.
Apple Sauce Cake One cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 2 eggs, 1 cup unsweetened apple sauce, 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon cloves, 1 cup raisins, 1 cup nut meats; cream butter and sugar together, put soda in 4 Four eggs, 2 cups sugar, 2 cups flour, 2 level teaspoons baking powder, 2/3 cup hot water, pinch of salt and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Cream yolks of eggs and sugar, add water and flour with baking powder alternately, vanilla; then fold in the beaten whites of eggs to which pinch of salt has been added. Bake 50 minutes between two radiators heated 400 degrees.
Feather Cake 4 eggs beaten separately 1/2 cup water 2½ cups flour 1/4 cups granulated sugar 3/4 cup butter 2 teaspoons baking powder Flavor to taste.
Sift flour once, then measure, add baking powder and sift three times; cream butter and sugar thoroughly, beat yolks to a very stiff froth and stir in, whip whites until very stiff, add water, then whites of eggs, then flour, then flavor and stir very hard.
Bake 1 hour with two radiators heated 400 degrees.
Pork Cake One pound of fat salt pork chopped fine, 1 pint boiling water poured over pork, 2 cups sugar, 1 cup molasses, 1 pound raisins, 1/2 pound currants, 14 pound citron, 1 cup nut meats, 1 nutmeg ground, 1 tablespoon cloves, 2 tablespoons cinnamon, 1 tablespoon soda, 2 whole eggs, 4 cups flour. Put pork in chopping bowl and chop very sugar; beat yolks of eggs until thick and lemon colored and add gradually remaining sugar. Combine mixture and add alternately milk and flour sifted with baking powder and salt; then add whites of eggs beaten stiff, chocolate melted and vanilla. Bake 50 minutes in angel food pan, using two radiators heated 400 degrees. fine. Pour boiling water over it, then Southern Fruit Cake add the molasses, spices, fruits, etc.
Dissolve soda in water, stir well together, then add flour, stirring until very smooth. Bake 3 hours, 425 degrees. Use two radiators.
Sponge Cake Four eggs, beat yolks and whites separately, add 1 cup sugar, rind and juice of 1½ lemon, and 1 cup flour.
Beat yolks, stir sugar, lemon and whites of eggs together, and then fold in the flour. Bake 50 minutes between two radiators heated 400 degrees.
Devil's Food Cake One-half cup butter, 2 cups sugar, yolks of 4 eggs, 1 cup milk, 2½ cups flour, 5 teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt, whites 4 eggs, 4 squares chocolate, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Cream the butter and add gradually 1/2 the One-half pound flour, 1/2 pound sugar, 1/2 pound butter, 6 eggs, 1 pound currants, 1 pound raisins, 1/4 pound citron, 14 pound orange and lemon peel mixed, 1 tablespoon cinnamon, 1/2 tablespoon mace, 2 nutmegs, 1 cup nut meats, 1 ounce wine, 1/2 ounce brandy, 1/2 ounce rosewater.
Cream butter and sugar, add beaten eggs, spices, then fruit and nut meats dredged in flour and lastly wine, brandy and rosewater. Mix well.
Bake 4 hours or over night in fireless, using two radiators, heated 425 degrees.
Sour Milk Cake One cup sour milk, 1 cup sugar, 1/3 cup butter, 2 cups flour, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon soda (level), 1/2 cup raisins chopped, and spices to taste. Bake 45 to 50 minutes with two radiators heated 400 degrees.
Spice Cake 2 eggs, white of one 1 cup sour milk. 2½ cups cake flour 1 teaspoon allspice 1/2 teaspoon cloves 2 cups brown sugar 1/2 cup butter (scant) 1 teaspoon soda 2 teaspoons cinnamon Nut Cake One cup of sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup of sweet milk, 2 eggs, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, 1 cup of nutmeats chopped and then sprinkled with flour. Cream butter, sugar and yolks; add the milk, then the flour in which the baking powder has been sifted; then the nutmeats and lastly the well-whipped whites. Bake in round cake dish. Remove and ice with caramel icing and nutmeats.
Bake with two radiators heated 400 Bake 50 minutes, with two radiators degrees, 1 hour. 1½ nutmeg, grated heated 400 degrees.