Cake: Runkel
Fudge Frosting. 2 cupfuls sugar, cupful milk, 1 tablespoonful butter, cupful Runkel's Chocolate, grated, 1 teaspoonful McIlhenny's Mexican Vanilla, 1 cupful chopped walnuts.
Put the sugar, milk, butter, and chocolate into a granite saucepan and stir occasionally till the mixture reaches the boiling point. Boil without stirring eight minutes, then take from the fire and beat till creamy.
At this point add the nuts and vanilla, then pour over the cake. This recipe makes a delicious fudge.
Feather Cake. 4 tablespoonfuls butter, 1 cupful sugar, 1½ cupfuls flour, 2½ teaspoonfuls baking powder, 2 eggs, ½ cupful milk, 1 teaspoonful McIlhenny's Mexican Vanilla.
MRS. CURTIS'S COOKBOOK Put butter in mixing bowl, work it with a spoon till creamy, add sugar gradually, and continue creaming Sift flour and baking powder together; separate yolks of eggs from whites, beat yolks till light-colored and thick, then add milk and egg mixture to creamed butter and sugar, alternately with flour. Add flavoring, stir and beat well; lastly add whites of eggs beaten stiff. Put in a shallow greased and floured pan, or one lined with buttered paper. Bake about thirty minutes or till cake shrinks from the pan, and does not stick when tried with a straw. The feather cake may be varied and made into a number of different kinds, for instance:
Spice Cake.-Before adding the beaten whites, put in cupful seeded raisins that have been washed, dried, cut in halves, and rolled in a little of the flour reserved for the purpose.
Flavor with teaspoonful ground cloves, teaspoonful cinnamon, and a grating nutmeg instead of vanilla.
Marble Cake. - Color half the feather-cake mixture with tablespoonful Runkel's Chocolate melted. Mix the white and dark part when putting it in the pan, so they will be well mingled though distinct.
Ribbon Cake. - To one third the feather-cake mixture add ½ teaspoonful mixed spices and 1/24 cupful seeded raisins cut in pieces. Bake in a shallow pan, and the remainder in two other shallow pans. When done, put the fruit cake between the others with a layer of jelly or frosting between.
Layer Cake. --Bake feather-cake mixture in round tins and put a cream, chocolate, or other filling be tween.