The Butterick Book of Recipes and Household Helps

The pattern people's household book, 1927 — five hundred recipes, then how to lay a table, take out a stain and stock a first-aid cabinet.

Cakes

18 recipes in this part of The Butterick Book of Recipes and Household Helps.

Foundation or Plain Cake

Cream the butter or butter substitute, add sugar and continue creaming. Add well-beaten eggs. Mix and sift the dry ingredients and add…

Maple-Sugar Cake

Cream the butter or shortening and sugar. Sift the corn-starch and flour together several times and add to the first mixture, alternately…

Chocolate Nut Cake

Cream the butter or shortening and one cup of sugar. In another bowl, beat the egg-yolks with the remaining cup of sugar. Combine the two…

Chocolate Loaf Cake

2 tablespoons butter or short- 2 teaspoons baking-powder ening Cream the butter or shortening; add the sugar and continue creaming. Melt…

Chocolate Sour-Milk Cake

Cream butter or shortening and sugar; add eggs well beaten, and the milk. Add sifted flour. Dissolve the soda in the hot water and add…

Fudge Cake

Cream the butter or shortening and sugar; add the well-beaten egg-yolks. Mix and sift the dry ingredients and add alternately with the…

Nut Cake

Cream butter or shortening and add the sugar. Mix and sift the dry ingredients and add alternately with the milk. Add nutmeats, well…

Golden Cake

Cream the butter or shortening and add the sugar gradually. Beat the yolks until thick and lemon-colored. Mix and sift the dry ingredients…

Lady Baltimore Cake

This cake is made in three parts: cake, chocolate-cream filling and nut cream. For the cake, weigh five eggs and take their weight in sugar…

Fig Loaf Cake

Cream the butter or shortening and add the sugar. Add the eggs, well beaten. Mix and sift the dry ingredients and add alternately with the…

Martha Washington Fruit Cake

Juice and rind of I lemon Cream the butter or shortening and add the sugar. Gradually add the well-beaten egg-yolks. Mix and sift the dry…

Wedding Cake

Seed the raisins and chop them. Wash the currants and remove the little stems by vigorously rubbing them in a coarse towel, then shake in a…

Apple-Sauce Cake

Cream butter or shortening and sugar together, then add the apple sauce. Mix and sift flour, soda, and spices, then the raisins. Mix well…

True Sponge Cake

Separate the whites and yolks of the eggs, beat the yolks until thick and lemon-colored, add the sugar gradually, then add the lemon-juice…

Mock Sponge Cake

Beat the eggs, add the sugar and beat well. Add the water, alternating with the sifted dry ingredients, then the vanilla. Bake in an…

Angel Cake

Beat the whites of the eggs to a froth, add the cream of tartar and beat till the eggs are stiff but not dry, then gradually add the sugar…

Mock Angel Cake

Put dry ingredients into a bowl, mixing and sifting well. Scald the milk in a double boiler. Stir quickly into the dry ingredients, and…

Jelly Roll

Beat the yolks of the eggs until light, then add the sugar. Stir well and add the flour and baking-powder sifted together, alternately with…

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