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Cakes. Part 5 |
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This section is from the book "Eureka Cook Book", by The Ladies League of the First Congregational Church Eureka, California. Also available from Amazon: Eureka Cook Book.
Two cups sugar, 1 cup butter, 1 cup milk, 4 eggs, 4 scant cups flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder, 2 teaspoons lemon extract.
Take out 1-3 of the mixture for the fruit layer, add 2 cups raisins chopped fine, 2 tablespoons molasses, 1-2 teaspoon cloves and cinnamon, 1 teaspoon nutmeg. This rule makes 3 layers, 2 of white and the dark one for the center. Put together with currant jelly. Mrs. Hannah.
This should be baked in a flat pan, so that the cake when done will be about 1 1-2 inches thick and should be covered with 2 frostings.
One cup sugar, 1-2 cup butter, 1-2 cup milk, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder ,3 eggs, 1-2 cup chocolate.
Melt together and add to the batter the grated chocolate, 3 teaspoons sugar and 3 tablespoons milk.
First frosting: Two cups sugar, small piece butter, 3-4 cup milk, boil together about 4 minutes, beat until cool and spread on cake.
Second frosting: Two cups grated chocolate, piece of butter, 1-2 cup milk. Melt all together and spread roughly on the cake while warm. Mrs. H. C. Edson, Fortuna.
Three eggs, I 1-2 cups sugar, 1 cup butter, 1-2 cup milk, 2 1-2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon soda, 3 eggs well beaten, 1 cup grated chocolate, boiled with 1-2 cup milk.
Filling: One cup sugar, 4 tablespoons milk, boil until sugar is dissolved. Take from the fire and add small piece of butter and 4 tablespoons grated chocolate. bet in a dish of hot water if it hardens too soon. Clara Bacon.
Three tablespoons melted butter, 1 cup sugar, 7. eggs, 3-4. cup milk, 2 1-2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon lemon.
Bake in layers and fill with 1 cup grated apple, white of one of the eggs beaten stiff, 1 cup of sugar. Mix together but not cook. Mrs. Logan.
Three cups milk, 1 pint potato yeast, 2 cups sugar, flour to make a stiff batter, let it rise overnight.
In the morning add 2 cups sugar, 3 cups butter, 2 eggs, 2 nutmegs, 1-2 teaspoon soda dissolved in milk, 1 lb. raisins, 1-4 lb. citron; dredge the fruit with flour and add just before baking.
One cup chopped walnuts, .1 cup raisins, 1-2 cup citron, 1 cup chocolate, 1 cup butter, 1 1-2 cups rolled crackers, 1 1-2 cups sugar, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 4 tablespoons milk, 7 eggs. Mrs. Coldwell.
Four eggs, 1 small cup sugar, 1-2 cup chocolate, 1 heaped teaspoon baking powder, 1-2 cup walnuts, vanilla extract;, pinch of salt.
Cream the yolks of the eggs and sugar, stir in the beaten whites, add the grated chocolate, cracker dust, baking powder, chopped walnuts, and salt. Bake in 2 layers and when cool fill with whipped cream. Mrs. W. C. Elsmore.
TV" small cups sugar, 1-2 cup butter, 3-4 cup milk, 3 cups flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder.
Filling: Juice and grated rind of 2 lemons, yolks of 3 eggs, 1-2 cup butter, 1 cup sugar. Mix together and cook in a double kettle. Mrs. G. C. Jones.
 
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