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Cakes, Fillings. Part 5 |
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This section is from the book "Hobart Boulevard Cook Book", by Women of Hobart Boulevard Methodist Episcopal Church Los Angeles, Cal. Also available from Amazon: Hobart Boulevard Cook Book.
Boil for 5 minutes 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup water and 1/2 cup lard; let this cool; add 1 cup nuts, 1 cup raisins, 1 cup dates, 1 cup white sugar, 3 cups flour (Sperry Drifted Snow),
1 teaspoon baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon each cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg, 1 level teaspoon soda, dissolved in a little hot water, a pinch of salt; no eggs.
- Mrs. Copper.
Two cups brown sugar, 1/2 cup sour milk, 1 teaspoon soda, 54 cup boiling water, 2 eggs, unbeaten, 3 tablespoons cocoa,
2 cups flour (Sperry Drifted Snow), 1 teaspoon vanilla, cream butter and sugar; add the sour milk, in which has been mixed the soda, then the boiling water, the unbeaten eggs, and the vanilla; beat well. Mix the cocoa with the sifted flour; bake in 2 layers, and put together with chocolate icing.
Icing - 3 tablespoons butter, 3 squares of melted bitter chocolate, 3 cups powdered sugar, sifted, 6 tablespoons coffee, vanilla; knead butter into sugar, add hot coffee and melted chocolate; beat well; add vanilla and cool. Always soft and creamy.
- Mrs. John P. Holland.
One-half cup butter, creamed with 1 cup of sugar; add 1/2 cup of jam or jelly, 2 eggs, well beaten, 1/2 cup sour milk, 1 level teaspoon soda, 2 cups flour (Sperry Drifted Snow); bake in 2 layers and put together with boiled frosting.
- Mrs. Lockwood.
Two cups brown sugar, 1 cup water, 1/2 cup lard, 1 1/2 cup raisins, pinch of salt, 1 teaspoon each cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg; put together in pan and boil 3 minutes; when cool stir in 1 teaspoon soda, dissolved in hot water; add 2 cups flour (Sperry Drifted Snow), sifted with 1 teaspoon baking powder.Bake in slow oven.
- E. M. Austin.
Two eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 1/2 cups hot water, 2 spoons baking powder, and flavoring. Beat eggs together very thoroughly, add sugar, then flour, which has been sifted with the baking powder 5 times; add hot water and extract; bake in moderate over, turn on to damp cloth, spread with jelly and roll while hot.
- Mrs .Copper.
One egg, 1 cup of sugar, 1/4 cup of sour milk, 1 teaspoon of soda, 2 grated bars of chocolate, 1 cup of flour (Sperry Drifted Snow), 1/4 cup of butter, 1/2 cup of boiling water, 1 cup of chopped nuts, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
- Mrs. G. W. Russell.
Two cups flour( Sperry Drifted Snow), 1/2 teaspoon salt, 2 rounded teaspoons baking powder; mix thoroughly, then rub in 2 tablespoons butter; beat 1 egg light and mix with 2-3 cup of sweet milk; moisten the flour with this and beat well. Spread the soft dough 1/2 inch thick on a buttered baking pan; pare apples, cut in 1/2 inch slives and arrange on top of cake, with core side down. Press them lightly into the dough and sprinkle with about 2 tablespoons of sugar and sprinkle over them ground cinnamon. Bake in quick oven about 25 minutes. Good served with any simple sauce flavored with cinnamon.
- Mrs. Dalmazzo.
 
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