How To Make Cakes
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This section is from the book "Lowney's Cook Book", by Maria Willett Howard. Also available from Amazon: Lowney's Cook Book.
How To Make Cakes
Devil's Food
¼ cup butter.
2 cups sugar.
4 eggs.
1 cup milk.
8 tablespoons chocolate.
2¼ cups flour.
1 teaspoon cinnamon.
¼ teaspoon clove.
4 teaspoons baking powder.
⅛ teaspoon salt.
Cream the butter, add the sugar, the chocolate melted, eggs well beaten, flour sifted with baking powder, salt and spices, and the milk. Beat well, and bake in angel cake pan. Frost with Chocolate or Marshmallow Frosting.
Cocoa Cake
½ cup butter.
1½ cups sugar.
4 eggs.
½ cup Lowney's Cocoa.
½ cup milk.
1½ cups flour.
2 teaspoons baking powder.
¼ teaspoon salt.
1 teaspoon vanila.
Mix in the order given and beat well for five minutes. Bake in buttered pan thirty to forty minutes in moderate oven.
Chocolate Nut Cakes
4 squares Lowney's Premium.
Chocolate, grated 1½ cups sugar.
3 teaspoons baking powder 1 cup nut meats broken in pieces.
2¼ cups flour.
½ cup milk.
8 egg whites.
1 teaspoon vanilla.
Salt.
¾ cup butter.
Cream butter; add sugar, flour in which baking powder has been sifted, and milk, and beat well; add whites of eggs beaten stiff and nut meats; then add chocolate and vanilla. Pour into buttered gem pans and bake in hot oven twenty-five minutes.
Simple Butter Cake
½ cup butter.
2 cups sugar 4 egg yolks.
1 cup milk.
3 cups flour.
4 teaspoons baking powder 4 egg whites.
1 teaspoon flavoring.
¼ teaspoon salt.
Follow directions for making Butter Cake, and bake in a loaf in a moderate oven forty minutes, or in rounds twenty minutes.
Currant Cake
Add one cup currants to Simple Butter Cake. Bake in loaves or rounds.
Layer Cake
Bake Simple Butter Cake in four square shallow pans. Fill with Lemon Cream, Cocoanut Cream, Chocolate Cream, or Jelly.
Gold Cake
¾ cup butter l½ cups sugar 8 egg yolks 1 egg 2¼ cups flour.
4 teaspoons baking powder.
1½ cups milk.
¼ teaspoon salt.
1 teaspoon lemon extract, or.
1 teaspoon orange extract.
Follow directions for Butter Cake, and bake in loaves or rounds.
Silver Cake
¾ cup butter.
2 cups sugar.
2 cups pastry flour.
4 teaspoons baking powder.
¼ teaspoon salt.
½ cup milk.
8 egg whites.
1 teaspoon almond extract.
Follow directions for mixing Butter Cake. Bake in loaves or rounds in moderate oven.
Nut Cake
Add one cup chopped walnuts to Silver Cake mixture, and flavor with vanilla instead of almond.
Orange Cake
¼ cup butter.
1 cup sugar.
2 egg yolks.
¼ teaspoon salt.
1½ cups flour.
2 teaspoons baking powder.
½ cup milk.
2 egg whites.
1 tablespoon orange extract.
Mix as Butter Cake, and bake in two-layer cake pans twenty minutes. Cool, fill with Orange Filling, and cover with Orange Frosting.
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