This section is from the book "The Peoria Women's Cook Book". See also How to Cook Everything.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. - Bible.
½ cup butter, (scant), 1½ cups sugar, (sifted), 1 cup cold water, 3 cups flour,
2 teaspoons baking powder, Whites of four eggs, Flavor.
Mrs. L. E. Graham.
1½ cups sugar,
1 cup milk, sweet,
2 teaspoons baking powder, whites flavoring. - Mrs. Frank Caldwell.
½ cup butter,
2 cups flour sifted twice with, of 4 eggs beaten, and added last
Put the whites of two eggs into a cup, add enough soft butter to make the cup half full, and fill with sweet milk. Turn this into mixing bowl, where you have already placed one cupful of sugar, 2 cupsful of flour, 1½ teaspoons baking powder and 1½ teaspoons lemon extract. Stir and beat for five minutes. Add enough milk to make proper consistency. Bake in quick oven. - Blanche Grady.
Boil 1¼ cups granulated sugar and ½ cup water until it threads. While hot add slowly to the beaten whites of 6 eggs into which 1 level teaspoon of cream of tartar has been added. Then add beaten yolks of 6 eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla, lastly fold in 1 cup sifted flour. Put in angle food pan and bake 1 hour. Test, if done, invert pan and allow to cool before removing from pan. - Mrs. J. A. Plumer, Trivoli, Ill.
Break 2 eggs into a cup, fill the cup with sour cream, add 1 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon cream tartar, 1 cup flour, ½ teaspoon soda. Salt and flavor.
Mrs. J. A. Munson, Morris, Ill.
1 cup granulated sugar, Whites of 7 eggs, Yolks of 5 eggs,
Pinch of salt,
1 cup cake flour,
¼ teaspoon cream of tartar.
Sift sugar and flour each 5 times. Beat the whites of eggs partly stiff and add cream of tartar. Beat them until stiff. Add sugar slowly, then the beaten yolks. Beat this all well and then add flour and flavoring. Bake 35 or 40 minutes in a very slow oven. Do not grease pan.
Mrs. R. A. Hanna.
4 eggs, 1 teacup flour,
½ teaspoon soda, mixed in little water,
1 teacup sugar,
1 teaspoon cream tartar, mixed in flour,
Bake quickly in pan, turn out on wet towel, put on any dressing and roll up. Serve with cream or sauce. - Mrs. Harry C. Shane.
One cup sugar, 4 eggs, 3 tablespoons cold water, 1 ½ tablespoon corn starch, 1½ teaspoon baking powder. Put baking powder and corn starch in cup, fill with flour, sift 3 times together. Take sugar, yolks of eggs and cream well. Add water and flour, mixing thoroughly. Last put in whites of eggs beaten lightly. Bake in slow oven. - Mrs. W. B. Elston.
Two eggs beaten together in a tea cup, fill it with thick sweet cream. 1 cup white sugar, 1 teaspoon cream of tartar, ½ teaspoon soda, 1 cup of flour. Flavor to taste and bake in long tin. - Lucie W. Armstrong.
 
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