Flour

Add soda to molasses and beat well, add milk, shortening, spice, salt and flour enough to roll. Put on a floured board and roll 1/4 inch thick. Cut and bake.

Sponge Drops

4 eggs

1/2 c. powdered sugar

1 ts. flavoring 3/4 c. pastry flour

1/2 ssp. salt Mix as for sponge cake. Drop by spoonfuls on an ungreased pan, sprinkle with powdered sugar and bake 12 to 16 minutes in a slow oven.

Cookies

1/2 c. butter 1 c. sugar 1 or 2 eggs 1/4 c. milk

1/4 ts. nutmeg 4 ts. baking powder 2 1/2 c. flour, or enough to roll out thin

Mix in the order given, following directions for mixing cup cakes. Roll out, cut, sprinkle the top with sugar. Bake about 10 m.

Sour Cream Cookies

\ c. butter 1 1/2 c. sugar 2 eggs

1/2 c. sour cream 1 ts. soda Flour to roll

Mix as above. Hermits

\ c. butter § c. sugar

1 egg

4 tb. milk

2 c. flour

\ c. raisins stoned and chopped 1/2 ts. cinnamon 1/4 ts. cloves 1/4 ts. mace 1/4 ts. nutmeg

2 ts. baking powder Cream butter, add sugar gradually, raisins, beaten egg and milk. Mix and sift the dry ingredients and add. Roll a little thicker than plain cookies. Cut and bake.

Jumbles

1/2 lb. butter

1/2 lb. powdered sugar

2 eggs 3/4 lb. flour

Nutmeg

Save out 3 tb. of the sugar to roll them in. Cream the butter, add sugar, beaten eggs, flour and nutmeg. Roll, cut with a doughnut cutter, and bake a light brown.

Sand Tarts

1/2 lb. butter

1 lb. brown sugar

3 eggs 1 lb. flour

Cream the butter, add the sugar, beaten eggs, leaving out the white of one, and the flour. Roll thin, cut into 3-inch squares. Brush with the white of an egg and sprinkle with granulated sugar and cinnamon. Put an almond or raisin in the center of each and bake in a quick oven.

Ginger Snaps

1 c. molasses 1/2 c. shortening 1 tb. ginger

1/2 ts. soda 1 ts. salt 3 1/4 c. flour

Heat the molasses to boiling point and pour over the shortening. Add dry ingredients mixed and sifted. Chill thoroughly. Roll as thin as possible, cut and bake. Keep the dough cool or you will have to add more flour, which will make the cookies hard.

Place cookies far enough apart on the baking pans so that they will not run together. Roll only a part of the dough at a time, gather up the trimmings, and add to the dough. Knead lightly till mixed.

Soft Ginger Cookies

2/3 c. shortening (butter and lard)

1 c. sugar 1 c. molasses

1/2 c. hot water, in which dissolve 1 1/2 ts. soda

1 ts. each cinnamon, ginger, and salt 1/2 ts. cloves Flour to make a soft dough

Mix in order given; roll and bake.

Note

Estimate the cost per dozen of the various small cake and cookies.

Note

Student study recipes of butter cakes as obtained from various cook books and family recipes and tabulate them as to the proportions of ingredients used. Also estimate cost. Arrange the proportions on the basis of 3 c. flour used in the cake.

Name And Source Of Recipe

Butter

Milk

Flour

Sugar

Eggs

Baking Powder

Total Cost of Recipe

One Egg Cake

3/8 c. butter creamed

1 c. sugar

1 egg beaten light

1 c. milk

2 1/4 c. flour

3 1/2 ts. baking powder

1/2 ts. vanilla

Mix in the order given, following directions for butter cake. Bake in a shallow pan in a moderate oven for 20 to 30 minutes.

White Cake

1/2 c. butter 1 1/2 c. sugar 1 c. water

3 c. flour

4 ts. baking powder Whites 4 eggs

1 ts. flavoring Follow directions for mixing butter cakes.

Park Street Cake

1/2 c. butter \\ c. sugar 1 c. milk 3 c. flour

4 eggs

4 ts. baking powder 1 ts. flavoring 1 ssp. mace

Cream the butter, add 1 c. sugar. Add the remaining cup of sugar to the beaten yolks, beat well together and proceed as in directions for butter cakes. Bake in 2 loaves in a moderate oven, or in layers.

Spice Cake

1/2 c. butter

1/2 c. sugar

1/2 c. raisins seeded and cut in pieces 1/2 c. molasses 3/8 c. boiled coffee 1/4 ts. nutmeg grated

2 eggs

2\ c. flour

3 ts. baking powder

1/2 ts. salt

1/2 ts. cinnamon

1/2 ts. allspice

Follow directions for mixing butter cakes. Bake in a loaf in a moderate oven, or in layers.

Devil's Food

Part 1.

1/2 c. butter

1 c. brown sugar

1 whole egg and 2 yolks

1/2 c. sweet milk 1 ts. soda 2 1/8 c. flour

Mix as any cake.

Part 2. 3 squares chocolate 1/2 c. sweet milk

1 c. brown sugar Heat over hot water till smooth; add to Part 1 with 1/2 ts. vanilla. Bake in two layers and frost with white frosting.