Cream butter and sugar, stir in yolks, beat hard for 5 minutes, add water, then flour, mix the tartar in it--then nuts, then beaten whites of eggs. Bake 3/4 of an hour if loaf, or half hour if divided into two portions or layers.
Icing
4 cups sugar 1/2 pint hot water 4 eggs beaten citric acid about size of pea vanilla
Boil water and sugar until it threads. Pour over the beaten whites of 4 eggs. Beat until almost cold then add citric acid dissolved in one teaspoon boiling water, flavor with vanilla and spread between layers and over cake.
This keeps a long time in a locked closet.
Cookery has become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen. Burton.
Christmas Cakes
1/2 lb. Butter 6 Eggs 1 lb. Powdered Sugar Flour enough to roll Beat eggs separate
Cream butter; add sugar. Separate eggs; beat and add. Then flour to roll.
Cocoanut Tarts
7 eggs (whites) 1 lb. sugar (pulverized) 1/2 lb. butter 1 cocoanut
Grate the cocoanut, beat the butter and sugar to a cream; beat the eggs until very dry and light; mix well together and bake on pie crusts rolled very thin. This amount will make four large tarts.
Suffrage Angel Cake
(a la Kennedy)
11 eggs 1 full cup Swansdown Flour (after sifting) 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar 1 heaping teaspoon cream of tartar 2 teaspoons vanilla 1 pinch of salt
Beat the eggs until light--not stiff; sift sugar 7 times, add to eggs, beating as little as possible. Sift flour 9 times, using only the cupful, discarding the extra flour; then put in the flour the cream of tartar; add this to the eggs and sugar; now the vanilla. Put in angel cake pan with feet. Put in oven with very little heat. Great care must be used in baking this cake to insure success. Light the oven when you commence preparing material. After the first 10 minutes in oven, increase heat and continue to do so every five minutes until the last 4 or 5 minutes, when strong heat must be used. At thirty minutes remove cake and invert pan allowing to stand thus until cold.
MISS ELIZA KENNEDY.
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Cinnamon Cake
1 cake compressed Yeast 1/4 lb. Butter 1 tablespoon lard 1 1/2 cups sugar Pinch of Salt 1 pint luke warm milk Flour to stiffen
About six o'clock in the evening soak a cake of yeast in a little luke warm water, make sponge with a little flour, water and yeast. Let rise until light, about an hour.
Melt butter and lard and cream with sugar and salt; add luke warm milk and some flour, then stir in sponge and gradually add more flour until stiff, not as stiff as bread dough. Do not knead, simply stiffen.
Let rise until morning, then simply put in square or round cake pans about one and one-half inches thick. Do not roll, just mold with the hands and let rise about an hour.
Cover with little lumps of butter, then sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon and bake twenty minutes. Thin slices of apples can be placed on top, also peaches or almonds, blanched and chipped.
This is the genuine German cinnamon cake, and is excellent.
Inexpensive Spice Cake
1/2 cup shortening 2 cups brown sugar grated rind of lemon 2 eggs, 3 cups flour 1 lb. seeded raisins 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon dash of cloves and nutmeg
Boil raisins in 1 1/2 cups water twenty minutes.
Mix shortening, sugar, lemon rind, eggs and spices, add one cup flour then raisins drained but still hot. Then the other two cups flour and 1/2 cup of the water in which the raisins were boiled to which add 1 teaspoon bi-carbonate soda.
Bake in gem pans in moderate oven. This makes 30 cakes which can be iced with white or chocolate icing.
Black Walnut Cake
1 cup butter (creamed) 1 cup sugar 4 eggs 1 cup milk 2 teaspoons baking powder Flour to stiffen 1 cup walnuts 1 teaspoon vanilla
Bake 20 or 30 minutes according to oven.
Scripture Cake
1 cup of butter--Judges 5 chap. 25 Verse 3 1/2 " " flour--1 Kings 4 " 22 "
3 " " sugar--Jeremiah 6 " 20 "
2 " " raisins--1 Sam'l 30 " 12 "
2 " " figs--1 Sam'l 30 " 12 "
1 " " water--Genesis 24 " 17 "
1 " " almond--Genesis 43 " 11 "
6 eggs--Isaiah 10 " 14 "
1 tablespoon of Honey--Exodus 33 " 3 "
A pinch of salt--Leviticus 2 " 13 "
Spices to taste--1 Kings 10 " 10 "
Follow Solomon's advice for making good boys, and you will have a good cake.
Proverbs: 23 Ch. 14 Verse.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA EXECUTIVE MANSION
Since its adoption in October, 1911, equal suffrage in California has been put to the most thorough and severe test. Every conceivable sort of election has been held in the past three years, and women have been called upon to exercise their new privilege and perform their added duty not alone in the usual fashion, but in various primaries, including one for presidential preference, in local option elections, and they have been compelled to pass on laws and governmental policies presented to the electorate by the initiative and referendum.
The women have met the test and equal suffrage in California has fully justified itself. In nineteen eleven, by a very narrow margin the amendment carried.