The Cookery Blue Book Part 9

=Snow Tea Cakes.=

3 tablespoons sugar, 3 cups milk, 2 eggs, 4 cups flour, 2 teaspoons yeast powder. Bake in m.u.f.fin-rings.

=Coffee Cake.=

2-1/2 cups flour, 1 of coffee, 1 of brown sugar, 1 of b.u.t.ter, 1 of syrup, 6 eggs, 1 pound raisins, 2 cups currants, 3 tablespoons brandy, 2 of cinnamon, 1 of cloves, 1 of allspice, 1 grated nutmeg, 4 pieces candied lemon or citron, 1 teaspoon soda. Steam two hours and bake one-half hour.

=Hermits.=

2 cups sugar, 1 cup b.u.t.ter, 3 eggs, 1 tablespoon milk, 1 teaspoon soda (dissolved in milk), a teaspoon each of cinnamon, cloves and allspice, 1 cup chopped raisins and currants, mixed, and as much cut citron as desired. Mix with sufficient flour to roll. Roll very thin, cut as cookies, and bake in a moderate oven. Excellent, and will keep a long time.

=Fruit Cookies.=

1 cup sugar, 3/4 of b.u.t.ter, 2 eggs, 1/2 teaspoon soda, 1 cup chopped raisins, all kinds of spice, 2 tablespoons pickled peach juice, flour enough to roll out.

=Boston Cookies.=

1 cup b.u.t.ter, 1-1/2 powdered sugar, 2 eggs, 4 teaspoons milk, 4 cups flour, 1 teaspoon of soda or saleratus, 1 of ginger. Make stiff enough to roll thin.

=Scotch Cookies.=

Beat 2 cups of sugar with 1 cup of b.u.t.ter, 2 eggs, and 5 tablespoonfuls of milk. Mix 3 teaspoonfuls of baking powder and 1 of cinnamon with 2 cups of flour, and add as much more flour as necessary to make stiff enough to roll. Roll thin, cut out and bake quickly.

=Mola.s.ses Cookies.=

In 1 pint of New Orleans mola.s.ses melt a full cup of b.u.t.ter with a cup of brown sugar. Stir in 1 tablespoon ginger, 1/2 teaspoon saleratus, dissolved in a little hot water, and flour enough to roll out. Take small pieces at a time to roll out.

=Rich Cookies.=

Yolks of 6 eggs, 1/2 roll b.u.t.ter, 1 cup bar sugar, 2-1/2 cups flour. Put a little of the flour in a deep dish, then add some egg, some b.u.t.ter and some sugar; then more flour, more egg and more sugar and b.u.t.ter until the entire amount of ingredients have been used. Roll thin, flour pans well and put in the cookies, which have been cut into forms and feathered with whites of egg, sugar and grated almonds. Not too quick an oven.

=Hearts and Rounds.=

1 cup b.u.t.ter, 2 cups sugar, 1 cup milk, 3 cups flour, 5 eggs, 2 even teaspoons cream tartar, 1 of soda. Flavor with vanilla or lemon.

=Crullers.=

4 eggs, 5 large spoons melted b.u.t.ter, 4 of milk, 8 of sugar, 1 small teaspoon soda in milk.

=Doughnuts.=

4 eggs, 2 cups sugar, 1 of milk, b.u.t.ter size of an egg, 2 teaspoons yeast powder, a little salt. Season to taste, cinnamon and mace.

=Gingerbread.=

1-1/2 cups sugar, 1/4 pound b.u.t.ter, 1/2 cup sour cream, 1/2 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon ginger, 2 eggs, well beaten, 2-1/2 cups flour.

=Sugar Gingerbread.=

1 cup b.u.t.ter, 2 of sugar, 1/2 cup milk, 1 teaspoon saleratus, 1 egg, 1 tablespoon ginger. Flour enough to roll very thin.

=Mola.s.ses Gingerbread.=

1 cup New Orleans mola.s.ses, 1 full teaspoon soda put in mola.s.ses, 3/4 cup melted b.u.t.ter or nice drippings, 1/3 cup milk, 1 egg, 2 teaspoons ginger. Flour to stir, but not thick.

=Soft Gingerbread--No. 1.=

3-1/2 cups flour, well sifted, 2 teaspoons yeast powder, sifted in 2 teaspoons ginger, 1 cup mola.s.ses, 1 of brown sugar, 1/2 of b.u.t.ter, 1 of milk, and 2 eggs, well beaten.

=Soft Gingerbread--No. 2.=

1-1/2 cups mola.s.ses, 1/2 cup b.u.t.ter, 1/2 cup sour milk, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon soda and 1/2 cup flour. Add ginger and a little salt.

=Bread Cake.=

3 cups light dough, 3 of brown sugar, 1 of b.u.t.ter, 3 eggs, spices, fruit and citron, 1 teaspoon soda. Raising or not, as you wish.

=Pork Cake.=

1/2 pound salt pork, chopped very fine, 1/2 cup warm water, mix with the pork. Heaping cup brown sugar, 1 of mola.s.ses, spice to taste, 1-1/2 cups raisins, 2 of currants, 1/4 pound citron, 2 eggs, flour to make a batter stiffer than ordinary cake, 2 teaspoons yeast powder, and bake in b.u.t.tered tins.

=Lemon Honey for Cake.=

Juice and grated rind of 1 lemon, small cup sugar, 1/3 of water, 2 well-beaten eggs, small piece of b.u.t.ter. Let boil till it thickens.

=Quick Icing.=

White of 1 egg, 1 heaping cup sugar, beat egg till it foams. Add sugar and flavoring, and stir very thoroughly.

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