CAKES MADE FROM SOUR MILK Mrs. Moberly's Sour-Cream Cake.
1 cupful sugar, 9 eggs, 1 cupful sour cream, -a. teaspoonful soda, 2 cupfuls flour, teaspoonfuls baking powder, 1 teaspoonful lemon extract.
Beat sugar, egg yolks, and cream very light; sift in flour, soda, and bak ing powder. Flavor, add whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth in a loaf cake.
Cocoa Cake.
i cupful butter, 2 cupfuls coffee sugar, 9 eggs, 1 cupful sour milk, 1 scant teaspoonful Calumet bak ing soda, 9 cupfuls flour, i cupful Runkel's Cocoa.
Beat the butter and sugar to a cream,, then add the other ingredients. Bake in a moderate oven. Cover with chocolate icing.
Dried-Apple Cake.
9 cupfuls molasses, 3 cupfuls dried apples, 1 cupful butter, 1 cupful sugar, 1 cupful sour milk, 1 teaspoonful soda, 4 eggs, 4 cupfuls flour, 1 cupful currants, 1 cupful raisins, 1 teaspoonful cloves, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, 1 nutmeg.
Soak apples in as little water as possible over night; in the morning chop fine and boil half an hour in molasses. When cold, add butter, sug ar and milk dissolved with soda, eggs, flour, fruit, and spices. Bake in a slow oven.
Spice Cake.
1 cupful sugar, 9 eggs, 4 tablespoonfuls butter, cupful sour milk, cupful strong coffee, 1 teaspoonful soda, 1 teaspoonful Calumet baking powder, 9i cupfuls flour, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, 1 teaspoonful nutmeg.
Cream sugar and butter, and add the milk, coffee, soda, baking pow der, flour, spice, cinnamon, and nut meg. Bake in a medium-sized pan, and frost with powdered sugar mixed with cream.
Devil's Cake.
9 cupfuls dark-brown sugar, i cupful butter, cupful sour milk, teaspoonful soda, 3 cupfuls flour, 1 teaspoonful Calumet baking powder, 2 eggs, cupful Runkel's Chocolate, ground.
Beat the butter and sugar until smooth. Add the milk, soda dissolved in a little warm water, then the flour, which has been sifted twice with the baking powder. Add the eggs well beaten. Stir thoroughly and add the chocolate. This makes three good sized layers. Filling —9 cupfuls brown sugar, cupful butter, cup ful sweet milk. Boil until it will thread, and spread between layers. If
a very large cake is desired, two white layers may be added flavored with orange.
Training-Day Ginger Cake.
cupful butter, 1 cupful granulated sugar, 1 egg, 1 cupful New Orleans molasses, 1 cupful sour milk, 1 teaspoonful soda, 3 cupfuls pastry flour, 1 tablespoonful ginger.
Beat the butter to a cream, add the sugar and egg well beaten, the mo lasses, then the sour milk, to which the soda has been added and both stirred until the milk foams and there are no lumps remaining. Sift the flour and ginger, beat thoroughly, and turn into a shallow baking pan. Bake in a moderate oven; when it is well done, remove from the oven and spread with a thick layer of raw mo lasses. Return to the oven for a short time till the coating of the mo lasses has set, when the cake may be cut into squares.
Crumb Gingerbread.
1 teaspoonful soda, 4 cupfuls flour, 1 cupful butter, 2 cinpfuls sugar, 1 cupful sour milk, 2 eggs, grated nutmeg, teaspoonful cinnamon, 1 teaspoonful ginger.
Rub the flour and butter together until they are reduced to crumbs, as flour and lard are worked together for pie crust; then the sugar and stir this in till the 'mixture is once more crumbly. Measure out 2 cup fuls crumbs, and set away in a cold place until the batter is made. Into what remains of the crumbs stir in two well-beaten eggs, and add the sour milk and soda. When the soda is dissolved and the milk foams, turn it into the mixing bowl with the rest. Add to the batter the nutmeg, cinna mon, and ginger. Butter a dripping pan and measure out 1 cupful crumbs that was set aside; spread evenly on the bottom of-the pan, pour the bat ter over them as evenly as possible; spread the rest of the crumbs on top, and bake in a moderately hot oven; when done, cut into squares, and keep in a closely covered jar.
Aunt Dinah's Cake. cupful butter, cupful sugar, cupful molasses, 2 cupfuls flour, • cupful sour milk, teaspoonful ginger, teaspoonful salt, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, teaspoonful soda, nutmeg grated, Juice and rind lemon, 1 egg.