SUCCESS.-FANNIE M. FARMER.
Black Angel Cake.
1 cupful Runkel's Chocolate grated, I cupful milk, 9 cupfuls brown sugar, Yolk 1 egg, 1 teaspoonful MeIlhenny's Mexi ican Vanilla, / cupful butter, 2 cupfuls flour, 9 eggs, 2 teaspoonfuls Calumet baking powder.
Stir together in a saucepan the grated chocolate, milk, 1 cupful sug ar, yolk 1 egg, and teaspoonful va nilla; cook slowly and cool. Take 1 cupful sugar, the butter, flour, milk, 2 eggs—cream butter and sugar with yolks of eggs; add milk, sifted flour, whites of eggs beaten stiff, beat to gether, then stir in the custard, lastly add the soda, dissolved in warm wa ter. This cake will keep a long time. Another way is to bake in layers with the following filling: One cupful brown sugar, 1 cupful white sugar, 1 cupful water, 1 tablespoonful vine gar. Boil until like candy, then stir in beaten whites 9 eggs and I pound marshmallows, boil again and place on cake, letting each layer cool before adding another.
Pork Cake.
1 poimd salt pork, 9 cupfuls boiling water, 9 cupfuls dark-brown sugar, 1 cupful molasses, 1 teaspoonful soda, 1 pound raisins, 1 poimd chopped dates, / pound citron shaved fine, 4 cupfuls flour, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, 1 teaspoonful cloves, 1 teaspoonful allspice, 1 teaspoonful nutmeg.
Chop the pork so fine as to look al most like lard, pour on it the boiling water, add the sugar, molasses, and soda, stir in the raisins, dates, and citron. Add the flour with the spices, pour the batter in loaf-cake pan, and bake in a moderate oven.
Apple Sauce Cake.
1 cupful butter, 2 cupfuls sugar, 4 eggs, 3 cupfuls flour, teaspoonfuls Calumet baking powder, 1 cupful milk, 6 apples, 6 ounces sugar, 1 teaspoonful butter.
Rub butter and sugar to a cream, add 2 eggs at a time, beating hard. Sift flour and baking powder to gether, add with milk, and mix into a batter. Bake in jelly-cake tins. Have apples peeled and sliced, and put on fire with sugar; when tender, rub through fine sieve, and add butter. When cold, use to spread between layers. Cover cake plentifully with
sugar sifted over top.
Banana Cake.
cupful butter, 1 cupful sugar, cupful milk, 2 scant cupfuLs flour, 11 teaspoonfuls Calumet baking powder, Whites 4 eggs, teaspoonful McIlhenny's Mexi can Vanilla.
Mix flour and baking powder. Cream butter and sugar, add milk and flour alternately, then vanilla and beaten whites. Bake in 3 layer tins in hot oven. To boiled icing add cupful finely sliced bananas and use as filling. Dust top with powdered sugar.
Geranium Cake.
cupful butter, 1 cupful sugar, cupful water, teaspoonful salt, 2 cupfuls flour, 1 teaspoonful Calumet baking powder, Whites 4 eggs.
Mix flour, salt, and baking powder. Cream butter and sugar, add alter nately the water and flour, then whites of eggs, and whip hard five minutes. Line loaf pan with buttered paper, and rose-geranium leaves. Bake in d. moderate oven. The leaves can be pulled off with the paper.
Lemon Queen Cake.
2 cupfuls sugar, 2 cupfuls flour, 1 cupful butter, 8 eggs, 2 lemons, teaspoonful soda, tea,spoonful salt.
Mix salt and soda with flour. Beat butter to a light cream, and add lemon rind. Beat half the sugar into it. Beat yolks of eggs, then whites, then both together. Add sugar to the eggs and beat well. Put in lemon juice last. Bake in small cake tins.
White Fruit Cake.
cupful butter, cupfuls sugar, 3 eggs, 2i cupfuls flour, 2 teaspoonfuls Calumet baking powder, cupful sweet cream, pounds raisins, 1 pound currants, cupful cliron, cupful orange peel, teaspoonful nutmeg, Dash salt.
Cream the butter and sugar, add the beaten egg yolks, then alternately the cream and flour sifted with bak ing powder. Stir in the fruit, which has been dredged with flour, also the nutmeg, last of all the whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Bake in deep pans lined with paraffin paper.
Walnut Hocha Cake.
I cupful butter, 1 cupful sugar, / cupful cold coffee, 1/ cupfuls flour, 9i teaspoonfuls Calumet baking powder, Whites 3 eggs, 1 cupful broken walnut meats.