Success-Fannie M Farmer

cake, eggs, flour, butter and cupful

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Jelly Roll.

3 eggs, 1 cupful sugar, teaspoonful milk, 1 teaspoonful baking powder, teaspoonful salt, 1 cupful flour, 1 tablespoonful melted butter.

Beat eggs until light, add sugar gradually, milk, flour mixed and sifted with baking powder and salt, then butter. Line the bottom of a dripping pan with paper; butter pa per and sides of pan. Cover bottom of pan with mixture, and spread evenly. Bake twelve minutes in a moderate oven. Take from oven and turn on .1. paper sprinkled with pow dered sugar. Quickly remove paper, and cut off a thin strip from sides and ends of cake. Spread with jelly or jam which has been beaten to con sistency to spread easily, and roll. After cake has been rolled, wrap paper around cake that it may better keep in shape. The work must be done quickly, or cake will crack in rolling.

Homemade Wedding Cake.

9 cupfuls butter, 2 cupfuls light-brown sugar, 12 eggs, 1 cupful molasses, 4 cupfuls flour, 1/ teaspoonfuls mace, 4 teaspoonfuls allspice, 4 teaspoonfuls cinnamon, 1 grated nutmeg, / teaspoonful soda, 3 pounds raisins, 1/ pounds citron, 2 pounds sultana raisins, pound currants, / candied lemon peel, / candied orange. peel, 4 squares Runkel's Chocolate, 1 tablespoonful hot water, 1 cupful milk.

Before beginning to malce the cake, prepare the fruit required, seed the raisins and cut them into halves with a scissors. Shave the citron, orange, and lemon peel into thin strips.

Dredge them with flour, and set the chocolate to melt over boiling water. Sift together the flour, spices, and soda, and separate the eggs. Cream the butter and sugar very light, add the yolks of eggs beaten till stiff and lemon-colored, stir in the mo lasses, then the milk. Sift in the flour and spices, beat thoroughly, add the fruit, melted chocolate, whites of eggs whipped to a stiff froth, and the soda dissolved in hot water. Pour into a large round pan, which has been lined with paraffin paper and steam four hours. An excellent meth od to thoroughly cook such a large, rich cake as this to the heart is to steam it for an hour, then set into the fireless cooker, and leave it there over night. The saucepan which fits into the United States Cooker is al most the size to contain this recipe, and the cake could be baked right in it When the steaming process is fin ished, the cake needs drying. Take off the lid, and leave it uncovered an hour or two in an oven which is merely warm. Turn out on a cake cooler, and when cold, ice with White Mountain Frosting.

Chocolate Snow Cake.

cupful butter, 1 cupful sugar, / cupful milk, cupfuls flour, 9/ teaspoonfuls Calumet baking powder, Whites 2 eggs, / teaspoonful McIlhenny's Mexi can Vanilla.

Cream the butter and sugar, add the milk alternately with the flour and baking powder sifted together. Flavor with vanilla, and cut in the whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Bake in layer tins. Fill with choco late filling, and cover with chocolate frosting.

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