Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit Part 50

Bake in moderate oven in loaf or layers. If a loaf cake, ice top and sides with the following icing:

1-1/2 cupfuls pulverized sugar, 1 tablespoonful warm water and grated rind and juice of half an orange. Mix all together to a cream and spread over cake.

FRAU SCHMIDT'S MOLa.s.sES CAKE

1 pint of New Orleans mola.s.ses.

3/4 cup b.u.t.ter and lard, mixed.

4 eggs.

1 cup sour milk 2 good teaspoonfuls soda.

4 cups flour.

Grated rind of 1 orange.

Bake in a long dripping pan, cut out in square pieces, or it may be baked in a large pan used for fruit cake. It will fill two medium sized cake pans.

APPLE SAUCE CAKE

1/4 cup b.u.t.ter (generous measure).

1 cup light brown sugar.

1 cup apple sauce (not sweetened).

1 level teaspoonful soda.

2 cups flour.

1 teaspoonful cinnamon.

1/2 teaspoonful cloves.

1 small nutmeg, grated.

Pinch of salt.

1 cup raisins.

Cream together b.u.t.ter, sugar and spices. Add apple sauce and flour.

(Dissolve the soda in apple sauce.) Add a cup of seeded raisins or raisins and currants, if preferred. This recipe may be doubled when it makes a very good, cheap fruit cake, as no eggs are required, and it both looks and tastes like a dark fruit cake.

ICING.

One cup pulverized sugar, piece of b.u.t.ter size of a walnut. Moisten with a little water and spread on cake.

"SCHWARZ" CAKE

This delicious black chocolate or "Schwarz" cake, as Aunt Sarah called it, was made from the following recipe:

1-1/2 cups of sugar.

1/2 cup b.u.t.ter.

1/2 cup sweet milk.

1 even teaspoon of soda (saleratus).

3 eggs.

1 teaspoonful of vanilla.

2 cups flour.

1-1/2 teaspoon of Royal baking powder.

Before mixing all the above ingredients place in a stewpan on the range 1/2 cup of grated chocolate and 1/2 cup sweet milk; allow them to come to a boil, then stand this mixture aside to cool and add to the cake mixture later.

Cream together sugar and b.u.t.ter, add yolk of eggs; soda dissolved in the milk, then add flour and baking powder sifted together alternately with the stiffly beaten white of eggs. Then beat in last the chocolate and milk mixture which has cooled. Bake in layer cake pans.

Use the following chocolate filling:

1/2 cup sugar.

1/2 cup milk.

Yolk of one egg.

1/2 teaspoon of corn starch (good measure).

1/4 cake of Baker's unsweetened chocolate.

Boil all together until quite thick and spread between layers of cake.

APPLE CREAM CAKE

2 cups Sugar.

2 tablespoonfuls b.u.t.ter.

1 cup sweet milk.

3 cups flour.

3 eggs.

2 teaspoonfuls Royal baking powder.

Add the stiffly beaten whites of eggs last and bake in two layers.

Flavor with lemon or vanilla.

APPLE CREAM FILLING FOR CAKE.

Beat white of 1 egg very stiff. Add 1 cup of granulated sugar and beat well. Quickly grate one raw apple into the egg and sugar, add the juice of 1/4 lemon and beat 20 minutes, when it will be light and foamy. This icing is soft and creamy. Coa.r.s.ely chopped nut meats may be added if liked. Cake must be eaten with a fork, but is delicious.

A "HALF POUND" CAKE

Cream together 1/2 pound of sugar and 1/2 pound of b.u.t.ter. Beat into this the eggs separately, until five eggs have been used. Add flour and 1 small teaspoonful of baking powder. Bake in a moderate oven about 55 minutes; 1/2 pound of flour is used in this cake. This cake is extra fine.

A DELICIOUS ICING (NOT CHEAP).

Stir to a cream a half cup b.u.t.ter, 1-1/2 cups pulverized sugar, 1 tablespoonful milk and 1 teaspoonful vanilla. It is then ready to use for icing a cake.

COCOANUT LAYER CAKE

2 cups sugar.

1/2 cup b.u.t.ter and lard, mixed.

3 eggs (yolks only).