Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit Part 55

BROD TORTE (BREAD TART)

Six yolks of eggs and 1 cup sugar, creamed together. Beat about 15 minutes. Add 1 teaspoonful allspice, 1 teaspoonful cloves, 1 cup Baker's chocolate, which had been grated, melted and cooled; 1 cup stale rye bread crumbs, crushed fine with rolling-pin. Lastly, add the stiffly beaten whites of 6 eggs, a pinch of salt and 1/2 teaspoonful of baking powder sifted over the batter. Put into a small cake pan and bake half an hour in a moderate oven. When eggs are cheap and plentiful this is an economical cake, as no flour is used. It is a delicious cake and resembles an ordinary chocolate cake.

A DELICIOUS CHOCOLATE CAKE

1/2 cake of Baker's unsweetened chocolate (grated).

1 cup granulated sugar.

1/2 cup milk.

1 teaspoonful vanilla.

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

1-1/2 to 2 cups flour.

2 eggs.

2 teaspoonfuls baking powder.

Boil together chocolate, sugar and milk. Add b.u.t.ter and when cool add yolk of eggs; then the flour, flavoring and stiffly beaten whites of 2 eggs. Beat all thoroughly and bake in a loaf or layers.

CHOCOLATE ICING

Boil together 5 tablespoonfuls grated chocolate, 3/4 cup granulated sugar, 2 tablespoonfuls milk, 1 egg.

When the mixture begins to thicken and look creamy, spread on cake. If baked in layers, ice on top and between the two layers.

A WHITE COCOANUT CAKE

Cream together 3/4 cup b.u.t.ter and 2 cups sugar. Add whites of 5 eggs, 1 cup milk, 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar, 1/2 teaspoonful soda sifted with 3 cups flour and 1 grated cocoanut. Bake in a loaf. This is an excellent old recipe of Aunt Sarah's.

A POTATO CAKE (NO YEAST REQUIRED)

Cream together:

1 cup of sugar.

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

Yolk of 2 eggs.

1/2 cup pulverized cocoa.

1/2 cup of creamed mashed potatoes, cold.

A little ground cinnamon and grated nutmeg.

A few drops of essence of vanilla.

1/4 cup of sweet milk.

1/2 cup finely chopped nut meats.

One teaspoonful of baking powder sifted with one cup of flour added to the batter alternately with the stiffly beaten whites of eggs. Bake in two layers, in a moderately hot oven. Ice top and put layers together with white icing. This is a delicious, if rather unusual cake.

A CITRON CAKE

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

1 cup sugar.

4 eggs.

2 tablespoonfuls water.

1/4 pound of thinly shaved citron.

1-1/2 cups flour.

1-1/4 teaspoonfuls baking powder.

Several drops of almond flavoring.

Bake in a loaf in a moderate oven about 45 minutes after mixing ingredients together as for any ordinary cake. This is a very good cake.

AUNT AMANDA'S SPICE "KUCHEN"

1 cup b.u.t.ter.

2 cups granulated sugar.

1 cup of a mixture of sour milk and cream.

4 eggs.

1 teaspoonful soda.

1/2 teaspoonful cloves.

1 teaspoonful cinnamon.

1/2 teaspoonful nutmeg.

1 teaspoonful vanilla extract.

2 tablespoonfuls cocoa.

3 cups flour.

Mix all like any ordinary cake. From one-half this recipe was baked an ordinary sized loaf cake.

A GOOD, CHEAP CHOCOLATE CAKE

One cup of flour, 1 teaspoonful of baking powder and 1 cup of granulated sugar were sifted together. Two eggs were broken into a cup, also 1 large tablespoonful of melted b.u.t.ter. Fill up the cup with sweet milk, beat all ingredients well together. Flavor with vanilla and add 2 extra tablespoonfuls of flour to the mixture. Bake in two layer cake pans.

Place the following mixture between the two layers: 1/2 cup of grated chocolate, 1/2 cup sugar and 1/4 cup of liquid coffee. Cook together a short time until the consistency of thick cream, then spread between layers.

AN ICE CREAM CAKE

Two cups of pulverized sugar, 1 cup of b.u.t.ter, 1 cup sweet milk, whites of 8 eggs, 1 teaspoonful soda, 2 teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, 3 cups of flour. From same proportions of everything, only using the 8 yolks instead of whites of eggs, may be made a yellow cake, thus having two good sized layer cakes with alternate layers of white and yellow. Put cakes together with white icing. This was an old recipe of Aunt Sarah's mother, used when cream of tartar and soda took the place of baking powder.

SMALL SPONGE CAKES

For these small cakes take 6 eggs, 1 cup of sugar and 3/4 cup of flour and 1/2 teaspoonful of baking powder, a pinch of salt, flavor with lemon. Beat yolks of eggs separately, then add sugar and beat to a cream, then add the stiffly beaten whites of eggs alternately with the sifted flour and baking powder; add a pinch of salt and flavoring.

Bake in small m.u.f.fin tins in a very moderate oven.

SMALL CAKES AND COOKIES--"AUNT SARAH'S" LITTLE LEMON CAKES

2 cups granulated sugar.