hen baked, with pastry cut in fancy shapes and
baked on a tin sheet, or use for filling tarts.
_Supplementary Recipes_
_Including recipes for a few cakes for special
occasions, a variety of cookies suitable for use
at any time, together with a selection of
breakfast cakes, muffins, rolls, etc., that would
not usually come within the compass of a dinner
menu._
BRIDE'S CAKE
1/2 cup Cottolene.
2 cups fine granulated sugar.
1/2 cup milk.
2-1/2 cups pastry flour.
3 teaspoons baking powder.
1/2 teaspoon salt.
1 teaspoon orange extract
Whites of 8 eggs.
PROCESS: Cream Cottolene, add sugar gradually, beating constantly. Mix
and sift flour with baking powder and salt; add alternately to first
mixture with milk, continue beating. Add extract, and cut and fold in
the whites of eggs beaten until stiff and dry. Fill a tube cake pan
well-greased with Cottolene, two-thirds full, and bake fifty minutes in
a moderate oven. When slightly cool, spread with Ornamental Frosting.
TWELVE POUND FRUIT CAKE
"GROOM'S CAKE"
1/2 pound Cottolene.
1 pound brown sugar rolled.
Yolks 12 eggs well beaten.
2 cups N. O. Molasses.
1 pound flour.
1/2 tablespoon cinnamon.
1 teaspoon cloves.
1/2 tablespoon mace.
1 teaspoon salt.
1 teaspoon soda.
Whites 12 eggs beaten stiff.
2-1/2 pounds seeded raisins.
3 pounds currants.
1 pound citron thinly sliced and cut in shreds.
1/2 pound candied cherries cut in quarters.
1/4 pound candied orange peel finely chopped.
1/4 pound candied lemon peel finely chopped.
1/4 cup brandy.
PROCESS: Cream Cottolene, add sugar gradually, stirring constantly; add
egg yolks, continue stirring and beating, add molasses, flour mixed and
sifted with spices, salt and soda; fold in the whites of eggs and lastly
add the fruit except citron. Turn mixture into a well-greased pan lined
with several thicknesses of heavy paper, put citron into mixture in
layers, having a layer of batter on top. Divide the mixture equally in
two tube pans, eight inches in diameter, filling pans two-thirds full.
Bake two and three-quarter hours.
NEW ENGLAND ELECTION CAKE
1 cup bread dough sligh
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