ning. When mixed over
add a handful of currants, and set to rise until 10:30. Roll soft, cut
with biscuit-cutter, and raise again till 11:45. After baking ten
minutes, rub the top with sugar and water.

=Waffles.=

2 cups sifted flour, 1-1/2 cups milk, 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons melted
butter, 1 teaspoon baking powder.

=Apple Biscuit.=

2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 of salt, 1 tablespoon lard, 1
of sugar, 1 egg. Break the egg into the flour. Add sufficient milk to
make a stiff batter, and pour into a shallow pan. Pare and slice apples,
covering the top of the batter with them. When almost done, sprinkle
sugar over them.

=Hominy Cake.=

1 pint cold hominy, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon rice flour, small piece of
butter. Bake in pans, like corn cake.

=Huckleberry Cake.=

4 cups flour, 1 of sugar, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon butter, 2 teaspoons yeast
powder, 2 scant cups of milk. Stir in as many berries as the batter will
hold together, and bake in a pan. Canned berries are very good in this
way. Serve hot for lunch. To be eaten with butter.

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CAKE.

=Almond Drop Cakes.=

1 pound powdered sugar, 1/4 pound powdered almonds, 9 eggs (3 whites
left out), beaten separately, 2 grated lemon peels, 2 spoonfuls rose
water. Put rose water and sugar on top of each cake, after they are
dropped with a dessertspoon on the pans.

=Angel Cake.=

Whites of 11 eggs, 1-1/2 cups granulated sugar, 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon
cream tartar, 1/2 teaspoon of almond or vanilla. Beat the eggs to a
froth; sift the sugar five times; sift the flour 4 times; add cream
tartar and sift again. Beat eggs and sugar together; add flavoring; then
flour; stir quickly and lightly; put in an unbuttered pan and bake 3/4
hour in moderate oven.

=Cream Cakes--No. 1.=

Boil in 1/2 pint of water 3/4 cup of butter; stir in while boiling 1-1/2
cups of flour. Remove from fire, let it stand five minutes, and then
stir in gradually 5 eggs, lightly beaten, and 1/2 teaspoon of soda. Drop
in pans half the size you want them, and bake fifteen or twenty minutes.

=Cream Cakes--No. 2.=

1 pint boiling water, 1 cup butter, 2 of sifted flour put in while water
and butter are boiling. Let this cool, then add 6 eggs, one at a time,
and beat in thoroughly, 1 tablespoon of milk with 1/3 teaspoon soda
dissolved in it.

=Cream Cakes--No. 3.=

Make a layer cake of 2 cups sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 3 eggs, 1/2 cup milk,
3 of flour, a