found a copy of this fromit's falling apart in some places super cool book, I LOVE reading through this, I don't know if
I'd try many of the recipesd most are just not to my taste, There are lots of topics covered aside from cooking really it's a general housekeeping book with lots of fun tips, I read it more for historical amp fascination value than for real advice, Having the actual old copy is partly what makes it so special there are notes in different sets of handwriting inside that are fun to read! Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.
millionbooks. com where you can read more than a million books for free, This is an OCR edition with typos, Excerpt from book: cups flour, with three teaspoonfuls of baking powder sifted in, Bake on three tins. Take whites of two eggs and make a frosting as for any other cake add one teaspoonful vanilla and twothirds cake of German sweet chocolate grated, Spread between layers but not on the top one, Take white of one egg to ice the top and sides, Do not frost the cake until cool, The same cake recipe may be used for cocoanut, Christmas Cake. Take five pounds of flour, mix with it a dessertspoonful of salt, rub in threequarters of a pound of butter and one pound of lard, Put in half a pint of good fresh brewers' yeast, and knead as for common bread, If there is any difficulty about the yeast, baking powder may be used, allowing a heaped teaspoonful of ordinary baking powder for every pound of material, If yeast is used, let the dough rise before adding the other in Christmas Cake, gredients. Mix in three pounds of currants, one and onehalf pounds of moist sugar, a whole nutmeg, a quarter of a pound of candied lemon peel finely minced, a tablespoonful of brandy, and four eggs, wellbeaten.
Butter the mold and bake in a moderate oven for about two hours, Cinnamon Cake. Threefourths of a cup of butter, a cup of white sugar, one and onehalf cups flour, four eggs yolks and whites beaten separately, a tablespoonful of sweet milk, one and onehalf teaspoonfuls baking powder, lemon, and a little salt.
Rub the baking powder into the flour, Cinnamon Cake. One cup sour cream, one cup sugar, onehalf cup melted butter, one egg, onehalf teaspoonful soda, Mix as for cookies, roll out, and spread ground cinnamon over the top then roll up as a roll jelly cake and slice off with a sharp knife and bake.
Any good cookie recipe will do, Cup Cake. Rub to a cream one cup of butter and,