Atlanta women's club cook book

Cream butter and sugar until thoroughly mixed, add eggs beaten until very light. Sift baking powder, corn starch, and flour together twice. Add alternately with milk to mixture, add orange juice. Bake in moderate oven. ORANGE FILLING. 4 egg yolks beaten light. 1 cup water. 2 cups sugar. 1 cup grated orange peel. Cook sugar and water until the syrup drops from spoon. Then into this beat the eggs gradually, allowing syrup to continue cooking, as the beating is in progress. Add grated peel just before the filling is cool. Mrs. Tull C. Waters. LEMON JELLY CAKE. (A Favorite with Men). 3 cups sifted flour. 1 cup milk. 11/2 cups sugar. 2 t-spoons Royal baking pow- 34 "cup butter. der. 3 eggs. Cream butter and sugar ; add yolks of eggs ; beat thoroughly. Add three-fourths of milk, stirring constantly. Sift baking powder and flour several times together. Begin adding flour so sifted, a handful at a time. Stir rapidly. Add remainder of milk and flour as needed for batter of good consistency; add whites last, (beaten until plate can be turned up-side-down without slipping off beaten whites). Bake quickly in layer-cake pans. In turning out layers, whisk layers over quickly as soon as top touches paper, as the bottom will not stick, but top of cakes will. 1 lemon. 1 tbls. butter. 1 cup sugar. 1 tbls. corn starch. 1 egg, 1 cup boiling water. Put juice and grated rind of lemon in double boiler. Pour in boiling water ; combine corn starch and sugar in mixing bowl, beat in egg, add this to mixture in double boiler. Cook until clear and somewhat thick, add butter just before removing from fire. Spread between layers and do not serve for twenty-four hours. Mrs. D.F. Stevenson. RAISIN CAKE. 4 eggs. 1 grated cocoanut. 2 cups sugar. 1 grated nutmeg. 1 cup butter. 1 grated orange peel. 1 cup milk. 1 t-spoon soda. 3 cups sifted flour. 2 t-spoons cream of tartar. 1 lb. seeded raisins. Beat eggs separately, cream butter and sugar, add milk, beat all together. Mix soda and cream of tartar with flour, sift into batter, add raisins floured, cocoanut, nutmeg and orange peel. Bake 50 minutes in moderate oven. Mrs. J. P. Selzter, South Carolina. WALNUT SHORT CAKE. 11/2 cups of sugar. 2 t-spoon vanilla. 1 cup of cracker crumbs. 4 dozen English walnut meats 9 eggs beaten separately. chopped fine. 1 t-spoon Royal baking powder. Beat yolks and sugar, add crumbs and nuts, then baking powder and beaten whites. Bake in layers and put together and top with raspberry jam. Serve with whipped cream. Mrs. Porter King. PECAN WHITE CAKE. 2 cups sugar. 1 cup butter. 3 14 cups sifted flour. 8 egg whites. 1/2 cup milk. 2 t-spoons Royal baking pow- 1 cup chopped pecans. der. Cream butter and sugar together gradually until very light. Have egg whites beaten stiff and add alternately with flour. Last, add milk into which the baking powder has been dissolved. Stir in nuts and put immediately into stove. Bake slowly two hours. Ice with plain white icing. Mrs. Moreland Zellars, Grantville, Georgia. CHOCOLATE NOUGAT CAKE. 1/2 cup butter. 21/2 t-spoons Royal baking pow- 1 cup sugar. der. 2 eggs. l^ t-spoon salt. 1/2 cup milk. 2 squares chocolate. 1-1/3 cups flour. 1/2 cup raisins. 1/2 cup chopped walnut meats.