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Original White House Cookbook

1887

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Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
One cup of powdered sugar, half a cup of butter, two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice, three whole eggs and three yolks, beaten separately, three cups of sifted flour. Put this all together with half a teaspoonful of sodaNeapolitaines dissolved in a tablespoonful of milk. If it is too stiff to roll out, add just enough more milk. Roll it a quarter of an inch thick and cut it out with any tin cutter. Place the cakes in a pan slightly greased and color the tops with beaten egg and milk, with some chopped almonds over them. Bake in a rather quick oven. BRUNSWICK JELLY CAKES. Stir one cup of powdered white sugar and one half cup of butter together, till perfectly light ; beat the yolks of three eggs till very thick and smooth ; sift three cups of flour and stir it into the beaten eggs with the butter and sugar ; add a teaspoonful of mixed spice (nutmeg, mace and cinnamon) and half a glass of rose-water or wineBrunswick Jelly Cakes ; stir the whole well and lay it on your paste-board, which must first be sprinkled with flour ; if you find it so moist as to be unmanageable, throw in a little more flour ; spread the dough into a sheet about half an inch thick and cut it out in round cakes with a biscuit-cutter ; lay them in buttered pans and bake about five or six minutes ; when cold, spread over the surface of each cake a liquor of fruit jelly or marmalade ; then beat the whites of three or four eggs till they stand alone ; beat into the froth, by degrees, a sufficiency of powdered loaf sugar to make it as thick as icing ; flavor with a few drops of strong essence of lemon, and with a spoon heap it up on each cake, making it high in the centre ; put the cakes into a cool oven, and as soon as the tops are colored a pale brown, take them out. LITTLE PLUM CAKES. One cup of sugar and half a cup of butter beaten to a smooth cream; add three well-beaten eggs, a teaspoonful of vanilla extract, four cups of sifted flour, one cup of raisins and one of currants, half of a teaspoonful of baking soda dissolved in a little water, and milk enough to make a stiff batterLittle Plum Cakes; drop this batter in drops on well-buttered tins and bake in a quick oven. JUMBLES. Cream together two cups of sugar and one of butter, add three well- beaten eggs and six tablespoonfuls of sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls of 298 CAKES. baking powder, flavor to taste, flour enough to make into a soft dough; do not roll it on the paste-board, but break off pieces of dough the size of a walnut and make into rings by rolling out rolls as large as your Anger, and joining the ends; lay them on tins to bake, an inch apart, as it rises and spreads ; bake in a moderate oven. These jumbles are very delicate and will keep a long time. WINE JUMBLES. One cup of butter, two of sugar, three eggs, one wine- glass of wine, one spoonful of vanilla and flour enough to roll outWine Jumbles. Eoll as thin as the blade of a knife and cut with an oval cutter. Bake on tin-sheets in a quick oven until a dark brown. These will keep a year if kept in a tin box and in a dry place. COCOANUT JUMBLES. Cocoanut Jumbles