2 tablespoons granulated sugar✪ Frosting
brown in moderate oven.
Grace Conners Nelson (Lambda Nu).
140 DELTA GAMMA COOK BOOK
Chess Cakes
Boil one pound sugar and one pint water fifteen minutes. Add
one-half box grated cocoanut, boil again fifteen minutes, then stir
in one-fourth pound butter and yolks of seven eggs✪ Chess Cakes, beaten. Fill
patties lined with puff paste and bake until crust is done in moderate
oven. Jessie Moore Sanders (Kappa).
Filling for Mince Pies
1 cup chopped meat ]/^ cup suet or butter
2 cups chopped apple 1 cup brown sugar
Yi cup raisins, cut and seeded 1 teaspoon salt
Yi cup currants, cut and seeded 1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup cider, or pickle juice 1 citron, shredded
1 lemon, juice and grated rind 1 teaspoon allspice✪ Filling for Mince Pies
Florence Winterer (Lambda).
Mincemeat
3 bowls finely chopped meat (boiled beef)
5 bowls finely chopped apples
5 bowls sugar, or 4 sugar and 1 molasses
1 bowl vinegar 2 tablespoons cloves
1 bowl cider 1 tablespoon nutmeg
1 bowl chopped suet 1 tablespoon salt
2 bowls raisins✪ Mincemeat 1 tablespoon pepper
2 tablespoons cinnamon
3 lemons (outside grated, and juice squeezed)
If juice from sweet pickles is available, add it instead of part of
the sugar and vinegar. Clara King Allen (Lambda Nu).
English Mincemeat
Uncooked, Without Meat
114. pounds suet, chopped fine
IH pounds chopped apples
1 pound raisins
13^2 pounds brown sugar
Y pound candied peel (lemon or orange), cut fine
Steam slightly.
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2 lemons, rind grated and juice
2 oranges, grated rind and juice
3^ teaspoon each of cloves, cinnamon, allspice, ginger and
nutmeg
3<^ teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons brandy or sherry
Store in sterilized fruit jars and seal. As it is very rich, make in
individual pies, as in muffin tins.
Margaret Monroe Williamson (Lambda Nu).
German Tomato Mincemeat
Chop fine one peck of green tomatoes, pour off juice and add as
much water as juice. Scald in this water and pour off liquid, repeat
process and drain. Add:
5 pounds brown sugar 2✪ English Mincemeat tablespoons salt
2 pounds raisins 1 cup finely chopped suet
Boil slowly about four hours and add one cup vinegar. When
cold add two tablespoons each of cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg.
Ehzabeth C. Irwin (Rho Sigma).
CAKES
Angel Cake
whites 10 cgKa 1 cup flour
IM cups sup;ur Yz teaspoon cream of tartar
Sift flour Ave times. Sift sufj;ar. lieat epigs about half and add
cream of tarl-ar. . l^eat imtil very stiff. Stir in suf2;ar and then flour
very lightly. Bake in moderate oven from thirty-five to fifty min-
utes. Norma E. Sammons (Omicron).
Mock Angel Cake
Sift together four times, one cup flour, one cup sugar, and three
teaspoons baking powder.
Boil one cup \\\\\k, ])()ur slowly into the mixed ingredients. To this
add the beaten whites of two eggs. Flavor with one teaspoon vanilla.
Bake in round tin in medium oven. Blanche McMahon (Rho).
Apple Sauce Cake
2 cups flour 1 cup sugar
1/2 cup shortening, butter and lard
1 cup chopped raisins 1 cup sour apple sauce
1 cup currants 1 teaspoon cinnamon
^ cup (ihopped luits 3^2 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon soda 1 pinch salt
Mix as any butter cake. Bake in a loaf forty-five minutes.
Jessie Ware I;ibby (Ivamlxla).
Chocolate Apple Sauce Cake
23^ cups apple sauce, hot or cold, but unsweetened
1 cup and 2 tablespoons shortening
1 pound raisins 4 teaspoons soda
1 pound mits 1 teaspoon salt ✪ Angel Cake
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2 tablespoons granulated sugar brown in moderate oven.
Grace Conners Nelson (Lambda Nu).
Chess Cakes Boil one pound sugar and one pint water fifteen minutes. Add one-half box grated cocoanut, boil again fifteen minutes, then stir in one-fourth pound butter and yolks of seven eggs, beaten. Fill patties lined with puff paste and bake until crust is done in moderate oven. Jessie Moore Sanders (Kappa).
Filling for Mince Pies
1 cup chopped meat ]/^ cup suet or butter
2 cups chopped apple 1 cup brown sugar Yi cup raisins, cut and seeded 1 teaspoon salt
Yi cup currants, cut and seeded 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 cup cider, or pickle juice 1 citron, shredded
1 lemon, juice and grated rind 1 teaspoon allspice
Florence Winterer (Lambda).
Mincemeat
3 bowls finely chopped meat (boiled beef) 5 bowls finely chopped apples
5 bowls sugar, or 4 sugar and 1 molasses
1 bowl vinegar 2 tablespoons cloves
1 bowl cider 1 tablespoon nutmeg
1 bowl chopped suet 1 tablespoon salt
2 bowls raisins 1 tablespoon pepper
2 tablespoons cinnamon
3 lemons (outside grated, and juice squeezed)
If juice from sweet pickles is available, add it instead of part of the sugar and vinegar. Clara King Allen (Lambda Nu).
English Mincemeat
Uncooked, Without Meat 114. pounds suet, chopped fine IH pounds chopped apples 1 pound raisins 13^2 pounds brown sugar
Y pound candied peel (lemon or orange), cut fine Steam slightly.
2 lemons, rind grated and juice 2 oranges, grated rind and juice 3^ teaspoon each of cloves, cinnamon, allspice, ginger and
nutmeg 3<^ teaspoon salt 6 tablespoons brandy or sherry Store in sterilized fruit jars and seal. As it is very rich, make in individual pies, as in muffin tins.
Margaret Monroe Williamson (Lambda Nu).
German Tomato Mincemeat
Chop fine one peck of green tomatoes, pour off juice and add as much water as juice. Scald in this water and pour off liquid, repeat process and drain. Add:
5 pounds brown sugar 2 tablespoons salt
2 pounds raisins 1 cup finely chopped suet
Boil slowly about four hours and add one cup vinegar. When cold add two tablespoons each of cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg.
Ehzabeth C. Irwin (Rho Sigma).
Angel Cake whites 10 eggs 1 cup flour
IM cups sup;ur Yz teaspoon cream of tartar
Sift flour five times. Sift sugar. Beat eggs about half and add cream of tartar. Beat until very stiff. Stir in sugar and then flour very lightly. Bake in moderate oven from thirty-five to fifty minutes. Norma E. Sammons (Omicron).
Mock Angel Cake
Sift together four times, one cup flour, one cup sugar, and three teaspoons baking powder.
Boil one cup milk, pour slowly into the mixed ingredients.. To this add the beaten whites of two eggs. Flavor with one teaspoon vanilla. Bake in round tin in medium oven. Blanche McMahon (Rho).
Apple Sauce Cake 2 cups flour 1 cup sugar
1/2 cup shortening, butter and lard
1 cup chopped raisins 1 cup sour apple sauce
1 cup currants 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Yi cup chopped nuts Yi teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon soda 1 pinch salt
Mix as any butter cake. Bake in a loaf forty-five minutes.
Jessie Ware Libby (Lambda).
Chocolate Apple Sauce Cake
23^ cups apple sauce, hot or cold, but unsweetened
1 cup and 2 tablespoons shortening
1 pound raisins 4 teaspoons soda
1 pound mits 1 teaspoon salt
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