Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide

Cold water y^. cup. Juice and grated peel of I orange. Yolks of 5 eggs. Whites of 4 eggs. Salt a little. Soda y^ tea-spoonful. Cream of tartar i tea-spoonful. Follow general directions in making. Bake in 4 jelly tins and lay up by taking the white of an egg saved for that purpose, and beat it well with pulverized sugar until stiff, then grate in the peel of another orange and squeeze in the juice of the same to put between the layers. LEMON JELLY CAKE. « Sugar I cup. Flour I cup. Eggs 3. Melted butter i table-spoonful. Soda I tea-spoonful. Cream of tartar 2 tea-spoonfuls. Milk I table-spoonful. Bake in 4 cakes. In place of jelly take: Water i cup. Eggs 2. Sugar two-thirds cup. Corn starch i table-spoonful. ^ ^ The juice of 2 lemons. Mix thoroughly and put between the cakes. SOFT MOLASSES GINGER-BREAD. Good molasses i pint. Butter y^ pound. Soda I table-spoonful. Ginger i large table-spoonful or to suit the taste. Flour sufficient. Melt the butter and pour into the molasses, mix in the soda until it froths, then stir in the ginger and flour to make it as stiff as will handle well with a spoon. Bake )^ to ^ of an hour. CREAM VARIETY. Jelly cake will first be made by beating 3 eggs to a froth with Sugar ^ pound. Flour ^ pound. Baking powder 3 tea-spoonfuls mixed by sifting with flour. Bake in thin cakes, to be laid up with the following cream : Cream i quart sweetened to taste and thickened with corn starch i table-spoonful and flavored with ext. of lemon or vanilla, which is to be poured between the layers in place of the jelly. KANSAS LUNCHEON CAKE. Flour 2 pounds. Powdered sugar ^ pound. English currants mashed and dried 6 ounces. Citron i ounce. • Butter i^ pound. Baking powder I table-spoonful. Eggs 4 Milk sufficient. Rub the butter into the flour, then the sugar, citron, currants, salt, baking-powder, etc., and beat the eggs and mix in with the milk to make the batter not very stiff Half-fill buttered and flour-dusted tins and bake in rather a quick oven, to a light brown. OUR FAMILY RAISED CAKE. When making bread in the morning, the hop yeast or other sponge rising being light and nice, baker's division. 195 take I cupful and add i cup sugar, ^ cup butter, I cup chopped raisins, i egg, yi. tea-spoonful of cinnamon, cloves or nutmeg, i tea-spoonful soda, stir as stiffly as you can, let it rise until night and bake from ^ to an hour, according to heat of oven. It is very satisfactory and but little labor. BUNS OR SWEET CAKE. Flour I quart. Milk I pint. Butter y^ pound. Eggs 2. Sugar I cup. English currants one-half cup. Yeast 3 or 4 table-spoonfuls. Warm the milk and mix in the yeast, butter and flour, and set to rise 3 or 4 hours. Then mix the beaten eggs, sugar and fruit into the dough and let rise again 2 hours, and when light make into small buns or biscuits, and put them close together in baking tins, and when light again brush the top over with a mixture of milk and molasses, and bake in a quick oven. NO. 2. New milk 3 cups. Yeast I cup. Sugar I cup. Flour enough to make a stiff batter. Rise over night. In the morning mix i cup butter with another cup of sugar, i grated nutmeg, I tea-spoonful of saleratus, or i ^ of soda, or 2 of