The international cook book

Cream shortening. Add sugar and mix until well blended. Add the eggs and salt and beat thoroughly. Mix baking powder with the flour. Add caramelized sugar to milk. Add dry and liquid ingredients alternately to first mixture. Stir until smooth. Pour into a greased and flour-dusted cake tin. Bake thirty- five minutes in a moderate oven (350° F.). Turn out of pan. Cool. Ice. To caramelize sugar put one cup of sugar into a skillet. Stir until sugar melts and turns brown. Add one-half cup boiling water. Cook until sugar dissolves. Will keep. Cocoa Cake yi cup butter J^ cup cocoa lyi cups sugar yi teaspoon salt 3 eggs 2 teaspoons baking f)owder ^ cup milk y2 teaspoon vanilla xj^ cups flour Cream shortening. Add sugar and salt gradually. Mix until well blended. Add the eggs. Beat thoroughly. Mix cocoa and baking powder with the flour. Add vanilla to milk. Add dry and liquid ingredients alternately to first mixture. Mix until smooth. Pour into a greased and flour-dusted cake tin. Bake thirty-five minutes in a moderate oven (350° F.). Turn out of pan. Cool. Ice. 108 RECIPES 109 Chocolate Cake, No. 1 y2 cup shortening i square chocolate (melted) 1 cup sugar yi teaspoon salt 2 eggs I teaspoon vanilla 3 teaspoons baking powder yi, cup milk 2 cups flour Cream shortening. Add sugar gradually. Add well-beaten eggs and vanilla. Sift flour and baking powder together. Add this mixture alternately with the milk to first mixture. Bake in well-greased layer cake pans. Bake twenty-five minutes in moderate oven (350° F.). This cake may be baked as a sheet or loaf cake if desired. Chocolate Cake, No. 2 I cup shortening % cup yeast dissolved in 1 cup sweet milk X cup warm water 2 cups sugar i cup ruts (chopped) 3 eggs 3 cups flour 2 squares chocolate (melted) i teaspoon soda dissolved in yi teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons boiling water Cream shortening. Add sugar and salt gradually. Mix until well blended. Add the eggs and beat thoroughly. Mix flour and nut meats. Add yeast mixture to first mixture. Add flour and nuts alternately with the milk. Add the melted chocolate. ^lix well. Let stand in ice box overnight. In the morning add the soda dissolved in boiHng water. Mix well. Pour into a greased and flour-dusted cake pan. Bake forty- five minutes in a moderate oven (350° F.). Cool. Ice with coffee icing. Delicious Chocolate Cake y2 cup milk yi cup sugar 3 squares chocolate Cook these ingredients until chocolate is melted. Bring to a boil. Cool. no THE INTERNATIONAL COOK BOOK I cup sugar yi cup milk yi cup butter 2 cups flour 3 eggs Ya, teaspoon soda I teaspoon cream of tartar Cream butter. Add sugar gradually. Add egg yolks and beat thoroughly. Add soda and cream of tartar to flour. Add dry ingredients to first mixture alternately with the milk. Add boiled mixture which has been cooled to this. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour into greased and flour-dusted layer cake pans. Bake twenty-five minutes in a moderately hot oven (375° F.). This will make three layers. Put layers together with a chocolate cream filling. 4 squares chocolate 2 teaspoons butter 3 tablespoons millc 2 egg yolks ^ cup sugar yi teaspoon salt I teaspoon vanilla Mix ingredients and cook imtil thick. Stir constantly. Cool. Spread between layers. Ice cake with boiled icing. Boston Fudge Cake