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Mary Jane's cook book

1916

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Presented as published in 1916. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Flour, 2 cups. Raisins, i/2 cup. Vanilla, 1 teaspoon✪ Brown Sugar Cake. Beat the eggs till thick and creamy, add the sugar and beat again. Sift flour, salt and baking powder together and add to sugar and eggs. Add raisins, chopped, and vanilla and bake in a moderate oven. GINGER POUND CAKE. Butter, 1/2 pound. Molasses, y2 pint. Sugar, y2 pound. Soda, y± teaspoon. Flour, % pound. Baking powder, 2 teaspoons. Sour cream, 1 cup. Ginger, 1 teaspoon. Cinnamon and nutmeg, y2 teaspoon each✪ Ginger Pound Cake. Cream butter and sugar, add well beaten eggs, molasses, spices, cream and flour sifted with baking powder. Bake nearly an hour in a moderate oven. EGGLESS, BUTTERLESS, MILKLESS CAKE. Water, 2 cups. Salt, y2 teaspoon. Sugar, 2 cups. Cinnamon, 3 teaspoons. Lard, 2 rounding teaspoons. Flour, 3 cups. Raisins, 1 package. Soda, 1 teaspoon✪ Eggless, Butterless, Milkless Cake. Boil all ingredients except flour and soda for 5 minutes, cool, and add flour sifted with soda. Line pans with greased paper. Bake about 1 hour. Makes 2 loaves. May BeV^_Beverly. EGGLESS GRAHAM CAK1 Butter, 1/2 cup. Brown sug* Graham flour, 2 cups. Cinnamon.; Clove. Ginger. Baking powder, 1 teaspoon. Salt, 1 teaspoon. Milk, 1 cup. Cream butter and sugar, add flour mixed and sifted with bak- ing powder, spices and salt. Stir in milk and bake in a slow oven. 46 CAKE AND FILLINGS LILY CAKE. Butter, i/o cup. Baking powder, 2l/2 teaspoons. Sugar, 1 cup. Egg whites, 3. Milk, y2 cup. Salt, a pinch. Pastry flour, 1% cups. Flavoring. Cream butter and sugar, add milk, baking powder mixed with pastry flour, sifted 4 times before measuring. Fold in egg whites beaten stiff. Add a pinch of salt and flavoring last. Vanilla, lemon or almond may be used. Crank on Cooking, Arlington Heights. DEVIL'S FOOD. Butter, y2 cup. Water, y2 cup. Brown sugar, iy2 cups✪ Eggless Graham Cake. Vanilla extract. 1 teaspoon. Eggs, 2. Flour, 2y2 cups. Cocoa, 2 tablespoons. Baking powder, iy2 teaspoons. Milk, 1 cup. Cream butter and sugar and add lightly beaten eggs. Cook cocoa, milk and water together and cool. Mix alternately with the flour, baking powder and salt sifted together. Add flavoring and beat well. Bake in layer cake pans and put together with white filling and frosting. PORK CAKE. Fat salt pork, 1 pound. Warm water, 1 tablespoon. Boiling water, 1 pint. Flour, 7 cups. Eggs, 4. Clove, 1 teaspoon. Sugar, 2 cups. Allspice, 1 teaspoon. Molasses, 1 cup. Cassia, 1 teaspoon. Soda, 2 teaspoons. Currants, 1 cup. Raisins, 2 cups✪ Pork Cake. Pour the boiling water over the finely chopped pork and let stand until nearly cold. Beat the eggs until very light, add the sugar and beat to a cream, then add molasses and soda dissolved in the warm water. Add this mixture to the pork and water and stir thoroughly. Then sift in flour and spice. Lastly add currants and raisins well floured. Young One, Boston. CAKE AND FILLINGS 47 VIENNESE CHOCOLATE SCHNUTTEN. Butter, 1/2 pound. Browned bread crumbs, 2y2 ounces. Sugar, 1/2 pound. Flour, 2y2 ounces. Eggs, 16. Vanilla bean, y2. Grated almonds, 2y2 ounces. Sweet chocolate, Vt cake.