The New century cook book

Cream for Filling. — One quart of milk, four tablespoonfuls of our corn starch, two eggs, two cups of sugar. Wet the corn starch with enough milk to work it into a smooth paste. Boil the rest of the milk. Beat the eggs, add the sugar and corn starch to these, and as soon as the milk boils pour in the mixture gradually, stirring all the time until smooth and thick. Drop in a teaspoonful of butter, and when this is mixed in, set the custard aside to cool. Then add extract, vanilla or lemon, pass a sharp knife lightly around the puffs, split them, and fill with the mixture. Scripture Cake. A mixture of spice and everything nice. One cup butter. — Judges 5, 25. Three and one-half cups flour. — 1 Kings 4, 22. Two cups sugar.— -Jeremiah 6, 20. Two cups raisins. — 1 Samuel 30, 12. Two cups figs. — 1 Samuel 30, 12. New Century Cook Book. One cup of water. — Genesis 6, 17. One cup almonds. — Genesis 43, 11. Six eggs. — Isaiah 10, 14. Pinch salt. — Leviticus 2, 13. Large spoonful honey. — Exodus 16, 3. Sweet spices to taste. — 1 Kings 10, 2. E. A. Stearns. Cocoanut Loaf Cake. One cup grated cocoanut, one cup sugar, one cup flour, two eggs, one cup sweet milk, one and one-half teaspoons baking powder, one tablespoon butter. Coffee Cake. One egg, one cup sugar, one yeast cake, one-half cup butter, put in milk to warm, one teaspoon soda, one quart sweet milk, warm the milk, spice to taste. Put cinnamon, cream and sugar on top before putting in oven. Bake in dripping pan. Coffee Cake. One-half cup butter, one egg, one cup of sugar, one-half cup molasses, one cup coffee, two and one-half cups flour, one cup raisins chopped, one teaspoon of soda, one teaspoon cloves, one of cinnamon. Citron Cake. Three cups flour, one and one-fourth teaspoonfuls baking powder, three-fourths cup butter, two cups sugar, four eggs beaten separately, two-thirds cup of milk, one-fourth pound citron. Sift together the flour and baking powder. Cream the butter and sugar; beat the yolks of eggs; then add milk and flour. Add whites of eggs last, beaten to a stiff froth. Flavor with lemon and a little mace; put in a pan and press the citron, cut in very thin strips, into the batter, the rind downward. In this way the citron will not settle to the bottom of the pan. Coffee Cake. One-half cupful of sugar, one-half cupful of molasses, onehalf cupful of butter, one-half cupful cold coffee, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one teacupful of raisins. Stir stiff. Mrs. I. N. Danforth. Coffee Cake. Two cups light brown sugar, one cup of butter, one cup of molasses, one cup of strong coffee, four eggs, one teaspoonful New Century Cook Book. saleratus, two teaspoonfuls cinnamon, one of cloves, a little nutmeg, one pound of raisins, one of currants, four cups of flour. Mrs. Laura McDougall. Coffee Cake. One cup of brown sugar, one cup of molasses, one-half cup butter, one cup strong coffee, two eggs, four even cups of flour, heaping teaspoon soda in flour, tablespoon cinnamon, teaspoon cloves, one pound raisins, one-fourth pound citron, one-half pound currants. Soften butter, beat with sugar, add eggs, spice, molasses and coffee, then flour, and lastly fruit well dredged. Bake one hour (until done). Miss Lora Eidson, Galveston, Texas. German Coffee Cake.