Scientific cooking with scientific methods

Separate eggs, beat whites until stiff and yolks until thick. Cream butter, and add one cup of the sugar. Add the remaining sugar to the beaten yolks, combine the mixture, and add the milk alternately with the flour and baking-powder mixed; then the beaten whites of the eggs, chocolate melted and vanilla. Bake fortyfive minutes in angel food cake-pan, and cover with white mountain icing. Chocolate Marshmallow Cake. Follow rule for chocolate cake, and as soon as cake is taken from oven, having bottom up, cover with marshmallows pulled open with the fingers, but do not pull them entirely apart. Th-e soft inside of the marshmallow will adhere to the warm surface of the cake, and pour over all a chocolate frosting flavored with vanilla. Orange Puffs. Va cup butter. 2 teaspoons baking-powder. 1 cup sugar. Yolks 3 eggs. 2 cups flour. 1 whole egg. 1/3 cup milk. Grated rind V2 orange. Cream butter, add sugar slowly, and beat all the while. When very creamy add milk a little at a time, and the eggs beaten very light without separating, then the grated orange peel, and, lastly, the flour and bakingpowder mixed together. Ice tops with orange frosting. Lemon Queens. 3/2 cup butter. Yolks 4 eggs. 1 cup sugar. 2 cups flour. Grated rind 1 lemon. ^^ teaspoon soda. 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Whites 4 eggs. Pinch salt. Cream butter, add sugar slowly, and continue beating. Then add the grated rind of the lemon with the juice, then the yolks of eggs well beaten, then the flour with soda mixed with it, then the whites beaten very stifl: and dry. Bake in small tins until done, turn out, and frost bottom with white mountain frosting. Pound Cake. 1 pound butter. 10 eggs, whites and yolks 1 pound sugar. beaten separately. 1 pound flour. i{.> teaspoon mace. % cup brandy. Cream butter, add sugar gradually, beating well between each addition. AVhen very light and creamy, add yolks beaten until thick and lemon color, then the brandy and mace, then the whites of eggs beaten stiff and drj", then the flour. Beat very hard for a few moments. Bake in deep pan one hour and a quarter in slow oven, or, if wanted for fancy ornamental cake, bake in layer cake-pans that have been buttered and lined with paper. Any pan in which pound cake is baked wants to be buttered and lined. The sheets of pound cake are cut into fancy shapes with small cutters, and glazed with egg and powdered sugar, and iced with fancy icings tinted with coloring. Wedding Cake. 1 pound butter. i/4 teaspoon cloves. 1 pound sugar. 3 pounds raisins. 1 pound flour. 3 pounds currants. 12 eggs. 1 pound citron, cut fine. 2 teaspoons cinnamon. 1 pound figs, chopped. 1/. teaspoon allspice. V3 cup brandy. 1 teaspoon nutmeg. % cup wine. 1 teaspoon mace. 14 cup molasses. 1 teaspoon soda. Creani butter, add sugar, and beat thoroughly. Separate eggs, beat yolks until lemon color and whites until stiff and dry, and add to first mixture. Add flour (excepting one-third cup to dredge the fruit) mixed and sifted with the spices and soda, then add the