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How to Make It. Trim around the slices of bread. Add the brandy to the maple syrup. Soak the bread about one hour in the syrup. Put the butter in a frying pan, fry the bread until brown (take care not to let it get hard and burn). Put on a buttered baking sheet. Arrange the picked and washed strawberries over the bread, sprinkle with grated chocolate, put under a salamander to get hot. In the meantime, beat up the whites of the eggs, mash some of the strawberries, put through a strainer, sweeten to taste, add to the beaten whites. Put a layer of the meringue on top, then the second piece of French bread, arrange berries, as before, sprinkle with grated chocolate. Decorate with the meringue, sprinkle with chocolate, leave under the salamander until ready to serve. Arrange on a platter with whipped cream in the centre. Serve as a hot dessert for luncheon, dinner, or supper. Orange Layer Cake a la Mabel Quist Gateau a VOrange en couches, a la Mabel Quist Five eggs, one cup powdered sugar, four tablespoons cold water, three tablespoons brandy, one cup flour, one teaspoon Royal baking powder, three tablespoons cornstarch, and a pinch of salt. How to Make It. Add sugar slowly to the yolks. Beat to a souffle; add cold water and brandy. Sift flour, baking powder, and cornstarch. Add to the yolks and sugar. Last add the whites of the eggs — well beaten. Bake slowly in a buttered and papered pan in oven thirty minutes. Cut in four layers and fill. Filling. One and a half cups water, one cup orange juice, two tablespoons cornstarch, yolks of three eggs, one cup sugar, one tablespoon brandy. Put one cup water on the stove, add the orange juice and a little of the rind. Dissolve the cornstarch in the other half cup water. Add the yolks and sugar that have been stirred to a souffle. Add brandy. Fill cake, frost with a boiled orange frosting, decorate with white frosting according to taste. Lemon Layer Cake ( Gateau au Citron en couches ) a la Teckla Make batter [see recipe above: Orange Layer Cake]; cut in four layers and fill. £ Filling. Two cups wTater, juice of two lemons and the rind of one, yolks of four eggs, a pinch of salt, three-quarters cup sugar, two tablespoons cornstarch. How to Make the Filling. Put one and a half cups water on stove with the lemon juice and rind. Thicken with the cornstarch dissolved in the other half cup water. Stir the sugar and yolks to a souffle with the pinch of salt; add carefully. Fill cake and frost with a boiled lemon frosting. Caramel Cake ( Gateau au Caramel ) a la Hildur Alexandra Five eggs, one cup powdered sugar, four tablespoons cold water, two tablespoons brandy, one cup flour, one teaspoon Royal baking powder, three tablespoons cornstarch, and a pinch of salt. How to Make It. Add sugar slowly to the yolks. Beat to a souffle, add cold water and brandy. Sift flour, baking powder, and cornstarch. Add to the yolks and sugar. Last add the whites of the eggs — well beaten. Bake slowly in a buttered and papered pan in oven thirty minutes. Cut in four layers and fill.