The Toronto Cook Book

Half cup butter, one cup sugar, half cup milk, half cup cornstarch, one cup flour, two and a quarter teaspoons baking powder, whites two and a half eggs, three-eighths teaspoon vanilla or one-quarter teaspoon almond extract. Measure dry ingredients, and mix and sift baking powder with flour and cornstarch. Measure butter, then liquid. Cream butter, then add sugar gradually, and continue beating. Add liquid and flour, baking powder and cornstarch, flavoring. Add the whites of eggs last, which have been beaten light and dry. Cakes, Frostings and Icings Spanish Bun One cup sugar, half a cup butter, one cup sour milk, one teaspoon soda, one cup syrup, two cups flour, two eggs (white of one kept out for icing), one teaspoon ground cinnamon, one of cloves. Icing. — Use brown sugar and the white of one egg. Sour Milk Cake I wish someone that has to do up lunches would try this cake. My girls think it fine, so nice and moist. One-half cup butter, one and a half cups sugar, one cup sour milk, one teaspoon of soda, half teaspoon each of nutmeg and cassia, three cups flour, one and a half cups of chopped raisins or currants well floured with part of the amount mentioned. Break lumps in soda and sift in with the flour. English Plum Cake One cup of butter creamed, two cups white granulated sugar, four eggs beaten light, one cup sweet milk, four cups flour sifted with one-half teaspoon salt, one even teaspoon baking soda and two teaspoons cream of tartar, 1 cup currants, one cup very good raisins, one cup candied orange and lemon peel sliced fine. This makes two loaves. Cook in bread tins two hours in a rather slow oven. This keeps two months or more and should be wrapped in waxed paper and kept in a stone crock. Use any preferred flavoring. I use French brandy, one wineglass full. This cake is a standby with me and is much liked by every one that tastes it. — Rosana Apple Cake We think this very nice: Cream together one cup sugar, butter size of egg, yolks of two eggs, white of one egg, half cup milk, half teaspoon soda, two even cups flour, one teaspoon cream of tartar, pinch of salt. Bake in three Washington pie plates. Apple Filling — Two grated sour apples, one cup powdered sugar, white of one egg, well beaten, half teaspoon lemon extract. Nice Sponge Cake Ten eggs, one pound sugar, half pound flour, juice and rind of one lemon, teaspoon of salt. The Toronto Cook Book Chocolate Cream Cake Here is a nice cake. Try it and see: Take half cup of sugar, five teaspoons of butter, melted, one egg, half cup of milk, one cup flour, before sifting add one teaspoon of baking powder. Flavor. Put ingredients together in order written. Apple Sauce Cake Cream together one cup sugar and half cup shortening, add one saltspoon salt, half teaspoon cloves, one teaspoon cinnamon, a little nutmeg and one cup raisins. Dissolve one teaspoon soda in a bit of warm water and then stir it into a cup of sour apple sauce, letting it foam over the ingredients in the bowl. Beat all thoroughly and add one and a quarter cups sifted flour. Bake in loaf tin forty-five minutes. Very rich and inexpensive. Danish Apple Cake