The Toronto Cook Book

One-third cup soft butter, one and one-third cups brown sugar, two eggs, half cup milk, one and three-quarter cups flour, three teaspoons baking powder, half teaspoon each of cinnamon and nutmeg, half pound dates, stoned and cut into pieces. Put ingredients in a bowl and beat all together for three minutes, using a wooden cake spoon. Bake in a buttered and floured cake pan thirty-five or forty minutes. If directions are followed this makes a very fine cake. Delicious Fig Layer Cake Three eggs, two cups of sugar, one cup of butter, one cup of sweet milk, three cups of flour, one teaspoonful of soda, two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar; cream butter; add gradually the sugar, then add the beaten yolks of eggs and beat well; sift flour with soda and cream tartar; add to the cream mixture with the milk, flavor with one teaspoonful of vanilla; fold in the stiffly beaten whites of eggs and bake in layers. Filling — One pound of figs chopped fine, one cup of sugar and cup of milk; cook slowly until it thickens; when cool spread between the layers and ice with plain white frosting. Cocoanut Cakes Two well beaten eggs, two tablespoons butter, two cups of desiccated cocoanut, one cup sugar, half cup milk, one teaspoon of cream tartar, half teaspoon soda ; soak the milk and cocoanut together. Cakes, Frostings and Icings 143 Banana Layer Cake One small cup of butter and two cups of sugar beaten together until light; then add one cup of milk and four eggs well beaten; add three cups of flour, with two teaspoonfuls of baking powder sifted together; bake in layer tins and when cool take and slice bananas one-quarter of an inch thick; place between layers and whip half pint of cream with one heaping tablespoonful of powdered sugar, and spread over bananas and eat with cream. Hard Gingerbread One cup butter, two cups sugar, one cup milk, one teaspoon soda, one tablespoon ginger, flour enough to roll out. Molasses Sponge Cake One cup sugar, one cup milk, one cup of molasses and half cup of butter melted together, three eggs, four cups flour, one teaspoon of baking soda, one teaspoon ginger. Fruit Cake Ten eggs, one pound flour, one pound butter, one pound sugar, one pound currants, one pound almonds, one pound raisins, one pound of citron, one teaspoon soda sifted in the flour. Corn Starch Cake The whites of three eggs, half cup corn starch, half cup butter, half cup milk, half teaspoon cream tartar, quarter teaspoon of soda, flavor with lemon, one cup sugar, one cup flour. Chapin Cake Six cups flour, three cups sugar, two of milk, two eggs, one of butter, one teaspoon soda, one pound of raisins. White Mountain Cake One cup butter, two cups sugar, three cups flour, four eggs, half teaspoon soda, one cup milk, one teaspoon cream tartar. Flavor to taste. Warren Cake Two cups of sugar, one cup butter, two eggs, one cup milk, one teaspoon of soda. Flavor with lemon. The Toronto Cook Book Almond Cake Weigh three eggs, take their weight of flour, butter, and white sugar; blanch three ounces almonds, and pound them well with a tablespoon of lemon juice until they are a smooth paste, then add the egg, etc. English Walnut Cake