Book of American Baking / A Practical Guide Covering Various Branches of the Baking Industry, Including Cakes, Buns, and Pastry, Bread Making, Pie Baking, Etc.

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Curba Jumble.

One pound lard, 1½ pounds sugar, 6 whites of eggs, ⅓ ounce soda, ⅔ ounce cream tartar, 1½ pounds flour and a little vanilla. Mix light. Take the sugar and the lard and rub to a cream, then beat up the white of eggs to a stiff snow and add the soda which must be powdered fine to the white of eggs. Next add the flour and cream of tartar, mixing lightly. Put in canvas bag and star tube. Lay out on dusted pans, wash over with milk and drop chopped nuts and almonds on top. Then turn the pan upside down, so the pieces of nuts will fall off, and put in oven to bake in heat of 400 degrees F. When baked, and while still hot, put a little water icing on top. Sold at one cent each, or 6 for five cents.