Supplementary Recipes
Including recipes for a few cakes for special occasions, a variety of cookies suitable for use at any time, together with a selection of breakfast cakes, muffins, rolls, etc., that would not usually come within the compass of a dinner menu.
BRIDE'S CAKE
½ cup Cottolene.
2 cups fine granulated sugar.
½ cup milk.
2½ cups pastry flour.
3 teaspoons baking powder.
½ teaspoon salt.
1 teaspoon orange extract
Whites of 8 eggs.
Process: Cream Cottolene, add sugar gradually, beating constantly. Mix and sift flour with baking powder and salt; add alternately to first mixture with milk, continue beating. Add extract, and cut and fold in the whites of eggs beaten until stiff and dry. Fill a tube cake pan well-greased with Cottolene, two-thirds full, and bake fifty minutes in a moderate oven. When slightly cool, spread with Ornamental Frosting.
TWELVE POUND FRUIT CAKE
"Groom's Cake"
½ pound Cottolene.
1 pound brown sugar rolled.
Yolks 12 eggs well beaten.
2 cups N. O. Molasses.
1 pound flour.
½ tablespoon cinnamon.
1 teaspoon cloves.
½ tablespoon mace.
1 teaspoon salt.
1 teaspoon soda.
Whites 12 eggs beaten stiff.
2½ pounds seeded raisins.
3 pounds currants.
1 pound citron thinly sliced and cut in shreds.
½ pound candied cherries cut in quarters.
¼ pound candied orange peel finely chopped.
¼ pound candied lemon peel finely chopped.
¼ cup brandy.