Apple Sauce Cake
| ½ cup butter a little salt 3 cups sifted flour ½ teaspoon cloves ½ cup nuts 1½ cups apple sauce 1½ cups sugar ½ teaspoon cinnamon 1 cup seeded raisins 2 scant teaspoons soda dissolved in a little water, boiling. |
Bake in a slow oven.
Quick Coffee Cakes
Cream one-fourth of a cupful of butter, three-fourths of a cupful of sugar, one egg; add one cupful of milk, two and one-half cupfuls of flour in which two teaspoons of baking powder have been sifted. Beat smooth, then add as many raisins as desired and bake in two pie tins. When the top has begun to crust over, brush with melted butter and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Bake a golden brown.
Sand Tarts
One pound of granulated sugar, three-quarters of a pound of butter, one pound of flour, one pound of almonds blanched and split, and three eggs. Cream butter and sugar till very light, add the yolks of the three eggs and the whites of two. Add the flour; roll on the board and cut in oblong or diamond shapes. Beat the white of the remaining egg and bake.
Sand Tarts
| 2 lbs. light brown sugar ¾ lb. butter 2 lbs. flour 3 eggs |
Milk enough to make a stiff dough. Roll very thin, cut out and brush over with beaten egg and milk mixed together. Put two or three blanched almonds on each tart and dust with cinnamon and sugar.