One and one-half pounds sugar, 1½ pounds lard, 6 eggs, 1 pint milk, 1 ounce powdered ammonia, 3 pounds flour, flavor with vanilla.
Take sugar and lard, put in the bowl, mix with a cream. Next add the eggs, mix. Take the milk and ammonia, dissolve the ammonia in the milk and mix together. Take your sieve, put over the bowl, put the flour in and sieve through. Mix light and put in jumble bag with plain tube. Lay out on cleaned pans in jumble form. Bake in heat of 550 degrees F. Flavor with vanilla. Sell these cakes at one cent each, or six for five cents.
SPECIAL JUMBLES
BY LOUIS STERN.
Bula.
One pound of lard, 1 pound sugar, 6 eggs, 1 pint of water, 1 ounce soda, 1 quart molasses, and 4 pounds of flour. Put sugar and lard into the bowl and rub to a cream, then slowly add the eggs. Next put in the molasses and mix together, then dissolve the soda in the water and mix all together. Lastly add the flour and mix very light. This is put in a canvas bag with a plain tube laid out on clean pans in form of an S. These cakes can be sold for one cent each, or 6 for five cents. They are baked in a slow heat of 370 degrees F. Leave on the pan till well cooled off. If made right these jumbles will keep for weeks.
Chocolate Jumble.
This is made the same as cream jumble No. 1, with the addition of a half pound of bitter chocolate, which is to be dissolved and added to the mixture. When baked fill with white of egg icing. Sold for two cents each, or 3 for five cents. The jumbles are very delicious, but are made very little in this country.