PFEFFERNUESSE
- 4½ C sifted flour
- ¼ t soda
- 1 t each: cloves, nutmeg, salt
- ⅛ t cinnamon
- ¼ t black pepper
- 2 t anise seed
- 4 eggs slightly beaten
- 2 C (packed brown sugar)
Combine eggs and brown sugar. Add dry ingredients and mix. Shape into walnut-sized balls and put on greased baking sheet. Let stand overnight covered with towel. Bake 20 to 25 minutes (350°). Shake few cookies at time in paper bag with confectioner's sugar. Keep tightly covered. Become softer the longer kept.
QUICK CHOCOLATE CAKE
- 1 C sour milk or buttermilk
- 1 C brown or white sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 sq baking chocolate
- 2 T shortening
- 1 t vanilla
- 1 t baking soda
- 1½ C flour
Dissolve sugar in milk. Add egg and beat well. Melt chocolate and shortening together. Add other ingredients in order given beating well after each addition. Bake in moderate oven in greased 8" baking pan or in cupcake tins.
GERMAN SWEET CHOCOLATE CAKE.
- ½ C shortening
- 2 C brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cake Germain's Sweet Chocolate dissolved in ½ C hot water
- 1 C sour milk with ½ t soda
- 2⅔ C flour
- 2 t baking pdr.
- ⅛ t salt
- Frosting
- 2 oz. bitter chocolate
- 1 C powdered sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 t vanilla
- ¼ C milk
- 1 T soft butter