The Cookery Blue Book

a little salt. =Bread Cake.= 3 cups light dough, 3 of brown sugar, 1 of butter, 3 eggs, spices, fruit and citron, 1 teaspoon soda. Raising or not, as you wish. =Pork Cake.= 1/2 pound salt pork, chopped very fine, 1/2 cup warm water, mix with the pork. Heaping cup brown sugar, 1 of molasses, spice to taste, 1-1/2 cups raisins, 2 of currants, 1/4 pound citron, 2 eggs, flour to make a batter stiffer than ordinary cake, 2 teaspoons yeast powder, and bake in buttered tins. =Lemon Honey for Cake.= Juice and grated rind of 1 lemon, small cup sugar, 1/3 of water, 2 well-beaten eggs, small piece of butter. Let boil till it thickens. =Quick Icing.= White of 1 egg, 1 heaping cup sugar, beat egg till it foams. Add sugar and flavoring, and stir very thoroughly. [Illustration] PIES. =Puff Paste.= Equal quantities of butter and flour by weight, the butter to be washed. The yolk of 1 egg. Divide butter in three or four parts and chill; chop one portion into the flour, mix with ice water, and roll in the remainder. Roll and fold several times. If it grows sticky, chill till it hardens. =Mock Mince Pie--No. 1.= 2 pounds powdered crackers, 1 cup molasses, 1 of cider, 1 of chopped raisins, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 of clove, 2 of cinnamon, 1 of mace, 1 of nutmeg. This quantity makes two pies. Bake forty minutes. =Mock Mince Pie--No. 2.= 1 cup bread or cracker crumbs, 1 of raisins, 1 of vinegar, 1 of sugar, 1 of molasses, 1 of water, 1/2 of butter, 1 of currants. Spice to taste. =Mince Meat.= 2 pounds lean beef, 1 of suet, 5 of apples, 2 of stoned raisins, 1 of currants, 3/4 of citron cut fine, 2-1/2 of brown sugar, 3 tablespoons cinnamon, 1 of mace, 1 of cloves, 1 of allspice, 1 of salt, 2 of nutmeg, 1 pint of sherry, 1 of brandy, 1 of cider, 1 bowl of currant jelly. =Lemon Tarts.= 1 egg beaten stiff, add 1 cup sugar, and juice and rind