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Favorite Dishes : a Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book
by Shuman, Carrie V. · Page 84 of 124 · 43,360 words
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using the two remaining whites of eggs beaten thoroughly, adding two small cups of powdered sugar. ANGEL FOOD. From MRS. MARY C. HARRISON, of Wyoming, Lady Manager. The whites of fifteen eggs; one and one-half cups of powdered sugar; one cup of flour; one teaspoon of cream of tartar; sift sugar three times; mix cream of tartar with flour, sift seven times; beat eggs stiff, add sugar gradually, beating all the time with egg beater; take out; stir the flour quickly with wooden spoon; do not grease or line the tin; bake slowly and steadily; turn out on platter for frosting. ANGEL CAKE. From MRS. DANIEL HALL, of New Hampshire, Lady Manager. The whites of eleven eggs beaten to a stiff froth; add one and one- half cups of pulverized sugar and one teaspoonful of vanilla extract; take one even cup of flour and one teaspoonful cream of tartar and sift with flour four times; beat lightly but thoroughly; bake fifty minutes in an ungreased pan; cut out when cold. SUNSHINE CAKE. Yolks of eleven eggs, two cups of sugar, one cup of butter, one cup of milk, one teaspoonful cream tartar, one-half teaspoonful of soda, three cups of sifted flour, one teaspoonful of vanilla. ELECTION CAKE. (ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD.) From MRS. HELEN C. BRAYTON, of South Carolina, Vice-President State Board and Lady Manager. Four pounds flour; two pounds butter; two and one-half pounds sugar; two and one-half pounds raisins; one-half pound citron; one-half ounce mace; tumbler of brandy; one pint yeast; one and one-half pint milk; eight eggs. Add to the yeast one pint of milk; then beat in smoothly three pints of flour. Take all the flour and half the sugar and butter (when beaten to a cream); add the milk and yeast and make a dough a little softer than bread. When raised very light, add remainder of ingredients and let it rise again. When very light put into pans. Bake in moderate oven one hour. CONNECTICUT ELECTION CAKE. From MRS. VIRGINIA T, SMITH, of Connecticut, Alternate Lady Manager. Two pounds best pastry flour; one pound
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