The Laurel Health Cookery: A Collection of Practical Suggestions and Recipes for the Preparation of Non-Flesh Foods in Palatable and Attractive Ways

stops singing, or does not stick to a broom splint. Bake 1½ hours, according to the heat of the oven. The fine particles of citron give an unusually delightful flavor to the cake. Preserved orange peel, ground, may be used sometimes; or fine cut raisins or dried blueberries. =★ Julia’s Birthday Cake= 2 cups sugar ½-1 cup butter 8 eggs 2 cups flour flavoring Cream butter and sugar; add flavoring and a little of the flour, then the beaten yolks; beat well. Slide the stiffly-beaten whites on to this mixture, sift flour over gradually and chop together as for nut and citron cake; bake in moderate oven in 3 medium sized layers; sift a little sugar over one layer before baking, sometimes, to make a crust for the top. If possible, set in ice box for an hour before baking. =Patty Cakes= Use ⅓-½ cup of milk and 2½-2¾ cups of flour in preceding recipe, and bake in patty pans. =Cocoanut Loaf or Layer Cake= 2 cups sugar 4 level tablespns. butter 8 eggs 2 cups fine grated or ground cocoanut 2 teaspns. lemon juice 1-2 teaspns. vanilla if desired 2 cups flour Put together the same as “Julia’s Birthday Cake,” let stand on ice for 2 hours, or bake at once in loaf or layers. If baked in layers, use Washington pie filling with it. =Rich Loaf Cake= 1 cup butter 1⅔ cup granulated sugar 5 eggs 2-2¼ cups flour Cream butter, add sugar and work very light; add 1 egg at a time and stir only until no yolk can be seen; mix in flour, turn into paper-lined pan and set in ice box for 2 hours. Bake in slow oven about an hour, or until the cake stops singing. =Rice Flour Cake= ¾ cup butter 2 scant cups sugar 2¼ cups rice flour 6 eggs 2-3 tablespns. lemon juice with grated rind Cream butter, add sugar, a little of the flour and beaten yolks with half the juice and all the rind of lemon. Beat whites of eggs with a little salt, adding the remainder of the