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

_When light_--2 cups (1 lb.) butter, 2 cups molasses which has been boiled and cooled to lukewarm, 3 cups (not too fine) nuts, raisins, citron or cocoanut or combinations of same, 4-4½ cups flour, part for fruit. The whites of 2 eggs may be used with the 4 cups of flour. Attend to sponge and cake as soon as light. Steam or bake. =German Coffee Cake--no eggs= 1 pt. milk 1 tablespn. butter 2 tablespns. sugar ½-1 cake compressed yeast salt flour for soft dough Let rise, knead, spread on flat tin with floured hand, ¾-1 in. thick, spread with butter, sprinkle with sugar and ground coriander seed; or, spread with an egg beaten with a teaspn. of sugar, sprinkle with sugar and chopped or split blanched almonds; let rise; bake in moderate oven. Use universal crust dough if a more tender cake is desired. =★ Royal Sponge Cake= 3 eggs ⅔ cup sugar 1 tablespn. lemon juice 1 tablespn. ice water ⅔ cup pastry flour 3 drops extract rose Put together and bake same as nut and citron cake except for the nut meal. This makes 1 loaf or 2 small layers. 3 times the quantity makes 2 large square loaves, or 4 large layers. May use 1½ tablespn. of orange juice with yolks of eggs and ½ tablespn. lemon juice with whites in place of the water and lemon juice. Flavor sugar with oil of orange and add ½ teaspn. vanilla to the cake. Finished with royal filling and icing, this makes a cake suitable for a royal occasion. =Variations of Royal Sponge Cake= (1) Use 2 tablespns. of cream in cake instead of lemon juice and water, with or without 1 teaspn. of lemon juice in whites of eggs. (2) Use ⅔ cup of molasses in place of the sugar, no water, 1 teaspn. only, of lemon juice in the whites of eggs, 1 cup of flour and 1-2 teaspns. ground coriander seed. (3) Use brown sugar in place of white, and orange or vanilla flavoring. =★ Sponge Layer Cake= 3 eggs 1 cup sugar 4 tablespns.