The royal baker and pastry cook : $b A manual of practical cookery

Add whipped whites and ⅓ teaspoon salt, then the arrowroot mixed with baking powder. Beat well for 10 minutes; add extract, and bake in loaf-pan lined with 3 thicknesses paper. Have oven moderate, bake 1½ hours, and cover pan with paper for first hour. =Spice Cake.=—1 cup butter, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 pint flour, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 teaspoon each caraway and coriander seeds, 1 teaspoon each extract nutmeg, cinnamon, and ginger, 1 cup milk. Sift flour, sugar, and powder together; rub in butter; add milk, seeds, and extracts; mix smooth into batter of medium thickness; fill greased patty-pans ⅔ full; bake in hot oven 8 or 10 minutes. =Delicate Spice Cake.=-⅔ cup melted butter, ⅔ cup sugar, 2½ cups flour, 1 egg, ⅔ cup molasses, 1 cup milk, 2 scant teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 tablespoon vinegar, 1 tablespoon mixed ground spice, pinch salt. Beat egg, add milk. Add, mixed, flour, baking powder and salt, spice, sugar, melted butter, molasses, and vinegar. Bake in two shallow pans in quick oven. =Scotch Cake.=—1½ cups butter, 2½ cups sugar, 8 eggs, 1½ pints flour, ½ teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 3 cups raisins, stoned, 1 tablespoon extract lemon. Rub butter and sugar to light, white cream; add eggs, 2 at a time, beating 5 minutes after each addition; add flour sifted with powder, raisins, and extract; mix into smooth batter; put into paper-lined square, shallow cake-pan (fig. XIII); bake in moderate oven 1 hour. =Washington Cake (St. Louis, 1780).=—2 cups butter, 3 cups sugar, 4 cups flour, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 5 eggs, 1 cup milk, 1 cup stoned raisins, ½ cup washed and picked currants, ¼ cup chopped citron, 1 teaspoon each extract nutmeg and cinnamon. Rub butter and sugar to light, white cream; add beaten eggs gradually, the flour sifted with powder, milk, raisins, currants, citron, and extracts; mix into smooth, medium batter; bake in shallow square cake-pan (fig. XIII), in rather quick, steady oven, 1½ hours; when cold ice with white icing. =Shrewsbury Cake.=—1 cup butter, 3 cups sugar, 1½ pints flour, 3 eggs, 1