The Boston cooking-school cook book

butter cakes. When failures are made in Sunshine and Angel Cake, they are usually traced to baking in too slow an oven, and removing from oven before thoroughly cooked. Sunshine Cake Whites 10 eggs 1½ cups powdered sugar Yolks 6 eggs 1 teaspoon lemon extract 1 cup flour 1 teaspoon cream of tartar Beat whites of eggs until stiff and dry, add sugar gradually, and continue beating; then add yolks of eggs beaten until thick and lemon-colored, and extract. Cut and fold in flour mixed and sifted with cream of tartar. Bake fifty minutes in a moderate oven in an angel-cake pan. Mocha Cake To one-half recipe for Sunshine Cake add one-half cup English walnut meats broken in pieces. Bake in a medium-sized angel-cake pan; cool, split, and fill with whipped cream sweetened and flavored with coffee essence. Cover top with Confectioners’ Frosting, flavored with coffee essence. Angel Cake Whites 8 eggs 1 teaspoon cream of tartar 1 cup sugar ¾ cup flour ¼ teaspoon salt ¾ teaspoon vanilla Beat whites of eggs until frothy; add cream of tartar, and continue beating until eggs are stiff; then add sugar gradually. Fold in flour mixed with salt and sifted four times, and add vanilla. Bake forty-five to fifty minutes in an unbuttered angel-cake pan. After cake has risen and begins to brown, cover with a buttered paper. Moonshine Cake Whites 10 eggs ¼ teaspoon salt ⅞ teaspoon cream of tartar Yolks 7 eggs 1½ cups sugar 1 teaspoon almond extract 1 cup pastry flour Add salt to whites of eggs and beat until light. Sift in cream of tartar and beat until stiff. Beat yolks of eggs until thick and lemon-colored and add two heaping tablespoons beaten whites. To remaining whites add gradually sugar measured after five siftings. Add almond extract and combine mixtures. Cut and fold in flour, measured after five siftings. Bake in angel-cake pan, first dipped in cold water, in a slow oven one hour. Have a pan of hot water in oven during the baking. Cover with =Maraschino Frosting.= Follow recipe for Ice Cream Frosting (see p.