CAKES AND COOKIES
CUP CAKE
- ½ cup butter,
- 2 cups sugar,
- 1 cup lukewarm milk,
- 2½-3 cups flour,
- 3 teaspoons baking powder,
- Juice and rind of 1 lemon,
- 4 eggs,
- ½ teaspoon vanilla.
Cream butter with sugar; add yolks one at a time; then add milk and flour alternately, adding powder to last half cup. Beat whites, add lemon and vanilla. Bake in large cake, loaf, layers, coffee cake form or gems with raisins if desired.
CURRANT LOAF CAKE
- ½ cup butter,
- 1 cup sugar,
- 1 cup currants mixed with 2 tablespoons flour,
- 1¾ cups flour,
- 2½ teaspoons baking powder,
- ½ cup milk,
- 2 eggs.
Cream butter and add sugar and eggs well beaten. Add flour and baking powder which have been sifted together, alternately with milk. Sprinkle in currants. Bake about forty-five minutes in deep pan.
CHEESE CAKE
(Mock)
- 2 cups apple sauce,
- 3 eggs,
- 1 can sweet condensed milk,
- Rind and juice of 1 lemon.
Beat yolks, add other ingredients; beat whites stiff, and add. Butter spring form, cover bottom with bread crumbs, pour in batter ; bake slowly about one hour.
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