RECIPES TRIED AND TRUE
CHEESE TART
- 1¼ lbs. pot cheese,
- l½ cups sugar,
- 2½ tablespoons butter,
- 8 eggs,
- 2 tablespoons flour,
- 1 teaspoon salt,
- ½ pint cream,
- Juice and rind of 1 lemon,
- ½ cup bread crumbs.
Mix cheese with sugar and butter creamed; add yolks of eggs, flour, salt, cream and lemon. Beat whites stiff and add. Grease spring form, sprinkle bread crumbs, add mixture and bake slowly in moderate oven about one hour.
CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE
- ½ cup butter,
- 1½ cups sugar,
- 4 eggs,
- 2 oz. unsweetened, chocolate,
- 5 tablespoons hot water,
- ½ cup milk,
- l¾ cups flour,
- 2 teaspoons baking powder.
Cream butter with sugar and add well-beaten yolks; dissolve chocolate in water and add to mixture; add milk and flour with powder; beat whites stiff, add and bake in slow oven thirty-five to forty minutes. Whipped cream, jelly or chocolate may be put between layers and icing on top.
DATE TORTE
- 16 dates,
- 1 tablespoon wine, brandy or lemon juice,
- 9 yolks egg,
- 1¾ cups sugar,
- 3 tablespoons grated chocolate,
- 1 teaspoon each of gr. cinnamon and allspice,
- 1 heaping cup full cracker crumbs.
Rub dates to smooth paste with wine, brandy or lemon juice, beat two whole eggs and seven yolks, add sugar, beat again, add dates, chocolate, spices and cracker crumbs. Stir well add well beaten white of eggs. Bake forty minutes in good size spring form. Prunes may be used instead of dates.
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