RECIPES TRIED AND TRUE
JOHNNY CAKE
- 1 cup cornmeal,
- 1 cup flour,
- 1 egg,
- 1 cup milk,
- Lump butter size of egg,
- 4 teaspoons baking powder.
Mix well and bake thirty minutes.
KISSES
Well beaten whites of four eggs.
Beat in very gradually 1½ cups of powdered sugar until mixture will hold its shape. Drop from tip of spoon in paper-covered tins and bake a very light brown. Place ½ inch apart.
LAYER CAKE
- 3 eggs,
- 1½ teaspoons baking powder,
- 1 cup sugar,
- 1½ cups flour,
- ½ cup water,
- Vanilla flavoring.
Cream eggs and sugar, add flour, baking powder, water and flavoring. Bake in two layers about twenty minutes.
LINZER TORTE
- ¼ lb. butter,
- ¼ lb, sugar,
- 1 egg,
- 2 teaspoonsful baking powder,
- 2 tablespoons whiskey, or brandy,
- ½ lb. flour,
- ¼ lb. ground almonds,
- 1 teaspoon full cinnamon,
- 1¼ teaspoon cloves,
- 1 ounce each citron and orange peal ground or chopped.
Cream butter and sugar, add other ingredients in order given. Put on ice over night. Roll out thick, retain sufficient for top strips; fill with strawberry or prune preserves.
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