CAKES AND COOKIES
MARGUERITES
Beat whites of one egg; add one-fourth cup sugar, two tablespoonfuls nut meats; spread on eighteen wafer crackers and place in pans in moderate oven for a few minutes till slightly brown.
MOLASSES CAKE
- 1 tablespoon butter,
- ¾ cup sugar,
- 1 cup molasses,
- ½ teaspoon allspice,
- ¼ lb. black coffee,
- ¾ cup flour,
- 1 teaspoon soda,
- 1 teaspoon each cocoa, cinnamon and ginger,
- 1 cup milk.
Cream butter and sugar, add remaining ingredients, bake in moderate oven about ¾ hour.
NOTHINGS OR SNOWBALLS
One egg, two teaspoonfuls cream or milk; butter the size of a walnut; flour to make dough very stiff. Roll thin and cut the size of a saucer. Fry in hot grease. Sprinkle with sugar.
NUT CAKE
- ½ lb. butter,
- 2 small cups sugar,
- 6 eggs,
- 1 cup ground or chopped nuts,
- 1 cup of warm milk,
- 4 cups sifted flour,
- 2½ teaspoons baking powder,
- Juice of 1 orange,
- Rind of one lemon (grated).
Cream butter and sugar, add eggs one at a time, add balance of ingredients in order given. Bake ¾ hours. This can be sliced and filled and covered with whipped cream.
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