Things Mother Used to Make Part 4

4 Eggs 1 Cupful of Sugar 1 Cupful of Flour 1 Teaspoonful of Cream of Tartar 1/2 Teaspoonful of Soda Pinch of Salt 1 Teaspoonful of Extract of Lemon

Beat together eggs and sugar, add salt and extract. Stir into the dry flour the soda and cream of tartar. Mix all together. Bake in a moderate oven, in a large pan, and turn out, when done, on a clean towel, which has been sprinkled with powdered sugar. Spread with jelly and roll while warm.

=Silver Cake=

1 Cupful of Sugar 1/3 Cupful of b.u.t.ter 2 Cupfuls of Flour Whites of 3 Eggs 1/2 Cupful of Milk 1 Scant Teaspoonful of Cream of Tartar 1/2 Teaspoonful of Soda Almond Flavoring

Cream together the b.u.t.ter and sugar, add milk and flavoring. Stir cream of tartar and soda into dry flour. Last of all add whites of eggs, beaten to a stiff froth. To make a very good cake, the b.u.t.ter and sugar should be creamed with the hand. Citron also makes it very nice.

=Sponge Cake, No.1=

3 Eggs 1 1/2 Cupfuls of Sugar 1/2 Cupful of Water Pinch of Salt 1 1/2 Cupfuls of Flour 1 Teaspoonful of Cream of Tartar 1/2 Teaspoonful of Soda

Beat eggs and sugar together, add water and salt, then put soda and cream of tartar into the dry flour. Beat all together. Bake slowly.

=Sponge Cake, No. 2, Grandmother's Rule=

4 Eggs Pinch of Salt 1 Cupful of Sugar 1 Cupful of Flour 1 Teaspoonful of Baking-powder

Beat the eggs ten minutes, add sugar, and beat again. Then add the flour, into which has been stirred the baking-powder. Stir all together and flavor. Bake in a moderate oven.

=SOME OLD-FASHIONED CANDIES=

=Chocolate Taffy=

1 1/2 Cupfuls of Mola.s.ses 1 1/2 Cupfuls of Sugar 1/2 Cupful of Milk 2 Squares of Chocolate 1 Small Teaspoonful of Flour b.u.t.ter the size of a Walnut

Stir the sugar, flour and grated chocolate into the mola.s.ses and milk.

When hot add the b.u.t.ter. Boil until it strings. Pour into b.u.t.tered tin.

When nearly cold mark into squares.

=Mola.s.ses Candy=

2 Cupfuls of Mola.s.ses 2 Teaspoonfuls of Vinegar b.u.t.ter the size of a Walnut 1/4 Teaspoonful of Soda

Put the mola.s.ses, vinegar and b.u.t.ter into a saucepan. Boil until it strings when dropped from a spoon, or until it is brittle when dropped into cold water. Stir the soda in briskly and pour into a b.u.t.tered tin.

When nearly cold, pull until nearly white. Cut into small pieces or sticks and lay on b.u.t.tered platter.

=b.u.t.ter Scotch=

1/2 Cupful of Mola.s.ses 1/2 Cupful of Sugar 1/2 Cupful of b.u.t.ter

Boil until it strings. Pour into b.u.t.tered tin and when cold break into pieces. This is very nice when cooled on snow.

=Pop Corn b.a.l.l.s (very old recipe)=

1 Cupful of Mola.s.ses Piece of b.u.t.ter, half the size of an Egg

Boil together until it strings and then stir in a pinch of soda. Put this over a quart dish full of popped corn. When cool enough to handle squeeze into b.a.l.l.s the size of an orange.

=DESSERTS=

=Apple Tarts=

Roll rich pie crust thin as for pies. Cut into rounds, pinch up the edge half an inch high and place in m.u.f.fin rings. Put into each one a tablespoonful of apple sauce and bake in a hot oven for twenty minutes.

Beat the white of an egg to a stiff froth and add two tablespoonfuls of sugar. Drop a spoonful on the top of each and brown quickly in a hot oven.

=Baked Apples, No. 1=

Take good, sour apples; greenings are best. Scoop out the cores, wash and place in a baking-pan. Fill the hole with sugar, and a tablespoonful for each apple besides. Pour over these a generous supply of cold water.

Bake in a hot oven, until light and fluffy. These make a delicious dessert, if served with cream.

=Baked Apples, No. 2=

Wash, core and quarter sour apples. Put them into an earthen crock.

Cover with cold water adding a cup and a half of sugar to six apples, or sweeten to taste. Bake three or four hours, until they are a dark amber color.

=Baked Sweet Apples=

Wash clean, fair, sweet apples. Put these into a baking-pan, with a little cold water and a half-cup of mola.s.ses, if four to six apples are used. Bake slowly until you can stick a fork through them. Years ago, people ate these, with crackers and milk. Baked apples and milk was a favorite dish.