ter alternately with two and one-half cups of
flour in which has been sifted two teaspoons of baking-powder.
*Filling.*--Beat two eggs with one-half cup of sugar, add one-half pound
of pot cheese, one tablespoon of cornstarch boiled in one cup of milk,
cool this and add, flavor with lemon extract.
Put one-half of the batter in cake pan, then the filling and the other
half of batter. Bake in slow oven thirty-five minutes. Sift sugar on top
when done.
BLITZ KUCHEN
Take one cup of powdered sugar, one-half cup of butter, one cup of
pastry flour, one-quarter of a teaspoon of baking-powder, peel and juice
of one lemon, five or six eggs. Beat sugar with two whole eggs; add
butter, beat until foamy; after that the flour mixed with baking-powder,
lemon and four yolks. Last the stiffly-beaten whites of the eggs. Mix
this well, bake in form in a moderately hot oven.
KOENIG KUCHEN
Cream one-quarter cup of butter with one cup of sugar, yolks of six
eggs, one-quarter pound of raisins, one-quarter pound of currants, juice
and peel of one lemon, one spoon of rum, twenty blanched and grated
almonds, two cups of flour mixed with one-half teaspoon of
baking-powder, two stiffly-beaten whites of eggs. Bake in an ungreased
form one to one and one-half hours.
NUT CAKE
Take one-half cup of butter, three eggs, one and one-half cups of sugar,
two and one-half cups of flour, two and one-half level teaspoons of
baking-powder, and one-half cup of milk. One cup of any kind of nuts.
Rub the butter and sugar to a light white cream; add the eggs beaten a
little; then the flour sifted with the powder. Mix with the milk and
nuts into a rather firm batter. Bake in a paper lined tin in a steady
oven thirty-five minutes.
LOAF COCOANUT CAKE
Rub one cup of butter and two cups of sugar to a cream. Add one cup of
milk, whites of four eggs, three cups of flour (measure after sifting),
and three teaspoons of baking-powder added in last sifting. Add a grated
cocoanut and last the stiffly-beaten whites. Bake in a loaf. Line tin
with buttered paper.
FRUIT CAKE (WEDDING CAKE)
Take one pound of butter and one pound of sugar rubbed to a cream, yolks
of twelve eggs, one tablespoon of cinnamon, one teaspoon of allspice,
one-half teaspoon of mace, one-half teaspoon of cloves, one-fourth of a
pound of almonds pounded, two pounds of raisins (seeded and chopped),
three pounds of currants (carefully cleaned), one pound of citron
(shredde
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