butter and sugar, and stir thoroughly through. Add flavor, add water,
then flour. Stir very hard. Place in a slow oven at once. Will bake in
from 30 to 40 minutes. Invert pan immediately it is taken from oven.

Mary, this batter may also be baked in layers with any kind of filling
desired. The Angel cake receipt is very similar to an original recipe
Frau Schmidt gave me; she uses cornstarch instead of Swansdown flour
and she measures the eggs in a cup instead of taking a certain number;
she thinks it more exact.

"Aunt Sarah, did you know Frau Schmidt, instead of using flour alone
when baking cakes, frequently uses a mixture of flour and cornstarch?
She sifts together, several times, six cups of flour and one cup of
cornstarch, and uses this instead of using flour alone.

"I dearly love the Professor's wife--she's been so very good to me,"
exclaimed Mary.

"Yes," replied her Aunt, "she has very many lovable qualities."

Mary's liking for bright, energetic Frau Schmidt was not greater than
the affection bestowed on Mary by the Professor's wife, who frequently
entertained Mary with tales of her life when a girl in Germany, to all
of which Mary never tired listening. One Aunt, a most estimable woman,
held the position of valued and respected housekeeper and cook for the
Lord Mayor of the city wherein she resided. Another relative, known as
"Schone Anna," for many years kept an inn named "The Four Seasons,"
noted for the excellent fare served by the fair chatelaine to her
patrons. The inn was made famous by members of the King's household
stopping there while in the town during the Summer months, which was
certainly a compliment to her good cooking. One of the things in which
she particularly excelled was potato cakes raised with yeast. Frau
Schmidt had been given a number of these valuable recipes by her
mother, all of which she offered to Mary. One recipe she particularly
liked was "Fast Nacht Cakes," which the Professor's wife baked always
without fail on Shrove Tuesday (or "Fast Nacht" day), the day before
the beginning of Lent. This rule was as "unchangeable as the law of
Medes and Persians," and it would have been a very important event,
indeed, which would have prevented the baking of these toothsome
delicacies on that day.

CHAPTER XXIII.

THE OLD "TAUFSCHIEN."

[Illustration: BIRTH AND CHRISTENING CERTIFICATE

OLD TAUFSCHIEN]

Aunt Sarah had long promised to show Mary her Grandmother's
"Tauf