ING.
One cup pulverized sugar, piece of butter size of a walnut. Moisten
with a little water and spread on cake.
"SCHWARZ" CAKE
This delicious black chocolate or "Schwarz" cake, as Aunt Sarah called
it, was made from the following recipe:
1-1/2 cups of sugar.
1/2 cup butter.
1/2 cup sweet milk.
1 even teaspoon of soda (saleratus).
3 eggs.
1 teaspoonful of vanilla.
2 cups flour.
1-1/2 teaspoon of Royal baking powder.
Before mixing all the above ingredients place in a stewpan on the
range 1/2 cup of grated chocolate and 1/2 cup sweet milk; allow them
to come to a boil, then stand this mixture aside to cool and add to
the cake mixture later.
Cream together sugar and butter, add yolk of eggs; soda dissolved in
the milk, then add flour and baking powder sifted together alternately
with the stiffly beaten white of eggs. Then beat in last the
chocolate and milk mixture which has cooled. Bake in layer cake pans.
Use the following chocolate filling:
1/2 cup sugar.
1/2 cup milk.
Yolk of one egg.
1/2 teaspoon of corn starch (good measure).
1/4 cake of Baker's unsweetened chocolate.
Boil all together until quite thick and spread between layers of cake.
APPLE CREAM CAKE
2 cups Sugar.
2 tablespoonfuls butter.
1 cup sweet milk.
3 cups flour.
3 eggs.
2 teaspoonfuls Royal baking powder.
Add the stiffly beaten whites of eggs last and bake in two layers.
Flavor with lemon or vanilla.
APPLE CREAM FILLING FOR CAKE.
Beat white of 1 egg very stiff. Add 1 cup of granulated sugar and beat
well. Quickly grate one raw apple into the egg and sugar, add the
juice of 1/4 lemon and beat 20 minutes, when it will be light and
foamy. This icing is soft and creamy. Coarsely chopped nut meats may
be added if liked. Cake must be eaten with a fork, but is delicious.
A "HALF POUND" CAKE
Cream together 1/2 pound of sugar and 1/2 pound of butter. Beat into
this the eggs separately, until five eggs have been used. Add flour
and 1 small teaspoonful of baking powder. Bake in a moderate oven
about 55 minutes; 1/2 pound of flour is used in this cake. This cake
is extra fine.
A DELICIOUS ICING (NOT CHEAP).
Stir to a cream a half cup butter, 1-1/2 cups pulverized sugar, 1
tablespoonful milk and 1 teaspoonful vanilla. It is then ready to use
for icing a cake.
COCOANUT LAYER CAKE
2 cups sugar.
1/2 cup butter and lard, mixed.
3 eggs (yolks only).
1 cup milk.
3 cups flour, sifted several times with t
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