five eggs, one third
teaspoon cream of tartar, one cup sugar, one cup of flour, a little
salt and vanilla. Beat whites stiff, add salt and cream of tartar, add
sugar, then beaten yolks, then flour which has been sifted several
times. Flavor and bake in a funnel tin.--Contributed.
MOCK ANGEL FOOD.--One cup sweet milk, bring to boiling point, one cup
flour, one cup sugar, three teaspoons of baking powder. Sift dry
ingredients together four times, add warm milk and stir well then fold
in beaten whites of two eggs. Flavor. Bake in angel cake
tins.--Contributed.
ANGEL CAKE.--Whites of twelve eggs--or, measured, one and one quarter
cups of whites of eggs. Add one third of a teaspoonful of salt, and
beat until stiff. Sift into this 1-1/4 cups of granulated sugar, and
beat. Have at hand one cup of flour that you have sifted five times;
sift this in and mix one teaspoonful of extract of bitter almonds, or
any preferred flavor. Bake in slow oven, and do not grease your pan.
With a gas stove one young friend puts the grate in the oven in its
lowest sliding place and bakes her angel cake there, lighting both
burners for one minute. Then she turns the front out and the other so
low that it looks like a row of blue beads. She bakes it one hour.
Another, equally successful, puts her grate a little higher than the
middle of the oven, and bakes the cake there for one half hour with a
very moderate oven.
MOCHA CAKE.--One cupful of sugar, one cupful of flour and one teaspoon
of cream of tartar and one half teaspoon of soda sifted all together
twice, blend in one large teaspoon of melted butter and break in the
eggs and stir well, then add one half cup of boiling milk. Bake in one
loaf in a moderate oven.
MOCHA FILLING.--One cupful of powdered sugar, a small piece of butter,
two tablespoons of coffee, two teaspoons of vanilla. Cream butter and
sugar, add coffee and flavoring gradually and a little more sugar if
necessary. Spread with a knife dipped in hot water.--Contributed.
MARSHMALLOW FILLING.--One cupful of brown sugar, one cupful of white
sugar, one cupful water and one tablespoon of vinegar boiled together
like candy. Beat two eggs very light and stir into the candy with one
quarter pound of marshmallows, cut up. Spread on layers of
cake.--Contributed.
DEVIL'S FOOD.--Two eggs, one cup sugar, one half cup butter, two thirds
cup sweet milk, one teaspoon vanilla, one half cup melted chocolate,
one half teaspoon soda, one
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