Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1880-05-08
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


hntte, one cup sugar, one cup milk.
three cups flour, two teaspoons baking
powder. Bake in thin lay ers and spread
any kind of jelly between; currant is
best.
Loaf Cake.-Six cups risen dough
two cups sugar. one cup butter, two
eggs, two even tablespoons of cinnamon,
fourth Of nutmeg. Add raisins or
currants if You choose. Let it rise as
for bread and bake slowly.
Lemon Cake.-One pound sugar,
one pound butter stirred to a cream,
eight eggs beaten separately, juice of
one lemon and grated rind of two, the
yellow only. one pound flour, sificd
gradually. This makes two cakes and
is very good.
Orange Cake.-Onc pound butter
one pound flour, one pound sugar, ten
eggs beaten separately, juice of six
oranges, CRATE the yellow of the rinds
into the sugar, but be careful to CRATE
| only the outer surface in which the oil is
contained. This makes two cakes and
is very nice.
Good nourishing food, and whole.
some, plain cooking, if introduced in
thousands of family circles which are
now unhappy without knowing why,
would result in improved health, hap
pier tempers, more ability and DISPOSE
ton to work. better incomes and higher
and nobler lives.
Coffee Cake.-Four eggs, one large
cup sugar, one of molasses, one small
cup butter, one large cup cold coffee,
four small cups flour, one pound raisi)ls,
enc cup currants, one nutmeg, one ta-
blespoon allspice, one tablespoon CHINA
mon, one teaspoon cloves, little cit.
ron if you choose, three teaspoons
baking powder. This may be made
without the eggs. Make as stiff as fruit
cake.
-Custard Cake.-Onc egg, ono cup
sugar. threc-fourths cup milk, and one
and one-half cups of -four. three tea
spoons baking-powdcr, butter size of an
egg; bake in layers. Custard. One
and One-fourth cups milk, one egg,
pinch Of salt, sweeten to taste, make
quite sweet. flavor highly with vanilla.
Must be made first and cooled before
putting between the cakes.
-Cocoanut Cakc.-One cup sugar,
onc-half cup butter, two eggs, onc-half
cup milk, two cups flour, two teaspoons
baking powder. Bake in thin layers.
For paste, the whites Of two eggs, one
cup powdered sugar beaten together.
Spread Il layer of the icing on the cake
and strew it thickly with cpcoanut,
grated and sugarcd, place another cake
on that and proceed rs before, putting
only the icing on the top of the cake,
or if you prefer. sprinkle with powdered
sugar.
Marble Cake.-Whites of seven
eggs. one cup butter, two cups white
sugar, one cup sweet milk. four cups
flour. three teaspoons baking powder;
flavor with lemon or vanilla. Dark
part.-Seven eggs, yelks only. two cups
brown sugar, one cup molasses, half cup
butter, one cup sweet milk, five cups
flour, two teaspoons cloves, one tea
spoon allspice, one teaspoon nutmeg or
cinnamon, three teaspoons baking pow
der. Put first a layer of dark and then
of light. This makes two good sized
cakes.
Save all the parings and cores of
sound, good apples, put them in the
oven and let them get quite dry, then
pour boiling water on them, let them
stand till the goodness is well soaked
out. then turn off the water in n jar that
has little good vinegar in it, or put in
Il little sugar or molasses and Keep il
near the fire; it will soon fcrment and
be as nice rs cider vinegar. During the
jelly season. after the juice is squeezed
from curr.lnts or other fruit, turn boil
ing water on the seeds and skin or pulp
and strain off into the vinegar jar. The
juice from almost any fruit is good for
vinegar and will help give it a fine
color.
Fruit Cake.--Two pounds -four, two
OF brown sugar, two of raisins, stoned,
chopped and Toured. two Of ctrrants,
washed. dried and Toured, one of ctron,
chopped, or shaved in thin strips three
fourths of an inch in length, one of
butter. creamed, ten eggs well beaten,
one pint sweet milk, half Of ii nutmeg, |
half teaspoon salt, cinnamon and all |
spice to taste, four heaping teaspoons
baking powder, mixed in the flour;
make quite stiff, beat well. bake four or |
five hours. ice. One half the quantity
makes good sized cake enough for
six quart pan. This will keep years.
If it gets too dry. steam gently, and ice
again.
The quantity of salt contained in
the sea according to the best authors
ties) amounts to four hundred thousand
billion cubic feet, which, if piled up,
wonld form a mass one hundred and
forty miles long, as many broad and as
many high; or otherwise disposed,