The morning times., 1896-01-05


most exactly like angel food. Mrs. Cleye'
land has made business OF having ii
once year ever since little Ruth was bors.
II fs baked IN square tins and cut out of
the pans hot, SO the young woman who
likes to talk to me, informs me.
mrs. Cleveland is very superstitiOus
about this cake. She never fails to have
| 1t. One year, owing to family sickness, 1t
| was postponed, and never once did the
sun shine In the Cleveland family until
that cake was made and passed around.
| 1t is a soft, white cake, a little too sweet
| for a mans taste unless served with q sour
wine. But 1 should call 1t very good cake
just the same. You can try 1t for yourself.
Have the whites of ten eggs and
| yolks of seven, one and a half cupfuls OF
| granulated sugar measured after sitting,
one cupful OF flour measured after sift
| ing, one teaspoonful OF cream Of tartar,
| and one OF orange extract. Beat the
whites to a froth. and add the sugar. Beat
| the yolks in similar MANNER, and add to
them the whites and sugar and flavor. FL
! nally stir in the flour. Mix quickly and
| well. Bake in slow oven.
MISS HERBERTs BEST CAKE.
~ like to drep into The Herbert house."
continued the 'Rounder,' because here you
| get the genuine article. Few people know
how genuine everything is here at the
Herberts'.
There is Miss Herbert to begin With.
She's genuine Southern girl. Did you
hear how she crossed the ocean the last of
December in all the gales TO be at home New
Years Day?
Miss Herbert's cakes are as Southern.
as rich and as genuine as the mamts.y who
makes them. They're all from Aiabama.
you'd say, If you Gould see how fruity and
nutty everything is they put before you.
Their new house is peach and gem.
There's a baby there, too. always, some
times as many as three. Two OF them are
grandchildren and there is an air about the
house that's grand but usable. Miss Her
| bert knows how TO lie a hostess. wish you
| could see her pour out the wine and pass
| the cake. No servant is called in TO do it.
1t is her pretty young ladysbip's Southern
pleasure.
"Once tie Herbert NANNY" said the
"Rounder," laughing, gave away the
secret OF the enhancing cakes to a neigh
boris cook for the consideration OF being
| taught Eastern baked beans. The recipe, as
a young woman has 1t in her notebook, is
this:
- One cup of butter two of sugar, three
| OF flour, the whites of seven eggs, half a
wineglass OF white wine, two tablespoon
| fuls OF baking powder. a cup of eitron cut
fine, half pound OF chopped almonds,
one teacupfll OF puiyerized cocoanut. Beat
! the butter to a.crean, and add the sugar and
/ then the wine. Beat the eggs to stiff
/ froth and stir into the butter and sugar.
| Add the rlolr and lastly the fruit. Bake in
moderate oven. Makes two loayes.'
MRS. PHIL. SHERIDAN'S CAKE
THE Sheridans are at once the haughtiest
and most delightful people l know. Mrs.
Phil, widow. and mother OF twins, OWNS
the snappiest pair OF eyes / ever talked TO.
| If you're a family friend they beam and
beam: If you're a stranger they simply can
not see you.
Mrs. Phirs twins come home for the
| holidays, and ! think that hiack-hared
girl is her daughter Anyway they all
act as host and hostess, and have a
! piece OF their cake every year 1t isn't
| so much the cake as the one who gives
! it. They bring it out in great flat silver
dishes and upon trays. They have so many
sweet teeth in their family that they make
their cake at New Years time in aaub,
I'm told. This is the Sheridan boys IA
vorite cake-regatta cake:
- Two pounds OF raised dough. two
cups of sugar, one cupful Of butter, four
eggs, half nutmeg, glass of wine, a
teaspoonfal OF salaratus, one pound of
raisins. Mix put IN deep pans that have
been well creased, and let rise half an
hour, and fifteen minutes longer If 1T Is
very cold weather Bake in good oven.
Il WISH could give you di tiie " asniilS-
ton New Y ear scakes. There would@5e more
heartiness and fewer dyspeptics for the
next month, at least. Washington woneB
are he real stuff as they say South among
the darkies. They are not afraid TO go in the
kitchen and work. They make their own
cakes and do their own fancy cooking; and
Mrs. Carlisle, frem Kentucky, isn't afraid
to tell Mrs. Lamont. from New York, that
her way of making soft ging erbread is better
than any other And Mrs Wilson of West
Virginia isn't backward about letting the
Nortonsof Nebra ska understa nd that. though
they may make better rolls and bread in the
West. they can fry things as people in West
Virginia can.
Give ME Washington at New Year S time.
and I'm willing to live at the Pole the rest
OF the year."