The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-23
ARCHITECTURE OF FRAMING.

whatever I use in fact, has to be as
good as can be found. 1 find a dash
of brandy just as the cake goes on the
oven, helps to make it light, and also
to bake more evenly
My cakes are mixed in various ways
according to the sort 1 am making.
The eggs are always very cold when
broken, n whipped light in a cool
place. 1 sift my flour two or three
~times-until it is light like snow. light
hand helps in making cake. There is
just a certain turf in the stirring that
mixes the ingredients right. One per-
son who has it by nature always makes
good cake. One who hasn't, may work
twice as hard, and never turn GU a
good one"
MY icing which is really the dis
tinguishing feature of my axes IS
cooked. you see. No. l cannot tell you
how l make it. That is my only secret,
and 1 feel bound to keep it. 1 color 1t
almost n shade. After it is done, let
me show you what 1 do with it"
She was speaking in the kitchen of
her handsome apartment, a kitchen as
tidy as the pretty parlOr. 1t is furnished
with a gas range, on top of which was
a bright big saucepan 1ull OF what
looked j k boiling snow. A black girl
as neat as the kitchen kept beating and
L HIS ~ Oil III $3.50
there were other pans full of the same
snow, which had m-ysteriOusly turned
green or blue. or pink or purple
MY idea of cake and icing" said
Mrs. Wilson, lis that they should never
be either sticky or clammy, yet always
soft enough to eat with a spoon. Here
are some cakes ready to be sent off.
This one goes to North Carolina-the
others are for local orders. 1 pack them,
you see. in boxes just big enough 10
hold them, cover them with oiled paper,
put in crumped tissue paper over that
then set the boxes in baskets, with
handles at top. The express companies
are notified always to carry them by
the handles-thus they get to their des-
tinations with the cakes ~uncrushed.
How did 1 get to the point of knowing
so much? Well, it has all come through
experience. When one way would not
answer. 1 had to sit Town and think UP
something better"
The North Carolina cake was big and
round, covered with pink icing, and
having a wreath of pink icing sweet
peas around the edge. One of the local
cakes had icing lilies m high relief on
the top of it. Another had daisies, done
to the life, with yellow sugar hearts
But beautiful as they were, they were
nut out of countenance by a lot of in
diVidual cakes ordered for a Swagge
luncheon. Some were iced to look like
pink and white chrysanthemums; some
were w~hitey-green snowballs, others
a knots of violets or narcissus uDon
their iced surfaces. with a fine f1uting
around the flowers.
Upon the dinner table Mrs. Wilson
was icing a big square brides cake she
had put a wreath of lilies of the valley
around the sides. and above that a fes-
looming Of ~ribbon-icing ribbon of
course. Now she was meditating upon
a design for the plain square center.
She spread a sheet of blOtting paper
upon the table, took up a pepper corn
ucopia full of icing, manipulated 1t a
minute or wo-and there, plain to
view. was a bouquet of valley lilies,
tied lightly with a t~rue-lover's knot.
81 think that will do" h said, and
at once began to reproduce the lilies
upon the cake. Incredible as it sounds,
all her work is one in his simple
fashion. She has such gifted finger tips
that with only the paper horns filled
with the smooth. foamy icing, she can
shape whatever flower or line her fancy
centuries up. Her candies are decorated
the same way. She makes them of
plain cream consistency, cuts the sheets
in fancy shapes, and puts the tiny
flowers or figures of the icing upon top
of sucn
Naturally, the Tennessee centennial
was a time of triumph for her. She
made the cakes for the breakfast given
Mrs. Mckinley by the Woman's board,
TOOK all the prizes offered by the cen
tennial for cakes nj ended by showing
upon Kate Kirkman day a cake with a
picture of Kate Kirkman herself, pres
ident of the Woman's board. which was
so lifelike everybody recognized it.
Beyond all that, her work was in such
great request for the many handsome
entertainments that she was forced to
leave the city for more than a month,
rather thar let herself be worked to
death.
All of which goes to show that for
the woman who does anything SUI
premely well. there is still and
to spare in this world.
MARTHA NORTHUMBERLAND.