The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-11
Mysteries of Cake. Baking.


Mysteries of Cake Baking.
In making cake, if you wish to insure
its being good you must use only the best
ingredients, be accurate in your measure
ments and follow the rule implicitly. Use
Il wooden spoon for mixing, and always
mix the batter i'll an earthen dish. Metal,
either i'll mixing-bowl or spoon, is ant to
destroy the delicacy of the cake. +
Butter that has the least unpleasant taste
will develop greater unpleasantness when
cooked, and spoil the article of food into
which it has been put. Baking powder,
cream of tartar and soda should be added
to the siftcd flour, and the whole passed
again through the sieve. Flour should be
sifted before it is measured. Unless con.
trary directions are given in the rule
which you are using, the whites and
yolks Of the eggs should be beaten sepa-
rately. The best sugar 40 use in cake
making is the fine granulated. The
coarser sugar makes the cake coarse also,
and with tendency to heav;ness.
So much for the ingredients; now for
the way in which they are put together.
Cream the butter first of all; have the
mixing-bowl warm, as that will help soft
Ell the butter and get it III condition to
beat. When it is light and creamy add
the sugar. beating it thoroughly in. Then
put in the havoring or spices, then beat
in the yolks of the eggs, which you have
whisked we'll, SO that they are light and
smooth; next add the milk then the -four,
and last of all the well-beaten whites of
the eggs. Beat vigorously for half a
| minute.
When you start to make cake you
want to make sure that your oven is
right for the baking; and that there is
| sufficient coal in the fire to last through
| Butter your cake-paEs, and line them
| with thin paper. The heat should be
| moderate, and care should be taken to
keep the cake from being Jared, else it
will be heavy. After the cake is baked
| it is better to let it partially cool in the
| cake.-Woman's Home Companion.
Her lad eI Ell lence.
IF you stay until after dark I'll walk
home. with YOU. You won't be afraid to
go with NE, will you?"
This was said by a young girl-preity
| and well-dressed, but hard worka.-
to a sister woman of leisure who Was
| visiting her, says Harper's Bazaar.
why should you be any projections to
me?' was the laughing reply, and the
answer came instantly:
| ION, | am working for my living No.
| body would dare to speak to me on the
| street. Nobody ever does''
Now, what possible difference was
there between these two girls that male
one protection to the other? In OFT
| ward appearance there was no discern
ible difference. Their garb was alike,
but there was distinction, and they
| both knew that while one of them was in
no danger of walking home in the dart,
the other was in danger of annoyance
| One, in a word, had the manner of poiSe
and experience of life, and the other haD
led sheltered existence.
Manner, it would seem, then, may be
today considered almost as safe ga1b
as the grey gown and white poke bonnet
of the Sister of Mercy, Or the blue un
form and dark bonnet of the Salvatio,
Army. But it is not manner alone that
distinguishes the woman who works il
the world from her who adorns it. Tln
woman who works almost invariabl,
bears in her face the story of work ii
a subtle. but unmistakable way, mo-
always in lines of wear and tear. by any
means, but in certain steadiness OF
gaze, self-reliance in the eyes, {
strengthening of the whole face.