The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-31

press the edges together, cut once more
with a smaller cutter and lay them on
Toured cloth: cover and let rise for
half an hour. or until they double their
height. Fry a few at time in deep
hot fat same as dOughnutS. When done
dust with powdered sugar.
GERMAN NEW YEARS CAKES.
Warm mixing bowl and put into 1t
two ounces of butter: add half a cup
of sugar and beat to a cream; then add
two eggs well beaten, level tablespoons
full of finely cut lemon peel, a teaspoon
full of aniseed, and two finely pulverlzed
cardamon seeds; mix well, then add ha1t
cup of milk and finally stir in the
flour These are baked in wafer irons.
teaspoonful of the batter being poured
in the middle of the well creased heated
iron and when baked a delicate brown.
rolled up instantly. If you have no
wafer iron place muffin rings on q
creased griddle, pour in a teaSpoonful OF
the mixture, which must be thin enough
to spread quickly, and set in the oven
to bake.
SUGAR DROPS.
Cream three-Cuarters of a pound OF
sugar with three-QuarterS of cup Of
butter. Add six eggs beaten very stiff
and beat again to a cream. Crate one
small nutmeg into a pound Of sifted
| flour, add the flour to the other ingre-
dents and beat to a smooth batter;
drop this by spoonfuls on buttered tins.
| leaving a space of about two inches be-
tween each one. Sprinkle with small
red bonbons, chopped almonds. grated
cocoanut or any decorations that may
please the childish fancy. Bake at once.
DATE PATTY CAKES.
Mix third of cup of soft butter
with one and one-third cupfuls of brown
sugar. When partly creamed break IN
two eggs and beat the mixture until
very light. Then add half cup of milk.
Measure one and three-fourths cups Of
flour, add two teaspoonfuls (of baking
powder and when mixed add the flour TO
the other mixture. Beat to smooth
| batter, then stir in half a teas2oontul
each of cinnamon and nutmeg. Stone
half a pound of dates and cut them ir
pieces, flour and add them to the batter,
then beat hard for two or three minutes
Bake in small heart-shaped patty pans,
in moderately hot oven and when cold
cover them with vanilla icing
COCOANUT- CONES.
Separate the whites from the yolks OF
| three eggs, put the whites on a cnliled
platter and beat them to stiff froth:
then fold in lightly half a pound of
powdered sugar and six ounces of pre-
pared shredded cocoanut. Take out a
teaspoonful of the mixture at a time
and form it into a cone as quickly as
possible, on buttered paper and bake in
a quick oven until the cones are golden
" : - PEPPER NUTS.
Take one pound of white sugar, three
eggs, two teaspoonfuls of baking pow
der almond or other nuts, currants and
| CltrOn, allSDlce, cloves ana cinnamon TO
taste and flour to make a stiff dough. A
pinch of salt added to the nuts is an
imDrov ement.
Separate the eggs and beat them to a
cream and mix them with the whites CT
the eggs which have been whipped to Il
stiff froth; gradually beat in the sugar
then the nuts and fruit. spices and salt.
Sift three cups Of flour two or three
| times with the baking powder and mix
until you have a dough that looks
crumbly: it may be necessary to add a
| little more flour. Pinch off small pieces
of the dough, about the size of hickory
nuts, place them on well buttered tins,
some distance apart, dust with powdered
sugar and bake in a moderately hot
oven for about twenty minutes.
CREME BAVAROISE. WITH GINGER.
Chop fine. pound to a paste and rub
through a sieve four ounced of condied
ginger; mix this with a pint of syrup
made by boiling sugar and water together
| and favoring with vanilla. then again
rub through a finer sieve. Add half box
Of gelatine which has been soaked in
cold water; dissolve the gelatine in the
syrup by standing 1t over hot water;
then set over ice and stir until it begins
to thicken; then carefully fold in a quart
of cream beaten to a stiff broth; adding
a handful Of candied ginger cut into fine
shreds. Pour the mixture into cylindrical
mold and keep on ice until it is well set.
When ready to serve turn out dish
and surround with small Iady-fngers
iced.