Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-02-08
How Women Who Stav ~
Home May Earn Monev
By A. C. LIVINGSTON

ARTICLE III.

IF YOU have a talent for any special kind
/ of cooking or preserving and want to
4 realize money on it, make it Enoson, and
always serve your goods SO they VIII tempt
faded appetites In this day of food adul-
teration people are willing to pay good
nrices for home canned fruits and in fact,
all kinds of wholesome COOKING
In nearly all the thriving towns and
suburbs and in the large cities where nat
and club life prevail, women care LILLE little
larly supplied with good home made cakes.
breads, soup and the like, either by the day
or by the week, instead Of buying ,i :. second n
grade goods at the shops. They like to know
that what they eating is made or the
best and purest materials and would De gao
to have winter fruit canned and pickles ana
iellies put up in real home-like style.
others would like desserts, salads and sweet,
meats and dainty things for card parties and
afternoon entertainments.
An Indiana woman makes nice sum of
money every year by making the wedding
cakes of her town. Her fame has EXTENDED
to many of the surrounding towns and she
has orders enough to keep her busy most OF
the time.
recipes, and will make ten pounds of de-
licious wedding cake For the amount OF IN
gradients given below seven-pound baking
pan will be required, which should be OF
thick granite-ware, but if tin pan is used,
be sure to line it with several thicknesses OF
brown paper. The recipe must be closely
followed to insure success, and the oven must
not be too hot, a slow fire being the best
heat, or better STILL use gas which you can
always adjust.
First weigh all the ingredients CAREFULLY,
using only the exact weight called for. Sift
the flour before weighing, and also after the
soda and spices are added. Cut the c1tron
in thin slices; seed the raisins, wash the
currants, drain and rub dry. Blanch ALMONDS
and chop fine.
Then take one pound of butter, one pound
of graduated sugar, pound of flour;
sift the flour with one teaspoon each or SALT
pulverized soda, and ground cloves and two
teaspoonfuls of cinnamon one dozen eggs,
two pounds of raisns, two pounds OF cur
rants, two cups of molasses, one pound OF
citron, one-quarter pound of almonds, one
quarter pound candied orange peel Mix the
almonds and the fruit together in large
pan, dredging over them half cupful of
flour, a large spoon to mix it in we'll Break
the eggs, putting the yolks in one bowl and
the whites in another in cool place. Beat
yolks until thick and light Rub and beat
butter to a cream with large spoon and
then gradually beat in the sugar. Beat in
the yolks of the eggs little at a time. and
molasses. Whip the whites of the eggs well
and add them to the other ingredients, al
ternating with the flour. Beat thoroughly
and then lightly mix in the fruit. Pour
into the baking pan, taking care that the
mixture also covers sides of pan as we'll as
center so that the cake will be level. Bake
four hours and q half in slow oven. Ii
the oven is too hot the cake will cook on
top and be raw in center. If the oven is too
hot at first place a pan of hot water on the
top grating. The temperature OF oven should