The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-04
SOUR MILK RECIPES.
Gold and Silver Cakes.

This is exceedingly tender and deli
cious when made OF sour cream. It
may be baked in layers or in loaf,
putting the white and yellow batters in
streaks like a marble cake For the
yellow part, beat to a cream the yolks
of four eggs, then add cupful sugar
and beat again. Add three fourths of
a cup thick sour cream into which has
been stirred a half teaspoonful soda.
Next fold in cup and three-quarters
of pastry -four that has been sifted
several times over and flavor with a
little grated yellow rind of orange and
teaspoonful orange juice or less of
the extract. For the silver cake, mix
cupful sugar with a half cup sour
cream, adding a scant half teaspoorful
soda and cup and three-quarters of
flour. Lastly, fold in the stiffy whip
ped whites of four eggs and flavor with
a little lemon. Bake in a bread tin,
lined with butter paper, putting in the
batter in alternate spoonfuls Bake in
steady, moderate oven, and when cold
ice with a plain white icing, favored
with lemon or orange.
chocolate Layer cake.
Melt a half cake chocolate in the
oven or over hot water. Stir to a
cream one and one-half cups sugar and
half cup butter. Sift together two
cupfuls -four and a half teaspoonful
soda. Repeat this sitting three times
over. Beat the yolks of four eggs until
lemon colored and thick. and the whites
of two until stiff Put a half cupful
sour milk in bowl and stir into it
scant teaspoonful soda dissolved in a
half cup warm water. Put all the in
gradients together and bake in layer
tins. Put together with lemon icing
made from the whites of two eggs.
Soft Gingerbread.
Put into a pan one cup molasses, one
cup sour milk, one half cup softened
butter, one heaping teaspoonful soda,
tablespoonful ginger and flour to mix
very soft.
Dried Apple Cake
Soak a cup and a half of dried or
evapor9ted apples over night in cold
water. then stew soft the day before
using in a half cupful of molasses.
Cream together one cup sugar and half
cup butter Add two thirds Of cup
sour milk, then the apples. And next
two well beaten eggs, a teaspoonful
cloves. two teaspoOnfuls cinnamon, a
grating of nutmeg and three cupfu1s of
-four sifted three times over with a
half teaspoonful soda. Mix thoroughly
using the hands. Have ready one cup
ful seeded raisins. two-thirds of a cup
full of currants and little shredded
citron. A few finely chopped butternut
or hickOrvnut meats are an addition.
Put a LAYER of the batter in q paper
/ lined cake tin. then sprinkle in some
| of the fruit and nut mixture. Follow
with the dough, then more fruit, and SO
on, having the batter at the top. Bake
in 4 slow bread oven, covering the cake
with a buttered paper if inclined to
brown too fast on top.
Sour Milk Pancakes.
| Stir in a pint of sour milk a tea,
! spoonful soda. a half teaspoOnful salt
and four to make a good consistency
! for baking Have the griddle hot and
well creased, bake the cakes in perfect
! circles and pile one on top Of the other
! No eggs are needed.
Sour Milk Corn Cakes.
| Slft together one cup flour, rail-
cup Indian meal, two tablespoonful
sugar and half teaspoonful each salt
and soda. Pour in one cupful sour milk
and teaspoonful lard or butter melted
and beat well, Fold IN a beaten egg
and bake in hot gem tins or a rounC
shallow pan.
Sour Cream Salad Dressing.
| An axce1Iant caTa4 1raeSiurc for not q
toes or cabbage has sour cream for {
foundation. Add to a small cup thicE
sour cream three tablespoonful eide
or tarragOn vinegar, teaspoonful eact
salt and sugar, saltspoontul paprik;
or pinch of cayenne. For a potato
salad a teaspoonful of opinion juice o
mixed onion and tablespoonful mince'
parsley viii be found an addition