The Detroit times., 1916-02-08
Saint Valentine
Day Cookery
Cove Cako.


nour with one level teaspoon baking
powder and sift; cream one and
one-half level cups butter will. one
and one-half cups powdered sugar;
then add one-half cup sweet milk
and the four; fold In the stifny
beaten whites of two eggs the last
thing and add one teaspoon vanilla
and one-half teaspoon violet ex'
tract; bake In loaf three-fourths OF
an hour. When cold cover with
white icing favored with violet,
With Q cord crease around the sides
of the cake to represent the bars OF
music and add small red candy
hearts to represent the notes; or
these can be cut from candied cher
ries. A row on top Of tiny icing
rosettes are pressed through = tube
and several crystallised violets are
punched In the center OF top with
crystallixed mint leaves radiating
from these. A row Of hearts com.
plete the valentine cake.
hsart Tarts.
One pint pastry -four, scant one.
half pint cold butter; mix thor.
oughly. add one-half teaspoon salt
and one-fourth pint ice cold water;
mix into Z dough and roll out: cover
with. chopped hickory nut meats;
fold over and roll out again one
eighth inch thick; cut into hearts.
in half Of which cut holes: brush
with egg yolk and bake . delicate
brown; when cold put together with
red currant jelly or any other red
filling. Line q basket with rose
foliage and arrange the hearts In
this.
Ice Hearts.
A pink ice cream or ice 10 pressed
into heart shape by using heart
molds; unmold onto disks of toast
ed sponge cakes; metal arrows are
thrust through each heart and q
crystallixed rose leaf is placed on
each.
Cupid Cakes.
Take three eggs and their weight
In butter, In sugar and In hour;
then cream the butter and sugar un.
I'll very light and creamy; add one.
fourth teaspoon salt and one-half
teaspoon each vanilla and almond
extracts; then add the eggs one al
time and beat nve minutes be-
tween each addition; then add all
the -four, folding It in lightly; pour
the mixture into a creased pan. all.
ing with the batter three-Quarters
full and using a shallow sheet pan.
Bake slowly for about 80 minutes or
until clean straw placed in the
center will come out without the
batter adhering to IT. Let the cake
become cool after removing 1t from
the pan; then with heart-shaped
cutter form small cakes. dipping
them into boiled icing or melted
fondant colored pink with vege
table coloring and favored with
strawberry or rose. On each cake
place candicd cherry impaled on
70 q small metal dart.
Valentine Salad.
Make a lobster or chicken salad
and put the celery and meat through
a meat mincer before mixing with
the dressing. Pack the salad into
heart-shaped pans and place in q
cool place until ready to serve; I;
then place on q cold dish having on
1t a bed of watercress and mound
up in the center small hearts cut
from picked red beets. Over each
heart sprinkle some paprika.
Ice Cream Roses and Hearts.
For the Valentine party there 10
no better way to serve the ices
than in these shapes. Metal forms
can be purchased at the department
store, or the caterer will make the
ices In these forms. When made at
home the cream should be frosen
to q mush. then packed to overflow
ing In the forms 90 that when the
hinged halves are put together the
cream will ooxe out at the sides;
then this is cut away and the molds
placed in q can which, after being
filled with the molds, 10 placed In
salt and ice for several hours. II