Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-31
Cake Filings and Frost
ings Concocted With Very
Little Butter and Also With
out Eggs-Boons to House
keepers When Eggs Soar in
Price-Recipes All Tested.

and one and one-ha1f cups of dates
stoned and chopped. Add the dates last
and bake in a moderately hot oven.
Plain Cookies.
Two cups of sour cream, three cups
of sugar, six cups of flour. one tea
spoonful of soda, one teaspoonrui OF
ground cinnamon and one-half tea :
spoonful of salt. Dissolve the soda in
a little water, put the flour in the
mixing bowl and add the other ingre-
dients. Stir until all the -four is mixed
in. Roll out thin, cut with a COOKIE
cutter and bake in hot oven when
making plain cookies. it is good plan
to add a quarter of pound OF melted
chocolate to the batter. after using half
of il and make two kinds OF cookies:
Cut with a art-shaped cutter. and
after they are baked join them with a
thin sugar icing.
Soft Ginger Cookies.
Put one and one-half cups of sugar
into a basin. and one CUP. of molasses.
one cup of lard Tor lard and butter
mixed), one cup of hot water or Gomez,
two teaspoonfuls of powdered ginger.
two teaspoonfuls of soda and sumc1ent
flour to make a soft dough Roll and
cut out with a cutter. Lay the cookies
on buttered tins and bake in moder-
ate oven.
Ginger Snaps.
one-fourth cup each of butter. sugar
and molasses, one-fourth tablespoonful
soda and one and one-half cups of
flour. Cream the butter and sugar. add
the molasses. then the ginger, the soda
and the flour. Beat the mixture brisk
". roll out thin on a Toured board. cut
with a cutter and bake in quick
oven.
Honey Buns.
These are made by rolling dough
thin. spreading with butter and rolling
into a tight roll. like jelly roll. When
the buns are nearly baked. pour
back in the oven to glaze.
Chocolate Waters.
Put a chocolate drop in the center of
a thin wafer. and place in the oven un-
til the candy is melted and the cracker
is crisp
Cracker Shortcake.
Take a can of peaches. apricots or
any canned fruit. Pour of the syrup
and let it heat with more sugar to
make a rich sauce. Butter some
crackers. place the fruit on them and
sprinkle with sugar. then lay another
Duttered cracker on TOP Gut III the
oven long euogh to heat through and
serve with the hot fruit sauce.
Frostings and Filings.
A delicious icing for cake may be
made with sugar and cream, or even
milk, entirely without the use of egs.
Take some confectioner's sugar and
after you have rolled and sifted 1t place
1t in a bowl and add the sweet cream.
or, If that Is not on hand. sweet milk
and a tiny bit of butter, a little at
time, beating and stirring the mixture
until II is light and creamy. Icing
that has been made in this way will
not dry quickly, and IL can be favored
or colored like any other frosting. If
chocolate is to be used, crate it, set it
over boiling water until it has dis
solved and then add it to the icing.
Do not use too much cream. as 1t re-
Quires very little to make the proper
This frosting may be kept
for some time IL covered and put in a
cool place. To frost a cake evenly to
the very edge and prevent the icing
from running down the sides, double
a piece of stin waxed paper and pin 1t
around the cake closely, letting the
band come about half an inch above
the top Of tho cake. Spread on the