Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-06-17
Cake without Eggs.
DELICIOUS, INKxPENsIvE AND AT
TRACTIvE.

A delicious cake made without eggs
or milk, and with very little sugar, VIII
appeal to most homes desiring good
living. Ever since squash or pumpkin
was made known to the first settlers OF
this country they have been used In
various plain breads, bat never to make
cake, real CAKE, but here folio"s sn
original recipe Of the writer.
A successful cake was evolved rom
some very sweet, dry, cooked huooaro
SQUASH, although any good winter squash
NAV be used, but the name Hubbard
suggests Old Mother Hubbard, so these
have been called Hubbard Cakes, but
Golden Cocoanut Is just as suitable, 30
call them what You will, only try the
recipe and be copvined.
Take one cup of squash, cooked dry
BY baking, or by boiling and draining
well. Canned squash or pumpkin would
doubtless answer in place OF the fresh,
but this has not yet been tested out and
given to friends, without giving informa-
ton as to the materials OF the cake and
its method, as has been done with the
cakes repeatedly made from big, sweet,
golden, fresh squash.
For this cup of sifted squash allow
cup of -four uusifted, and if sifted then
heap the cup; little must be left TO
| Judgment, since squsshes vary and 30 DO
fiours. Sift with the four one large
teaspoonful of baking powder and
shaking of sal; melt two heapipg tea
spoonfuls of crisco or butter in half
cup of hot water, unless the squash be
still warm, in which case add the butter
directly to the squash. The other in
gradients are one-hslf cup of sugar, one
half cup of shredded eocoanut, one tea
spoonful of vanilla and one-fourth a
teaspoonful of bitter-almond extract.
Work the sugar and hsvorings into
the squash and add what flour 1t will
easily take up, then add the water and
the remainder of the -four, blending
well. Add the cocosnut. 1t should be
about the consistency of nice mashed
potato when it is dropped with a large
spoon Into the cake pan or little patty
pans.
Sugar the top of the dough just as it
goes into the oven and . beautiful glis-
tening crust will result. This amount
makes ten cakes of muffin size.
If baked as a layer cake, then more
cocoanut may be used in filling and on
top.
A variation, much liked by those who
have received samples Of this cake, has
been to add small ssedless raisins to il
as well as the cOcoanut, or slivered cit
ron, orange, or lemon peel, or little
fresh grated orange or lemon rind in
stead of the extracts.
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quick buildings; they may be spiced to
taste and served with any suitable sauce
preferred.
For Mother Goose booth at fair or
for children's party, these could be
called Mother Hubbard cakes or Peter,
Peter, Pumpkin Eater.
FOR CHILDREN's PARTIES.
Make the above cakes in as globular
molds as possible, cups for instance, and
invert them upon green grape leaves or
green paper leaves to look like pumpkins
or sQuasbes.
Place a Mother Hubbard doll in the
center, giving Peter, Peter one Of these
cakes, or have him sitting with plsteful
in bis lap aud one held out in his hand
to encourage buyers. Or, dining table
for home affair could be arranged with
a pumpkin coach and Cinderella aud Old
Mother Hubbard and Peter, Peter, also.
Fine squash may be raised almost any
where. II garden space be limited they
may be trained along fences or tied to
srbors or other supports, such as A
shaped racks. They may be used, not
only as a vegetable and for pie, but for
Ohio pumpkip-burter, which Is q great
fsvorite in old-fsshioned families, and
for squash biscuit or batter cakes cooked
on the griddle, and also In cornbread.
Squash may be added TO buildings,
calling for sweet potato. Squash Is a
cousin of the pumpkin, and like cousins
intermarrying, the family resemblance
is strong, and il is often hard to deter
mine whether some are to be classified
squash or pumpkin. In some cities the
word squssh is seldom heard, every
thing in market is a pumpkin except
the summer crookneck and scslloped
squash.
The sem'-tropicsl "chsyots" or "cho-
cho," now becoming familiar In some
city markets and easily grown in Florida
aud California, 10 called "a sublimated
Souash ~ ID. c.