Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-04-28
Some Thoughts Of The Spring
Brides Wedding Breakfast
Nolks OF two eggs
-Four tablespoons Of sugar
Three tablespoons Of butter.

1~AN VA ANA XXX
-Four tablespoons Of sugar
Three tablespoons Of butter.
cream until light and fifty and
then add the stiffly beaten whites OF
the eggs. Turn into the yeast pre-
pared sponge and beat hard. Now
two cups of -four and knead to a
smooth elastic dough. Cover and
let rise for two hours. Turn on a
pastry board without touching and
roll out ~one-quarter inch thick. Cut
into bve-inch squares and then cut
the squares into ~triangles. Brush
with melted butter and then roll
from the cut side of the triangle
Then shape into a crescent form and
place on n creased baking sheet. Let
rise for twenty minutes in q warm
place and brush with melted short
ening. Bake for fifteen minutes In
a hot oven.
To make rasp rolls: Form part of
the dough into small balls and then
cover n let rise on q pastry board.
Now round up between the hands
and place on a creased baking sheet.
Let rise for twenty minutes and then
bake for fifteen minutes In a hot
oven. When cool, CRATE part of the
crust OF, to give the rasp effect.
Loving Cup
Place n piece OF ice IN a punch
bowl and then add
Juice of one dozen oranges
Juice of one-half dozen grapefruit
One can of crushed pineapple
One medium sized bottle of mara
! schlno cherries, cut in tiny bits
Three pints of carbonated water.
Serve in sherbet glasses.
The wedding cake is made from
an old recipe which was brought into
Quebec IN tho early seventeen hun
dreds and tits said that this Same
recipe was used for making the cake
for Louis XVI
Wash one-half pound of butter to
free It from salt and then place in q
large mixing bow and add
T~hree-quarters pound of powdered
sugar.
Cream NTH tho mixture is light
and fluffy and hen add
Five eggs. Il at a time, beating In
each egg well
one teaspoon of nutmeg
one and one-half teaspoons of cin-
namon
One-haff teaspoon of allspiee
One-half teaspoon of cloves
One-half teaspoon of mace
One teaspoon of almond extract.
When well creamed add
Five cups of sifted flour
Two level tablespoons Of baking
powder
One and one-half cups of milk.
Beat to a smooth lather and then
add
one and one-half cups OF seeded
raisins
One cup Of currants
One cup of thiuly sliced citron
One-half cup of thiuly sliced cam
died orange and lemon peal, mixed
one cup OF finely chopped black
walnuts
One cup Of finely chopped almonds
One-half cup of ounce preserves
Three-quarters cup of cherry jam
One-half cup of orange marmalade
Cut and then fold the fruit and jam
into the cake mixture. When evenly
distributed, place the cake In a cool
place, while preparing the pan. Take
a large pudding pan and grease well.
Dust with -four and then line with
three thicknesses of creased and
Toured paper and then turn in the
prepared cake mixture. Bake for
two and one-half hours In q very
slow oven and then cool. Now spread
the cake with orange marmalade ana
set In q covered box for one week to
ripen. Then ice. Remove the cE-c
and scrape off the marmalade, using
a spatula. Wipe the surface of the
cake with a cloth which has been
wrung from warm water and let dry,
while preparing the icing.
Place the whites of W. eggs in a
bowl and add: Juice of one-half
lemon and then beat to mix and
gradually add. beating hard. two
! pounds of confectioners' sugar. When
glossy and of the desired consistency
ice the cake and decorate with artt-
fetal blossoms which can be pur-
chased at the confectioner's.
After the breakfast everybody adj
tourned to the long room (parlor)
and congratulated the bride and
groom. Usually q short speech or
two is made and then there is dane
ing. Quadrllle, jigs, cotillions and
folk dances are among the most pop
ular; the church does not permit the
round dances. These merry people
do not grasp each other around the
waist, but hold one another by the
elbows.
The music is usually supplied by
hddlers; there is dancing. n res
freshments during the entire time OF
tho fete, which usually lasts from
four to five days. And with Godspeed
to Madame and Monsieur, the couple
turn to begin life together, fully con-
tent to help Zach other and bear the
burdens OF life as they come day by