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The dough is stirred in a warm dish and then mixed on the bread board with the
necessary flour; proceed as noted under No. 1 of this Division, then roll out
the dough, put it into the cake pan, and after it has raised, spread with
butter, sprinkle sugar over it, put into a hot oven and bake quickly.
85. Bremen Butter Cake. For the dough 3 pounds of sifted flour, 1 pound of
washed and stoned raisins, 1/2 pound of sifted sugar, 1 1/2 pints of milk, 3
ounces of yeast, 1 teaspoonful of salt, 1 pound of freshened butter and spices
according to taste. For filling take 3/4 pound of washed and warmed currants,
1/4 pound of sugar, 2 ounces of cut almonds and 1 ounce of citron.
Make the dough, warming all ingredients as given in No. 91, let it raise slowly
for about 1 1/2 hours, roll into a long narrow strip about 1 inch thick, press
with the rolling pin in the center of this so as to have the sides thicker, fill
with currants, citron, almonds, then fold the two sides together so as to have
the cake shaped like a half moon, put into the pan, make a few incisions into
the cake, let it raise, spread with egg, and bake in a moderate oven for 1 hour.
86. Silesian Cheese Cake. A dough is made as given under No. 84. For the top
take a soupplateful of curds stirred with fresh cream but not too thin, 1 cupful
of melted butter, sugar, cinnamon to taste, 2 eggs, with 1/2 pound of currants
stirred through it.
Roll the dough quite thin, put on the. pan, let it raise, warming the cheese a
little and spread it on the cake and bake quickly. According to the size of the
cake, the evening before wanted take 3 quarts of thick milk with the cream, put
it into a cheese cloth bag and the next morning use for the cake.
This cake is very nice and refreshing when not left in the oven too long so that
it will become dry; it should be eaten when still quite fresh.
87. Fruit Cake. 1 quart of milk, 2 pounds of freshened butter, 1 pound of stoned
raisins sprinkled with a little rum, 1 pound of cleaned currants, yeast, 3
ounces of sweet, and 1/2 ounce of bitter chopped almonds, 2 ounces of finely
sliced citron, the grated peel of a lemon,
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