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19. Orange Cream Cake. 1 cupful of sugar, 2 eggs, 1/4 cupful of butter, 2/3
cupful of sweet milk, 1 1/2 cupfuls of flour, and 2 teaspoonfuls of baking
powder. Cream the butter and the sugar add eggs beaten light, then the milk and
the flour sifted with the baking powder. Bake in three layers in a quick oven.
20. Cream for Filling. The grated rind and the juice of one orange. Then stir in
as much powdered sugar as will give it the required consistency to spread. Stir
until like cream.
21. Marble Cake. (WHITE PART.) 1 cupful of sugar, 1/2 cupful of milk, the whites
of 4 eggs, 1/4 teaspoonful of vanilla, 1/4 cupful of butter, 1 1/2 cupfuls of
flour, and 1 teaspoonful of baking powder. Sift the flour and baking powder
together, cream butter and sugar, add the milk and the vanilla, stir in the
flour and lastly the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth.
YELLOW PART. 3/4 cupfuls of sugar, the yolks of 4 eggs, 1/4 teaspoonful of
vanilla, 1/4 cupful of milk, 1 table spoonful of butter, 1 cupful of flour, and
1 teaspoonful of baking powder. Cream butter, sugar and the yolks of the eggs,
then add the milk, lastly the flour and vanilla, and beat well together.
DARK PART. Dissolve 1/4 cake of sweet chocolate in a little hot milk, add 1
tablespoonful of sugar and 1 teaspoonful of vanilla. Stir this into a cupful of
the batter, taking part of the light and part of the dark batter. Drop by
tablespoonfuls into a well buttered pan, first one color and then another. This
will make a large cake, and is very good.
22. Cocoanut Cake. 1 cupful of sugar, 1/2 cupful of butter, 2 eggs, 1/2 cupful
of milk, 1/2 teaspoonful of vanilla, 2 scant cupfuls of flour, and 1 heaping
teaspoonful of baking powder. Cream the butter and sugar, then add the yolks of
the eggs, the flavoring, the sifted flour and at last the well beaten whites of
the eggs. Bake in three layers in a quick oven.
23. Cocoanut Frosting. Boil 1 cupful of granulated sugar in a few tablespoonfuls
of water until the syrup hairs, then pour the syrup into the beaten white of one
egg. Beat constantly until it is nearly cool, then spread
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