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over the cake; cover quickly with grated cocoanut. Pile the cakes together and
cover the whole with grated cocoanut.
24. Chocolate Cake. 1 3/4 cupfuls of sugar, 1/2 cupful of butter, 1/2 cupful of
milk, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoonful of vanilla, 3 squares of grated chocolate, 2 cupfuls
of flour, and 1 heaping teaspoonful of baking powder. Cream the butter and the
sugar, then stir in the milk, eggs, chocolate, and then the flour sifted with
the baking powder. Pour into shallow pans, and bake about 1/2 hour. Pour a white
icing over the top.
25. Soft Gingerbread. 1 1/2 cupfuls of molasses, 1/2 cup ful of sugar, 1 cupful
of milk, 1 tablespoonful of ginger, 1/4 cupful of butter, 2 1/2 cupfuls of
flour, and 2 teaspoon fuls of baking powder. Stir the sugar, butter and molasses
together, then add the eggs and the milk. Sift the baking powder and the flour
together, and mix with it the ginger and the cinnamon. Stir all well together
and bake in a shallow pan.
26. Rich Cookies. 1 cupful of butter, 2 cupfuls of sugar, 4 eggs, 3
tablespoonfuls of water, 4 cupfuls of flour, 1 even teaspoonful of baking
powder, and nutmeg. Sift the flour, baking powder and nutmeg together. Cream the
butter and sugar, add yolks of eggs, beaten lightly, then the water and the well
beaten whites of the eggs. Mix with the flour and roll out thin; cut into cakes
of any shape desired, and bake quickly. These will keep fresh a long time.
27. Drop Cookies. 1/2 cupful of butter, 1 1/2 cupfuls of sugar, 2 eggs, 1/2
cupful of milk, 1/4 teaspoonful of cinnamon, 2 1/2 cupfuls of flour, and 1
teaspoonful of baking powder. Sift flour, baking powder and cinnamon together.
Cream the sugar and butter, add eggs and milk and mix with the flour to a soft
dough that will drop from the spoon. Drop on buttered tins two inches apart.
Sprinkle with powdered sugar and cinnamon before putting it into the oven.
28. Molasses Drop Cake. 1 cupful of sugar, 1 cupful of molasses, 3/4 cupful of
butter and lard, 3/4 cupful of water, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoonful of ginger, cloves,
cinnamon,
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