Part 5
Follow Solomon's advice for making good boys, and you will have a good cake.
Proverbs: 23 Ch. 14 Verse.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA EXECUTIVE MANSION
Since its adoption in October, 1911, equal suffrage in California has been put to the most thorough and severe test. Every conceivable sort of election has been held in the past three years, and women have been called upon to exercise their new privilege and perform their added duty not alone in the usual fashion, but in various primaries, including one for presidential preference, in local option elections, and they have been compelled to pass on laws and governmental policies presented to the electorate by the initiative and referendum.
The women have met the test and equal suffrage in California has fully justified itself. In nineteen eleven, by a very narrow margin the amendment carried.
Were it to be again submitted, the vote in its favor would be overwhelming.
HIRAM JOHNSTON, Governor.
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Ratan Kuchen
1/2 lb. butter 1 pint milk 4 eggs 1 cake yeast 3/4 cup seedless raisins 1/4 pound blanched almonds (split) 1 cup sugar 1 pinch salt
Soak yeast in a little warm water and some of the milk 10 minutes, then set a sponge and let it stand about 1 hour (before breakfast); cream butter; add sugar and beat thoroughly; beat the 4 eggs light and add gradually to creamed butter and sugar; now add the other 1/2 pint of milk.
Beat well and add the raisins, dredge with a little flour; now add sponge and beat all thoroughly for 1/2 hour till it drops from the spoon a little thicker than a sweet cake.
Grease your pan with butter and take the split almonds and stick them on the side of the pan. Bake nearly an hour.
This makes 2 small cakes or one large one. Very fine German Coffee Cake. You should use a pan with a tube in the center.
Golden Cake
1/2 cup butter 1 cup sugar Yolks 10 eggs 1/2 cup milk 2 cups flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 2 teaspoons orange extract cream butter
Add sugar gradually and yolks of eggs beaten until thick, add lemon colored extract. Mix and sift flour and baking powder and add alternately with milk to first mixture.
Pineapple Cake
1 egg 1/2 cup butter 3/4 cup sugar 3/4 cup milk 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1 1/2 cups flour
Make in two layers and when ready to serve put grated pineapple on each layer of cake. Whip half a pint of cream, sweeten to taste and put over pineapples.
(Bananas can be used instead of pineapples).
Ginger Cookies
3 lbs. flour 1 lb. butter and lard mixed 1 lb. brown sugar 1 pint molasses 1 good sized teaspoon of soda or 2 level ones.
Add ginger to taste--about 4 level teaspoons, also lemon extract or grated rind and juice if preferred.
Put flour, sugar and butter together and rub thoroughly. Make hole in center and pour in the molasses in which the soda has been beaten in. Stir all well together, break off enough to roll out; cut, space in pan and bake in very moderate oven.
These keep well, especially in stone crock. This recipe makes a quantity if cut with small cutter.
Pound Cake
1 lb. flour 1 lb. pulverized sugar flavoring 1 lb. butter 10 eggs
Cream butter and sugar to finest possible consistency. Add 1/4 of the flour and beat well. Have eggs beaten to a froth. Add a few tablespoons at a time and beat thoroughly after each addition of egg. When eggs are all in, add balance of flour and flavoring and beat.
Bake in a slow oven one and one-half hours.
Hints:--Secret of fine pound cake is in the mixing, much beating being essential.
One-half the recipe serves fifteen persons amply.
A paler yellow cake can be had by substituting the whites of two eggs for every yolk discarded.
In the full recipe not more than four yolks should be discarded.
A very little lemon combined with vanilla or almond, improves the flavor of the cake.
Bake, if possible, in an old-fashioned tin pan with a center tube.
Doughnuts
1 cup Sugar 2 Eggs 2 tablespoons melted butter 1 cup sour or butter milk 1 small teaspoon soda Flour enough to make a soft dough 1 teaspoon baking powder
Mix eggs, sugar and butter; add sour milk or buttermilk with soda dissolved. Then stir in flour with baking powder added.
Do not roll too thin.
Have lard boiling when you drop in the doughnuts. A slice of raw potato in the lard will prevent the lard taste.
Cream Cake
1 Cup Butter 1 tablespoon Lard 2 cups Sugar 1 cup Sweet Milk 3 Eggs 2 teaspoons Baking Powder 1 teaspoon Vanilla 1 Quart Flour
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"We bear and rear and agonize. Well, if we are fit for that, we are fit to have a voice in the fate of the man we bear. If we can bring forth the man for the nation, we can sit with you in your councils and shape the destiny of the nation and say whether it is for war or peace we give the sons we bear." ~Joan in "War Brides."~
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One Egg Cake
1 cup butter 1 1/2 cups sugar 3 cups flour 1 cup sweet milk 1 egg 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 cup chopped raisins
Devil's Food
2 cups brown sugar 2 eggs 3 cups flour 1/2 cup boiling water 1/2 cup sour cream 1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup grated chocolate 1 1/2 teaspoons soda
Dissolve soda in boiling water and pour over chocolate and let cool. Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add the eggs and other things. Bake in layers.
Bride's Cake
12 eggs (whites) 1 small cup butter 4 small cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 3 cups sugar 1 cup sweet milk 1/2 cup corn starch Flavor to taste
This makes two good sized cakes, or four layers.
Date Cake
1 Cup Sugar 1/2 Cup Butter 2 Eggs 2 Cups Flour 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder 1/3 cup Milk 1 lb. stoned and chopped dates rolled on a portion of the flour
Cream the sugar and butter. Add the well beaten yolks; then the whites; then the flour well sifted with the baking powder. Beat until smooth; add milk, then dates. Beat thoroughly and bake three-quarters of an hour in a steady, but not too hot oven.
Pfeffernusse (Pepper Nuts)
1 cup Lard 1 cup Butter 2 cups Brown Sugar 3 Eggs 2 teaspoons Annise seed (ground) 2 oz. whole coriander seed 1/2 lb. Chopped Almonds 1/2 lb. Mixed Citron 6 cups Molasses 2 teaspoons Soda 1 Quart Flour 1 teaspoon Cream of Tartar
Cocoanut Cake
1 cup butter 1 cup sweet milk 1 teaspoon soda 1 grated cocoanut 3 cups sugar 4 1/2 cups flour 2 teaspoons cream tartar 4 eggs (beaten separately)
In place of the soda and cream of tartar 3 teaspoons of baking powder can be used.
Jam Cake
1 cup brown sugar 2-3 cup butter and lard 3 eggs 1 glass of strawberry jam 1 teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 grated nutmeg 1/2 cup sour milk 1 teaspoon soda 2 cups flour
Bake in a slow oven.
A march before day to dress one's dinner, and a light dinner to prepare one's supper are the best cooks. Alexander.
Hickory Nut Cake
1 cup sugar 1/2 cup sweet milk 3 eggs 1/2 cup butter 2 teaspoons baking powder flour to stiffen
One large cup chopped hickory nuts and sprinkle a little salt and flour with them. This makes two layers.
Lace Cakes
1 cup brown sugar 1 egg, not beaten 1 1/2 tablespoon flour 1 round teaspoon butter 1 cup English walnuts chopped
Bake on the underside of a pan in a slow oven. This makes 20 cakes.
"Do not misunderstand me. Woman suffrage is right. It is just. It is expedient. In all moral issues the woman voters make a loyal legion that cannot be betrayed to the forces of evil; and however they are betrayed--as we all are--in campaigns against the Beast, the good that they do in an election is a great gain to a community and a powerful aid to reform. I believe that when the women see the Beast, they will be the first to attack it. I believe that in this our first successful campaign against it, the women saved us."
HON. BEN LINDSAY.
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Lace Cakes
1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon butter 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 eggs 2 1/2 cups rolled oats
Cream butter, add sugar and eggs. To this add vanilla and baking powder, and when these are thoroughly mixed, stir in the oats. This should make a stiff batter, and more oats may be added if batter is not stiff enough.
Mold into little cakes with a teaspoon and bake in buttered pans two inches apart, for ten minutes.
Marshmallow Teas
Arrange marshmallows on thin, unsweetened round crackers. Make a deep impression in center of each marshmallow, and in each cavity drop 1/4 teaspoon butter. Bake until marshmallows spread and nearly cover crackers. After removing from oven insert half a candied cherry in each cavity.
These are excellent with afternoon tea.
Apple Sauce Cake
1/2 cup butter a little salt 3 cups sifted flour 1/2 teaspoon cloves 1/2 cup nuts 1 1/2 cups apple sauce 1 1/2 cups sugar 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1 cup seeded raisins 2 scant teaspoons soda dissolved in a little water, boiling.
Bake in a slow oven.
Quick Coffee Cakes
Cream one-fourth of a cupful of butter, three-fourths of a cupful of sugar, one egg; add one cupful of milk, two and one-half cupfuls of flour in which two teaspoons of baking powder have been sifted. Beat smooth, then add as many raisins as desired and bake in two pie tins. When the top has begun to crust over, brush with melted butter and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Bake a golden brown.
Sand Tarts
One pound of granulated sugar, three-quarters of a pound of butter, one pound of flour, one pound of almonds blanched and split, and three eggs. Cream butter and sugar till very light, add the yolks of the three eggs and the whites of two. Add the flour; roll on the board and cut in oblong or diamond shapes. Beat the white of the remaining egg and bake.
Sand Tarts
2 lbs. light brown sugar 3/4 lb. butter 2 lbs. flour 3 eggs
Milk enough to make a stiff dough. Roll very thin, cut out and brush over with beaten egg and milk mixed together. Put two or three blanched almonds on each tart and dust with cinnamon and sugar.
Bake in moderate oven.
Cheap Cake
2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon butter 4 cups flour 3 eggs 1 cup water 2 teaspoons baking powder Flavor to taste
THE STATE OF WYOMING EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT CHEYENNE.
Dec. 22, 1914.
Editress Suffrage Cook Book:
After observing the operation of the women suffrage laws and full political rights in the state and territory of Wyoming for many years, I have no hesitation in saying that everything claimed by the advocates of such laws have been made good in the state. I am unqualifiedly and without reservation in favor of woman suffrage and equal political rights for women for all the states of the American union.
Very truly yours, JOSEPH M. CAREY. Governor.
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Hermits
1 1/2 cups sugar 3/4 cup butter 3 tablespoons milk--sweet or sour 3 eggs--whites and yolks beaten separately 1 teaspoon soda 1 heaping teaspoon cinnamon 1 heaping teaspoon ginger 1 level teaspoon cloves 1 cup chopped seeded raisins 1 cup chopped nuts Even cup of flour
Drop on greased pan and bake.
Hermits
1 1/2 cups sugar 3 eggs 1 cup chopped walnuts or hickory nuts 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup butter 1 cup chopped raisins 1-3 cup sliced citron 1 teaspoon cloves 1/2 teaspoon soda
Dissolve soda in tablespoon hot water. Flour enough to make a stiff batter, drop in small cakes with teaspoon and bake in slow oven.
Cocoanut Cookies
1 cup butter 4 eggs 1 lemon--juice and rind 4 cups sugar 4 teaspoons baking powder 1 pound package grated cocoanut
Cream sugar with butter. Add the yolks of the 4 eggs and beat well. Add juice and rind of lemon. Then flour, into which has been sifted the baking powder. Sift flour and baking powder twice before adding to mixture. Use enough flour to make a very stiff batter, add cocoanut, and last, fold in the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth.
Drop on buttered tins and bake in moderate oven.
PASTRIES, PIES, ETC.
Grape Fruit Pie
First bake a shell as for lemon pie, then make a filling as follows: Mix one tablespoon of cornstarch in a little cold water, and over this pour one cupful of boiling water. To this add the juice of two grapefruits, the grated rind and juice of one orange, the beaten yolks of two eggs, and the white of one, and a small piece of butter. Put all in the double boiler and cook until thick, stirring all the time. When done, put in the shell. Now beat up the white of the second egg with one-half a cupful of sugar until thick, and spread with a knife over the pie. Put in the oven and let brown lightly. Serve cold. This makes a delicious pie.
Spice Pie
The yolks of three eggs, one and one-half cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of cream, two tablespoons of flour, two-thirds of a cupful of butter, one teaspoon of spice, cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg.
Mix the flour and sugar together, then cream with the butter. Add the yolks of the eggs, beating thoroughly. Next add cream and spices. Use the whites for the frosting.
Cream Pie
1 1/2 cups milk 2 egg yolks 2 tablespoons sugar a little salt 1 tablespoon butter Vanilla to taste
Scald milk; beat eggs; add sugar; pour into milk, beating constantly, 1 tablespoon of cornstarch and 1 tablespoon flour (rounded).
Bake crust; beat whites; add 1 teaspoon sugar, cover with cocoanut browned lightly; now cover with whipped cream and cream nuts.
Pie Crust
One level cup of flour, one-half cup of lard, one-half teaspoon salt, one-fourth cup ice cold water, one teaspoon baking powder. Mix salt, baking powder and flour thoroughly, chop in the lard, add water. Use as little flour as possible when rolling out. This makes a light, crisp, flaky and delicious pie crust.
Pie for a Suffragist's Doubting Husband
1 qt. milk human kindness 8 reasons: War White Slavery Child Labor 8,000,000 Working Women Bad Roads Poisonous Water Impure Food
Mix the crust with tact and velvet gloves, using no sarcasm, especially with the upper crust. Upper crusts must be handled with extreme care for they quickly sour if manipulated roughly.
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Sigmund Spaeth, in his "Operatic Cook Book, in Life," gives this recipe for the making of the opera "Pagliacci."
Beat a large bass drum with the white of one clown. Then mix with a prologue and roll very thin. Fill with a circus just coming to town. One leer, one scowl and one tragical grin. Bake in a sob of Carusian size. Result: the most toothsome of Italy's pies.
Where is the man that can live without dining? --Lytton.
Orange Pie
1 Large Grated Apple 1 Orange--grated rind and juice 1/2 cup Sugar 2 Eggs--Butter size of an egg
Grate apple; add orange, sugar, butter and yolks. Beat whites and add lastly. Bake slowly in open shells.
Lancaster County Pie
1 cup molasses 1 teaspoon soda 1 cup sugar 1 cup boiling water 3 cups flour 1/2 cup butter
Make a pie crust and line 4 pie pans. Put soda in the molasses and heat thoroughly, then add the boiling water. Divide in the four pans. Mix flour, sugar and butter together for the crumbs and put on top of the syrup.
Bake in moderate oven.
Brown Sugar Pie
2/3 cupful of brown sugar 1 tablespoon butter 2 tablespoons milk 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
Cook until waxy looking, then take the yolks of 2 eggs and 1 heaping tablespoon of flour and 1 1/2 cupfuls milk. Mix all together smooth. Add to the above ingredients. Cook until thick and add vanilla. Have a baked crust, use the whites beaten stiff for the top. Return to the oven for a minute or two.
Banbury Tart
1 cup flour 2 heaping tablespoons of lard Cold water
Handle as little as possible; roll thin and cut with cutter 6 inches in diameter.
Filling
1 egg beaten light 1 cup raisins 1 cup sugar 1 tablespoon of flour Juice of one lemon and grated rind
Mix well and cook to consistency of custard, and fill the pastry which is turned up and made into the shape of a tart.
PUDDINGS
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We may live without poetry, music, and art; We may live without conscience, & live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilised man cannot live without cooks. Lucile by Owen Meredith (Earl of Lytton)
Hasty Pudding
My favourite pudding:
Milk one pint. Flour 1 1/2 table-spoonfuls. Sugar 1/2 teaspoonful.
Boil the milk. Mix the flour with a little cold milk. Pour the boiling milk onto this and put all back into the saucepan. Let it boil up once more and it is ready. Serve at once.
Constance Lytton]
It almost makes me wish I vow to have two stomachs like a cow. Hood.
Bakewell Pudding
The famous dainty from the town of Bakewell, Derbyshire, England.
PASTE
6 oz. flour 2 oz. margarine 1/2 small spoon baking powder
MIXTURE
1 1/2 ounces butter 3 ounces sugar 2 eggs 1 dessert spoon corn flour 1/2 cup hot water 1/2 small spoon lemon juice
Make the paste, roll quite thin, and line an ashet; spread bottom with jam; pour on top above mixture, prepared as follows:--melt butter, add sugar, flour, and beat well, then the water, and fruit juice; finally, the eggs, well beaten.
Bake for about 1/2 an hour. Serve, of course, cold.
Graham Pudding
1 cup molasses 1 cup sweet milk 1 1/2 cups graham flour 1 egg 1 tablespoon butter 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1 teaspoon soda 1 cup raisins
Put in buttered pudding dish and steam 3 hours.
Norwegian Prune Pudding
1/2 lb. prunes 2 cups cold water 1 cup sugar 1 inch piece stick cinnamon 1 1/3 cups boiling water 1/3 cup corn starch 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Pick out and wash prunes; then soak 1 hour in cold water, and boil until soft; remove stones; obtain meat from stones and add to prunes; then add sugar, cinnamon, boiling water, and simmer ten minutes.
Dilute corn starch with enough cold water to pour easily; add to prune mixture and cook five minutes. Remove cinnamon; mould; then chill and serve with whipped cream.
STATE OF IDAHO GOVERNOR'S OFFICE, BOISE.
January 22, 1915.
Woman Suffrage has gone beyond the trial stage in Idaho. We have had it in operation for many years and it is now thoroughly and satisfactorily established. Its repeal would not carry a single county in the State.
The women form an intelligent, patriotic and energetic element in our politics. They have been instrumental in accomplishing many needed reforms along domestic and moral lines, and in creating a sentiment favorable to the strict enforcement of the law.
The impression that Woman Suffrage inspires an ambition in women to seek and hold public office is altogether wrong. The contrary is true. The women of Idaho are not politicians, but they demand faithful and conscientious service from public officials and when this service is not rendered their disapproval is certain and unmistakable.
Woman suffrage produces no wrong or injury to society, but it does engender a higher spirit of civic righteousness and places political and public affairs on a more elevated plane of morality and responsibility.
M. ALEXANDER, Governor of Idaho
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Suet Pudding
1 cup suet 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup raisins 1 pint flour 1 cup milk 2 teaspoons baking powder
Mix suet, chopped fine, raisins and sugar, then add flour and baking powder, add milk and steam three hours. Serve with sauce.
Plain Suet Pudding
1 cup beef suet 1 teaspoon salt 2 eggs 3 1/2 cups flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 2 cups milk
Put suet through meat grinder or food chopper, fine blade. Sift flour, salt, baking powder and rub suet into flour well. Beat eggs lightly, add milk and stir into mixture. Butter mold and fill 3/4 full and steam three hours. This quantity makes two good sized puddings.
It is very nice made without the eggs and using one-half the quantity. Fill a deep pudding dish or pan with fruit, apples or peaches, dropping the suet pudding over the fruit in large spoonsfull and steam 1 1/2 hours.
Cottage Fruit Pudding
2 teaspoons butter 1 egg 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup milk 1-3/4 cups flour
Cream well together 2 teaspoons butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1/2 cup milk, 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1-3/4 cups flour. Beat well and add two scant teaspoons baking powder, then turn into shallow, well-buttered pan, the bottom of which has been covered with fresh fruit of any kind.
Bake in moderate oven one-half hour. Serve with cream or sauce.
Prune Souffle
One-half pound of prunes, three tablespoons of powdered sugar, four eggs, a small teaspoon of vanilla. Beat the yolks of the eggs and the sugar to a cream, add the vanilla and mix them with the prunes. The prunes should first be stewed and drained, the stones removed, and each prune cut into four pieces. When ready to serve, fold in lightly the stiffly whipped whites of the eggs, having added a dash of salt to the whites before whipping.
Turn it into a pudding dish and bake in a moderate oven for 20 minutes. Serve very hot directly it is taken from the oven.
Plum Pudding
2 lbs. suet 1 lb. sugar 1/2 lb. flour 12 eggs 1 pint milk 2 nutmegs grated 1/4 oz. cloves. 2 lbs. bread crumbs (dry) 2 lbs. raisins 2 lbs. currants 1/4 lb. orange & lemon peel 1 cup brandy 1/2 oz. mace 1/4 oz. allspice
Free suet from strings and chop fine. Seed raisins, chop fine and dredge with flour. Cream suet and sugar; beat in the yolks when whipped smooth and light; next put in milk; then flour and crumbs alternately with beaten whites; then brandy and spice, and lastly the fruit well dredged with flour. Mix all thoroughly. Take well buttered bowls filled to the top with the mixture and steam five hours. (This pudding will keep a long time).
When cold cover with cheesecloth and tie with cord around the rim of the bowl. Steam again one hour before using. Use wine or brandy sauce. When on the table pour a little brandy or rum over the top of the pudding and set fire to it. This adds much to the flavor.
Lemon Cream
Cream together the yolks of five (5) eggs and four (4) tablespoons of sugar. Add the grated rind of one (1) lemon and the juice of one and one-half (1 1/2) lemons. Dissolve 1 teaspoon of gelatine in a very little water, while hot stir into the pudding. Let stand till it thickens, then add the beaten whites of the eggs. Serve in individual sherbet cups.
MRS. RAYMOND ROBINS.
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Lemon Hard Sauce