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THINGS MOTHER USED TO MAKE

milk, stir the cream of tartar and soda into the flour dry. Stir all together and roll.

Cream Cake
  • 2 Eggs
  • 1 Cupful of Cream (sour preferred)
  • 1 Cupful of Sugar
  • 2 Cupfuls of Flour
  • 1 Teaspoonful of Soda
  • ½ Teaspoonful of Salt
  • Flavor with Lemon

Stir the soda into the cream; beat the eggs; add sugar, salt, flour and cream; last of all, the flavoring.

Delicious Cake without Eggs
  • 1 Cupful of Thick, Sour Milk
  • 1 Cupful of Sugar
  • ½ Cupful of Butter
  • 2 Cupfuls of Flour
  • 1 Cupful of Chopped Raisins
  • Pinch of Salt
  • 1 Teaspoonful of Soda
  • 1 Teaspoonful of Cinnamon
  • ½ Teaspoonful each of Cloves and Nutmeg

Stir the soda into the sour milk, add melted butter and sugar, salt and spices. Put the flour over the raisins and stir all together. This will make one loaf or twelve little cakes in gem-pans.

Feather Cake
  • 2 Cupfuls of Sugar
  • 3 Eggs
  • Butter the size of an Egg
  • 1 Teaspoonful of Cream of Tartar
  • ½ Teaspoonful of Soda
  • 3 Cupfuls of Flour
  • 1 Cupful of Milk
  • Flavor with Almond
  • Beat fifteen minutes