Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1913 — TO HAVE SUCCESS WITH CAKE [ARTICLE]

TO HAVE SUCCESS WITH CAKE

Little Things That tAe Cook Must Remember While In Course of Preparation.

L When preparing your cake tin, always grease it first, and then line it with paper. Some people grease the paper, but this is a mistake. Others grease the tin and put no paper, but this is equally bad, for it nearly always causes the cake to burn. 2. Beginners sometimes slip into the error of thinking that a cake will not rise unless it is put into a very fierce oven. This is quite wrong, for the fierce heat only hardens the outside, and makes it impossible for the inside to swell properly. . 3. In order to test the heat of the oven, put in a piece of white kitchen paper and let it stay for a couple of minutes. If the paper is only warmed, and not colored at all, the oven is too cool for the average of cakes; there should be just heat enough to make the paper curl up a little and go slightly brown at the edges, but not enough to scorch it or make it smoke.