Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1920 — GOOD THINGS FOR THE TABLE. [ARTICLE]

GOOD THINGS FOR THE TABLE.

A nice spice cake which will keep moist a long time is the following: Spice Cake. Cream one-half a cupful of butter, add one and cupfuls of brown sugar, two eggs without separating, one-half cupful of coffee and two cupfuls of flour sifted with three teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful of mace and one-half teaspoonful of clove. Add the coffee alternately with the flour and bake In a loaf pan. _ Mocha Frosting. Take one cupful of butter, If salt, wash ft; add two and one-half cupfuls ■ ft

of sifted confectioner’s sugar, then two squares of melted chocolate; finally beat in one-fourth of a cupful of coffee a few drops at a time. Make and freeze the orange ice as usual. To a pint of cream add a scant half cupful of sugar, and such flavoring as desired; beat until light but not firm or In the least dry. Fill the mold with lasers of the orange ice and the whipped cream. Cover and pack to become firm. x Spanish (Andwiches. Put into a small chopping bowl twelve anchovies wiped free from oil, two tablespoonfuls of capers and four or five branches of parsley; chop fine, then pound with a pestle, adding meanwhile half a teaspoonful of mustard, one tablespoonful each of oil and vinegar and the hard cooked yolks of two eggs. When ail is mixed to a smooth paste spread upon buttered bread; sprinkle with the whites of eggs chopped fine and press together sandwich fashion. Cereal and Nutmeat Chops. Take three-fourths of a cupful of hot cooked cream of wheat, add one-fourth of a cupful of .soft bread crumbs, two cupfuls of fine crashed nutmeats, one teaspoonful of salt, one-fourth teaspoon of pepper, one-half teaspoonful of povtdered thyme and one egg beaten light. Mix all the ingredients together thoroughly and form into cutlet shapes. Place in a buttered pan and bake twenty minutes. Serve with bananas cut in quarters, rolled in flour and fried in hot fat. Chocolate Mocha Cake. Mix as usual the following ingredi-One-half cupful each of butter, brown stigar, white sugar and molasses, one oufise of melted chocolate, two egg yolks beaten light, one-fourth of a cup of cream, one-fourth of a cup of milk, one-half teaspoonful of roda, onefourth teaspoonful of clove, one-half teaspoofiful each of cinnamon and mace, two cupfuls of flour and the stiffly beaten whites of two eggs. Bake in a sheet twenty-five minutes. (©, 1820, Western Newspaper Union.)