Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1916 — SOME GOOD THINGS TO BAKE [ARTICLE]

SOME GOOD THINGS TO BAKE

Buttermilk in Spice Cake Improves the Flavor—May Also Be Used in Making Gingerbread. For doughnuts have ready a scant cupful of sugar, one egg, a pinch of salt, a cupful of milk, two cupfuls of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder and a piece of butter the mye of a butternut or three tablespoonfnly of melted butter. Stir together in the usual way and turn the macs out on to a mixing board. Then roll out, adding flour to prevent the mass from sticking to the board A very nice spice cake is made with buttermilk. The buttermilk seems to impart tenderness as well as richness to the cake. Cream one cupful of sugar and a scant half cupful of butter. Add a cupful of buttermilk and stir the mixture into two cupful* of flour sifted with a teaspoonful of soda, half a teaspoonful of cloves and half a grated nutmeg. When taking the cake from the oven after baking set the tins containing it into cold, water and let it stand until the cake is cold. Buttermilk can also be used to advantage in gingerbread. Use a cupful of molasses, a third of a cupful of melted butter, a cupful of buttermilk, an egg, a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in hot water, a teaspoonful of ginger, two and a half cupfuls of flour and a little salt Mix well and bake. If there is sour milk on hand it will make a delicious loaf cake. Oeam a scant half cupful of butter with one and a half cupfuls of powdered sugar Add two beaten eggs and half a cupful gs sour milk. Stir in a half cupful of grated chocolate that has been dissolved in half a cupful of boiling water and allowed to cooL Flavor with a teaspoonful of vanilla and stir the whole into one arid three-quarter cupfulsof flour sifted with a teaspoonful of soda. Bake in a loaf tin in a moderate oven.