Manuscript Cookbook 230

29 Hermits 2 eggs. 1 and 1/2 cups brown sugar 1 cup butter. 1" chopped raisins 1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in a little milk 1 teaspoonsful cinnamon cloves & nutmeg - roll thin bake like cookies

Ginger snaps 1 cup molasses - 1/2 cup sugar 1/2" Butter Boil molases sugar. Butter & water ten minutes - cook. then add 1 egg 1 [tbsp?] oonful or [more?] soda. ginger & salt.

Mrs. Averys recipe Hazel Margaret Grace [Abbott?] Margaret Abbott [Helene?] [illegible]

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31 Lemon pie with frosting Grated rind & juice of 2 lemons 2 cups sugar 3 eggs A piece of butter as large as an egg 2 table spoonsful of corn starch - Have ready 2 cups of boiling water in a saucepan & stir into it the corn starch (which as been rubbed smooth in cold water) until it looks clear - Pour into a dish & add the sugar & butter, When nearly cool add the yolks of the three eggs & one of the whites, beaten together, the lemons - bake in two deep pie plates of medium size lined with a delicate crust, Beat up the whites with two spoons ful of sugar stiff - spread this on the pies after they are baked - brown a few minutes in the oven

34 Dark cake 2 loaves 3 eggs. 2 cups sugar. 1 cup mollases 1 cup [sour?] milk 2 teaspoonsful soda 1 teaspoonful [illegible?] 2 and 1/2 cups flour. 2/3 cup butter Raisins 1 cup -

35 Lady cake 2 and 1/2 cups of flour, 2 cups of sugar 1 " " sweet milk. 1/2 cup of butter, whites of 4 eggs. 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar. 1/2 teaspoonful soda.

This makes nice walnut cake add 1 cup walnut meats

Yellow cake 1 1/2 cups flour 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup sweet milk. teaspoon soda 2 cream tartar yolks 4 eggs - teaspoon vanilla -

DOLLY VARDEN CAKE - Two cups of sugar, two-thirds of a cup of butter, one cup of sweet milk, three cups of flour, three eggs, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, bake one-half of this in two pans; to the remainder add one tablespoonful of molasses, one cup of chopped raisins, one-half cup of currants, one teaspoonful each of cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Bake in two pans, and put in sheets, alternately with a little jelly.