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Recipes from The Inglenook Cookbook
 by The Sisters of the Brethren Church (1906)

CAKES AND COOKIES

OLD MAID'S CAKE
 
 
 Take 1 cup of sugar, 1/2 cup of butter and lard. Mix well together, then add I cup of sweet milk, 2 cups of flour, 1 1/2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder, 1/2 teaspoonful of cream of tartar, and add last the well-beaten whites of 5 eggs. Do not stir much after the eggs have been added. Bake in 3 layers.

Icing: Take 2/3 cup of sugar, 5 tablespoonfuls of milk and flavor with lemon. Boil till thick.

Sister Mary A. Diehl, Polo, Ill.
 
 

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