AN INEXPENSIVE COCOA CAKE
This is a decidedly good cake and no eggs are required. Cream together
1 cup brown sugar, 1/4 cup butter. Add 1 cup of sour milk, 1-3/4 cups
flour, then sift over 1-1/2 tablespoonfuls of cocoa. Add 1 level
teaspoonful saleratus, dissolved in a little of the sour milk, and 1
teaspoonful vanilla. Bake in a small loaf. Use the following icing:
1/4 cup of grated chocolate, 3/4 cup milk, 1/2 cup sugar, boiled
together until thick, and spread on cake.
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Cut up into small pieces different kinds of fruit; then chop up nuts and marshmallows (not too fine). Mix these and sugar, not allowing it to draw too much juice. Flavor with sherry, if you like. Serve individually, putting whipped cream on the top with a... AMBROSIA FOR ONE. A. L. OOLAH, OR GEORGE VAN FLEET.
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1 Flathead--1s. 1/2 pint Brown Sauce--1d. 3 oz. Fish Forcemeat 1 oz. Dripping--4d. Total Cost--1s. 5d. Time--30 Minutes. Make a forcemeat and sew it into the fish. Rub some dripping over a baking sheet, truss the fish into shape, and lay it on... AMERICAN OYSTERS
1 bottle of Oysters--1s. 1/2 pint of Milk--1d. 6 Soda Biscuits 1 oz. Butter Pepper and Salt--1 1/2d Total Cost--1s. 2 1/2 d. Time--5 Minutes Put the milk and butter into a saucepan; when it boils put in the oysters and simmer for five minute... Amherst Pudding
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