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The Cookery Blue Book

by First Unitarian Society of San Francisco

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Pound Cake

1 pound flour, 1 of sugar, 11 ounces butter, 10 eggs, 1/2 teaspoon soda.

Sponge Pound Cake

1 heaping cup sugar, 1 scant cup butter, 6 eggs leaving out whites of 2 for icing, 11/2 cups flour, 11/2 teaspoons baking powder. Flavoring.

Aunt Sharlie’s Sponge Cake

1 pound powdered loaf sugar, 7 eggs, beaten separately, juice and grated peel of lemon, 1/2 pound dried flour sifted in at the last.

Sponge Cake to Roll

4 eggs, 1 cup powdered sugar, 1 of flour, 1 teaspoon cream tartar, 1/2 teaspoon saleratus, 1 tablespoon cold water. Sift the sugar, flour and cream tartar together; then add eggs, and stir together ten minutes; add water, soda and flavoring, and bake in biscuit-pan. To make jelly roll, lay on bread-board, spread with jelly and roll.

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