In a time with few pre-made packaged baked goods a Vintage hostess turned to her own recipes for the sweets with which to treat her guests. Here are a few recipes from the vintage cookbook…365 Cakes and Cookies: A Cake or Cooky for every day in the year 1904
Cheap Sponge Cake
Mix carefully 1 cupful of powdered sugar, 3 eggs, and 1 cupful of flour into which has been sifted 1 teaspoonful of
baking powder; flavor with the juice of half a lemon. Bake in shallow pans for 20 minutes.
Molasses Cake
Beat 1/2 cupful of butter until soft; heat slightly 1 cupful of molasses ; add to it the butter and 1 cupful of boiling water ; take from the fire and add 1/2 teaspoonful of soda, 1 tablespoonful of ginger, 1 teaspoonful of cinnamon, and enough flour to make a batter that will drop from a spoon, with 1 teaspoonful of baking powder mixed with the flour. Bake in small gem pans in a moderate oven for 20 minutes.
Cinnamon Jumbles
Use 1 lb, of flour, 3/4 lb. of sugar, 2 3/4 cupfuls of butter, 6 ozs. of almond meal, 1 teaspoonful of cinnamon, 2 well-beaten
eggs. Rub the flour and butter together, add the sugar, cinnamon, almond meal and lastly the eggs. Mix to a stiff paste, roll it out very thin, cut with a round cutter, put an almond in the center of each, brush over with milk, and bake in a moderate oven.
Spice Cookies
Mix thoroughly 2 cupfuls of brown sugar, 2/3 cupful of molasses, 2/3 cupful of drippings, 2/3 cupful of buttermilk, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoonful each of cinnamon, ginger, allspice and cloves, 1 cupful of chopped raisins, flour enough to drop batter, and 1 level teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a little water. Bake in a shallow pan. When cool, cut out with a cooky cutter and ice with choco-
late frosting.
