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CAKES, COOKIES AND CONFECTIONS
This may be tested, if there is no thermometer, by a square of bread which should brown in 60 seconds.
Snowballs
| 3 eggs | 1 tsp. salt |
| 1⅓ c. sugar | ½ tsp. soda |
| 1 tbsp. melted fat | 4 tsp. baking powder |
| 1 c. sour milk | 3 c. flour |
| ¼ tsp. nutmeg |
Beat eggs, add sugar, melted fat, sour milk and dry ingredients sifted twice. Then add enough flour to handle. Roll out ¼ inch thick and cut with small round cutter about one inch in diameter. Fry in deep fat, turning as soon as it comes to top. When cool, roll in powdered sugar. Makes about 150 snowballs.
INEXPENSIVE CAKES
Raisin Cake
| 1 c. sugar | 1 egg |
| 2 c. flour | ½ c. fat |
| ½ tsp. soda | ½ tsp. cloves |
| 1 c. raisins, cut fine | 1 c. sour milk or boiling water |
| 1 c. nuts, chopped fine | 2 tsp. cinnamon |
| 1 tsp. baking powder | ½ tsp. nutmeg |
Mix as butter cake. Very satisfactory plain cake. Bake in moderate oven as loaf.
Economy Cake
| 1 c. brown sugar | 1 tsp. ginger |
| 1 c. water | 2 tsp. cinnamon |
| 1 c. raisins | 1 tsp. soda |
| ½ c. fat | 2 c. flour |
