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No. 11—FILLED BERLINER PANCAKES OR STUFFED DOUGHNUTS.

  • Yeast dough, according to No. 8
  • Lard for baking
  • Jelly for filling

Preparation: The dough is prepared like No. 8, Coffee Cake, but 1 cup of flour more is kneaded in than given under No. 8. Roll out the dough ½ inch thick, cut out small disks with a tumbler, put on one disk some jelly or thick apple sauce, place another disk on top and fasten the two by pressing the dough together all around, leave them on a floured board or tin and set to rise. Heat the lard in an iron kettle and put in a few Berliners at a time and bake them golden yellow. They must be fried in deep fat. Prick them with a knitting needle to see whether the dough is baked enough. While hot, roll them in sugar.


No. 12—WREATH CAKE.

  • 1 lb. of flour
  • ¾ cup of butter
  • 4 eggs
  • 1½ cents yeast
  • 2 tbsps. of vanilla
  • ½ cup of milk
  • ¼ lb. of sugar

Preparation: Cream the butter, stir in the eggs, sugar vanilla, the yeast which has been dissolved in ½ cup of lukewarm milk and the flour. Roll out the dough quite thick, cut three strips of it and braid it. Then make a wreath of this braid and put it into a buttered pan to rise in a warm place. Brush it with yolks of eggs, strew sugar on and bake in a hot oven to a nice color.


No. 13—ROUND COFFEE CAKE No. 1.

  • 1 lb. of flour
  • ½ lb. of butter
  • ½ lb. of sugar
  • ½ lemon peel
  • 1½ cents yeast
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 cup at milk

Preparation: Cream the butter with sugar and eggs. The yeast is dissolved in 1 cup of lukewarm milk and mixed in, also the grated ½ lemon peel; then stir in the flour and beat the dough well for 20 minutes. Butter a round cake pan with tube, fill in the dough to half full and let it rise in a warm place to the top of the pan. Then bake it 1 hour.


No. 14—ROUND COFFEE CAKE WITH RAISINS.

  • 4 cups of flour
  • 1 pt. of milk
  • 3 eggs
  • Scant ½ lb. of butter
  • ½ lemon peel
  • 1 cup of sugar
  • 1 cup of raisins
  • 2 cents yeast

Preparation: Let the milk get lukewarm and stir to a smooth batter with 2¼ cups of flour, mix with the yeast dis-