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Title: Mrs. Seely's cook book; a manual of French and American cookery, with chapters on domestic servants, their rights and duties and many other details of household management
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Seely, Lida, 1854-1928
Subjects: Cookery, American Domestics cbk
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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the icing will be thoroughlysmooth. Put a fancy tube in a pastry bag and fill the bag withthe icing. Make a paper funnel with a ver?/ small opening andfill also with icing. With the paper funnel trace any designyou desire on the cake, commencing at the extreme edge.Leave space in the centre for the initials or date. Follow upthe paper funnel with the pastry bag and with this fill out thedesign. You must work rapidly, so the tracing of icing willnot harden before the decoration is filled in. Color theremainder of the icing pink and put on the initials or date.Have some pink and white candied rose leaves, dip them insugar syrup to make them stick, and put them round the loweredge of your cake. Before you begin to decorate the cake,place it on a round board, a little larger than the cake, and cov-ered with a fancy edged paper. How to write the Initials on Birthday CakeReserve about one-quarter of your icing, stir in a drop ofcochineal to color it pink. Make a three-cornered paper funnel.
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Facing page SUO. VAXILLA WAFERS. CAKES, FILLINGS, AND ICINGS 341 put in the icing, fasten tightly. Take it in your hand as youwould a pen, and press with your thumb as you make theletters. The size of the mark depends upon the size of theopening in the paper funnel. Black Cake for Weddings (An old colonial receipt) Take one pound of butter, one pound of flour, one poundof sugar, one pound of citron, seven pounds of raisins, ten eggs,four nutmegs, four teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, four teaspoonfulsof cloves, two wine-glasses of wine, and two wine-glasses ofbrandy. Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, add the eggs,the whites and yolks of which have been beaten separately,then the brandy, wine, citron, and lastly the raisins. The fruitshould be rubbed in the flour before adding. Dissolve half ateaspoonful of soda in a part of the wine. Put the spices inthe brandy over night. Bake four hours. Black Fruit CakeCream three-fourths of a pound of butter with one poundof brown sugar and add ten e

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