December 29^th

West Petersborough 1920’s – the 40’s

Mother’s Sugar Cookies

1 cup butter                      2 tsp. Bak. Powder

2 cup sugar                       ¼ tsp. soda

4 eggs                                ¼ tsp. nutmeg

Enough flour to roll

When rolled, sprinkle with sugar, press down with roll pin, cut out and bake.

Wedding Cake      

Made in Salem in 1845

5 pounds each, flour, sugar and butter

6 pounds raisins

12 pounds currants

2 pounds citron

50 eggs

½ pint wine flavoring

3 ounces each nutmeg and cinnamon

1 ½ ounces mace

Mix the poundcake, only rub the fruit into the flour.  Bake in a brick oven, heated slowly with hard wood, so that the heat will be lasting.  Bake three hours.  Butter which has been kept in a jar of rose leaves is best.

Frosting

10 whites of eggs

2 pounds of sifted loaf sugar

Cut the whites to a stiff froth, then add the sugar and beat it steadily till it will stay where it is put.  This will require two hours at least.  After the cake is baked, put the frosting on the loaves and return them to the oven for 15 minutes.  Flavor frosting with lemon, rose or whatever is preferred.  This sounds like some cake, doesn’t it?

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