salaeratus

Take a pound and a quarter of flour, and the same of sugar and butter; five eggs, a pound, of raisins, and one of currants; two glasses of wine or brandy; mace, nutmeg, and a tea-spoonful of salaeratus, dissolved in a pint of new milk; bake it as pound cake.

Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea

Take a pound and three-quarters of sugar, the same of flour, three-quarters of a pound of butter, eight eggs, a pint of milk, and mix them as a pound-cake; just as it is ready to bake, dissolve a tea-spoonful of salaeratus in a little sour cream, and stir in; season with nutmeg and rose brandy, or essence of lemon; bake it as pound cake.

Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea

Three tea-cups of sugar, one of butter, five of flour, one tea-spoonful of salaeratus in a cup of sour cream and two eggs; bake in a quick oven; season them with the peel of a fresh lemon grated, and half a wine-glass of brandy.

Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea

Take four cups of flour, three of sugar, one of melted butter, one of sour cream, with a tea-spoonful of salaeratus dissolved in it, and three eggs; season it with brandy and nutmeg; mix, and bake it as pound cake.

Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea

Roll a heaped pint of light-brown sugar, and rub it in two pints or flour, half a pound of butter, and a dessert spoonful of cinnamon; beat an egg, and mix it with half a tea-cup of rich milk (in which a very small lump of salaeratus has been dissolved;) stir all together with a wine glass of rose brandy; work it well, roll thin and cut them out -- bake with moderate heat.

Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea

Mix together three pounds of flour, a pound and a half of sugar, and three-quarters of a pound of butter: dissolve a tea-spoonful of salaeratus in enough new milk to wet the flour; mix them together; grate in a nutmeg, or the peel of a lemon; roll them out, cut them in shapes, and bake.

Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea

Take three cups of molasses, five of flour, one of sugar, three eggs, and a tea-spoonful of salaeratus, dissolved in a cup of sour cream; work the sugar with a quarter of a pound of butter; beat two dozen cloves, and put in with two table-spoonsful of ginger; mix all together, and bake in shallow pans or cups.

Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea

Three cups of flour, one of sugar, one of molasses, one of butter, a table-spoonful of ginger, one tea-spoonful of salaeratus, and three eggs; bake in pans.

Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea

Take a pound and a half of flour, three-quarters of sugar, and a quarter of a pound of butter; dissolve a tea-spoonful of salaeratus in as much cider as will make it a soft dough, and bake it in shallow pans; season it with spice to your taste.

Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea

By the addition of half a pint of molasses and a tea-spoonful of salaeratus, you will have a common black cake, which may be baked in one large pan.

Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea