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Glorified Ginger Cakes
- 1 Cup Borden's Evaporated Milk
- 1 egg, well beaten
- 2 tablespoon molasses
- 1 t. soda
- 1 tablespoon vinegar
- 1 tablespoon ginger
- ½ cup butter substitute
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 cups flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ tablespoon each powdered cinnamon & cloves
Mix and sift together all the dry ingredients and set aside a cupful to use to spread on the cake when the batter is mixed. Beat the egg in a bowl, add the milk, the molasses, soda and vinegar and pour into the
remaining dry ingredients. Beat well, place in well oiled muffin pans of medium size, and spread over the top the reserved dry mixture. Bake about 30 minutes in a moderate oven. This makes eight cakes.
Lemon Meringue Pie
- ¾ cup Borden's Evaporated Milk
- ¾ cup hot water
- 1 ½ cup sugar
- 4 ½ tablespoons corn starch
- 1 teaspoon butter
- 2 eggs
- Juice of 2 lemons
- Grated rind 1 lemon
- Pinch of Salt
- 1 cooked pastry shell
Combine the milk and water in a double boiler top, add the sugar and cornstarch, thoroughly mixed together, and cook fifteen minutes, stirring occasionally. Separate the eggs, beat the yolks light, combine them with
a little of the hot milk, stir into the thickened mixture and cook five minutes longer, stirring occasionally. Then add the salt and when somewhat cooled stir in the lemon juice and rind, pour into the pastry shell,
heap with a meringue made of two egg whites, and a third cup of powdered sugar. Cook in a slow oven for ten minutes until the meringue is firm and delicately browned. |
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