BANANA LAYER
1/4 cupful of butter
1 cupful of sugar
2/3 cupful of water
2 cupfuls of flour
2 rounding teaspoonfuls of baking powder
Whites of four eggs
Put together the same as Ice Cream Cake, and bake in three layers. When
cold, put together with Banana Filling.
BANANA FILLING
Boil together one cupful of sugar and a half cupful of water until they
spin a heavy thread, and pour slowly, beating all the while, into the
well-beaten whites of two eggs. Beat until rather stiff and cold.
When the cakes are cold, spread one-third of this filling over one cake, cover with
thin slices of red bananas, put on another cake, on this another third of
filling and bananas, and the remaining cake; cover this with the remaining
filling, and dust thickly with chopped nuts. Do not let this stand too
long, or the filling will absorb moisture from the bananas and run down the
cake.
ICE CREAM CAKE
1-1/2 cupfuls of sugar
2-1/2 cupfuls of flour
1/4 cupful of butter
1 cupful of water
2 rounding teaspoonfuls of baking powder
Whites of five eggs
Cream the butter, adding slowly the sugar. Sift the flour with the baking
powder. Add the water and flour alternately to the sugar mixture, and
beat well. Fold in the well-beaten whites, and bake in three layers. Put
together with a soft icing made from the whites of two eggs.
FRUIT JELLY
Dip a fancy mold into cold water, fill it half full of mixed chopped
candied fruits, or use dates, figs and bananas chopped. Fill the mold with
a well-made lemon or orange gelatin. Serve plain, or with whipped cream.
MOCK EGGS
1/2 box of gelatin
1 can pared apricots
1 cupful of sugar
1 pint of water
Whites of three eggs
Juice of three lemons
Cover the gelatin with a half cupful of cold water to soak for a half hour,
add the sugar and the water boiling; stir until the gelatin is dissolved;
add the lemon juice, strain, and cool until congealed but not too hard.
Add the unbeaten whites of eggs, stand the bowl in a pan of cracked ice or cold
water, and beat until the whole mass is as white as snow. Pour into ramekin
dishes or paper cases, press a half apricot, rounding side up, in the
centre, and stand aside in a cold place.
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