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Joe Tilden's Recipes for Epicures by Joe Tilden
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Hermits

Cream two cups of sugar and one cup of butter. Add three well beaten
eggs and three tablespoonfuls of milk. Sift into this six cups of
flour and a teaspoonful each of cinnamon, nutmeg and clove. Add last
a cup of chopped raisins. Roll the dough out about one-quarter of an
inch thick, cut into small squares and bake in a quick oven for twelve
minutes.

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Lady Baltimore Cake

Cream one pound of sugar and half a pound of butter. Beat the yolks
and whites of eight eggs separately, and add the beaten yolks to the
butter and sugar. Stir in half a pint of milk and one pound of flour
with four teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Flavor with lemon or vanilla
and bake in three layers. For the filling, boil three cups of powdered
sugar and three-quarters of a cup of water for five minutes. Beat four
eggs, the yolks and whites together, and into them stir the boiling
syrup, add two cups of chopped raisins and two cups of almonds,
chopped and blanched. Flavor with vanilla and spread thickly between
the layers of cake. Cover with white frosting.

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Silver Cake

Beat lightly the whites of eight eggs. Cream two cups of sugar and
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