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Harlequin Cake




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List of Ingredients




1 cup butter, creamed
2 cups sugar
3 eggs (yolks)
1 cup milk
2 cups pastry flour
1 teaspoonful cream of tartar and 1/2 teaspoonful soda (or 3 teaspoonsful baking powder)
Whites of 3 eggs



Recipe



Mix in the order given; then divide the dough into four equal parts. Have two parts the color of the dough. Color the third with two squares of unsweetened chocolate, melted. Color the fourth part with pink coloring, and bake each part in a Washington pie plate. When all are done, lay first a light cake, then the chocolate, then the other light, then the pink. Between the layers spread lemon jelly, and frost with white frosting.

Lemon Jelly for Cake: Beat one egg, add one cup of water, the grated rind and juice of one lemon. Pour this slowly on one cup of sugar mixed with two tablespoonfuls of flour. Cook in the double boiler till smooth, like cream.

Pink Coloring for Cake and Creams:

1/2 ounce cochineal
1/2 ounce alum
1/2 ounce cream of tartar
1/2 ounce salts of tartar
1/2 pint boiling water
1/2 pound sugar

To the first three ingredients, add the boiling water, and put in a porcelain stewpan. Let it stand on the stove without boiling for twenty-five minutes. Add the salts of tartar very gradually, stirring all the time. Add the sugar. Strain and bottle it. Use one or two teaspoonfuls according to the shade desires.

Pokeberry Syrup for Coloring Pink:

Put the fruit in a porcelain kettle and cover with water. Boil slowly til the skins break; then strain. Add a pound of sugar to a quart of juice; boil a few minutes; bottle and seal.