This mixture is made, mixed and baked as Vanilla Jumbles. The only difference is, it is put in jumble bag and laid out with star tube. Sell for one cent each, six for five cents.
One and one-half pounds sugar, 1½ pounds lard, 6 eggs, 1 pint milk, 1 ounce powdered ammonia, 3 pounds flour, flavor with vanilla.
Take sugar and lard, put in the bowl, mix with a cream. Next add the eggs, mix. Take the milk and ammonia, dissolve the ammonia in the milk and mix together. Take your sieve, put over the bowl, put the flour in and sieve through. Mix light and put in jumble bag with plain tube. Lay out on cleaned pans in jumble form. Bake in heat of 550 degrees F. Flavor with vanilla. Sell these cakes at one cent each, or six for five cents.
One pound of lard, 1 pound sugar, 6 eggs, 1 pint of water, 1 ounce soda, 1 quart molasses, and 4 pounds of flour. Put sugar and lard into the bowl and rub to a cream, then slowly add the eggs. Next put in the molasses and mix together, then dissolve the soda in the water and mix all together. Lastly add the flour and mix very light. This is put in a canvas bag with a plain tube laid out on clean pans in form of an S. These cakes can be sold for one cent each, or 6 for five cents. They are baked in a slow heat of 370 degrees F. Leave on the pan till well cooled off. If made right these jumbles will keep for weeks.
This is made the same as cream jumble No. 1, with the addition of a half pound of bitter chocolate, which is to be dissolved and added to the mixture. When baked fill with white of egg icing. Sold for two cents each, or 3 for five cents. The jumbles are very delicious, but are made very little in this country.
Eight and one-half pounds of good cake flour, 2 pounds of lard or butter, 3 pounds of sugar, (in powdered form), 20 eggs, 1 quart of milk, 1 ounce of soda, 1½ ounces ammonia and 1 pound of dissolved chocolate. Put sugar and lard in bowl and rub to a cream. Slowly add the eggs, two or three at a time, then add the milk. Dissolve soda and ammonia in milk and mix together. Then take the chocolate, dissolve it on the stove and add to the mixture. Finally add the flour and mix lightly. Baked in a heat of 450 degrees F. When baked, dried and cooled, take some marshmallow and put some of it between two jumbles, thus causing them to stick together; then fill the hole in the center on one side of the jumble with chocolate icing, and the other side with cream or white of egg icing. Sold for three cents each, or 2 for five cents.