Cup Cakes - Mr. Hooks' Recipe ingredients

• 2 eggs
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon vanilla flavor
• ¼ cup boiling water
• ½ cup sugar
• ¼ cup corn syrup
• ¼ cup vegetable oil
• 1-½ cups pastry flour
• 1 cup raisins or chopped nuts, or desiccated coconut; or they may all be left out, and the cake baked plain, in oiled gem pans, or in layer cake tins, or loaf cake tins

To prepare this Cup Cakes - Mr. Hooks' Recipe, first bread the eggs into a bowl, add the salt and the vanilla and beat with a Dover beater until thick. (The salt hastens the beating of eggs.) Add the boiling water gradually, beating constantly; then add the squar in the same manner. Next add the oil and the corn syrup, and beat a few strokes; then add the sifted flour, and fold together. If raisins or chopped nuts are used, they should be added after the flour. Bake in oiled gem pans, in a medium slow oven, the same as loaf cake.