22 FRIENDLY CIRCLE—1949

Blitz Cake
4 cup each butter and sugar, 4 egg yolks, lc. flour, 1
tsp. b. powder. Bake in moderate oven. Let cool then cover
with merangue after the filling has cooled. Filling: 1 lemon,
lc. sugar, 1 c. water, 1 egg, 1 tbsp. butter, 2 level tbsps. corn-
starch. Merangue: 4 egg whites, 34 c. sugar, % tsp. cinna-
mon, sprinkle with nuts. —Alice Jarnagin.

Burnt Leather Cake

lec. br. sugar, %c. boiling water. Put brown sugar in
heavy frying pan and carmel till a dark brown, stirring all the
time. Add % cup boiling water. Let cool. 1% c. white sugar,
1% c. butter, 3 eggs, 1 c. water, 2% c. flour, 2 tsps. baking
powder, 1 tsp. vanilla. Cream butter and white sugar, add
volks of eggs, water, flour and 3 tbsps. caramel syrup, add
beaten whites of eggs last. Bake in moderate oven in shal-
low pan. Icing: Icing sugar, butter and enough caramel
syrup to color light brown. —Mrs. I. Watt.

Chocolate Fudge Cake
2c. sifted flour, 3 tsps. baking powder, % tsp. soda, ™%4
tsp. salt, %c. butter, 1 c. sugar, 2 eggs, 3 sqs. Baker’s un-
sweetened chocolate melted, 1% c. milk, 1 tsp. vanilla. Sift
flour, b. powder, soda and salt three times. Cream butter
and sugar, add egg yolks and chocolate, then flour and milk

alternately, add vanilla. Fold in egg whites beaten stiff.
—Mrs. F. Watt.

Sponge Cake

1 c. sifted cake flour, %4 tsp. salt, 5 egg yolks, % lemon,
grated rind and juice, 5 egg whites, 1 c. sifted sugar. Sift
flour, measure, add salt and sift four times. Beat egg yolks
till thick and lemon colored, add lemon juice and rind and beat
very light. Beat egg whites until stiff and fold in sugar, a
small amount at a time, then yolks and flour. Bake in un-
greased tube pan about 1 hour at 325 d. —Mrs. F. Watt.

Lazy Daisy Cake

To 2 well beaten eggs add 1c. sugar slowly, 1 c. sifted

flour, 1 tsp. baking powder, salt. Mix together and hea:
about 2 mins. Add 1 tsp. vanilla and % c. boiling milk in
which 1 tbsp. butter has been melted. Beat well and pour
into square cake pan. This is a very thin batter. Bake at 350
degrees till cooked. As soon as cake is taken ‘from oven pour
on topping and sprinkle with cocoanut. Replace in oven to
brown. Topping: Bring to boil 5 tbsps. brown sugar, 3 tbsps.
butter and 2 tbsps. milk. — Betty Anderson.