OLD FASHIONED CRUMB CAKE

2 e¢. flour 1 tsp. baking powder
1 oc. sugar % tsp. salt
34 c. of butter or margarine 1 egg
1 ec. cut dates or raisins 1% tsp. ea. of allspice, cinnamon,
1 ce. sour milk or buttermilk and cloves.
1 tsp. soda

Mix together flour, sugar and shortening, as for pastry. Take out a scant cup
and put to one side. To the remaining dry ingredients, add the rest and beat
well. Put in 8 x 8 inch pan, and cover top with the scant cup of crumbs. Bake
in a moderate oven for 30 minutes.—Courtesy Margaret Stinson.

GENIUS CAKE

1 egg yolk 1% c. sifted flour

\%e«. shortening % tsp. baking powder
1 c. sugar 1 tsp. vanilla

% tsp. salt 3 tbsp. cocoa
1 tsp. soda 1% ec. boiling water

1%4 ee, sour milk

Combine yolk, shortening, sugar, salt. Add soda, sour milk, sifted flour, baking
powder, vanilla, and cocoa mixed with boiling water. Beat mixture with egg
beater and fold in egg white stiffly beaten. Bake in two 8-inch greased pans
for 20 minutes at 350°F.

FILLING
1 tbsp. cocoa 1 tbsp. butter
1 tbsp. cornstarch 1%, tsp. vanilla
24 ¢. white sugar 1% ec. hot water

1% ¢, cold water
Cook in double boiler the cocoa, cornstarch and white sugar, with water, butter,
vanilla, and hot water until cornstarch is cooked.

ICING

1% c, brown sugar 3 tbsp. hot water

14% ¢. white sugar 2 egg whites stiffly beaten
Boil until thready the brown sugar, white sugar and hot water. Have the whites
stiffly beaten. Pour mixture over egg whites, still beating, until right consis-
tency to spread. When cake is put together and iced, cover with 1 square of
melted unsweetened chocolate, swirled with a knife.

BUTTERMILK CAKE

2 c¢, sugar 2 tbsp. nutmeg

1% e. butter 1 tsp. baking powder
2 ec. currants 1% tsp. soda
3 ec. bread flour Buttermilk.

1 tbsp. cinnamon

Combine sugar, butter, currants, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder, and
soda dissolved in buttermilk, sufficient buttermilk to mix. Bake from 1 to 1%

hours.

BOILED CAKE

1 ec. cold water 1 tsp. cinnamon

1 ec. raisins 1 tsp. cloves

1 ec. sugar 1 tsp. baking powder
14 c. butter or shortening 2 ec. flour.

Pour first six ingredients into a saucepan and bring to boiling point, then cool.
When cold, stir in the sifted flour and baking powder and beat well. Turn into
greased cake tin and bake for about one hour at 325°F.—Courtesy Miss Lillian

Hogarth.
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