Part 24

3 lbs. flour 1 lb. butter and lard mixed 1 lb. brown sugar 1 pint molasses 1 good sized teaspoon of soda or 2 level ones.

Add ginger to taste--about 4 level teaspoons, also lemon extract or grated rind and juice if preferred.

Put flour, sugar and butter together and rub thoroughly. Make hole in center and pour in the molasses in which the soda has been beaten in. Stir all well together, break off enough to roll out; cut, space in pan and bake in very moderate oven.

These keep well, especially in stone crock. This recipe makes a quantity if cut with small cutter.

Pound Cake

1 lb. flour 1 lb. pulverized sugar flavoring 1 lb. butter 10 eggs

Cream butter and sugar to finest possible consistency. Add 1/4 of the flour and beat well. Have eggs beaten to a froth. Add a few tablespoons at a time and beat thoroughly after each addition of egg. When eggs are all in, add balance of flour and flavoring and beat.

Bake in a slow oven one and one-half hours.

Hints:--Secret of fine pound cake is in the mixing, much beating being essential.

One-half the recipe serves fifteen persons amply.

A paler yellow cake can be had by substituting the whites of two eggs for every yolk discarded.

In the full recipe not more than four yolks should be discarded.

A very little lemon combined with vanilla or almond, improves the flavor of the cake.

Bake, if possible, in an old-fashioned tin pan with a center tube.

Doughnuts

1 cup Sugar 2 Eggs 2 tablespoons melted butter 1 cup sour or butter milk 1 small teaspoon soda Flour enough to make a soft dough 1 teaspoon baking powder

Mix eggs, sugar and butter; add sour milk or buttermilk with soda dissolved. Then stir in flour with baking powder added.

Do not roll too thin.

Have lard boiling when you drop in the doughnuts. A slice of raw potato in the lard will prevent the lard taste.

Cream Cake

1 Cup Butter 1 tablespoon Lard 2 cups Sugar 1 cup Sweet Milk 3 Eggs 2 teaspoons Baking Powder 1 teaspoon Vanilla 1 Quart Flour

"We bear and rear and agonize. Well, if we are fit for that, we are fit to have a voice in the fate of the man we bear. If we can bring forth the man for the nation, we can sit with you in your councils and shape the destiny of the nation and say whether it is for war or peace we give the sons we bear." ~Joan in "War Brides."~

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One Egg Cake

1 cup butter 1 1/2 cups sugar 3 cups flour 1 cup sweet milk 1 egg 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 cup chopped raisins

Devil's Food

2 cups brown sugar 2 eggs 3 cups flour 1/2 cup boiling water 1/2 cup sour cream 1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup grated chocolate 1 1/2 teaspoons soda

Dissolve soda in boiling water and pour over chocolate and let cool. Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add the eggs and other things. Bake in layers.