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Show uu j ifHiSnME I; Plain Sour Milk Nut Cake One egg well beaten, one cup sugar, one-half cup melted lard (pork frylngs better), one tablespoon nuts chopped fine, a j little nutmeg or cinnamon, one-third teaspoon of vanilla. Then add one cup rich sour milk in which a level teaspoonful of soda has been dissolved; dissolv-ed; let foam; stir this well, then add two cups (not large) flour and stir. Patriotic Birthday Cake One cup sugar, half cup butter, half cup sweet milk, two cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, whites of four eggs beaten stiff stirred in last Bake In two tins. Filling: Half cup sugar, two tablespoons water; boil until it threads from spoon. Beat in this one white of egg stiffly beaten, then add one-fourth cup chopped meat nuts and one-fourth cup chopped raisins. Spread between layers. Icing: One cup powdered pow-dered sugar, half teaspoon vanilla; add milk so It will spread. Divide icing into three parts. Add red and blue vegetable colors to form stripes and blue field for stars. Take white Icing and drop on blue field, forming stars with a toothpick. Doughnuts Beat well together two and half cups granulated sugar. Add one pint milk and one quart flour in which aro mixed and silted three teaspoons tea-spoons baking powder, one teaspoon salt and one grated nutmeg. Beat well, then add more flour to make a soft dough. Roll out half inch thick, cut in rings and small balls and fry brown in deep kettle of smoking hot fat No-Egg Devil's Food Two cups of brown sugar, one-half cup lard, oleomargarine oleo-margarine or butter, four level tablespoons cocoa, speck of salt, one cup sour milk, two and one-half cups flour, one teaspoon soda dissolved In three tablespoons hot water. Nuts may be added if desired. Whipped Cream Substitute Add a sliced banana to the white of one egg and beat until stiff. The banana ba-nana will entirely dissolve and you will have a delicious substitute for whipped cream. |