1 teaspoonful baking powder
1-1/2 cupfuls chopped nut meats
3 tablespoons warm water

Put Crisco into saucepan, add sugar, water, raisins, salt, and spices,
and boil three minutes. Cool, and when cold add flour, baking powder,
soda dissolved in warm water and nut meats. Mix and turn into Criscoed
and floured cake tin and bake in slow oven one and a half hours.

Sufficient for one medium-sized cake.

Caramel Cake

For Cake

1-1/4 cupfuls sifted sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cupful Crisco
1 cupful cold water
3 cupfuls flour
2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
1 teaspoonful vanilla extract
1/2 cupful granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoonful salt
1/4 cupful boiling water

For Filling

1 teaspoonful Crisco
1 ounce chocolate
1 teaspoonful vanilla extract
1/2 cupful hot water
1/2 cupful brown sugar
1/2 cupful granulated sugar
Pinch salt

_For cake_. Put granulated sugar into small pan and melt over fire
till brown, remove from fire, add boiling water, stir quickly, return
to stove, and stir until thick syrup; set aside to cool. Beat Crisco
and sugar to a cream, add eggs well beaten, flour, baking powder,
salt, vanilla, three tablespoonfuls of the syrup and water. Mix and
beat two minutes, then divide into two Criscoed and floured layer tins
and bake in moderate oven twenty minutes.

_For filling_. Melt granulated sugar in small pan and stir until
it becomes a light brown syrup, add the water gradually, then brown
sugar, Crisco, salt, and chocolate stirring all the time. Cook until
it forms a soft ball when tried in cold water, or 240 deg. F. Remove from
fire, add vanilla, beat until creamy, then spread between cakes.

Sufficient for one layer cake.

Chocolate Cake

For Cake

1 cupful sugar
3/4 teaspoonful salt
1/4 cupful grated chocolate
3/4 cupful Crisco
5 eggs
2 cupfuls flour
1 teaspoonful baking powder
1/2 cupful sultana raisins
1/2 cupful candied chopped citron peel

For Chocolate Frosting

2 tablespoonfuls Crisco
2 squares melted bitter chocolate
2 cupfuls powdered sugar
6 tablespoonfuls coffee
1/4 teaspoonful salt
1/2 teaspoonful vanilla extract

_For cake_. Cream Crisco; add sugar gradually, yolks of eggs well
beaten, milk, flour, salt, baking powder, grated chocolate, citron,
and raisins. Mix and beat two minutes, then fold in stiffly beaten
whites of eggs. Turn into Criscoed and floured tin and bake for one
and a quart