unt beat it. Divide mixture into two small Criscoed and floured
layer cake tins, and bake ten minutes in moderately hot oven. Turn out
and cool, then put together with lemon filling.
_For filling._ Beat up eggs in saucepan, add Crisco, salt, grated
rinds and strained lemon juice. Stir with wooden spoon over gentle
heat until mixture just comes to boiling point. When cold use.
Sufficient for one layer cake.
Lord Baltimore Cake
1 cupful sugar
3/4 cupful Crisco
1/2 cupful cold water
1 teaspoonful vanilla extract
2 1/2 cupfuls flour
2 1/2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
1/2 teaspoonful salt
6 yolks of eggs
Filling or Frosting
1 cupful sugar
1/2 cupful boiling water
2 whites of eggs
Pinch cream of tartar
1 teaspoonful vanilla extract
1/2 cupful chopped raisins
1/2 cupful chopped nut meats
5 chopped figs
_For cake._ Cream Crisco and sugar together. Sift together three times
dry ingredients and add alternately with water. Add vanilla, beat
mixture well, then fold in beaten yolks of eggs. Divide into two
Criscoed and floured layer cake tins and bake in moderate oven
twenty-five minutes.
_For filling._ Put sugar and water into saucepan, stir till boiling,
add cream of tartar, then boil until it forms soft ball when tried
in cold water, or 240 deg. F.; pour on to stiffly beaten whites of
eggs, pouring in steady stream and very slowly, adding while beating
vanilla, raisins, nuts, and figs, beat until thick and divide between
and on top of cake.
Sufficient for one large layer cake.
Lunch Cakes
1 scant cupful sugar
6 tablespoonfuls Crisco
1 cupful milk
2 eggs
2 cupfuls flour
3 teaspoonfuls baking powder
1 teaspoonful salt
1 teaspoonful vanilla extract
Cream Crisco and sugar together, then add well beaten eggs. Sift dry
ingredients, and add to first mixture alternately with milk. Divide
into Criscoed and floured gem pans and bake in moderately hot oven
fifteen minutes.
Sufficient for fifteen cakes.
Jelly Roll
4 eggs
1 cupful sugar
2 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco
2 cupfuls flour
1 teaspoonful baking powder
1/4 teaspoonful salt
4 tablespoonfuls milk
Jelly or preserves
1 teaspoonful lemon extract
Beat eggs and sugar together twenty minutes, remove beater, sift in
flour, salt, and baking powder, add milk, extract, and melted Crisco.
Grease large flat tin with Crisco, dust over with flour, pour in
mixture
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