Apple Cake

2 Cups Flour

2 Tablespoons Butter

1 Cup Milk

4 Sour Apples

2 Teaspoons Baking Powder

1 Teaspoon Salt

Sift together flour, baking powder and salt; cut in butter until it is a fine powder; add milk and beaten egg; turn out on shallow, greased pan; pare, quarter and cut apples in thin slices; press sharp edges into dough; arrange in rows; sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon; bake about 1/2 hour.

Strawberry Shortcake

5 1/2 Tablespoons Shortening

1 Cup Milk

2 Cups Flour

1/2 Teaspoon Salt

Strawberries 4 Teaspoons Baking Powder

Mix flour, baking powder and salt and sift; into this mix well with knife or fingers the shortening; add milk, mixing with knife; toss the dough on a floured board, pat and divide dough in half; roll each half out to fit pan; place in two buttered pans and bake 15 minutes in hot oven; spread strawberries on top and between the two cakes; serve with whipped or plain cream. Any kind of berries or fruits may be used in the same way.

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Caramel Cream Cake

2 Cups Flour 1 Cup Sugar 1/2 Cup Milk 1/2 Cup Butter

4 Egg Whites

2 Teaspoons Baking Powder

1 Teaspoon Vanilla

Sift flour, adding baking powder; sift again 3 times; cream sugar ana butter thoroughly; add flavor, then flour and milk alternately; lastly add the stiffly beaten egg whites; bake in two layers 25 to 30 minutes.

Caramel Filling

1 Cup Sour Cream.

1 Cup Nut Meats, Chopped.

1 Cup Sugar.

Cook together until it forms a soft ball when tried in cold water; take from fire and stir until cool.

Christmas Novelty

1 Cup Sugar 1/4 Cup Butter 1/4 Teaspoon Soda 1 3/4 Cups Flour

2 1/2 Teaspoons Baking Powder 1 /2 Cup Grapefruit Juice 1/3 Cup Grapefruit Pulp

Cream the butter, adding sugar gradually, beating all the time; add eggs, well beaten till light, then fruit juice, then flour sifted with baking powder and soda; beat well and then fold in fruit pulp, cut in small pieces; bake; when cool, split and fill with the following: Yolks of 3 eggs, beaten till thick, and 1 cup sugar, added gradually; add 1/2 cup grape fruit juice and stir in grated rind of 1 lemon and 1 tablespoon butter; cook until thick over hot water and cool before spreading; cut cake in small squares; frost with 2 tablespoons grape fruit juice and 1 tablespoon lemon juice made thick enough to spread with powdered sugar; before the frosting is firm, place a little tree, cut out of citron, in the center and drip bits of frosting, colored red, on the branches.

True Lovers' Knots

5 Cups Flour

1 Cup Sugar

7/8 Cup Shortening

1 Tablespoon Vinegar (strong)

1 Teaspoon Salt

1 Egg

1 Teaspoon Vanilla, or

1/4 Teaspoon Mace, as preferred

Cream shortening; add gradually sugar, then eggs, beaten very light, and 1/2 cup water, with vinegar added; sift flour with 1/4. teaspoon mace and salt, unless butter is used; then use 1/2 teaspoon; when well mixed knead briskly on moulding board for 1 minute; cut off small piece of dough, roll with hands until size of lead pencil and 5 inches long; form this into ring, joining ends neatly; roll a second piece, loop into first ring, join as before; this forms a "true lovers' knot"; bake in very moderate oven till delicate brown; when cool cover with an orange icing made of grated rind of 1 large orange, soaked in 3 tablespoons cool water 1/2 hour and wrung through a piece of cheese cloth and made just stiff enough with powdered sugar to cover knots smoothly.