This section is from the book "Neighborhood Cook Book", by Circle No. 5, Women's Union, Hemenway Methodist Church. Also available from Amazon: Julia's Kitchen Wisdom: Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking.
1 1/2 cups sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 2 eggs, 1 cup sour milk, 1 tsp. soda, 2 cups flour, spices and fruit.
- Mrs. I. P. Berry.
Cream 1 cup butter, add 2 cups sugar, then 4 eggs beaten light, 1 level tsp. soda dissolved in 1 cup sour milk. Sift 3 cups flour, 1 tsp. each of cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg, 1 cup each of raisins, currants, dates, and figs, 1/4 cup citron. Soak raisins in hot water over night. Beat all well and bake 1 hour.
- Mrs. Woodruff.
1/2 cup milk, 2 eggs, 3 tbsp. cocoa, 1 cup sugar, 3 tbsp. butter or substitute, 1 tsp. vanilla, 1 1/2 cups pastry flour, 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder, 1/2 cup milk, additional.
Scald 1/2 cup milk and pour it over the beaten egg yolks. Cook in double boiler until mixture thickens like custard. Add sugar and butter, stir thoroughly, add vanilla, flour and baking powder, then the additional milk. Fold in the stiffly-beaten egg whites. Bake in moderate oven about 40 minutes, frost with mocha frosting, sprinkle with finely-chopped nut meats.
Beat 1/2 1b. butter to a cream. Add gradually 1 lb. granulated sugar and when very light, add 4 eggs well beaten. Dissolve 1 tsp. soda in 2 tbsp. warm water; add to this 1 cup molasses. Mix all together. Stir in 1/2 pint lukewarm strong black coffee, 3 cups flour, 1 tsp. allspice, 1/4 tsp. cloves, 2 tsp. cinnamon and 1 nutmeg (grated). Beat thoroughly and add the following fruit, chopped and floured: 2 lbs. raisins, 1 lb. currants, 1/2 lb. citron. Bake 2 1/2 hours in fruit cake pan which has been lined with wax paper.
- Mrs. Thomas Savage.
Beat 1 cup butter and 2 cups sugar together until light. Then add 1/2 cup milk, 4 eggs beaten separately. 1 tsp. each of nutmeg and cinnamon, 2 tsp. baking powder sifted into the flour. Mix 1 qt. huckleberries with some flour, and add last; be careful not to mash them. Pour into buttered pan 1 inch thick; dust with sugar and bake. It is better the day after baking.
- Mrs. M. C. Collins.
1 cup sugar, 3/4 cup butter, 2 tsp. cocoa, 1/2 tsp. nutmeg, 2 cups flour, 1 cup of any jam, 5 eggs well-beaten, 1 tsp. soda dissolved in 3 tbsp. sour milk.
Good way to use up left-over jam.
- Mrs. Margie Moore.
Cream thoroughly 1 cup butter with 2 cups sugar. Add 4 well-beaten eggs, 1 tsp. flavoring, 1 1/2 cups milk, 5 cups flour, 4 tsp. baking powder, sifted with flour 3 times. This makes a very large cake.
- Mr. Jos. Moore, Chef.
Beat the whites of 6 eggs to a froth and add slowly 1 cup granulated sugar. Beat 15 minutes and add 1 tbsp. vinegar, a pinch of cream of tartar and beat 15 minutes more. Put in buttered angel cake pan and bake 50 minutes in slow oven. Great care must be taken that oven is not too hot.
When cold, fill center with 1 cup fresh strawberries or peaches, cover with whipped cream and serve. Will serve 8 people. - Mrs. M. V. Smurr.
 
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