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 cup brown or white sugar, 1/2 cup shortening, 1/2 cup molasses (scant), 2 eggs, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, 1 cup sour milk in which 1 tsp. soda has been dissolved, 2 1/2 cups flour. Raisins and nuts may be added if desired, - Mrs. C. E. Johnson.
(To be used with crushed fruit.) 1/2 cup sugar, 1 3/4 cups flour, 1/4 cup cornstarch, 2 tsp. baking powder, 1 tsp. salt, 2/3 cup lard, about 1 cup milk.
Sift dry ingredients, add sugar, and press lard into them with fork until flaky. Use 3/4 of milk first, the rest if needed.
If peaches are used: 12 peaches to 1 cup sugar.
- Mrs. G. F. Falley.
1 1/2 cups sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup milk, 3 cups flour, 2 tsp. baking powder, whites of 6 eggs, 1 tsp. almond extract.
Mix in order given and beat thoroughly.
Whites of 2 eggs, 1 cup sugar, beaten together until stiff. Flavor with almond extract and cover cake while hot. - Mrs. C. A. Klein.
1 cup sugar, 3/4 cup butter, 3 eggs beaten separately, 3/4 cup strawberry jam, 1/3 cup sour milk, 1 tsp. soda dissolved in the milk. 2 cups pastry flour and 1 tsp. each of cinnamon and nutmeg; cream the butter and sugar, add the beaten yolks and continue beating, then the strawberry jam, add a little of the flour to bind the mixture together, then the sour milk and the rest of the flour, beating well; add the spices, and lastly fold in the stiffly-ren whites of eggs. Bake in" shallow cake tins about 35 minutes. - Mrs. C. A. Bottorff.
Part 1. - 1 1/2 heaping cups brown sugar, 2 heaping tbsp. butter, (dissolved in frying pan). Add the apricots of 1 large can, (drained).
Part 2. - 1 1/2 cups sugar and 3 eggs, beaten 15 min. Add 1 1/2 cups Swansdown flour sifted with 1 1/2 baking powder, 1/2 cup cold water, 1 tsp. vanilla and pinch of salt. Bake 3/4 of an hr. in a moderate oven.
Serve with whipped cream. Serves 10 persons.
- Mrs. E. G. Duble.
1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup sugar, yolks of 4 eggs (beaten), 4 tbsp. milk. 1 cup flour, 1 tsp. baking powder.
Mix and put in 2 tins.
Beat whites of the eggs, add a small cup of sugar and put over the top of the layers. Sprinkle 1 cup chopped walnuts over the top. Bake 25 minutes at 300° F.
3/4 cups sugar, 1 tbsp. flour, 1 egg, 1 cup water, juice and rind of 1 lemon. - Mrs. Rohland Petterson.
3 eggs, 1 teacup granulated sugar (sifted 3 times), vanilla, 1 coffee cup flour (sifted 3 times), 1 tsp. baking powder, 7 tbsp. cold water.
1 1/2 cups sugar. 1/2 cup Crisco, 1 cup water, 3 eggs, 3 cups flour, 3 tsp. baking powder, 1 tsp. vanilla.
Cream Crisco, add sugar and cream; sift dry ingredi-ens, add alternately with the water; fold in stiffly-beaten egg whites. Bake in layers for 15 minutes in moderate oven.
1/2 cup butter, 1 1/2 cups sugar, (creamed), a scant cup of milk, whites of 3 eggs, Avell-beaten, 2 cups flour, 1 heaping tbsp. cornstarch, 2 tsp. baking powder, flavoring. - Mrs. F. A. Pontious.
 
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