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.
1/3 cup butter, pinch salt, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 2 cups flour, 1 cup stewed prunes mashed fine, 1/2 cup prune juice, 1/2 cup sour milk, 1 tsp. baking powder, 1 tsp. soda in sour milk, 1/2 tsp. cinnamon. - Mrs. S. I. Koogle.
1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 3 eggs, 1 cup sour milk, 1 tsp. soda, 1/2 tsp. salt, 2 cups flour, 1 tsp. baking powder, 1 heaping cup cooked prunes pitted and put through food chopper, 1 cup nut-meats ground.
Cream sugar and butter. Add 1 egg and yolks of 2 others, add soda dissolved in sour milk, salt, then baking powder and flour sifted together, prunes and nut-meats. Mix thoroughly and bake in two layers. - Mrs. Orton.
1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 3 eggs, 1 cup sour milk, 1 tsp. soda, 2 cups flour, 1 tsp. baking powder, 1 cup prunes, 1 cup nuts, pinch of salt, vanilla.
Cream the butter and sugar. Add yolks of eggs and 1 well-beaten white. Then, sour milk and soda, salt, flour, prunes and nuts (which have been put through the food chopper), and vanilla. Add the baking powder after other ingredients have been well-beaten.
- Mrs. G. L. Blunt.
C'ream 1 tbsp. butter, 1 tbsp. lard, 2 cups sugar, 1 tsp. cinnamon. Add 2 eggs, 1 cup sour milk, 2/3 cup walnut meats, 1 cup prune pulp, 2 cups flour, 1 tsp. soda, 1/2 tsp. salt.
Soak prunes over night, cook and cool before using.
 
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