This section is from the book "The Peoria Women's Cook Book". See also How to Cook Everything.
2 cups brown sugar,
Two-thirds cup butter,
1 cup raisins,
4 cups flour,
2½ cups apple sauce,
3 teaspoons soda in hot apple sauce, 1 teaspoon cloves, 1 teaspoon ginger, cinnamon, allspice.
Bake in moderate oven 30 minutes. - Mrs. J. R. Schnebly.
1 cup of brown sugar, 3 eggs,
1 cup sour cream,
¾ cup of butter,
1 cup of blackberry jam,
1 teaspoon each of cinnamon and clove, 2½ cups of flour.
Mrs. J. R. Pfander.
1 cup sugar,
¾ cup butter, creamed,
1 cup jam,
3 eggs well beaten,
¾ cup sour milk.
2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon soda, ½ teaspoon cloves, ½ teaspoon cinnamon, ½ teaspoon nutmeg.
Bake in layers and ice with boiled icing. Icing: - 1 cup sugar, ¼ cup hot water, boil together until mixture threads and pour into the beaten whites of an egg; add one-half teaspoon vanilla. - Mrs. C. T. Law.
1 cup of sugar,
1 cup of milk,
2 cups of flour,
2 teaspoons of baking powder,
1 cup of butter (cream),
2 eggs,
1 teaspoon of vanilla or lemon essence.
Put into moderate oven and add heat as they rise. Use muffin tins, serve hot or cold. - Mrs. L. C. Hinckle.
Two-thirds cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 4 eggs, 1 cup milk,
3¼ cups flour,
4 teaspoons baking powder, ¼ teaspoon mace.
Cream the butter and sugar, add eggs well beaten. Mix and sift dry ingredients, add to sugar, eggs and butter, flour and milk alternately.
Mrs. S. J. Creviston.
1 cup sugar,
1 cup sour or butter milk,
2 teaspoons soda, 1 teaspoon cloves, A little nutmeg, ½ cup butter,
1 cup well cooked unseasoned prunes, 1 whole egg or a yolk of 1,
1 teaspoon cinnamon,
2 cups of flour.
Bake in two layers or a loaf. Use either white or chocolate icing. Bake slowly. - Mrs. Jno. Dailey.
1 ½ lbs. dates, 4 whites eggs, 4 tablespoons cracker crumbs,
½ lb. English walnuts,
2 cups sugar.
½ lb. candied peaches or pineapple.
One tablespoon vanilla, a little lemon and almond extract. Bake slowly in a greased pan with oiled paper 1 ½ hours, or steam for three hours. - Mrs. Jno. Dailey, Jr.
3 eggs,
1 cup sugar,
1 cup chopped dates,
1 cup chopped English walnuts,
One-third cup flour,
1 teaspoon of baking powder,
Pinch of salt.
Bake in slow oven twenty or thirty minutes. Can be cut into squares and served with cream. - Mrs. Wm. Heyl.
½ cup butter,
½ cup sugar,
2 cups flour,
2 teaspoons baking powder,
Cup sweet milk, 1 teaspoon flavoring, Whites of 4 eggs, 1 cup chopped nuts.
Mix in order given, bake and when cool, ice and decorate with nuts broken in halves. Icing: - Beat the yolks of three eggs until very light, whip in a pound or more of powdered sugar, add the juice of one lemon; beat ten minutes more and spread on cake. - Mrs. W. B. Burt.
 
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