This section is from the book "Capital City Recipes", by First Presbyterian Church (Raleigh, N.C.). Woman's Auxiliary. Also available from Amazon: Capital City Cook Book, A Collection Of Practical Tested Receipts By Many Of The Best Housekeepers.
Eggs ................................................................6
Light-brown Sugar-Cupfuls ........................4
Butter-Cupfuls ..............................................1/2
Lard-Cupfuls ................................................1/2
Baking Powder-Teaspoonfuls ....................2
Sweet Milk-Tablespoonfuls ..........................2
Flavor with nutmeg, add just enough flour to make a soft dough, roll and cut, and bake in a quick oven.
Mrs. T. B. Yancey
Sugar (even) - Cupfuls ................ 1 1/2
Butter - Cupfuls ...................... 1/2
Flour - Cupfuls ....................... 2 1/2
Eggs ................................ 2
Extra Flour to roll out.
Mix, roll out and cut in fancy shapes or squares with slit cut in the middle. Drop into boiling lard.
Eggs (whites) ..............................................10
Flour - Cupfuls ............................................4 1/2
Sugar - Cupfuls ............................................3
Butter - Cupfuls ..........................................1
Sweet Milk - Cupfuls ..................................1/2
Cream of Tartar - Teaspoonfuls ................1
Soda - Teaspoonfuls ......................................1/2
Oranges ........................................................3
Cocoanut ........................................................1
Cream butter and sugar; put in flour and eggs (beaten very stiff) by degrees. After the cake is mixed squeeze in the juice of the oranges and grated rind of 1 orange. Bake in layers and put together with icing in which the grated cocoanut has been stirred.
MRS. WILLIAM MONCURE.
 
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