Atlanta women's club cook book

Cream butter and sugar together; add milk, beaten eggs, and melted chocolate. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and add to mixture. Lastly add nuts and raisins which have been dredged in flour. Bake in greased pan in moderate oven 45 minutes. Mrs. J. C. Wing, Palmer, Mass. UNCOOKED FRUIT CAKE NO. 1. (very special). 2 lbs. seedless raisins. 1 t-spoon ground cloves. 2 lbs. currants. 1 t-spoon allspice. 1/4 or 1/2 lb. citron as preferred. 1 t-spoon grated nutmeg. Grind fruit through meat chopper as fine as possible. Cut the citron as for cooked fruit cake. Mix well, and press into a pan or vessel with sides straight, so the cake can be cut in even slices. Press for a day and night, when it will be ready for use. Though the blend is more perfect if left longer. A few almonds or other nuts may be added. Mrs. Homer Dawson. UNCOOKED FRUIT CAKE NO. 2. 1 lb. raisins. 1 lb. currants. 1 lb. dates. 2 lbs. nuts, (shelled). 1 lb. figs. English walnuts preferred. Chop nuts. Run the remaining ingredients through a food chopper. Knead well and moisten with juice of an orange, if necessary. Shape as desired. Wrap in parchment paper until ready to serve. Mrs. L. C. Fischer. DATE CAKE. 4 eggs. 1 cup sugar. 2 cups dates. 2 cups pecan meats. 2 t-spoons baking powder. 1 cup sifted flour. 1 tbls. vanilla. Beat eggs and sugar together. Roll dates in about 3 tbls. of the flour; add these and rest of flour with baking powder tc mixture. Add pecans and vanilla. Bake in moderate oven, using shallow pan. Mrs. E. K. Ayer, ENGLISH WALNUT AND RAISIN CAKE. 1 cup butter. 3 cups flour. 2 cups sugar. 4 eggs. 2 lbs. seeded raisins. 1 lb. English walnut (meats). 1 t-spoon Royal baking powder, 1 t-spoon vanilla. 114 cups milk. Cut raisins in halves and roll walnut meats fine on biscuit board with rolling pin. To sugar and butter creamed thoroughly together, add yolks of well beaten eggs. Dredge raisins and wal- nuts in the flour, add to above mixture with enough milk to moisten. Dissolve baking powder in balance of milk, add vanilla and stii well into mixture. Last add egg whites beaten very stiff. Pour in well greased tube pan and bake in moderate oven about 1 hour. Mrs. Alonzo Richardson. State Chair, and Vice-Pres., Atlanta Woman's Club. WHITE FRUIT CAKE NO. 1. 3 cups sifted flour. 1 lb. almonds meats. 2 cups sugar. 1 lb. English walnut meats. 1 cup butter. 1 lb. citron. 1 cup milk. 1 t-spoon baking powder. 2 t-spoons lemon extract. 2 tbls. rose water. 1 lb. figs. 1/2 lb crystallized cherries. 8 egg whites. 1/2 lb. crystallized pineapple Cream sugar and butter, add milk, then two cups flour, using one cup flour to dredge fruit, then the egg whites beaten stiff — next cocoanut and flavoring — last the fruit dredged in the flour. Bake in a moderate oven about 3 hours. Mrs. D. J. Jones. WHITE FRUIT CAKE NO 2. 12 egg whites. 2 lbs. almonds (in shell). 5 cups flour. 2 lbs. English walnuts in shell. 3 cups sugar. 1/2 lb. candied citron. 1 cup butter. 1 grated cocoanut. 1 cup milk. 3 t-spoons Royal baking pow-