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For cake. Put granulated sugar into small pan and melt over fire till brown, remove from fire, add boiling water, stir quickly, return to stove, and stir until thick syrup; set aside to cool. Beat Crisco and sugar to a cream, add eggs well beaten, flour, baking powder, salt, vanilla, three tablespoonfuls of the syrup and water. Mix and beat two minutes, then divide into two Criscoed and floured layer tins and bake in moderate oven twenty minutes. For filling. Melt granulated sugar in small pan and stir until it becomes a light brown syrup, add the water gradually, then brown sugar, Crisco, salt, and chocolate, stirring all the time. Cook until it forms a soft ball when tried in cold water, or 240° F. Remove from fire, add vanilla, beat until creamy, then spread between cakes. Sufficient for one layer cake. Chocolate Cake For Cake 1 cupful sugar 2 cupfuls flour 34 teaspoonful salt 1 teaspoonful baking powder % cupful grated chocolate 44 cupful sultana raisins 34 cupful Crisco 34 cupful candied chopped 5 eggs citron peel For Chocolate Frosting 2 tablespoonfuls Crisco 2 cupfuls powdered sugar 2 squares melted bitter 6 tablespoonfuls coffee chocolate 1% teaspoonful salt t teaspoonful vanilla extract For cake. Cream Crisco; add sugar gradually, yolks of eggs well beaten, milk, flour, salt, baking powder, grated chocolate, citron, and raisins. Mix and beat two minutes, then fold in stifly beaten whites of eggs. Turn into Criscoed and floured tin and bake for one and a quarter hours in a moderate oven. When cold cover with frosting For chocolate frosting. _Knead Crisco into sugar. Melt chocolate, add coffee, sugar, salt, and Crisco, and stir until thick, then add vanilla Cakes and put away to cool. When cold spread on cake. This frosting may be used any time. It is just as good made one day and used the next by adding a little more hot coffee. It is always soft, creamy and delicious. Sufficient for one cake. Cocoanut Layer Cake For Cake 1 cupful sugar ¥% cupful Crisco 3 cupfuls flour 1 cupful milk ¥% teaspoonful salt 2 teaspoonfuls vanilla extract 4 eggs 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder For Filling 1 teaspoonful Crisco 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract 1 cupful sugar 1 white of egg 1 cupful water ¥% cupful chopped cocoanut Pinch cream of tartar \% teaspoonful salt For cake. Cream Crisco and sugar together, sift the flour, baking powder, and salt, and add alternately with the beaten yolks of eggs and milk. Beat thoroughly, then add stiffly beaten whites of eggs and flavoring and mix gently. Grease layer tins with Crisco,then flour them and divide mixture into three portions. Bake in a moderate oven twenty minutes. For-filling. Boil water and sugar together, add Crisco and cream of tartar, and boil until it forms a soft ball when tried in cold water, or 240° F. Beat white of egg to stiff froth, add salt, then pour in syrup gradually, add vanilla and beat until thick and cold. Spread on cake and sprinkle over with cocoanut. Sufficient for three layers. Coffee Layer Cake - Dark Part 1 cupful dark brown sugar 2 cupfuls flour 2% cupful cold strong coffee 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 3 yolks of eggs ¥% teaspoonful powdered ¥% cupful Crisco cinnamon 1 tablespoonful molasses Y% teaspoonful powdered cloves Y% cupful raisins % teaspoonful grated nutmeg ¥% teaspoonful salt White Part Y% cupful Crisco 2 cupfuls flour 1 cupful granulated sugar 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 3 whites of eggs 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract 24 cupful milk ¥y% teaspoonful salt For dark part. Cream Crisco and sugar, add yolks well beaten, coffee, molasses, flour, salt, baking powder, spices and raisins. Mix and divide into two Criscoed and floured layer tins and bake in moderately hot oven twenty minutes.