The Chapel Hill cook book

1 cup New Orleans Nutmeg to taste molasses Vz cup black walnuts or 2 eggs any nuts you like Butter size of a walnut Beat eggs and sugar well. Add molasses, butter, milk, and nutmeg. Put in uncooked crust and bake. Sprinkle nuts on top before putting in stove. Mrs. Fred Patterson. PEACH-RAISIN PIE (For two pies) % can soft peaches 2 cups sugar % lb. raisins 6 eggs Nutmeg Beat yolks and whites of eggs separately. Drain peaches and chop fine. Add sugar and raisins. Stir fruit and sugar with well beaten yolks. Add nutmeg and lastly butter melted. Pour this mixture into rather thick crust and bake to a rich brown. Flavor meringue with lemon. Spread on thick, and heat through in hot oven. Makes two pies. Mrs. David Sessoms. PUMPKIN PIE Add the beaten yolks of 4 eggs with 1 cup of white sugar to 2 cups of pumpkin which has been stewed and put through a colander. With this mix 1 quart of milk, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, mace, and nutmeg mixed with whites of the eggs beaten stiff. Line a very deep pie dish with a good paste. Cut slashes in it here and there. Stir the pumpkin custard well from the bottom and put in into the pastry. Bake in a steady oven. Miss Alice Noble. SWEET POTATO CUSTARD PIE 2 cups mashed sweet 1 rounding teaspoon spice potatoes 1 rounding teaspoon 3 eggs, well beaten cinnamon V2 cup melted butter Milk IV2 cups sugar Mix ingredients together, adding enough milk to make a thin custard. Bake in an uncooked crust about 30 minutes at 400 degrees. (Makes two pies). Mrs. Leonard E. Fields. Cakes ALL-PURPOSE CAKE 2Vz cups flour 4 eggs 2% teaspoons baking % cup butter powder 2 cups sugar Pinch of salt 1 cup milk Sift together dry ingredients. Separate eggs, and beat. Do not beat whites too dry. Cream butter and sugar, add egg yolk, and then the flour and milk alternately. Flavor and add egg whites last. Pour in greased and floured cake pans. Bake 25 minutes at 375 degrees. (Sheet or layer cake). Mrs. J. F. Dashiell. ANGEL CUP CAKES % cup sugar Vs teaspoon salt V2 cup flour V2 teaspoon vanilla % cup egg whites 1 teaspoon almond extract Vz teaspoon cream of tartar Sift sugar and flour 4 times each. Beat eggs. Add cream of tartar. Fold in sugar gradually; then add flour and salt, and flavoring. Put into ungreased muffin pans, or paper cups. Bake slowly about 25 minutes. Mrs. Lily H. Brown. APPLE SAUCE CAKE 1% cups sifted cake flour 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 egg well beaten V2 teaspoon soda 1 cup raisins finely cut x/4 teaspoon salt and floured 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 cup nuts,' chopped V2 teaspoon cloves % cup hot, thick apple V2 cup shortening sauce, strained Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder, soda, salt and spices, and sift together three times. Cream butter thoroughly, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add egg, raisins, and nuts. Add flour mixture, alternately with apple sauce, a small amount at a time. Beat after each addition until smooth. Bake in greased loaf pan 7x5x3 inches, in moderate oven (350 degrees F.) about 1 hour. Mrs. A. S. Winsor. CHINESE CAKE 1 cup dates 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 cup nuts % teaspoon salt 1 cup sugar 2 well beaten eggs % cup flour