The Chapel Hill cook book

Have shortening room temperature and put into the mixing bowl with the sugar and one egg. Mix thoroughly and add the second egg. Sift flour, baking powder, salt into the mixture. Add the vanilla and sufficient milk to make a stiff dough. Melt the chocolate with the butter and when cool spread over the cooky dough. Roll up as you would a jelly roll. Place in the ice box until very cold. Cut in rather thin slices and bake on the greased broiler pan at 425 degrees for ten minutes. Damper first notch. Mrs. A. S. Winsor. ICE-BOX COOKIES V2 cup butter 1 egg V2 cup Crisco 2 cups flour V2 cup sugar Cream butter and crisco with the sugar. Add the egg and the flour. Mix well and form into long rolls and place in the ice box over night. Cut thin, brush with white of an egg and sprinkle with sugar and chopped nuts. Bake at 350° oven. Miss Amy Knefler. CREAM CAKES V2 cup butter 4 eggs 1 cup boiling water 1 cup flour Heat butter and water until boiling, then add flour. When mixed, remove from range and add unbeaten eggs, one at a time, beating well after each egg is added. Drop in circular shapes on a buttered sheet IY2 inches apart, having each cake slightly heaped in the center. Bake thirty minutes in moderate oven. Fill with cream filling just before serving. Cream Filling 1/3 cup flour 2 cups scalded milk % cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla or Y2 Vs teaspoon salt teaspoon lemon 2 eggs extract Mix flour, sugar and salt. Add eggs slightly beaten, and add scalded milk. Cook fifteen minutes in a double boiler, and stir until thickened. Cool and flavor. Mrs. Sturgis E. Leavitt. The Chapel Hill Cook Book DATE BARS 1 cup sugar 1% teaspoons baking 1V2 cups flour powder 1 cup nuts 3 eggs, beaten separately 1 lb. dates Pinch of salt 2 teaspoons vanilla Bake 45 minutes in moderate oven. Cut in bars about 1 inch wide. Sprinkle powdered sugar over them while warm. Mrs. Woollen. DOUGHNUTS 2 cups mashed potatoes 1 cup milk 3 eggs well beaten 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons butter 5 teaspoons baking powder 2 cups sugar 5 cups flour Beat eggs well, add sugar, and continue beating until light. Add melted shortening and cold mashed potatoes. Next add milk and mix until smooth. Add dry ingredients which have been sifted together. Beat well but always keep soft dough. Fry in hot fat, turning often. Mrs. H. D. Wolf. FRUITED CRISPS 2 eggs 1 cup sugar 1*4 cups flour % teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 cup raisins washed and 1 cup almonds cut in chopped strips Break eggs into mixing bowl, beat until very light. Add sugar and blend thoroughly. Sift flour, salt and baking powder into this mixture. Add the raisins and almonds. Grease and flour boiler pan that comes with Universal range, and spread the mixture on it evenly. Pan on third rack up from bottom of oven. Bake at 375 degrees for 40 minutes. Damper first notch. To remove from the pan, loosen the edges with spatula and then cut into sticks; use cake turner that comes with kitchen set to remove them. This recipe makes 36 sticks or crisps one inch wide, six inches long. Keep tightly covered in coffee can. Mrs. A. S. Winsor. FUDGE CAKE 4 eggs 2 cups white sugar 2 cups flour XA lb. butter % lb. chocolate (V2 cake) 2 cups nuts (% lb.) 1 teaspoon vanilla