Delicacies

1 teaspoon soda 1 cup cooked prunes ]A teaspoon cream tartar 1 cup prune juice )A teaspoon baking powder salt Yi teaspoon cloves Icing. 2 cups powdered sugar 4 teaspoons cream T 2 cup butter 1 teaspoon vanilla — Mrs. Hal Hotchkiss. Banana Nut Cake Cream 1 1/2 cups white sugar with ^2 cup butter ; add 2 beaten eggs; add 1 cup mashed bananas (3 medium sized ones.) Beat. Add 4 tbsp sour milk in which has been dissolved 1 tsp soda. Then add 1 1/4 cups flour in which is mixed 1 scant tsp baking powder and Y tsp salt. Add 1 cup chopped walnuts. Bake slowly in cake pan with stem 40 minutes. This cake keeps moist and needs no icing. — Mrs. George Sears. Cocoa Sponge Cake 4 eggs 1 tsp baking powder 1 cup sugar % cup cocoa 4 tbsps cold water 1/8 tsp salt •}i cup pastry flour 1 tsp vanilla Beat egg yolks well, add sugar and water. Sift dry ingredients together and combine with above. Add vanilla and beaten egg whites. Bake in an angel cake pan at 320° F. for 1 hour. —Mrs. Melvin Wilson. —95- Cakes Thursday Club Delicacies Graham Cracker Cake }4 cup butter, cream with 1 cup 2 tablespoons baking powder sugar y2 lb rolled graham crackers yolks of 2 eggs whites of 2 eggs (well 1 cup milk beaten) y2 cup flour Frosting : Butter, powdered sugar, chopped nuts. — Mrs. Ray Cox. Chocolate Fudge Cake 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup cocoa Yz cup of milk Boil and cool. While this is cooling, mix: 1 cup brown sugar Yz cup butter When creamed, add 2 well beaten eggs, 1 cup milk and 2 scant cups flour, 1 teaspoon soda (sifted with flour), 1 teaspoon vanilla; add chocolate mixture and bake in two layers. (Especially good with one cup walnut meats chopped fine.) —Mrs. E. P. McKellar. Eggless Cake 1 cup sugar 1 cup sour milk l/2 cup shortening 1 cup raisins 2 cups flour ]/2 cup nuts 1 teaspoon soda (small) l/2 teaspoon cinnamon ]/2 teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon cocoa y2 teaspoon baking powder Frosting. 1 cup powdered sugar 1 tablespoon butter, beat to a cream 2 tablespoons milk ; vanilla — Mrs. Ray Cox. —96— Thursday Club Delicacies Cakes Orange Sunshine Cake 1 cup sugar and 1/4 tsp vanilla 4 egg yolks, beat to a cream 11 cup flour and pinch salt 1 tsp baking powder; blend 1/4 cup orange juice Add beaten whites of eggs and bake as loaf or angel food in slow oven 40 minutes. — Mrs. Ruel Liggett. Fudge Cake Frosting 1/2 cup cocoa. Butter size of egg; melt over hot water. 1 lb. powdered sugar and enough cream to mix until thick enough to spread. Then add chocolate mixture and 1 tsp vanilla. Beat until creamy — Mrs. E. P. McKellar. Taffy Cake 1 cup brown sugar salt 1 cup chopped walnuts 3/4 tsp soda, sifted with flour 5 tablespoons flour 1 egg beaten Mix well and bake same as date sticks. — Mrs. Roy Campbell. Cocoanut Cake 2 cups sugar 3 cups flour 1 cup butter 3 teaspoons baking powder 4 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup milk pinch of salt Beat butter and sugar to smooth cream. Stir in well beaten egg yolks and beat until very light. Sift dry ingredients together three times and add alternately with milk to first mixture. Add vanilla and carefully fold in egg whites which have been beaten to a stiff froth. Bake in layers in a moderate oven (350°) ; put together with cocoanut frosting. Cocoanut Frosting.