Delicacies

3 cups confectioner's sugar 1 can Baker's cocoanut */2 teaspoon vanilla (Southern style) 4 tablespoons heavy cream Put sugar in bowl, add cream a little at a time, and beat steadily. When icing is right consistency to spread, cover each layer and cover heavily with cocoanut. — Mrs. Garrett G. Bradt. --97— Cakes Thursday Club Delicacies Orange Sponge Cake 1 cup sugar 4 eggs beaten separately y2 cup flour y2 cup cornstarch 1-3 cup hot orange juice and some of the rind. Beat yolks and sugar together, add orange juice, then flour and cornstarch well mixed. Add the well beaten egg whites. Bake in slow oven as you would angel food. — Mrs. Robert Lee Daniel. Frosting and Chocolate Cookies 1 cup sugar J/2 cup melted butter 2 eggs 1 tsp soda (level) put soda in flour l/> cup sweet milk 2 cups flour (scant) 1 cup nuts and raisins 3 squares melted chocolate Frosting. Butter size of walnut .1 tsp vanilla 2 cups sugar 1 cup milk 1 square chocolate Cook like fudge and put on cookies. —Mrs. H. B. Cochran. My Own Fruit Cake ( Very Simple and Never Fails.) Mix as follows : Two-thirds cup butter 1 cup sugar 3 eggs (beaten) 1 square of Baker's Chocolate 1 generous cup apple sauce (not thoroughly cooked) 2 cups flour 1 rounded tsp. soda 1 tsp. baking powder ( rounded) 1 tsp. nutmeg Put mixture in large buttered and floured cake pan, and bake in moderate oven. — Mrs. Fred J. Allen. —98-- 1 tsp. cinnamon 1 tsp. cloves 1 cup seeded raisins y> cup diced candied pineapple y2 cup diced candied cherries y2 cup diced citron ]/2 cup diced lemon peel x/2 cup diced orange peel 1 cup walnuts y2 cup almonds Thursday Club Delicacies Cakes Mother's Delicious Nut Cake Cream together 2 cups sugar and l/i cup butter, add yolks of three eggs, 1 cup sweet milk alternately with 3 cups flour into which 2 tsp. of baking powder has been added and sifted, lastly add three egg whites stiffly beaten, which has 1 cup of finely chopped walnut meats folded into. Bake in loaf in moderately hot oven. —Mrs. Walter Bickerton Chocolate Cake \y2 cups sugar VA cup chopped nuts y2 cup butter Y\ cup milk 3 eggs 2 cups flour y2 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon cream of tartar 1 ounce unsweetened 1 small bottle of cherries chocolate Cream butter and sugar, add the eggs beaten separately, then milk, mix C. of T. and soda together three times, and mix thoroughly with above. Warm chocolate over steaming water, stir into barter, then add nuts, and cherries and stir well. Bake in two layers in moderate oven about 20 minutes. Frosting For Above. 1 tablespoon butter 2 tablespoon strong coffee 1 tablespoon cocoa y2 teaspoon vanilla Cream butter, cocoa and sugar, add coffee, vanilla and mix till smooth. Spread between and on top of cake. — Mrs. Win. Rutherford. Chocolate Cake 1-3 cup fat (butter best) 2 cups flour iy2 cup sugar (half J/> tsp. soda brown) 2 tsp. baking powder 2 eggs y2 cup sour milk 1-3 cup chocolate or cocoa y2 tsp. salt y2 cup water Method : Cook chocolate and water to smooth paste. Cool, cream sugar and butter, add egg yolks and cream again, add chocolate paste and then the sour milk alternately with sifted dry ingredients. Fold in egg whites. Makes 2 large layer-. ' —Mrs. Duval Ellery. —99— Cakes Thursday Club Delicacies <f Chocolate Nut Cake (Never Fail)