Delicacies

Yi cup shortening, 1 and 1-3 cup sugar, 2 eggs well beaten, 1 cup chopped seeded raisins, 1-3 cup chopped walnuts, 2 cups flour, 1 level tsp. soda, 1 tsp cinnamon, Y tsp nutmeg, Y\ tsp. cloves and 1 cup hot applesauce (strained.) Sift flour, spices and soda, cream shortening, add sugar, beaten eggs, raisins, nuts, add flour alternately with applesauce, bake in square layer pans. Bake in moderate oven 25 to 30 minutes. Maple Icing — }i cup sugar, 3 tbsp. cold water, 1 egg white, 1 tsp. maple flavoring, put sugar, water and unbeaten egg white in double boiler, beat with egg beater 6 or 8 minutes, remove from fire, flavor and beat until stiff enough to spread on cake. — Mrs. Margaret Short. -106— Thursday Club Delicacies Cakes Crumb Cake 1 cup chopped walnuts, 1 cup rye toast crumbs, or ryecrisp crumbs, 1 cup sugar, 3 eggs. Beat eggs, add sugar, stir in crumbs and nuts and mix well. Bake in a shallow pan which is lined with a greased paper, for 5 minutes in a moderate oven; turn gas lower and continue to bake for 15-20 minutes. Serve with any kind of whip or whipped cream. — Mrs. Walter Bickerton. Burnt Sugar Cake \l/2 cups sugar 3 eggs, (whites 2y2 cups flour separate) 2 teaspoons baking pow- 1 cup milk (jer 3 tablespoons burnt sugar T 2 cup butter Burnt Sugar. — J^ cup sugar in skillet, brown. Add V2 cup water, slowly and cook to syrup. Frosting.— 2 tablespoons cream. 2 tablespoons burnt sugar, powdered sugar. Mix and spread on cake. — Mrs. E. F. Hoover. Chocolate Nut Cake 1-3 cup shortening lA tsp. salt 2 cups sugar 2 sq. melted chocolate 4 eggS }i cup English walnuts 1 cup milk broken in pieces 2-1-3 cups flour 1 tsp. vanilla 4 tsp. baking powder Cream shortening and add one cup sugar gradually. Beat egg yolks thick and light and add remaining: cup sugar. Combine "mixtures and add melted chocolate. Mix and sift flour. baking powder and salt ; add to first mixture alternately with milk. Add nut meats and vanilla, then cut and fold in whites of eggs beaten stiff. Bake in tube pan forty-five minutes or will make three good sized layers. — Mrs. Garrett G. Bradt. -107— Cakes Thursday Club Delicacies Zwieback Cake 1 cup chopped nuts 2 tsp. baking powder 1 cup ground zwieback 2 eggs Yi cup sugar 2 tbsp. cold water Pinch of salt Mix dry ingredients in bowl, add eggs and water beaten together. Cook in greased and floured pan in moderate oven about 25 minutes. Cover with any kind of berries or peaches well sugared and whipped cream. — Mrs. Hozvard Shores. White Cake \l/2 cupfuls sugar 3 egg whites Yi cupful shortening 3 cupfuls flour 1 cupful milk or water 3 teaspoonful baking powder 1 teaspoonful salt 1 teaspoonful flavoring Cream the shortening, add sugar and cream together. Sift dry ingredients and add alternately with milk. Add flavoring beat mixture thoroughly and last fold in stiffly beaten whiteof eggs. Grease layer cake tins. Pour in cake mixture and bake in moderate oven for fifteen minutes. (All measurements level.) — Mrs. Roy Campbell. Apple Sauce Cake 2 eggs or just the yolks, j4 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup stewed aples, 1 cup chopped nuts, 1 cup raisins dusted with flour, \y2 cups flour, \y2 tsp. baking powder, J/2 tsp. of soda, stirred in the apple sauce. Spice to suit. — Mrs. David Millan. Orange Cake l/2 cup butter ->4 cup water