The Gertrude Bobbitt Circle cook book

Boil 2 cups of sugar and V2 cup of water until it makes a jelly. Pour this over 3 beaten whites of eggs and beat until nearly cold. Stir into icing 5c worth of citron, currants and dates, 10c worth raisins and 1 grated cocoanut. Fruit that requires seeding must be seeded and cut very fine. A small quantity of citron, cocoanut and raisins together with 10c worth of almonds must be left out of icing to put on the outside of cake. Mrs. T. E. Conrad GOLDEN GLOW CAKE Sift together 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder and V2 teaspoon salt. Cream V2 cup shortening with 1 cup sugar. Add 2 eggs, one at a time. Beat well. Add % cup milk and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Add dry ingredients with liquid. Mix well. Bake in 8 inch layers. Mrs. E. P. Hughes GOLD CAKE x/i cup shortening 3 cups flour \\-i cup sugar 4 teaspoons baking powder 6 egg yolks y2 teaspoon salt 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Cream shortening, add sugar and mix thoroughly until frothy; Add beaten egg yolks and vanilla. Beat well. Add sifted flour and baking powder, salt, alternating with the milk. Bake in moderate oven 40 to 60 minutes. Mrs. E. R. Blackmon 1 cup apple sauce 1 teaspoon soda (for sour ap pies) 1 egg 1 cup brown sugar APPLE SAUCE CAKE V2 cup butter 14/4 cup flour 1 cup raisins 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon cloves Mix as any other fruit cake, adding apple sauce last, instead of milk. Makes 2 layers. Mrs. G. L. Burks APPLE SAUCE CAKE NO. 2 V2 cup butter 1 cup sugar I cup stewed apples 1 cup raisins 1 lemon juice and rind 2 cups flour Bake in tube pan at 350 F. until done 1 egg 1 teaspoon soda (in apples) 1 cup nuts 1 teaspoon cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves Mrs. W. M. Eagle MINCEMEAT 1 lb. bulk mincemeat 2 egg whites beaten and added 1 cup nuts (black walnut) last 1 cup raisins 1 cup melted butter or shorten- 2 egg yolks ing 1 teaspoon baking soda dissolv- 1 cup sugar ed in 1 tablespoon hot water 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 cups flour Bake 1% hours. Mrs. L. M. Sharpe CREAM CAKE V2 cup sweet milk 2 teaspoons baking powder 1^2 cups flour 1 cup sugar Y2 cup butter 4 egg whites Bake in 3 layers. — Filling — 1 cup sweet milk, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 tablespoon flour, yolks of 4 eggs, y2 cup sugar. Mix and let cook, stirring constantly until thick. Spread on cake layers. Mrs. D. C. Eagle Submitted by Mrs. W. M. Eagle TOMATO SOUP CAKE Mix 1 egg and 1 cup of sugar. Add 1 can Campbell soup. Mix and add V2 cup of melted butter. Sift together and add the following to first mixture. 2y2 cups flour, sifted, 1 teaspoon soda, y2 teaspoon cinnamon, y2 teaspoon cloves. Next add V2 cup nut meats and V2 cup of raisins. Bake in 2 layers. Put together with 1 egg well beaten and add powdered sugar to consistency you want. Mrs. H. C. Carter By a friend from Scotland HAWAIIAN FRESH COCOANUT CAKE 2x/2 cups sifted cake flour 1 cup milk 2y2 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. vanilla V2 cup butter 4 eggs — well beaten 2 cups sugar