The Gertrude Bobbitt Circle cook book

2 cups flour 1 stick butter (V^lb.) 2 tsp baking powder Beat eggs well, add sugar, beat good, stir in flour to which baking powder has been added. Put milk and butter in sauce pan on stove and let come to a boil, pour in first mixture little at a time, then add y2 teaspoon vanilla and V2 teaspoon lemon and mix good. Put in tube pan greased and floured and bake at 325 degrees. Mrs. M. T. Owen MOLASSES CAKE One-third cup lard dissolved in 1 cup boiling water, y2 teaspoon soda, l|3 teaspoon salt, 2V2 cups flour, 1 cup molasses and 1/2 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 egg and y2 teaspoon baking powder. Dissolve soda in water and molasses. Bake in loaf pan. Mrs. W. A. Propst SOLID APPLESAUCE CAKE 1 cup butter Add 4 teaspoons soda 2 cups sugar 2 cups raisins (chopped) 3 eggs 2 cups, pecans (chopped) 1 cup milk (sweet) 1 teaspoon cinnamon 3 cups flour 1 teaspoon cloves 3 cups cooked apples 1 teaspoon allspice (or apple sauce) 1 small can crushed pineapple Bake in round pan as fruit cake. Mrs. Hill C. Trexler GRANDMA'S MOLASSES CAKE 2/3 cup shortening 2 cups flour V4 cup sugar 1V2 teaspoon baking powder 3/i cup molasses V2 teaspoon soda 2 eggs beaten 1 teaspoon vanilla V2 cup milk V2 teaspoon salt Cream butter and sugar, add eggs and then sift flour, soda and baking powder, add eggs that have been beaten, add molasses last. Mrs. C. I. Scruggs CROWN CAKE Measure into mixing bowl : 2 cups sifted cake flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 1/3 cup sugar 2/3 cup milk Y2 cup shortening Blend by hand or mixer for 2 minutes. Stir in 3 teaspoons baking powder, add 1/3 cup milk, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Blend byhand or mixer for 2 minutes. Pour into 9-inch ring mold, 3" deep, rubbed with shortening and lined with waxed paper along the bottom. Bake in moderate oven 375 degrees 40 to 45 minutes. When cool ice with creaming icing. Mrs. A. T. Gobbel LEMON AND ORANGE LAYER CAKE 4 eggs V4 lb. butter 2 cups sugar 1 cup sweet milk 2 cups flour 1 tsp. vanilla 2 tsps. baking powder Mix eggs, sugar, flour (sift 3 times) and baking powder well. Let butter and milk come to a boil, then add to batter. Add flavoring. Bake in a moderate oven for 20 minutes. ICING 1 pkg. pulverized suyar Juice and grated rind of 1 lemon 1/4 pound butter and 1 orange. Cream butter and sugar, then add juice and grated rind. Spread on cake. Mrs. Price Surratt PEACH UPSIDE DOWN CAKE 9 canned cling peach halves 1 tsp. vanilla V± cup soft butter or margarine 2 cups cake flour V2 cup brown sugar 3 tsp. baking powder y-2 cup shortening 1 tsp. salt 1 cup granulated sugar 2/3 cup milk 2 eggs — Maraschino Cherries Drain peaches, spread softened butter in bottom of deep square 9" pan. Pack brown sugar evenly on top of butter. Arrange peaches upside down on sugar mixture. Lay cherries in uniform pattern between peach halves. Cream shortening, add sugar gradually, creaming thoroughly. Blend in well beaten eggs and flavoring Stir in sifted dry ingredients alternately with milk, beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Pour batter carefully over fruit. Bake in moderate oven over 350 degrees about J hour. Loosen sides of cake with spatula and turn out of pan immediately allowing pan to rest over cake a few seconds so that syrup will drain. Mrs. A. T. Gobbel PINEAPPLE UPSIDE DOWN CAKE