Our favorite recipes (Damascus Church, Chapel Hill, 1963)

Cream margarine and sugar thoroughly; add eggs one at a time. Beat well. Use 1 cup of measured flour to coat fruit and nuts. Add flour alternately with buttermilk; blend well. Add fruit, nuts and vanilla and coconut. Line a tube pan with waxed paper. Pour in batter and cook in a 300 degree oven for 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Mix 1/2 cup orange juice and 1 cup confectioners sugar and spoon over cake as soon as it is taken from oven. Let stand in pan until cool. CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE Mrs. Thelma Long 3 c. sugar 3 c. plain flour 1/2 lb. butter or margarine 1/2 c. shortening 5 eggs 1 c. milk 1 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. salt 1 tsp. vanilla 3 tbsp. cocoa Cream butter, sugar and shortening together; add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Add milk alternately with flour, baking powder, salt and cocoa that has been sifted together. Add vanilla and bake at 325 degrees for about 2 hours. -18- FRUIT COCKTAIL CAKE Mrs. John Cannady 2 c. plain flour 2 tsp. salt 2 c. sugar 2 eggs 2 tsp. soda 1 med # 303 can fruit cocktail Mix dry ingredients in bowl. Beat eggs and add to dry ingredients with can of fruit cocktail. This batter has no shortening. Bake in oblong pan in a 350 degree oven for 35 minutes. ICING 1 stick margarine 1 c. nuts 1 sm. can milk 1 c. coconut 1 c. sugar Mix all ingredients in a saucepan; boil for 3 to 5 minutes. Add nuts and coconut and spread on cooled cake. POUND CAKE Mrs. Louise Long 5 eggs 3 c. sugar 1/2 lb. butter 1 c. evap. milk 3 1/2 c. presifted flour 1/2 c. vegetable shortening 1/4 tsp. salt 2 tsp. flavoring Two hours before baking place eggs and butter at room temperature Sift flour and salt. Mix sugar, butter and shortening until they are very light and fluffy. Cream until the mixture is almost white and very light. Then drop in the unbeaten eggs one at a time. Add alternately the flour and the evaporated milk. Add flavoring just before baking. Pour into a tube pan and put in a cold oven. Then set oven for 300 degrees. Do not open oven for 1 hour and 45 minutes. (3/ 4 cup or 1 small can of evaporated milk and 1/ 4 cup of plain milk may be used for 1 cup of evaporated milk. ) MARDI GRAS PARTY CAKE Mrs. Audrey Johnson 2/3 c. butterscotch pieces 1/2 c. shortening 1/4 c. water 1 1/4 c. sugar 3 eggs 2 1/4 c. sifted self rising flour 1 c. buttermilk or sour milk Grease and flour bottoms of two 9" layer pans. Melt butterscotch pieces with water in saucepan over low heat; cool. Add sugar gradually to shortening in large mixing bowl, cream at high speed of mixer until light and fluffy. At medium speed blend in eggs, one at a time, beat well after each. Add butterscotch sauce and mix well. At low speed add flour alternately with buttermilk, begin and end (Continued) -19- MARDI GRAS PARTY CAKE, CON'T with dry ingredients. Blend well after each addition. Turn batter into pans. Bake at 375 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes. Cool, spread filling between layers and on top to within 1/2 11 of edge. Frost sides and top with Fluffy White Frosting or whipped cream. BUTTERSCOTCH FILLING