BANANA CAKE

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 large eggs
• 1/2 cup butter milk or sour milk
• 2 cups flour
• 1 cup mashed bananas
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Mix ingredients and bake in moderate oven for 30 to 35 minutes at 350 F.

2. 2

   Part may be filled and topped with sweetened whipped cream and sliced bananas, the rest frosted with chocolate frosting.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Gertrude Bobbitt Circle cook book (1948) by Central Methodist Church (Spencer, N.C.). Gertrude Bobbitt Circle, page 16. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1/3 cup shortening 1 cup sugar 2/3 cup milk (not cold) 14 teaspoon salt 1 egg 2y2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon flavoring Sift dry ingredients together. Measure shortening in cup with 30 milk. Add together with egg and flavoring. Beat well for two min- utes. Bake layers 25 minutes — square cake 35 to 40 minutes in a moderate oven 350 F. Mrs. C. H. Thornton BANANA NUT CAKE Cream 1 cup of outter and 2 cups of sugar. Add 6 eggs( one at a time and beat well. Mash four large bananas well and soft with your hands. Sift 4 cups of flour. Take one cup and mix with one cup nuts that have been chopped fine. Then add bananas and flour that has been sifted with 1 teaspoon soda and 2 teaspoons baking powder. Add nuts that have been floured. Mix well and bake in tube pan 250 F. Mrs. M. T. Owen BANANA CAKE */£ cup shortening IV2 f'uP sugar V2 teaspoon salt 2 large eggs J/i cup butter milk or sour milk 2 cups flour 1 cup mashed bananas V2 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon vanilla Part may be filled and topped with sweetened whipped cream and sliced bananas. The rest frosted with chocolate frosting. Bake in moderate oven 30 to 35 minutes. 350 F. Mrs. C. H. Thornton ROCKY MOUNTAIN CAKE Whites of 8 eggs 3 cups flour 2 cups sugar % CUP sweet milk 1 cup butter 1 teaspoon cream of tartar J/2 teaspoon soda dissolved in milk Bake in layers. — Filling — 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 to- gether 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.

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