Loaf Fig Cake
Light Part
- ½ cupful Swift's Premium Oleomargarine
- ½ cupful sweet milk
- 1½ teaspoonfuls baking-powder
- 1 cupful sugar
- 1½ cupfuls flour
- 1 teaspoonful vanilla
- Whites of 4 eggs
Cream the oleomargarine and sugar. Add the milk, with which the vanilla has been mixed. Sift the baking-powder with the flour and add gradually. Add the whites, well beaten, last.
Dark Part
- ½ cupful Swift's Premium Oleomargarine
- ¾ cupful milk
- 1½ teaspoonfuls baking-powder
- Yolks of 4 eggs
- ½ pound of raisins
- 1½ cupfuls sugar
- 3 cupfuls flour
- 1 dessertspoonful each of cinnamon, cloves, allspice, and nutmeg
- 1 pound of figs
Cream the oleomargarine and sugar. Add the egg-yolks, well beaten, then the milk. Sift the baking-powder and spices with the flour and add gradually. The raisins should be seeded and dredged with flour, and the figs should be cut in small pieces and dredged with flour and added to the batter the last thing. Put in the pan alternate layers of each part and bake in a loaf.
The Italian uses olive oil; the Swiss, butter from goat's milk; and the thrifty American housewife, Swift's Premium Oleomargarine.
Sugar Cookies
- 1 cupful Swift's Premium Oleomargarine
- 1 cupful sour milk
- 1 teaspoonful soda
- 2 cupfuls sugar
- 3 eggs, well beaten
- Flavoring to taste
- Flour enough to roll out thin
Cream the oleomargarine and sugar. Add the eggs, whites and yolks beaten together. Dissolve the soda in the sour milk. Add this and then the flour. Roll out thin. Just before cutting out the cookies sift granulated sugar on top and roll it in slightly, then cut out cookies with cookie-cutter and bake in a moderate oven.