- 3 cups flour.
- 2½ heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder.
- 2 cups sugar (soft A or light brown).
- ½ cup lard and butter mixed.
- 2 eggs.
- 1 cup sweet milk.
- Pinch of salt.
- Flavoring—vanilla or grated orange rind.
Line three small pie tins with pie crust. Sift together into a bowl the flour and baking powder and add light brown or A sugar, and the butter, lard and salt. Rub this all together with the hands until well mixed and crumbly. Take out 1 cupful of these crumbs and stand aside. Add to the rest of the mixture the yolks of eggs, whites being beaten separately and added last. Add slowly 1 cup of sweet milk. Mix it in gradually until the mixture is creamed, then add a small quantity of grated orange peel, lemon or vanilla flavoring. Lastly, stir in the stiffly beaten whites of eggs. Pour the mixture into each one of the three unbaked crusts, then sprinkle the cup of crumbs thickly over the tops. Bake in a moderate oven. These are very good, cheap cakes for breakfast or lunch.
"SOUR CREAM" MOLASSES CAKE
- ½ cup molasses.
- 1 cup sugar.
- ½ cup thick sour cream.
- ½ cup sour milk.
- ½ cup finely chopped peanuts.
- 1 egg.
- 1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in little hot water.
- 2¾ cups flour.
- 1 cup seeded raisins.
Mix together like ordinary cake. Bake in a fruit cake pan in a slow oven about forty minutes. This excellent cake requires no shortening, as cream is used.