Sufficient for one small cake.
Butterless-Milkless-Eggless Cake
| 2 cupfuls brown sugar 2/3 cupful Crisco 2 cupfuls water 2 cupfuls sultana raisins 2 cupfuls seeded raisins 1 teaspoonful salt 2 teaspoonfuls powdered cinnamon 1 teaspoonful powdered cloves | 3 tablespoonfuls warm water 1/2 teaspoonful powdered mace 1/2 teaspoonful grated nutmeg 2 teaspoonfuls baking soda 4 cupfuls flour 1 teaspoonful baking powder 1-1/2 cupfuls chopped nut meats 3 tablespoons warm water |
Put Crisco into saucepan, add sugar, water, raisins, salt, and spices, and boil three minutes. Cool, and when cold add flour, baking powder, soda dissolved in warm water and nut meats. Mix and turn into Criscoed and floured cake tin and bake in slow oven one and a half hours.
Sufficient for one medium-sized cake.
Caramel Cake
| For Cake | |
| 1-1/4 cupfuls sifted sugar 2 eggs 1/2 cupful Crisco 1 cupful cold water 3 cupfuls flour | 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract 1/2 cupful granulated sugar 1/2 teaspoonful salt 1/4 cupful boiling water |
| For Filling | |
| 1 teaspoonful Crisco 1 ounce chocolate 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract 1/2 cupful hot water | 1/2 cupful brown sugar 1/2 cupful granulated sugar Pinch salt |
For cake. Put granulated sugar into small pan and melt over fire till brown, remove from fire, add boiling water, stir quickly, return to stove, and stir until thick syrup; set aside to cool. Beat Crisco and sugar to a cream, add eggs well beaten, flour, baking powder, salt, vanilla, three tablespoonfuls of the syrup and water. Mix and beat two minutes, then divide into two Criscoed and floured layer tins and bake in moderate oven twenty minutes.
For filling. Melt granulated sugar in small pan and stir until it becomes a light brown syrup, add the water gradually, then brown sugar, Crisco, salt, and chocolate stirring all the time. Cook until it forms a soft ball when tried in cold water, or 240° F. Remove from fire, add vanilla, beat until creamy, then spread between cakes.