COFFEE FRUIT CAKE
- ½ cup shortening
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- ¼ cup strong coffee
- ⅓ cup rich milk or cream
- 1¾ cups flour
- 3 teaspoons Dr. Price's Baking Powder
- ½ lb. raisins, cut into small pieces
- ⅛ lb. slice citron
- ¼ lb. figs, cut in strips
Cream shortening; add sugar; add yolks of eggs, coffee and milk; sift together flour and baking powder and add slowly; add fruit, which has been slightly floured, and fold in beaten whites of eggs. Bake in greased loaf pan in moderate oven from one to one and one-half hours.
DATE LOAF CAKE
- 1 cup boiling water
- 1 lb. stoned and cut dates
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons shortening
- 1 ounce melted chocolate
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoons Dr. Price's Baking Powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1¾ coups flour
- ¾ cup chopped pecan nuts
Pour boiling water over dates. Cream sugar and shortening; add melted chocolate and well beaten egg; mix well and add dates and water; sift together baking powder, salt and flour; add gradually with pecan nuts. Mix well and put into greased loaf pan and bake in slow oven for one and a half hours.