FEATHER COCOANUT CAKE
- 1½ cups flour
- ⅞ cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons Dr. Price's Baking Powder
- 2 tablespoons shortening
- 1 egg
- ½ cup milk
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract
- ½ cup fresh grated cocoanut
Sift flour, sugar and baking powder into bowl. Add melted shortening and beaten egg to milk and add to dry ingredients. Mix well, add flavoring and cocoanut and bake in greased loaf pan in moderate oven 35 to 45 minutes. Before serving, sprinkle with a little powdered sugar, or if desired, ice with white icing with grated cocoanut sprinkled on top.
MAPLE NUT CAKE
- ⅓ cup shortening
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup milk
- 1½ cups flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons Dr. Price's Baking Powder
- 1 cup chopped nuts—preferably pecans
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Cream shortening, add sugar slowly and yolks of eggs and milk and beat well; add flour, salt and baking powder which have been sifted together; add nuts and fold in beaten whites of eggs; add flavoring. Bake in well greased loaf pan in moderate oven 35 to 45 minutes. Cover with maple icing [page 17] and while still soft sprinkle with chopped nuts.