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1 cupful milk 1 teaspoonful baking powder 5 eggs ¥% teaspoonful salt 3 cupfuls flour 1 teaspoonful almond extract Quartered peaches Cream Crisco and sugar together, then add milk, eggs one by one, always beating well between each one, flour sifted with baking powder and salt, then add extract. Mix and divide into two layer tins that have been greased with Crisco and bake twenty minutes in moderate oven. Turn out and spread with butter. Put together with quartered and sweetened peaches and pile some peaches on top. Sufficient for one cake. Strawberry Shortcake 3 cupfuls flour 1 egg % cupful Crisco 2 tablespoonfuls sugar ¥% teaspoonful salt 1 cupful milk 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder 11% pints strawberries 1 cupful whipped cream Sift the flour with the baking powder, salt and sugar, then cut in the Crisco with a knife, add egg well beaten, and milk. The dough should be a soft one. Roll in two layers, spread in two Criscoed pans and bake in a hot oven until a light brown color. Mash and sweeten one cupful of the strawberries, put on one layer, then place second layer on top. Sweeten remainder of strawberries, spread on top layer, and cover with the whipped cream. Decorate with whole ripe strawberries. Cakes Fig Cake 1 cupful sugar ¥% cupful Crisco 3 eggs 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder 1 cupful milk Y% teaspoonful salt 2 teaspoonfuls powdered 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract cinnamon ¥% teaspoonful grated nutmeg 3 cupfuls flour 1 cupful shredded figs Wash and dry figs then shred them. Cream Crisco and sugar together, add eggs well beaten, and beat five minutes. Sift dry ingredients, and add to first mixture alternately with milk. Add figs and flavorings and turn into Criscoed and floured cake tin. Bake one hour in moderate oven. Sufficient for one small cake. Gennoise Cake 34 cupful flour 1 teaspoonful baking powder 6 tablespoonfuls sugar Y% teaspoonful almond extract 6 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco Boiled frosting 4 eggs Preserved cherries or cocoanut 14 teaspoonful salt Break eggs into bowl, add sugar and beat for ten minutes over a pan of boiling water. Remove from water and beat till mixture 1s thick and cold; remove beater, sift in flour, salt, and baking powder; mix carefully, add melted Crisco and almond extract. Turn at once into small square greased and papered tin and bake in a moderate oven twenty minutes. Turn out and remove paper. Cool and cut in eight square pieces. Cover with boiled frosting and decorate with cherries or cocoanut. Sufficient for eight small cakes. Gingerbread ¥% cupful sugar 2 teaspoonfuls powdered ginger 1 egg 1 teaspoonful powdered ¥% cupful molasses _ cinnamon Y% cupful milk Y% teaspoonful powdered cloves 1% cupfuls flour Y% teaspoonful baking soda or 1% cupful Crisco 2 teaspoonfuls baking pow- 1 teaspoonful salt der Sauce 1 teaspoonful Crisco 1 tablespoonful flour 1 cupful (% lb.) maple sugar 1 egg 1 cupful boiling water For cake. Cream Crisco and sugar together, add egg well beaten, molasses, milk, soda, flour, salt, and spices. Mix and turn into Criscoed tin and bake in moderate oven forty minutes. Cakes For sauce. Dissolve maple sugar in boiling water. Rub together Crisco and flour. Add gradually boiling syrup; and lastly the beaten egg, Then return to fire and stir briskly until thickened. Sufficient for one small gingerbread. Golden Orange Cake 2 cupfuls sugar 5 eggs or yolks of 10 eggs 1 teaspoonful salt 4 cupfuls flour 1 teaspoonful orange extract 1 cupful Crisco 1 cupful milk 4 teaspoonfuls baking powder Orange icing For cake. Cream Crisco ard sugar together, add salt, eggs well beaten, orange extract, and flour and baking powder alternately with milk. Mix carefully and turn into Criscoed and floured cake tin and bake in moderate oven about one hour. This mixture may be baked in layers.