Delicacies

1 cup Crisco (small) ; salt 1 tsp vinegar Sift flour and salt, cut in Crisco. add water and vinegar. — Mrs. Jack Foerster. Plain Pie Crust 2l/i cups sifted flour Yi cup lard; salt y2 cup butter 1 teaspoon baking powder Rub shortening into flour. Mix this with V?. teacup ice or very cold water. Mix as little as possible and handle very lightly. This will make two pies. — Mrs. E. J. Shackelford. —90— Cakes "My ride' Why certainly: It's queer; But no one ever ate that cake. But does not ask me for the ride (How much to use, how long to hake.") Chocolate Sponge Cake 1 scant cup sugar Yi cup boiling water i or 4 eggs coffee ) 1 cup flour y2 cup chocolate 1 tsp baking powder Beat yolks well and add sugar; beat until creamy. Add boiling water (or coffee) to chocolate and add to sugar and eggs. Add flour and baking powder which have been sifted together. Add well beaten egg whites last. Bake in ungreased angel cake pan in an oven of 350° for one-half hour or more. Remove from oven and invert pan until cake is cool. Cover with white or chocolate frosting as desired. — Mrs. Eugene Glenn. Pineapple Upside Down Cake Cream 1-3 cupful of shortening with l/i cupful of sugar, beat 1 egg yolk and add )A cupful of pineapple juice. Add this to the sugar mixture alternately with 1*4 cupsful of flour; two and one-half teaspoonsful of baking powder, and oneeighth teaspoonful of salt, measured and sifted together. Gently fold in the beaten egg white, and one-half teaspoonful of vanilla. Melt four tablespoonsful of butter. Add :v4 cupful of brown sugar. When melted, put in baking dish and arrange in it enough pineapple to cover the bottom of the dish. Pour the batter over this and bake slowly. — Mrs. Kenneth Little. —91— Cakes Thursday Club Delicacies Mock Devil's Food Cake Cream : 1 cup sugar 3 tablespoons shortening Then break in 1 whole egg and beat ; add % cup boiling water into which has been mixed 4 heaping tablespoons of cocoa. Mix well. Sift together lj4 cups of flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder and j4 teaspoon salt, and add to above mixture. Then add yi cup boiling water to which has been added a level teaspoon of soda. Lastly, put in 1 teaspoon vanilla and mix thoroughly. Will be a thin mixture, so takes a slow oven. Will make two layers or a square loaf. — Mrs. Glendon H. Conklin. Light Spice Cake 3 eggs Y\ teaspoon salt 2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla }i cup Crisco 1 teaspoon cloves 3 cup flour 1 teaspoon allspice 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 cup nr'lk Beat eggs and sugar together, then add creamed fat ; then dry ingredients and milk alternately. (This makes a rather large cake.) — Mrs. Garrett G. Bradt. Chocolate Cake 7 2 cnp chocolate 2 cups flour l/i cup milk 3 eggs (boil together until stiff) 1 level teaspoon soda \y2 cups sugar ]/> teaspoon baking powder ]/2 cup butter 1 teaspoon vanilla Tl- cup milk ' ,s teaspoon salt (ream butter and sugar, add beaten egg yolks; mix and s'ft dry ingredients, add alternately with the milk, then add chocolate mixture and flavoring; last fold in stiffly beaten whites of e^gs. Bake in large pan or layers. — Mrs. H. B. Cochran. —92— Thursday Club Delicacies Cakes Icing for Chocolate Cake Boil about 10 minutes: Y cup milk