PRIZE GINGERBREAD

1% cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1%4 cup molasses
2 cups flour
24 cup boiling water
2 eggs
1% teaspoon each:
salt
cinnamon
nutmeg
ginger
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon soda
Cream butter and sugar, add molasses,
salt, nutmeg and cinnamon. Pour boil-
ing water over soda and add to first
mixture. Add flour which has been
sifted with baking powder and ginger.
Add well beaten eggs, and beat till
smooth. Bake 40 minutes at 325 to 350
degrees in 9” x12” tin which has been
lined with waxed paper. Delicious served
hot with whipped cream, or just plain
with icing sugar dusted over it.
—ALLIE Morr

MADEIRA CAKE DELUXE

3 cups sifted all-purpose flour

2 tsps. baking powder

1 tsp. salt

1 cup butter

2 cups granulated sugar

5 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla

14 tsp. almond flavouring

1 cup milk
Sift dry ingredients. Cream butter and
add sugar. Beat until light. Add eggs,
one at a time, beating well. Add fla-
vourings. Beat in flour and milk alter-
nately (three or four additions) ending
with flour. Beat only until combined.
Grease and flour 8’ x 5’ loaf pan or
9” or 10” tube pan. Bake at 350° F for
60 or 70 minutes. When cake is baked,
allow it to cool 15 minutes. Remove
from pan and cool completely.

—JEssIE SKINNER

CRANBERRY CAKE

2 tablespoons butter

1 cup sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 cups cake flour

3 teaspoons baking powder

1% teaspoon salt

1 cup milk

1 egg

2 cups whole raw cranberries
Cream butter and sugar, add egg and
milk and sifted dry ingredients. Fold in
cranberries. Mix well. Bake in a greased
and floured 9-inch square pan for 35
minutes at 350 degrees.
Serve warm with butter sauce:

1% cup butter

1 cup sugar

1% cup table cream

14 teaspoon vanilla, if desired
Boil 3 or 4 minutes, and serve hot over
warm cake.

—Etva DENNIS

LAZY DAISY CAKE

2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 cup flour
14 cup scalded milk
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon baking powder
1% teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
Beat eggs until thick. Add sugar and
vanilla. Add scalded milk into which
butter is melted. Fold in dry ingredi-
ents. Bake in 8-inch square pan which
has been buttered and floured, at 350
degrees for 25 to 30 minutes. Cool 5
minutes.
Topping:
1% cup brown sugar
4 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons cream
1 cup coconut (or a mixture of
coconut and nuts)
Heat enough to melt sugar and butter,
mix in coconut. Spread over baked cake
and broil for 4 to 5 minutes.
—LAURA MAWHINNEY

GOLDEN SYRUP

A Quick-Energy Food — So good so many ways!

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