Chocolate Bars (Cockie Recipe)

Y% cup butter 2 eggs beaten
34, cup white sugar ' cup flour
Cream above 1 tsp. vanilla
Add 2 squares unsweetened 1 cup chopped walnuts

chocolate, melted

Put in greased cake pan. Bake 35 minutes at 350 degrees F. Ice
while hot.

Icing:

2 tbsp. butter ' tsp. vanilla
1 cup icing sugar Pinch of salt
1 square melted chocolate

Cream butter, add 14 cup icing sugar. Add unbeaten egg white, melt-
ed chocolate, remainder of icing sugar and vanilla.
—Mrs. Pearl Perry

Date Loaf
1 cup brown sugar 1 cup boiling water
1 egg 1 tsp. soda sprinkled over dates
2 tbsp. butter and boiling water
1 cup chopped nuts 2 cups flour
1 cup dates 1 scant tsp. baking soda

Chop dates and pour boiling water over them. Sprinkle 1 tsp. soda
over this and let stand while preparing other ingredients. Cream but-
ter, add egg and brown sugar. Cream well. Add other ingredients.
Bake in moderate oven one hour.

—Martha Hunter

Grandma’s Fruit Cake

2 cups sugar YY, cup butter

2 cups water 1 Ib. seeded raisins
Boil these five minutes. Cool and add:

1 tsp. soda Lastly add:

1 tsp. salt 1 cup dates

1 tsp. cloves 1 cup cherries

1 tsp. cinnamon 1 cup nuts

1 tsp. nutmeg 1 cup mixed peel

3 cups all-purpose flour

Bake in slow oven two to 214 hours.
—Mrs. J. Watmough

Boiled Raisin Cake

1 cup white sugar 4 cup butter or margarine
2 eggs 4 tsp. salt
2 cups flour 1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. each cinnamon, nutmeg, 2 cups raisins
cloves and allspice 2 cups water

Add raisins to water, boil for 20 minutes or until one cup liquid remains.
Drain and reserve liquid. Cool. Cream butter, add sugar and eggs.
Sift dry ingredients together. Add alternately to first mixture with
reserved liquid. Add raisins. Bake at 350 degrees F. for 30 to 45 min-
utes in 9- x 12-inch pan.

—Maxine Hanson

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