CAKES

1 cup brown sugar
% cup blanched almonds,
chopped
Dottom Crust.

Cream butter, blend in sugar. Add
beaten eggs and vanilla. Sift the flour,
measure, re-sift with baking powder
and salt. Mix dry ingredients grad-
ually into the butter-sugar-egg mix-
ture to make a stiff dough. Press into
greased 8x12 pan.

Filling

Cook dates and water together until
thick. Spread on uncooked bottom
crust.

Top

Beat egg whites stiff, gradually add-
ing sugar. Spread meringue over
dates, sprinkle thickly with shaved
‘almonds. Bake all together in 350°
oven for 35-40 minutes Cut in squares
when cold.

Mrs. Edna Baldwin (38.

DREAM CHOCOLATE CAKE

2 beaten egg yolks
1 cup sugar
1% cup melted butter
% cup flour
% teaspoon baking powder
4 teaspoons cocoa
Mix in order given Add 1 cup chop-
ped nuts. Bake % hour 350°.
ICING
2 level teaspoons butter
1% cups icing sugar, sifted
3 teaspoons cocoa mix with cream
or milk.
Put on hot cake.
Mrs. Vera Simpson (38)

BANANA RING CAKE

Cream 143 cup butter with 1 cup of
brown sugar. Spread over bottom of
greased pan. Place silces of bananas
on bottom of angel cake pan with
sugar mixture, and cover with the fol-
lowing cake batter.

1% cup butter ,
1% cups brown sugar

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2 beaten eggs

1% cups flour

1% teaspoon baking powder

34 teaspoon soda

% teaspoon salt

Cream butter with brown sugar
well. Add beaten eggs. Sift dry in-
gredients and add alternately to mix-
ture with 1 cup bananas and % cup
sour milk. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla.
Pour into pan and bake in moderate
oven for 50 minutes. Turn out immed-
iately and cool. Fill centre with whip-
ped cream to which has been added 4
cup mashed bananas.
Mrs. Clara Schwartz (38)

DREAM CAKE

1 cup flour
1% cup butter
% cup brown sugar
Cream butter and gradually cream
in the sugar. Blend in the flour and
press the mixture in the bottom of the
pan. Bake in moderate oven 350° for
about 15 minutes or until delicately
browned. :
Top Layer
2 eggs
1 cup brown sugar
% teaspoon vanilla
1% teaspoon salt
% teaspoon baking powder
2, tablespoons flour
1 cup shredded coconut
1 cup chopped nuts
Beat eggs, then gradually beat in
the sugar Add rest of ingredients and
spread over previously baked lower
crust, covering it well. Bake in moder-
ate oven 350° for about 25 minutes.
Mrs. Leila Hazelton (2)
Past Grand Matron (1926).

DUTCH CAKE

1% cup butter

1 cup brown sugar

1 egg

2 tablespoons molasses
1 teaspoon baking soda