Pecan Cakes
Cream shortening, add sugar, melted chocolate, and mashed potatoes. Add beaten egg yolks, milk, sifted dry ingredients, nuts, vanilla. Beat well. Fold in stiffiy beaten egg whites. Bake in mod- erate oven 1 hour.
3 C, brown sugar 8 C, flour Cocoa Cake
% ©. shortening 4 T. cocoa 3 eggs 1% +t soda % €. sour milk 3% C. boiling water
Cream sugar and shortening and add well beaten eggs. Mix and sift flour and cocoa and add alternately with the milk to the first mixture. Dissolve soda in boiling water and add. Bake. lee with chocolate icing, decorated with pecans.
% CG. butter 1 t. vanilla extract Chocolate
2 squares unsweetened a4 C. flour Squares chocoiate 1 t. baking powder
8 eggs ¥% +t salt
1 GC. sugar 1 GC. chopped pecans
Melt butter, and add chocolate, melted over hot water, slightly beaten eggs, sugar, vanilla, mixed and sifted dry ingredients, and pecans. Mix well and pour in a greased shallow pan. Bake 12 minutes in a moderate oven. Cut in squares while warm,
fleing 5 'T. water % t. baking powder t CG. sugar 1 egg white
Grated pecans
Boil water, sugar, and baking powder until mixture forms a soft ball in cold water. Pour on stiffy beaten egg white and beat until cool. Add vanilla and spread on cake squares. Sprinkle thickly with pecans.
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