ful New Orleans molasses
1/2 cupful cold black coffee
1 teaspoonful grated nutmeg
2 teaspoonfuls powdered cinnamon
1 teaspoonful powdered cloves

Cream Crisco and sugar together, add eggs well beaten, beat five
minutes, then add coffee, soda mixed with molasses, brandy, flour
sifted with salt and spices. Now add raisins, currants, dates,
cherries cut in halves, and nuts. Mix carefully and turn into Criscoed
and papered tin and bake in moderate oven two and a half hours. Brandy
may be omitted.

Sufficient for one large cake.

Devils Food Cake

1-1/2 cupfuls sugar
1-1/2 cupfuls milk
1/2 cake chocolate
2 teaspoonfuls vanilla extract
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoonful salt
2 cupfuls flour
1/2 cupful Crisco
1 teaspoonful baking soda
3 tablespoonfuls boiling water
Boiled frosting

Put 1/2 cupful of sugar into small saucepan, add chocolate and
1 cupful milk. Put on stove and stir till it boils five minutes,
stirring now and then. Remove from fire, add vanilla and set aside to
cool. Beat Crisco and remainder of sugar to light cream, then add
eggs well beaten and beat two minutes. Now add remainder of milk, soda
dissolved in boiling water, flour, salt, and chocolate mixture. Mix
carefully and divide into two large greased and floured layer tins
and bake in moderate oven twenty-five minutes. Turn to cool and put
together with boiled frosting.

Sufficient for two large layers.

Peach Shortcake

2 cupfuls sugar
1 cupful milk
5 eggs
3 cupfuls flour
Quartered peaches
3/4 cupful Crisco
1 teaspoonful baking powder
1/2 teaspoonful salt
1 teaspoonful almond extract

Cream Crisco and sugar together, then add milk, eggs one by one,
always beating well between each one, flour sifted with baking powder
and salt, then add extract. Mix and divide into two layer tins that
have been greased with Crisco and bake twenty minutes in moderate
oven. Turn out and spread with butter. Put together with quartered and
sweetened peaches and pile some peaches on top.

Sufficient for one cake.

Strawberry Shortcake

3 cupfuls flour
1/2 cupful Crisco
1/2 teaspoonful salt
3 teaspoonfuls baking powder
1 cupful whipped cream
1 egg
2 tablespoonfuls sugar
1 cupful milk
1-1/2 pints strawberries

Sift the flour with the baking powder, salt and sugar, then cut in the
Crisco with a knife, add egg well beaten, and milk. The dough should
be a soft one. Roll in two lay