ers, spread in two Criscoed pans and
bake in a hot oven until a light brown color. Mash and sweeten one
cupful of the strawberries, put on one layer, then place second layer
on top. Sweeten remainder of strawberries, spread on top layer, and
cover with the whipped cream. Decorate with whole ripe strawberries.

Fig Cake

1 cupful sugar
3 eggs
1 cupful milk
2 teaspoonfuls powdered cinnamon
3 cupfuls flour
1/2 cupful Crisco
3 teaspoonfuls baking powder
1/2 teaspoonful salt
1 teaspoonful vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoonful grated nutmeg
1 cupful shredded figs

Wash and dry figs then shred them. Cream Crisco and sugar together,
add eggs well beaten, and beat five minutes. Sift dry ingredients, and
add to first mixture alternately with milk. Add figs and flavorings
and turn into Criscoed and floured cake tin. Bake one hour in moderate
oven.

Sufficient for one small cake.

Gennoise Cake

3/4 cupful flour
6 tablespoonfuls sugar
6 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco
4 eggs
1 teaspoonful baking powder
1/2 teaspoonful almond extract
Boiled frosting
Preserved cherries or cocoanut
1/4 teaspoonful salt

Break eggs into bowl, add sugar and beat for ten minutes over a pan
of boiling water. Remove from water and beat till mixture is thick
and cold; remove beater, sift in flour, salt, and baking powder; mix
carefully, add melted Crisco and almond extract. Turn at once into
small square greased and papered tin and bake in a moderate oven
twenty minutes. Turn out and remove paper. Cool and cut in eight
square pieces. Cover with boiled frosting and decorate with cherries
or cocoanut.

Sufficient for eight small cakes.

Gingerbread

1/2 cupful sugar
1 egg
1/2 cupful molasses
1/2 cupful milk
1-1/3 cupfuls flour
1/4 cupful Crisco
1 teaspoonful salt
2 teaspoonfuls powdered ginger
1 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon
1/2 teaspoonful powdered cloves
1/2 teaspoonful baking soda or 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder

Sauce

1 teaspoonful Crisco
1 cupful (1/2 lb.) maple sugar
1 tablespoonful flour
1 egg
1 cupful boiling water

_For cake_. Cream Crisco and sugar together, add egg well beaten,
molasses, milk, soda, flour, salt, and spices. Mix and turn into
Criscoed tin and bake in moderate oven forty minutes.

_For sauce_. Dissolve maple sugar in boiling water. Rub together
Crisco and flour. Add gradually boiling syrup; and lastly the beaten
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