Criscoed and floured gem pans and bake
in a moderate oven for fifteen minutes.

Sufficient for twelve cakes.

Sand Cake

1 cupful Crisco
1 cupful sugar
1 teaspoonful salt
5 eggs
1/2 lb. cornstarch
1 teaspoonful lemon extract

Cream the Crisco and salt, add sugar by tablespoonfuls, beating all
the time, then add the yolks of the eggs each one separately, then add
the cornstarch by tablespoonfuls, lemon extract and lastly whites of
eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Turn into a papered cake tin and bake in
moderate oven for three-quarters of an hour. Sufficient for one cake.

Lady Baltimore Cake

(White Cake)

1 cupful sugar
3/4 cupful Crisco
1/2 cupful cold water
1 teaspoonful vanilla extract
2-1/2 cupfuls flour
2-1/2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
1/2 teaspoonful salt
6 whites of eggs

For the Filling

1 cupful sugar
1/2 cupful boiling water
2 whites of eggs
1 teaspoonful vanilla extract
Pinch cream of tartar
1/2 cupful chopped candied cherries
1/2 cupful chopped candied pineapple

_For cake._ Cream Crisco and sugar together. Sift together three times
dry ingredients and add alternately with water. Add vanilla, beat
mixture well, then fold in stiffly beaten whites of eggs. Divide into
two Criscoed and floured layer cake tins and bake in moderate oven
twenty-five minutes.

_For filling._ Put sugar and water into saucepan, stir till boiling,
add cream of tartar, then boil until it forms a soft ball when tried
in cold water, or 240 deg. F.; pour on to the stiffly beaten whites of
eggs, pouring in a steady stream and very slowly, adding while beating
vanilla, cherries and pineapple, beat till thick and divide between
and on top of cake.

Sufficient for one large layer cake.

Lemon layer Cake

6 tablespoonfuls sugar
3 tablespoonfuls Crisco
3 eggs
1/4 teaspoonful salt
1 teaspoonful baking powder
12 tablespoonfuls flour
Grated rind 1 lemon

For Lemon Filling

4 tablespoonfuls Crisco
2 lemons
3/4 cupful sugar
4 yolks of eggs
1 white of egg
1/4 teaspoonful salt

_For cake._ Put the eggs, sugar, and lemon rind into basin, stand it
over pan of boiling water, and beat until warm; then remove from hot
water, and continue beating until mixture is stiff and cold; then add
flour mixed with baking powder and salt, and pass through sieve, add
Crisco melted but cool, taking care to stir very gently, but on no
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