and spread out evenly. Bake twelve minutes in moderately hot
oven. Turn out on sugared paper, spread quickly with jelly or preserve
and roll up at once. The cake will crack if spreading and rolling are
not quickly done. Sliced jelly roll is delicious with custard.
Sufficient for one jelly roll.
Marble Cake
2 cupfuls sugar
1 cupful Crisco
3-1/2 cupfuls flour
4 eggs
1 cupful milk
3 teaspoonfuls baking powder
2 tablespoonfuls molasses
2 tablespoonfuls melted chocolate
1 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon
1/2 teaspoonful grated nutmeg
1/2 teaspoonful powdered allspice
1 teaspoonful salt
Cream Crisco, add gradually the sugar, yolks of eggs beaten until
thick, flour, salt, baking powder, milk, and egg whites beaten to
stiff froth. Mix carefully and to one-third the mixture add spices,
molasses, and melted chocolate. Drop in Criscoed cake pan alternately
a spoonful of each mixture, and draw spoon through once or twice to
make colors lie in lines. Bake in moderately hot oven one hour.
Sufficient for one medium-sized cake.
Marmalade Cake
1/2 cupful sugar
1/2 cupful Crisco
1 cupful marmalade
1-1/2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
1/2 teaspoonful salt
1 egg
2 cupfuls flour
1/2 teaspoonful powdered ginger
Sift salt, flour, and baking powder into basin, rub in Crisco with
finger tips, add ginger and egg well beaten. Knead lightly to smooth
paste and divide into two pieces. Roll out pieces and line Criscoed
dinner plate with one of them. Spread over with marmalade, cover with
remaining piece of paste, pinch neatly round the edges and bake in
moderate oven half an hour. Cut like pie and serve hot or cold.
Sufficient for eight pieces.
Old Fashioned Seed Cake
2 cupfuls sugar
1-1/2 cupfuls Crisco
4 cupfuls flour
1 teaspoonful salt
2 tablespoonfuls carraway seeds
12 eggs
Cream Crisco and sugar thoroughly together, then drop in eggs one by
one, beating each one in well before next is added, sift in flour and
salt, add carraway seeds. Turn into Criscoed and papered loaf tin and
bake in moderately hot oven one and a half hours.
Sufficient for one large cake.
Almond and Citron Cake
1 cupful sugar
1 cupful Crisco
5 eggs
1/2 lb. blanched chopped almonds
1/4 lb. shredded candied citron peel
2 cupfuls flour
1 teaspoonful baking powder
1/2 wineglass brandy
1/4 teaspoonful powdered mace
1 teaspoonful salt
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