4 whites of eggs
1/2 teaspoonful vanilla extract
2 cupfuls flour
1/2 teaspoonful salt
3 teaspoonfuls baking powder
1 cupful chopped pecans or English walnut meats
1/2 cupful milk

Cream Crisco and sugar. Sift dry ingredients and add to Crisco
mixture, alternating with the milk; add nuts and vanilla extract. Beat
egg whites to stiff froth and fold in at last. Turn into Criscoed and
floured cake tin and bake in moderate oven thirty-five minutes.

Sufficient for one small cake.

Simnel Cake

3/4 cupful sugar
3/4 cupful Crisco
4 eggs
2 cupfuls sultana raisins
1/4 cupful seeded raisins
1/2 cupful chopped candied citron peel
2 cupfuls flour
1 teaspoonful baking powder
1/2 teaspoonful almond extract
3/4 teaspoonful salt

For Filling and Icing

1/4 lb. ground almonds
2 cupfuls powdered sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoonful almond extract

_For cake_. Cream Crisco and sugar together, add eggs well beaten,
flour, baking powder, salt, almond extract, raisins, and peel. Make
filling by mixing almonds with powered sugar, eggs well beaten and
almond extract. Line Criscoed cake tin with paper and place in half
of cake mixture, then put in layer of filling, then remaining half of
cake mixture. Bake in moderate oven. When cake is nearly baked, place
remaining almond paste on top and finish baking. Cake takes from one
hour to one and a quarter hours.

Sufficient for medium-sized cake.

Southern Fruit Cake

1 cupful sugar
1 cupful Crisco
1 cupful molasses
1/2 cupful sour cream
3 cupfuls flour
1 teaspoonful salt
1/2 teaspoonful baking soda
3 eggs
1 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon
1 cupful seeded raisins
1/2 cupful currants
1/4 teaspoonful grated nutmeg
1/2 teaspoonful powdered cloves
1/2 teaspoonful powdered allspice

Cream Crisco and sugar thoroughly together, then add molasses, cream,
flour, soda, eggs well beaten, salt, spices, and fruit. Mix well and
turn into Criscoed and papered cake tin and bake in slow oven one and
a half hours.

Sufficient for one large cake.

The Wholesome Parkin

1 cupful flour
1/2 cupful melted Crisco
2 cupfuls fine oatmeal
3/4 cupful molasses
3 tablespoonfuls sugar
1/4 teaspoonful salt
1 egg
1 teaspoonful powdered ginger
1/4 teaspoonful powdered allspice
1/2 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon
1/2 teaspoonful baking soda

Melt Crisco and mix with molasses, then add sugar, egg w