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.
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.
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.
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
Cream Crisco and sugar thoroughly together, beat in yolks of eggs one by one, add almonds, citron, brandy, mace, flour, baking powder, salt, mix well and fold in whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Turn into a papered cake pan and bake in a moderate oven for one hour. Cover with boiled frosting if liked.
1 cupful sugar 1/2 cupful Crisco 1 cupful milk or water 1/2 teaspoonful salt 2 cupfuls flour 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 1 whole egg and 2 yolks of eggs 1 cupful chopped walnut meats 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract