This section is from the book "Tested And Tried Recipes Of Azusa And Vicinity Housekeepers", by The Azusa Woman's Club. Also available from Amazon: The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl.
Butter, 1 cup; sugar, 1½ cups; eggs, 3; sweet milk, ¾ cup; flour, 2½ cups; cream of tartar, 2 teaspoonfuls; soda, 1 teaspoonful. Sift the flour. Bake in jelly pans. For the icing: Sugar, 1 cup; sweet milk, ¾ cup; chocolate, ¼ cake; lemon extract, 1 teaspoonful. Let boil until it thickens, so as to spread betwen layers. - Dora Kethum.
One pound clear, fat salt pork, over which pour 1 pint boiling water, 1 pint Orleans molasses, 1 pound dark sugar, 1 pound raisins, 1 pound citron, 1 teaspoonful soda, 1 tablespoonful each of cinnamon, cloves and allspice and mace or nutmeg, 7 coffee cups flour. Bake 3 hours moderately.
- Mrs. J. R. Eldred.
½ Cream ½- cup butter, 1 cup sugar. Add 3 heaping table-spoons unsweetened chocolate, 3 eggs, beaten well, ½ cop sweet milk. 1½, cup flour, 1½ teaspoons baking powder. Bake in layers. Filling: Boil 1½ cups granulated sugar with 6 tablespoons of water until it drops from the spoon in threads. Have ready beaten the white of 1 egg and pour the syrup slowly into it, beating all the time. Flavor with vanilla.
- Mrs. Leslie Smith.
Two squires of Baker's sweetened chocolate, ½ cup sweet milk, ½ cup sugar, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon of vanilla. Let boil until thickens, then set aside to cool. 3 eggs, ¾ cup butter, 2 cups of sugar, 1 cup sweet milk, 2½ cups of flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder. Add dark part to it, bake in 3 layers, put together with chocolate icing. Filling: Half teacup grated chocolate (sweet), ½ cup granulated sugar, 1 egg, ½ cup of sweet milk, flavor. Stir well and boil until smooth. When cool add pulverized sugar until thick as desired for filling.
- Mrs. Geo. Martens.
Break 1 egg into a coffee cup (large), then fill the cup up with thick cream. Add 1 cup sugar, ½ teaspoon salt. 2-3 teaspoon vanilla or lemon, 1½ cups flour with 1 teaspoon baking powder. Bake in gem pans. - Mrs. Robt. E. Smith.
Two cups buttermilk, 1½ cups brown sugar, 2½ cups flour,. ½ cup raisins, ½ cup walnuts, small piece of citron and lemon, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, ½ teaspoon cloves, ½ teaspoon nutmeg, ½ teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Bake ¾ hour in slow oven. - Mrs. W. A. Sproul.
One coffee cup thick sour cream, 1 coffee cup sugar, 2 teacups flour, ½ teaspoon soda sifted in flour, saltspoon salt,. ½ cup raisins, ½ cup chopped walnuts, 3 eggs. Bake in loaf.
- Mrs. J. T. Lindley.
One-fourth cup butter, ¾ cup sugar. ½ cup milk, 1½ cups sifted flour, 3 eggs beaten separately, 1 teaspoon baking powder. ½ teaspoon salt. Boil together 3 tablespoons milk, 3 tablespoons sugar, 4 tablespoons chocolate, cool and add to above. Bake in layers. Filling: 2 cups sugar, ½ cup milk. Let come to boiling point and add butter the size of an egg, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Stir until it thickens enough to spread.
- Mrs. John Hibseh.
 
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