This section is from the book "Neighborhood Cook Book", by Circle No. 5, Women's Union, Hemenway Methodist Church. Also available from Amazon: Julia's Kitchen Wisdom: Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking.
1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup white sugar, 1/2 cup shortening, 2 eggs, 4 tbsp. sweet milk, 1 cup banana pulp, 1 1/2 tsp. soda, 1 cup chopped nut meats, flour.
Cream shortening. Add sugar and eggs well-beaten, then the milk and banana pulp. Mix and sift soda with a little flour.
Add to first mixture and continue adding sifted flour until a medium batter is obtained. Bake in moderate oven until brown or about 35 minutes.
- Mrs. G. W. Heavener.
1 1/2 cups sugar, pinch of salt, 3 tbsp. shortening, 1 cup mashed bananas, 2 eggs, 5 tbsp. sour milk in which 1 tsp. soda has been dissolved, 1 1/2 cups flour.
- Mrs. Bliss Langill.
1/2 cup sugar, 1/4 cup butter, 1 egg, 1/2 cup milk, 1 2/3 cups flour, 1 tsp. baking powder, 1/2 pt. blueberries.
- Mrs. I. P. Berry.
1 1/4 cups sugar, 1/4 cup butter, 2 eggs beaten separately, 1 1/4 cups milk, flour enough to make a stiff batter, 3 tsp. baking powder, 2 cups blueberries. Serve hot with butter. - Mrs. A. A. Kendall.
 
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