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flour, 1 cup of raisins, 1 cup of pecans, 1 cup lard and butter 'mixed, 

 1 cup sugar, 4 tablespoons sweet milk, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, % 

 teaspoon soda, % teaspoon salt, 2 eggs. Chop raisins and nuts fine, 

 beat the eggs, stir all together, then pour in tablespoonfuls on a 

 buttered pan. Do not place spoonfuls too near together. 



Pecan Wafe7^s: To 3 cups brown sugar, add 1 cup lard, 1 cup hot 

 water in which dissolve 1 teaspoon soda, pinch of salt, and flour 

 enough to make a soft dough and roll thin. Sprinkle plentifully 

 with coarsely chopped pecan kernels, and bake in a quick oven. 



Chocolate Pecan Wafers: Mix in order given: 1 cup sugar, 2 

 squares chocolate, % cup melted butter, yolk and whites of 2 eggs 

 beaten separately and then together, % cup of flour. Spread very 

 thinly over cooking sheet and sprinkle on it 1 cup coarsely chopped 

 pecan kernels. Bake not too brown. Cut in oblongs and remove. 



Pecan Kisses: To white of 1 egg well beaten, add 10 teaspoons of 

 pulverized sugar and 1 tablespoon brandy, or flavor with vanilla, a 

 little ground cinnamon, and cloves ; then add a cupful of pecan 

 kernels chopped flne. Put tablespoonful of mixture on buttered paper 

 on bottom side of pie pan, and bake ten minutes in a moderate 

 oven. This makes one dozen. 



CAKES 



Pecan Loaf Cake: Take ll^ cups of sugar, % cup butter, 

 % cup water, 3 cups flower, whites 5 eggs, 3 teaspoons baking-powder, 

 1 cup pecan kernels, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Cream butter and add sugar, 

 sift flour and baking-powder, and add this and the water to the 

 creamed sugar and butter. Stir well. Add nuts and vanilla. Fold in 

 beaten whites and bake in a loaf. 



Lady Baltimore Cake: One cupful butter, 2 cups sugar, 3 cups 

 flour, 1 cup sweet milk, whites 8 eggs, 2 teaspoons baking-powder; 

 flavor with vanilla or rose water and bake in layers. Filling : Dis- 

 solve 2 cups sugar w^ith 1 cup w^ater and boil until it threads. Pour 

 over the stiffly beaten whites of 3 eggs and add 1 cup raisins, 1 

 cup flgs, and 1 cup pecans. Chop all together and lay between the 

 layers. 



Pecan Layer Cake: Take % cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, a cup 

 milk, 2% cups flour, 4 teaspoons baking-powder, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 

 1 cup chopped pecans. Cream butter and sugar, then add eggs, and 

 milk and flour alternately, adding the pecan kernels mixed with the 

 last % cup flour. Flavor and bake in layers about an inch in thick- 



