REQUESTED RECIPES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 83, 24 April 1937, Page 15

REQUESTED RECIPES

These two recipes for a prune cake and a pound cake are supplied by the Hastings Townswomen's Guild and are the recipes for the competitions inoluded in the catalogue of the Hastings Horticultural Society. Several readers have asked for these to use the recipes bfore making their competition cakesPRUNE CAKE. Ingredients: 1 cup augar, 1$ cups flour, 1 cup cooked prunes fcut small), 1 teaspoonful each of cinnomnn, powdered cloves, grated nutmeg, iib. butter, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoonful bicarbonate of soda and 1 teaspoonful of cream of tartar, 4 tablespoons prune juice. Method: Cream the butter and sugar, add eggs well beaten, then the dry ingredients. Add the prune juice, alternately with the flour. Lastly add the cold prunes and bake in a st.eady oven one hour. POUND CAKE. Ingredients: One pound each of butter, sugar, sultanae, raisins and currants, Jlb. almonds, Jlb. mixed peel, 10 eggs, lilbs. flour, 1 teaspoonful each of essence lemon, vanilla and almond. Method: Cream the butter and sugar, add eggs one at a time, beating each well, then sifted flour and essences. Lastly fruit floured wilh a little of the flour. Beat thoroughly and bake three or four houre in a modersrte oven.