Nana's Recipe Yum Yum Cake, Bakeless Fruit Cake and Gingerbread

(Recipes recorded by Nell Farrar White 1960s)

Yum Yum Cake

1/2 cup butter

1 cup sugar

1 egg

1 cup sour milk

2 cup flour

1 tsp soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice

1 cup raisins or jam

1/2 cup nuts

Filling

2 cup sugar

3/4 cup milk

1 lb butter

1 tsp vanilla

(No instructions given on how to mix or bake, assuming this information was common knowledge.)

Bakeless Fruit Cake

2 lb graham crackers

1/2 cup nuts

10 (cup or 1 cup?) cherries

1/2 lb marshmallows

1/2 lb dates

Mix and press firmly into roll.

Gingerbread

1/2 cup shortening

2 TB sugar

1 egg

1 cup black molasses

2 1/2 c flour

1 tsp soda

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp ginger

1 tsp cinnamon

1 cup boiling water

Cream shortening and sugar. Blend in egg and molasses. Sift dry ingredients together and add alternately with hot water. Bake 45 minutes. Serve hot with lemon sauce or butter.