Nana's Recipes Variety of Cakes (Recipes recorded by Nell Farrar White 1960s)

Plain Cake

1 cup butter

2 cup sugar

3 or 4 eggs

1 cup sweet milk

3 cup flour

3 tsp Baking Powder 

1 tsp vanilla

(No instructions given on how to mix or cook. Assuming that she already new how.)

Filling for Coconut Cake

2 cup sugar

1 cup water or coconut milk

2 egg white

Cook sugar with water until spins an thread, pour into stiff beaten egg white add coconut and vanilla.

Jeanelle's Pound Cake

3 cup flour

1/2 tsp soda

1/2 tsp Baking Powder

3/4 tsp salt

pinch cream of tarter

Sift to together

Mix

1 cup shortening

2 cup sugar

4 eggs, unbeaten one at a time

1 Tb vanilla

1 Tb lemon (scent)

1 cup buttermilk

Bake 1 1/2 hrs 300º-325º

Pineapple Loaf Cake

1/2 cup shortening

1 cup sugar, creamed. Beat in

2 egg yolks

1 tsp lemon flavoring

1/4 tsp soda, stirred into

1 small can crushed pineapple

Add 1 3/4 cup flour

1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder

Put 1/4 tsp Baking Powder into 2 egg whites, beat stuff, fold in and bak in greased pan 40/ minutes. 350º

Pecan Nut Cake -good!

Florine Bowers recipe 1945/1948

1 cup butter

2 cup sugar

4 cup flour

(2 cup flour rolled into nuts)

6 eggs

1 lb raisins 

1 quart nuts

2 tsp Baking Powder

1 cup Bourbon

1 tsp vailla

spices if desired

Bake in moderate 300º-325º oven about 4 hours.