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Cakes

Nova Scotia Cake

2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp salt
2 beaten eggs
1 3/4 cup white sugar
1 can (19 oz.) crushed pineapple with juice

Mix above and pour into 9 x 13 pan, and bake at 350 def F for 50 to 60 minutes (no less).

Sauce
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup cream (may use half and half, but do not use whipping cream).

Bring to a boil.

Once cake is baked, remove from oven and take fork and poke holes in it. Pour the hot sauce over the warm cake. Let the cake soak up the sauce and serve. Cake can be reheated.

Canada Cake

1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup butter
1 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla

Cream butter. Add sugar gradually. Beat in unbeaten eggs. Add milk and vanilla. Sift flour with baking powder and salt, and add. Bake in layer or loaf cake tins in moderate oven of 375 deg F. for 20 minutes.

Balmoral Cake

3/4 cup butter
1 cup white sugar
1 cup raisins
1/4 cup mixed peel, cut finely
1 1/2 cups flour
3 eggs
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Cream butter. Add sugar and well-beaten eggs. Add flour sifted with baking powder. Lastly, add raisins, peel and nuts. Bake in loaf pan in moderate oven of 350 deg F, for 1 hour.

Beet & Chocolate Cake

1 1/2 cups white sugar
3 eggs
1 c. cooking oil
1 1/2 c. sieved cooked beets
2 squares melted chocolate
1 3/4 c. flour
1 1/2 tsp. soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp vanilla

Combine sugar and eggs. Add oil, beets and chocolate, stir in flour, salt, soda and vanilla. Bake at 350 deg. F, for 50 to 60 minutes.

Fairy Gingerbread

1 cup molasses
2 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup hot water
2 cups flour
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp soda
1 tsp ginger
1/4 tsp allspice
1/2 tsp salt

Cream shortening and sugar, add beaten eggs and molasses. Mix and sift all the dry ingredients except soda, and add to first mixture slowly. Pour boiling water over the soda and add, giving the whole mixture a quick beating. Bake in 325 def F, 50 minutes

Gingerbread may be dressed up with this mixture:

1/4 cup brown sugar
2 Tbsp flour
2 Tbsp butter
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup chopped nuts
1/2 tsp salt

Mix all together and put on cake, then return cake to oven for 10 minutes.

From: Mrs. Clarence MacKay, in
Cook Book: Bethel Presbyterian Church, Scotsburn, Nova Scotia

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