Hints to the employed

Be neat in person and dress, Do not waste time in gadding about and gossip, Always follow your mistress' plan of work, or explain why you do not, Never tell tales out of the family, or repeat in one what you have seen in another.

Happy Day Cake

Leah Grosse

Sift

2 & 1/4 cup flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 & 1/2 cup sugar

Add

1/2 cup shortening
1 cup milk
2 eggs, unbeaten
1 teaspoon vanilla

Stir shortening, add dry ingredients, add 3/2 cup of milk and mix. Beat 2 minutes. Add eggs and remaining milk, Beat one minute more. Bake in layers or 13 X 9 X 2 pan at 350 degrees for 25 minutes for layers or 35 minutes for sheet cake. Frost with broiled icing and coconut.

Pineapple Upside Down Cake

Broiled Iceing





P ineapple Upside Down Cake

Sylvia Spickler

1 & 1/2 cup white sugar
1 & 1/2 cup brown sugar
3 eggs - beaten for 5 min.
2 Tablespoons melted butter
1/2 cup water
1 & 1/2 cup flour mixed with 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon salt - sift 3 times,
pineapple


Mix butter & brown sugar in skillet. Arrange pineapple & pour in batter. Bake 50 minutes at 350 degrees.


Jeannine Rupert contributed this recipe. It was from her mother's recipe box. Pineapple Upside Down Cake also showed up in the collections of other family cooks. - DLL



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