Doreen's Cake

1 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup shortening
2 eggs
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp soda
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup dates, cut fine & floured
1 cup cold water

9x9 pan, 350, 3/4 hr

Mystery Cake

1 cup margarine
1 1/2 cups flour
2 tbsp brown sugar
Mix & press into pan & lightly brown.

Mix & put on base while hot
1 1/2 cup brown sugar
2 tbsp flour
1 tbsp baking powder
1 cup coconut
1 cup wlanuts
2 eggs
Bake at 350F til set in center.

Tutti Frutti Cake

1/4 cup walnuts
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup dates
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup boiling water poured over the above.  Let cool.

1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup margarine
2 eggs
1/4 cup nuts
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
rind of 1 lemon

Bake at 350 in loaf pan for 40 minute.  While hot, take juice of 1 lemon & 1/4 cup white sugar.  Mix together & spread on hot cake.

Light Christmas Cake

1 lb butter
2 cups white sugar
2 lbs bleached raisins
3 lbs candy pineapple
1/2 lb mixed peel
1 lb blanched almonds {1/2 will do}
1 lb cherries, green & red mixed
1 tsp almond flavoring
Juice & rind of 1 lemon & 1 orange
4 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder {mix in flour}
3/4 cup pineapple juice
10 eggs, add whites last
cook 2 1/2 hrs at 275

Method:
Mix fruit the night before & put juice & lemon & orange into that.
Cream butter.  Add 2 cups sugar - cream real well. Egg yolks into butter & sugar mixture.  1 tsp almond flavoring.
1/2 tsp baking poder in with flour.  Add half to fruit, be sure well coated with flour.  Flour left put into first part.  Add fruit mixture.  Add whites of eggs well beaten last.