Banana Cake

1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup cup buttermilk
3 bananas
1/2 teaspoon maple flavoring


 Cream shortening, sugar, mashed bananas, and eggs. Add buttermilk, and maple flavoring. Add dry ingredients. Bake at 350 Degrees for 45 minutes. Frost with maple flavored frosting.

Cinnamon Rolls

3 cups milk
3/4 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
10 cups flour
3 teaspoons salt
 3/4 cup warm water
3 tablespoons yeast
2 tablespoons



Cinnamon Mix water and yeast, set aside. Mix milk, shortening, sugar, eggs, and salt. Add yeast and flour, knead. Let rise, roll out dough, brush with margarine. Mix together about 2 tablespoons of Cinnamon and 1 1/4 cups of brown sugar, put on dough. Roll up, cut, and put on buttered pans. Bake at 375 degrees for 10-15 minutes.



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Date Filled Cookies

Cookies:
1 cup shortening
3 eggs
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon soda
2 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup water
1 tablespoons vanilla

Filling:
2 cups ground dates
1/2 cup water
3/4 cup sugar Cook filling ingredients until thickened, cool.

Cream sugar, shortening, eggs, water, and vanilla. Add dry ingredients. Roll out dough and cut out cookies. put 1 teaspoon filling between two cookies. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.

Applesauce Fruit Cake

3/4 cup shortening
2 1/4 cups sugar
2 eggs beaten
2 cups applesauce
2 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoons soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons cocoa
2 tablespoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 cup nuts Chop nuts, raisins, cherries, and dates, set aside. Cream shortening, sugar, eggs and applesauce. Add dry ingredients, then add nuts and fruit. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

Quick Bread

2 tablespoons yeast
3/4 cup warm water
2 2/3 cup water
1/4 cups sugar
1 tablespoon salt
3 tablespoons shortening
5 cups flour Mix yeast and 3/4 cup water. Add salt, sugar, shortening and remaining water. Add 2 1/2 cups flour, mix. Add remaining flour, knead. Let raise until double in bulk. Put in loaf tins, let raise until double in bulk. Bake 30 minutes at 350 degrees or 375 degrees.

Corn Bread

1 cup yellow corn meal
1 cup sifted flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/3 cup soft shortening
1 cup milk
1 egg






 Sift dry ingredients into a mixing bowl. Cut in shortening until well blended. Beat milk and egg together. Mix with dry ingredients until just blended. Pour into a well buttered 8 inch square pan. Bake at 400 degrees for 25 minutes or until done. Serve warm.

Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 cup sugar
2 cups brown sugar
2 cups Crisco
4 eggs
2/3 cup milk
6 cups unsifted flour
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons soda
2 teaspoons milk
1 package chocolate chips


Cream sugars and shortening. Add eggs and milk. Add dry ingredients, vanilla and chips. Bake at 375 degrees for 8 to 12 minutes. Do not over bake. Remove when just starting to turn brown.

Bottled Applesauce Cake

2/3 cup shortening
4 eggs
2 cups applesauce
2 teaspoons soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2/3 cups raisins
2 2/2 cup sugar
2/3 cup water
3 1/3 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cloves
2/3 cup nuts
Cream together shortening and sugar. Add eggs, water, and applesauce. Sift together dry ingredients and add to creamed mixture. Grease very well 8 wide mouth pint jars. Fill half full. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes on a cookie sheet. Have lids hot and apply to bottles. Seal as soon as removed from oven.

Fry Cakes

5 cups milk
4 heaping tablespoons shortening
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons yeast
8 teaspoons salt
16 cups flour

Mix together milk and eggs. Add 6 cups flour and yeast. Add 10 more cups of flour and knead. Let rise until double, roll 1/2 inch thick. cut and fry in hot oil. Frost with maple or chocolate frosting.

Rolls

2 2/3 cups warm water
2/3 cup shortening
2/3 cup powdered milk
2 tablespoons yeast
1/2 cup sugar
2 teaspoons salt
3 eggs
8 cups flour Dissolve yeast in 1/2 cup water, set aside. Beat together water, sugar, shortening, salt, and powdered milk. Add yeast. Add 4 more cups flour and eggs. Add remaining flour. Let rise until double in bulk. Roll on lightly floured board. Cut in circle, double over. Place on buttered pan, butter both sides. Let rise until double in bulk. Bake at 375 degrees for 10-15 minutes.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup margarine or butter, softened
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
1 egg
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup chopped nuts
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

In a large bowl, combine brown sugar and granulated sugar, margarine and shortening and beat until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and egg and blend well. Stir in flour, baking soda and salt, mixing well. Stir in chocolate chip and nuts.

Drop dough by teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees F. for 8 to 10 minutes or until a light golden brown. Do not over bake. Cool for one minute on baking sheet. Remove from baking sheet and cool on wire rack until completely cool.

Makes 4 Dozen Cookies

Christine's Sugar Cookies

1 cup buttermilk
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 heaping tablespoon baking powder
flour to make a soft batter
1/2 teaspoon soda
1 cup melted shortening
1/2 teaspoon soda