Herself's Recipes

Grandma’s Collected Recipes, Blueberry Cake

There are two blueberry cake recipes here in the box left by my grandmother, I’ll put them both here.

Melt in your mouth blueberry cake

1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 eggs, separated
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups floured blueberries

Mix flour, baking powder, and salt together
Cream shortening and sugar and beat in egg yolks
Add vanilla nd milk alternately with dry ingredients
Fold in beaten egg whites
Add blueberries
Sprinkle batter with sugar just before baking
Bake in grease 9″ square pan at 350′ for 35-40 minutes

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Grandma Leighton’s Blueberry Cake

1/2 cup butter
2 cups sugar
2 egg yolks
3 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 cup milk
2 egg whites, beaten
2 cups blueberries

Cream butter and sugar
Add egg yolks
Mix together flour, powder and add alternately to butter mix with the milk
Fold in beaten egg whites
Fold in blueberries
Bake in 9×13 pan at 375′ for 35-40 minutes

Frosting

1/2 cup butter
3 cups confectionary sugar
2 Tbsp cream or evaporated milk
2 1/2 Tbsp lemon juice

Mix well and spread over cooled cake.

Grandma clipped these recipes from the ‘Record American Aug. 20, 1970. Chicken wings were 35 cent a pound and London Broil was 95 cents a pound at the Capitol Super Market.

Grandma’s Collected Recipes, Bar cookies

2 cups flour
1 cup shortening
6 Tbsp confectioner’s sugar
4 eggs beaten
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
1 cup flaked coconut
1 cup marashchino cherries quartered

Combine flour, shortening and confectioner’s sugar
Mix well and pat into bottom of ungreased, 13×9 pan
Bake at 350 abou t20 minutes, do not let it brown
Combine eggs, sugar, flour, baking powder, salt, vanilla, pecans, coconut and cherries
Spread mix over top of crust and bake at 350 for ~ 25 minutes

These recipes were clipped from a local paper during the Watergate fiasco. There are fragments of heated opinions on the reverse side of the recipes.