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milk, flour mixed and sifted with baking powder, and vanilla. To melted chocolate add one-third cup powdered sugar, place on range, add gradually remaining milk, and cook until smooth. Cool slightly, and add to cake mixture. Bake fifteen to twenty minutes in round layer cake pans. Put between layers and on top of cake White Mountain Cream sprinkled with almonds.


Chocolate Dominoes

1/2 cup pecan nut meat
1/2 cup English walnut meat
1/2 cup figs
1/2 cup dates
Grated rind 1 orange
1 tablespoon orange juice
1 square chocolate, melted

Mix nut meats, figs, and dates, and force through a meat chopper, or chop finely. Add remaining ingredients, toss on a board sprinkled with powdered sugar, and roll to one-third inch in thickness. Cut in domino shapes, spread thinly with melted unsweetened chocolate, and decorate with small pieces blanched almonds to imitate dominoes.


Cream Pie I

1/3 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1-3/4 cups flour
2-1/2 teaspoons baking powder

Mix as One Egg Cake. Bake in round layer cake pans. Put Cream Filling between layers and sprinkle top with powdered sugar.


Cream Pie II

Make as Cream Pie I, using French Cream Filling in place of Cream Filling.


Cocoanut Pie

Mix and bake same as Cream Pie. Put Cocoanut Filling between layers and on top.


Washington Pie

Mix and bake same as Cream Pie. Put raspberry jam or jelly between layers and sprinkle top with powdered sugar.