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CHAPTER VI
Pecan Cakes
There are few sections of America in which the whole pecan kernel has not been used as the crowning decoration on cakes and cookies, from the frosted birthday cake to the so-called “sand tart” of the Christmas season. The use of pecans in layer cake fillings and for similar purposes is practiced almost as widely.
But many of the most delicious cakes which follow (based on pecans as an essential ingredient of the batter) may be new to you. The addition of the pecan to your cake ingredients will add not only a new, delightful flavor but will add nutri- tional value to the highest degree, because all that butter had in food elements is included in the peean, plus food qualities which butter does not possess.
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