Libertyville Presbyterian Cook Book

A small-town Presbyterian congregation's cookbook — measures in c., t. and T., sections from cocktails to sandwiches, page numbers inked by hand.

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Brown Cake

2 eggs 1 t cinnamon 1 C brown sugar 1 C sour milk 12 C butter 1 heaping t soda 3 T cocoa 1 C flour (before sifted) Mix sugar, eggs, cocoa, cinnamon; then sour milk and soda; then flour. Bake in layers about 20 minutes. Put together with following filling: 1 C water 1 C sugar 1 T. butter Mrs. Robt. Sitz.

Fig Filling: 1 heaping t flour Figs Grind figs in food chopper. Add sugar, mix flour in the dry sugar; then add to figs. Add water and butter and cook slowly until thick enough to spread on cake, when cold.

Mrs. Robt. Sitz. 1 unbeaten egg 1 t vanilla

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