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Coffee (Queen Cakes- cup sugar cup)

*Queen Cakes-1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup Crisco, 1½ teaspoon salt, 3 eggs, 14 cup currants, 1/4 cup glace cherries (cut in dice), grate nutmeg, thin rind 12 lemon (chopped finely), juice 1 lemon, 1 cup up flour, 4 tablespoons rice flour, and 1 teaspoon baking powder. Put Crisco and sugar in basin and work with wooden spoon to cream, add salt and eggs 1 by 1, and beat mixture thoroughly.

Mix in separate basin fruit, lemon rind, flours and baking powder. Stir this into other mixture, add nutmeg, and strained lemon juice. Stir mixture several minutes longer. Have ready Criscoed gem tins, three-parts fill them with mixture and bake fairly hot oven from 20 to 25 minutes. Unmold cakes and place on sieve to cool. Cakes may be coated with chocolate or boiled frosting.

October 17