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Marmalade Cake

1/2 cupful sugar 1½ cupful Crisco 1 cupful marmalade 1/2 teaspoonful salt 1 egg 2 cupfuls flour 11/½ teaspoonfuls baking powder 1/2 teaspoonful powdered ginger Sift salt, flour, and baking powder into basin, rub in Crisco with finger tips, add ginger and egg well beaten. Knead lightly to smooth paste and divide into two pieces. Roll out pieces and line Criscoed dinner plate with one of them. Spread over with marmalade, cover with remaining piece of paste, pinch neatly round the edges and bake in moderate oven half an hour. Cut like pie and serve hot or cold.

Sufficient for eight pieces.

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