The Story of Crisco

The Story of Crisco, 1913 — how Procter & Gamble taught America a new fat, with 250 recipes and a year of dinners to seal it.

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Silver Nut Cake

1½ teaspoonful vanilla extract 2 cupfuls flour 1½ teaspoonful salt 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder 1 cupful chopped pecans or English walnut meats 1½ cupful milk Cream Crisco and sugar. Sift dry ingredients and add to Crisco mixture, alternating with the milk; add nuts and vanilla extract. Beat egg whites to stiff froth and fold in at last. Turn into Criscoed and floured cake tin and bake in moderate oven thirty-five minutes. Sufficient for one small cake.

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