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Dried Apple Fruit Cake  Soak 3 cupfuls dried apples over night in enough water to cover them - Chop them in the morning.  Add 3 cups molasses. [Stew] till almost soft.  Add a cupful raisins, [Stew?] few moments.  When cold add 3 cupfuls flour, 1 cupful butter, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoonful soda.  Bake in a steady oven.  [2 panfuls?] cake.  [Babies?] Ginger Snaps.  Boil all together 2 cups brown sugar  2 " cook. molasses 1 " shortening 1 tablespoonful [Ginger]  1 " ground [cinnamon]  1 teaspoonful cloves.  Remove from fire.  Let cool.  Sift 4 cups flour.  [Int?] some of it [illegible] [illegible] [dissolve?] a teaspoonful soda in a [tablespoonful?] water & beat into it.  Stir in enough flour to make stiff.  Roll into [big rolls?] & cut off into round cakes  Cheap Fruit Cake.  One cup of butter, one-half cup of molasses, two eggs, one cup of sugar, three cups of flour, one tablespoonful each of cloves and cinnamon, a little nutmeg, one teaspoonful of soda and fruit to taste.  This recipe makes two loaves.  Large Green Peppers are relished prepared  Remove all the seeds and fill the.....tomato pulp and minced.....

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Dried Apple Fruit Cake Soak 3 cupfuls dried apples over night in enough water to cover them - Chop them in the morning. Add 3 cups molasses. [Stew] till almost soft. Add a cupful raisins, [Stew?] few moments. When cold add 3 cupfuls flour, 1 cupful butter, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoonful soda. Bake in a steady oven. [2 panfuls?] cake. [Babies?] Ginger Snaps. Boil all together 2 cups brown sugar 2 " cook. molasses 1 " shortening 1 tablespoonful [Ginger] 1 " ground [cinnamon] 1 teaspoonful cloves. Remove from fire. Let cool. Sift 4 cups flour. [Int?] some of it [illegible] [illegible] [dissolve?] a teaspoonful soda in a [tablespoonful?] water & beat into it. Stir in enough flour to make stiff. Roll into [big rolls?] & cut off into round cakes Cheap Fruit Cake. One cup of butter, one-half cup of molasses, two eggs, one cup of sugar, three cups of flour, one tablespoonful each of cloves and cinnamon, a little nutmeg, one teaspoonful of soda and fruit to taste. This recipe makes two loaves. Large Green Peppers are relished prepared Remove all the seeds and fill the.....tomato pulp and minced.....