Wash and clean fruit, stone ... last. The finished cake mixture should be stiff and hard to mix together, but should ... before and the icing one week before the day. ... until time to ice. Sieve sugar until lump ... a matter of taste.
Mix 4 bottles (1/4 cup) ... other ingredients. Beat hard the Crisco and sugar, then ... in two 9-inch cake pans of loaf as preferred ... little at a time.
Mix food coloring with cocoa -- let stand. Beat together (hard) Crisco and sugar, then ... constantly. Add milk, then flour, then vanilla, still beating.
Cream butter. Add sugar gradually, ... extract. When the cake is cool, cut in half, fill in the icing between the layers and then ... been halved and toasted.