Banana Spice Cake (1959)

• 2-1/2 cups sifted cake flour
• 1-1/4 cups sugar
• 2/3 cup Crisco
• 1 tspn salt
• 2-1/2 tspns double-acting baking powder
• 1/2 tspn soda
• 1 tspn cinnamon
• 1/2 tspn cloves
• 1/2 tspn nutmeg
• 1/3 cup molasses
• 2/3 cup mashed bananas
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 cup milk
• Fluffy frosting (see below) 

Into a mixing bowl measure flour, sugar, Crisco, salt, baking powder, soda, spices, molasses, and banana. Mix vigorously by hand or at medium speed with an electric mixer. 

Add eggs and milk, and beat thoroughly for another 2 minutes. Pour into 2 9-x-1-1/2-inch layer pans which have been lined with plain paper or rubbed with Crisco and floured.   Bake in moderate oven, 350 degrees, for 35 to 40 minutes.  Frost with Fluffy Frosting.

Fluffy Frosting ("sometimes called 7-minute frosting")

• 1-1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 2 egg whites
• 1/3 cup water
• 1 tspn vanilla
• 1/2 tspn salt
• 1/8 tspn cream of tartar

Combine sugar, cream of tartar, salt, water, and egg whites in top of double boiler. Place over boiling water, and beat 7 minutes with rotary beater or electric mixer until frosting will hold in peaks.  Mix in vanilla. 

(Origin - "Praise for the Cook" by Crisco, part of the Procter & Gamble Company, 1959.)

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