How To Make Cakes with Pecans

Nut Drop Cakes

1 cupful of brown sugar

1 cupful of pecan meats

2 eggs

1/2 cupful of pastry flour

1/2 teaspoonful of baking powder

Put the nuts through the meat chopper. Beat the eggs until very, very light, add the sugar, and beat for ten minutes; then add the flour and baking powder, and fold in the nuts. Drop by teaspoonfuls on buttered tins, and bake in a very slow oven ten minutes.

Hickory nuts may be used in the place of pecans.

Pecan Kisses

2 cupfuls of granulated sugar

1/2 cupful of water

2 whites of eggs

1 saltspoonful of cream of tartar

1/2 cupful of chopped pecan meats

Add the cream of tartar to the sugar; add the water, stir until the sugar is dissolved, and boil continuously until the mixture forms a hard ball when dropped into cold water. This must not be brittle, but must be a little hard. Pour this, while hot, into the well-beaten whites, stir in the pecan meats, and drop by teaspoonfuls on oiled paper. They will harden almost immediately; if not, let them stand until dry.