Aunt Lizzie’s Banana Cake Elizabeth Decker (Lera and Ira’s sister)

Makes 2 layers or 1 loaf

1 c mashed bananas

½ c shortening

¼ c sour milk

1 tsp soda

½ tsp salt

½ c nuts cut

1 c sugar

2 c flour

2 eggs

½ tsp baking powder

½ tsp cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg

Cream sugar & shortening, add eggs. Mix in bananas & alternate milk & sifted flour, soda, baking powder & salt. Stir in nuts & vanilla. Cook in mod 350 degrees oven.

Dutch Stew Elizabeth Decker

Stir & brown slowly 1 lb ground meat in 1 ½ T of shortening. Sprinkle over meat 1 ¼ t salt, 1 t dry mustard, 1/8 t pepper, 2T flour. Mix well and stir in 2 ½ c water. Add 1 cup pared cut up potatoes, 1 cup sliced carrots, 1 ½ c cut green beans, 1/3 c finely chopped onions. Cover and boil slowly 10 mins. Sift into bowl 1 ½ c prepared biscuit flour. Stir in with fork 1/3 c sego milk with 1/3 c water. Drop in with Tablespoon into stew. Cover tight, cook 15 mins longer. Stir into meat. Mix 2/3 c hot sego milk. Stir into dumplings.

Chicken fryer pan

This is Aunt Lizzie’s stew she’d make in Dutch oven when we went camping. –D.D.N. (Dorothy Decker Nelson)