Originally Published:
Jubilee Cook Book, 1887
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Two cups of sugar, one cup of butter, three cups of flour, one cup of cold water, four eggs, three teaspoons of baking powder, two cups of kernels of nickory nuts, chopped fine, and added last of all. Bake in shallow pans. Cut in squares and place a white walnut kernel on each square.

ANOTHER.---Break two eggs into a teacup and fill it up with sweet cream, one cup of sugar, two cups of flour, three teaspoons of baking powder. Bake in three layers.

FILLING.---One cup of sour cream, one cup of hickory-nut meats, one cup of sugar. Put all together and boil rapidly fifteen minutes. Then cool and put between the layers and over the top.