Vegan Equivalents of My Grandmother's Recipes?

My paternal grandmother was by all accounts an exceptional cook. Anyway, when my grandfather was going to an old age home, I came across these recipes (apparently written in my grandmother's hand). The first are at least vegetarian. But the last set have meat in them. Do they have vegetarian or vegan equivalents? Speak up if you think that they do :

GRANDMA’S LIGHTNING CAKE:
1 Cup Sugar
1 Cup Flour
And, 1 heaping tsp. Baking Powder
Sift these ingredients 4 times.(Sounds like a lot of work—but the end results make it worth it!)
Next, melt a piece of Butter “the size of an egg” in a 1 Cup measure. Place in 2 Eggs and fill up with Milk.(The Butter must not be too hot, or it will cause the Eggs to curdle.)
Add 1 tsp. Vanilla and stir the ingredients “hard” before you place them in [greased–?] pans.
That’s were the recipe trails off. I assume you then bake it in a Moderate (325 to 350 degrees) oven until done.
GRANDMA’S NUT BREAD:
One Egg, well-beaten, 1 cup Milk, 2 cups Flour, ¼ cup Sugar, ½ tsp. Salt, 2 tsp. Baking Powder, ½ cup Chopped Nuts. Pour in greased pans, and let stand twenty minutes. Make into one loaf bake forty minutes.
GRANDMA’S COCOA CAKE:
2 C. Brown Sugar, ½ C. Cocoa dissolved in ½ C. Boiling Water
2 Eggs, 2 C. Flour
½ C. Fat, 2 t. Baking Powder
½ C. Sour Milk, 1 t. Baking Soda
**Cream Butter and Sugar. Add slightly-beaten Eggs and beat thoroughly. Dissolve the Cocoa in the Boiling Water and add the Milk. Add Cocoa mixture to first mixture. Sift Flour, Baking Soda and Soda together and beat in thoroughly. Bake a loaf, in a moderate oven, for thirty minutes.

And here are the meat-based ones :

GRANDMA’S CHILI CON CARNE:
One or 1½ lbs. Round Steak (cut small), 1 can Red Kidney Beans, ½ can Tomatoes, 2 Onions, 2 Green Peppers (cut fine). Brown Steak in Butter and add a little Water. Simmer gently three quarters of an hour. Add the other ingredients and thicken a little if necessary.
GRANDMA’S COTTAGE PIE:
Chop cold Meat fine (or Round Steak). To every cupful add ¾ cup Gravy or Stock, season highly with Salt & Pepper and ⅛ teaspoon Summer Savory. Put into a baking dish and cover with a crust of Mashed Potatoes. Bake 20 minutes or until brown. Serve in the dish in which it was baked. Note. Do not put Milk in the Mashed Potatoes.
GRANDMA’S MAYONNAISE DRESSING:
½ t. Mustard, 1 Tb. Sugar, ½ t. Salt, 3 Tb. Vinegar, ⅛ t. Paprika, 1½ C. Salad Oil, 1 Egg.
** Mix the dry ingredients thoroughly. Add the well-beaten Egg and Acid. Add the Oil, a fourth of a cup at a time, beating constantly. More Acid may be used, by adding it at the Root–???.
BOILING DUMPLINGS:
2 c. Flour, ½ t. Salt; 4 t. Baking Powder; 1 scant C. Milk.
Sift dry ingredients stir in Milk gradually, with a knife, to make a soft dough. Drop quickly by the spoonful into the boiling Stew, letting them rest on the meat and potatoes. Cover closely to keep in the steam, and boil just ten minutes without lifting the cover. Serve at once.

Thoughts?

 

Only way to get good beans. I almost always have a pot of small red beans cooked up. Most times cooked with bone broth from Moose or caribou bones. Onions and celery added about last hour of cooking.

 

You can replace milk with almond or even cashew. And I think margarine is vegetable based.

 

GRANDMA’S CHILI CON CARNE
This can not be made in a vegetarian or vehan way since the name litterally translates to chilli with meat.
But to be less of an asshole, I suppose you could make chilli con tofu, just replace the meat with tofu, some places like where I live you can get "vegtebal meat" which is made from a mix of beetroot and soy beans I think, you could also use that if can find it..

as @soulcompromise said margerine is plant based and can be used to replace butter, another option would be to use a vegetable oil.
And for milk there are many options as mentioned almond milk, soy milk and cocunut milk.

 

My mate makes awesome vegan chili, and her cottage pie is made with a concoction of lentils & onions at the bottom, layer of peas, layer of mashed potatoes & turnips; equally awesome.