Mix together one cup sugar, one-half cup shortening, one egg. Add one cup sour cream. Beat. Add two cups flour, saving a little to mix with one cup nuts and one cup seeded raisins; one teaspoon baking soda; one teaspoon cinnamon; one-half teaspoon cloves; one-half teaspoon nutmeg; salt.

Mildred A. Gould.

1-2-3-4 Sour Cream Cake

Cream thoroughly one cup butter. Add gradually two cups sugar, creaming constantly. Add four eggs, one at a time, beating thoroughly after each addition. Sift together three cups pastry flour, one teaspoon baking soda, one teaspoon mixed spices, or one teaspoon vanilla. Add to first mixture, with one cup sour cream. Bake in loaf in moderate oven (325°) one hour, or in layers in hot oven (400°) twenty-five to thirty minutes. When cool spread layers with apricot jam. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Mrs. Paul E. Brown.