Devil's Food Cake.

I. Three-quarters cup grated chocolate, 1/2 cup sweet milk, 1/2 cup dark brown sugar. II. Half cup butter, 1 cup dark brown sugar, 1/2 cup sweet milk, 2 cups flour, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Cook part I till thick. Cool and stir slowly into part II. Bake in 3 layers or in loaf. Be careful in mixing.

Mrs. Charles E. Hammond.

Orange Layer Cake.

Half cup butter melted, 1 egg, 1 cupful sugar, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, 2-3 cup milk. Beat egg lightly. add sugar, then butter, mix well. Sift flour and baking powder alternately with the milk. Flavor with lemon extract. This will make 3 layers.

FILLING - One tablespoon butter, 1 cup XX confectioner's sugar, yolk 1 egg, juice 1 orange. Work the butter until very soft, sift into it the sugar and mix will until half is used and add the egg, then work in remainder of sugar and orange juice. Use your own judgment as to how much juice is needed to spread.

ICING - Mix pulverized sugar with the white of the egg for the top of the cake.

Mrs. H. E. Brace.

Chocolate Cake.

Two cups brown sugar, 2 squares of chocolate melted over the teakettle, then stir it in the sugar, 1/2 cup of butter, 2 eggs (save white of one for frosting), 1 cup sweet milk, 1 small teaspoon of soda sifted 4 times with 2 even cups of flour, 1 teaspoon of vanilla.

Miss Vera DeForest.

Maud S. Cake.

Make a custard of 8 tablespoonfuls of grated chocolate, 5 tablespoonfuls of granulated sugar and 1/2 cup of milk, boil until a little thick and let cool.

CAKE - Half cup of butter, 1 1/2 cups of brown sugar, stir well and add 3 eggs, dropping 1 at a time, beat well, take 1/2 cup flour with 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder, then pour in custard, stir well and add to all 1 1/2 cups of flour and 1/2 cup of milk, flavor with vanilla. Bake in 3 layers.

FILLING - One cup of granulated sugar, 1/2 cup milk. Let boil until it drops from spoon in strings. Pour into bowl and add 1 teaspoon of flour. Beat a few minutes and let stand until cool and thick enough to spread on cake without running. Or plain boiled icing will answer.

Alice Claypool.

One, Two, Three, Four Cake.

One cup of butter, 2 cups sugar, 3 cups flour, 4 eggs. 1 cup of milk. 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon each of vanilla and lemon extract. Good for solid or any layer cake.

Mrs. S. B. Snyder.

Prune Cake.

One teacup prunes stewed thoroughly, remove pits and run through grinder; 1 cup sugar and 1/2 cup butter creamed together. Break 2 eggs into this and beat until light, add 1 heaping teaspoon nutmeg, cinnamon. 1/2 teaspoon allspice, cloves, 4 heaping teaspoons cocoa. add chopped prunes, 1 teacup sour cream in which is dissolved 1 teaspoon soda, 1 1/2 cups flour, 2 heaping teaspoons baking powder, vanilla. Bake in three layers, in moderate oven twelve minutes. Add 1 cupp currants or raisins, as desired, making icing of powdered sugar and orange juice.

Mrs. Carrie Stone Freeman.

Layer Cake.

One and a half cups flour, 1 cup sugar, 4 'ablespoons of melted butter, yolks of 2 eggs, white of 1 egg. milk. 2 teaspoons of baking powder, flavoring. Sift the flour, sugar and baking powder together 4 or 5 times. Beat the eggs, add the melted butter to eggs, put in cup and fill cup with milk. Mix wet ingredients into dry ingredients and add sufficient milk to make a rather thin batter, add flavoring and bake about twenty minutes.

ICING - To 1 cup of sugar add four tablespoons of water, boil slowly until it hairs, beat into the well beaten white of one egg, add a few drops of flavoring and beat until cold before putting on cake.

Miss Mabel Harris.

Golden Cream Cake.

Half cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 1 cup sweet milk, 3 cups flour, 4 level teaspoons baking powder, whites of 4 eggs, 1 teaspoon of vanilla. Measure on the level. Cream butter and sugar, add milk, sift flour and baking powder 3 times, add alternately with the well beaten whites of eggs, add vanilla, bake in 3 layers.

ICING - One cup of sweet milk and 1 tablespoon of butter, put in the double boiler; blend 2 level tablespoons of cornstarch with 1 cup sugar, add the well beaten yolks of the 4 eggs, stir into the boilng milk until it thickens; take from the fire and add the grated yellow rind and the juice of 1 lemon. When cold spread between the layers. Ice the top and sides with plain icing.

Mrs. John A. Cottle.

Sunshine Cake.

White part, 1 layer - Whites of 5 eggs, 3/4 cup sugar, 1/4 cup flour sifted twice, small teaspoon cream tartar, 1 teaspoohful vanilla, a little salt.

Yellow part, 2 layers - Yolks of 5 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 11-3 cups flour, 1/2 cup sweet milk, 1 teaspoonful cream, 1 teaspoonful vanilla, 1/2 teaspoonful soda, little salt.

Put together with icing; if bread flour is used, a little scant.

ICING - One and a half cups sugar, 5 tablespoons milk, a little hot water. Boil until it will wax in water, set in a pan of water until cool, then stir until white and creamy, when ready to put on cake add a little water.

Mrs. F. E. Harvey.

Marshmallows on Cake.

Heat marshmallows in oven. When puffed, arrange on top of cake and pour boiled frosting over them.

Mrs. Gilmer.

Los Angeles, Cal.