Two cups sugar even full, six eggs beaten well together, two-thirds cup molasses, three cups sour cream, two even teaspoons of cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves each, two evenful teaspoons of soda dissolved in boiling water, five cups sifted flour, two teaspoons, even full, baking powder mixed dry with flour, one pound seeded raisins chopped fine, one-half teaspoon salt, one pound currants, one pound walnuts chopped fine. Mix fruit and walnuts with one-half cup of flour; add to the other ingredients and bake in slow oven. - Mrs. J. S. Button, Williams, Ariz.

Fruit Cake

Three-fourths pound butter, one pound brown sugar, one cup New Orleans molasses, eleven eggs beaten separately, one-half pint cherry or currant juice (preserved), two pounds well sifted flour, one and one-half teaspoons baking powder, three pounds raisins, one and one-half pounds citron, cut; one and one-half pounds lemon and orange peel, cut; one pound almonds, blanched and cut in dice; one-half teaspoonful all kinds of mixed ground spices. Cream butter and sugar and flour fruit. Bake in tube pans in slow oven six or eight hours. - Contributed, Williams, Ariz.

Fruit Cake

One pound butter creamed, one pound granulated sugar, one-half pound light brown sugar, yolks of twelve eggs well beaten, beat well together and add one after another;two round teaspoons cloves, four round teaspoons cinnamon, one nutmeg, one tumbler grape or currant jelly, one tumbler molasses, one-half tumbler currant juice, one pound flour sifted with two level teaspoons soda, whites of twelve eggs beaten stiff. Have ready, in a large chopping bowl, four packages raisins, washed, dried and lightly chopped; two packages currants washed and dried, one pound citron cut in strips, one-half pound nut meats cut fine, one-half pound flour thoroughly mixed with the fruit. Turn cake mixture over the fruit and mix all together with a chopping knife and bake in two pans four hours, keeping pans covered after the first hour. - Mrs. E. N. Sailing, Manistee, Mich.

Fruit Cake

Three cups of brown sugar, two cups of melted butter, two cups of molasses, three eggs, one cup of sour milk, one teaspoon of soda, one tablespoon of lemon extract, three tablespoons of cinnamon, one tablespoon of cloves, two tablespoons of allspice, one nutmeg, one gill grape juice or coffee; flour enough to make a good stiff batter. Then add two pounds of currants, two pounds seeded raisins, one-half pound of citron chopped fine, one pound of chopped walnuts. Sprinkle flour over fruit before putting into the batter. Bake three hours in slow oven. - Mrs. P. J. Burns, Williams, Ariz.

Fruit Cake

Eight eggs, two cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup molasses, one cup black coffee, one-half cup sour milk, four pounds seeded raisins, half of them chopped; two pounds currants, one pound citron, two pounds almonds, blanched and chopped, two pounds chopped walnuts, one tablespoonful each of all kinds of spice, two nutmegs, one and one-half teaspoons soda dissolved in sour milk, put spices in molasses and put on stove, let simmer a few minutes then cool; six cups of flour measured before sifting, then sift several times; beat whites of eggs separately and add last, bake in a slow oven; when done remove from oven and cover tightly. - Mrs. J. R. Treat, Flagstaff, Ariz.