One cup sugar (brown or white), one-half cup shortening, one-half cup molasses, three eggs (two whites for frosting), one cup milk, one cup flour, two heaping teaspoons baking powder. Cream butter and sugar, add well beaten eggs and mix well, add molasses, beat thoroughly and add milk. Mix flour and baking powder and add slowly. Bake thirty or forty minutes in moderate oven. - Miss Katherine Wells, Glendale, Calif.

"When I was eating my Dinner today the butter ran."

"That's nothing. I was up town last night and saw a cake walk."

Ginger Cake

Put in a pan one cup molasses, one cup brown sugar, and one cup melted butter. Add a dessert spoonful soda and stir until dissolved and foamy. Add one cup sour milk in which a dessert spoonful soda has been dissolved and stir until the whole mixture is foamy. Add two beaten eggs, a teaspoonful grated nutmeg and a dessert spoonful of cinnamon, a tablespoonful ginger, and three cups of flour. Stir until well blended, then bake in a moderate oven. - Mrs. John Langowsky, Williams, Ariz.

Ginger Cake

Two cups New Orleans molasses, one-half cup butter, one cup sour milk, one cup sugar, one egg, on teaspoon soda, one tablespoon ginger. - Mrs. G. A. Cole, Middletown, Conn.

Harlequin Cake

Three-fourths cup butter, two cups sugar, three eggs, one cup milk, three cups flour in which put two teaspoons baking powder. Rub to a light cream the butter and sugar, add the well beaten eggs, milk, etc. This makes four layers. Use any flavor and filling desired. - Mrs. G. W. Glowner, Williams, Ariz.

Hickory Nut Cake

One cupful butter, one and one-half cupfuls pulverized sugar, one-half cupful nuts, chopped fine; one-fourth pound chopped lemon peel, one-fourth pound chopped citron, one pound chopped raisins, whites four well beaten eggs, two cupfuls flour with two teaspoons baking powder, three-fourths cupful water, cold. Cream sugar and butter, add water, then nuts and fruits, flour, and last, the whites of the eggs. Bake loaf in moderate oven three-fourths to one hour. Put icing on top and sides if desired. Delicious. - Mrs. M. S. Carpenter, Hackensack, N. J.

Himmel Flutes

Stone one-half pound of dates, then wash and put in oven to heat, and then mash with a spoon. Beat the yolks of six eggs, add one and one-half cups of sugar, one-half pound of grated almonds, one teaspoon baking powder with three tablespoons of flour. Then add the dates and the beaten whites of the six eggs. Bake in two long tins in a slow oven; when done, spread custard between layers, and whipped cream on top. This is a German cake. - Mrs. J. E. Gilson, Williams, Ariz.